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The Havre Public School Board of Trustees approved Monday the hiring of nine additional school personnel. “For the first time this year, we’re finally fully staffed with paraprofessionals,” Superintendent Andy Carlson said after yesterday’s school board meeting. A paraprofessional educator, or a para, is a teaching-related position within a school. The para is usually responsible for specialized or concentrated assistance for students in elementary and secondary schools. Tammy Lafond, Lincoln-McKinley Primary School para, a...
Matt Volz Associated Press HELENA — Bozeman businessman Greg Gianforte has now spent more than $5.1 million of his own money to fuel his campaign against Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, while the Bullock-backing Democratic Governors Association poured in another $1.5 million into one of the closest governor’s races in the nation. The candidates and political action committees turned in campaign finance reports Monday that detail their contributions and spending between Sept. 27 and Oct. 19. The reports show a governor’s race...
The Hill County Conservation District will hold its annual legislative dinner Wednesday at the Montana State University-Northern Student Union Building Ballroom. The event will kick off at 5:30 p.m. with a no-host social that will preface the prime rib dinner that starts at 6:30. District administrator Emily Mayer said that a speaker with the district then will give a PowerPoint presentation about the district’s accomplishments this year. Those accomplishments include taking part in the revamped Milk River Watershed alliance,...
The annual E.L.F. - Everyone Loves Firefighters - food drive is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Havre Fire Department will coordinate volunteers to collect food for the Havre Community Food Bank in time for the holiday season. Firefighters will also announce their presence with lights and sirens Wednesday, food will be collected from from the west side of Havre - Fifth Avenue is the dividing line - and food from the east side will be collected Thursday. People...
KIM BRIGGEMAN Missoulian MISSOULA (AP) — Gilbert Hategeka laughed as he told the story of himself. The heating unit in his new home in Missoula was quiet when Hategeka, his wife and their four young sons moved in after spending most of the previous 18 years in a refugee camp in Uganda. “I saw the heater but it wasn’t on, wasn’t working,” Hategeka said through a Swahili-speaking interpreter. “After about five days it just turned on and started vibrating. It vibrated the whole house.” Hategeka did what he and his wife, Chantal...
When I was the tender age of 28, I learned what I was supposed to be if I ever grew up. It was really a thing of beauty, the way it happened and all. I was staring at my laptop, in the middle of the day, unemployed and recovering from a failed relationship, when an ad to a writing program miraculously appeared on the screen. Then — suddenly! — an arch of bright light swopped over the screen and an invisible choir of angels sang a harmonious and epiphanous Ahh! I had seen the light. I was supposed to write. I spent the nex...
Press release HELENA — The Montana Sage Grouse Oversight Team — MSGOT — is soliciting public comment on a draft Environmental Assessment regarding a proposed grant from the Montana Sage Grouse Habitat Stewardship Fund to support the 44 Ranch Inc. Conservation Easement Proposal. The Montana Land Reliance is proposing to purchase a 18,033-acre permanent conservation easement on the 44 Ranch, which is located in Petroleum and Fergus counties. The ranch is located entirely within lands classified as Core Sage Grouse Habit...
This election, Montana voters will be deciding the future of medical marijuana in Montana. This is quite literally a life and death issue, and I hope that my fellow Montanans will vote with compassion by casting their ballots with a yes on Initiative 182. This issue is personal for me. My wife, Peggy, has suffered from multiple sclerosis for 37 years. None of the medications prescribed to treat her excruciatingly painful leg spasms have worked. Tears come to her eyes when the spasms strike. Painful, sleepless nights occur sev...
Editor, Letters to the editor by opponents/trappers are replete with untruths and attempts to misconstrue what I-177 is about. It is not about stopping people from killing skunks or “nuisance” animals. It is not about hunting/culling wolves, which is still governed by the target numbers set by FWP. It is not about stopping regulatory agencies from monitoring populations by hunts, or trapping, on public land. It is about ending commercial, recreational trapping for money or entertainment on land that belongs to all of us. Whi...
Editor, It really is all about The Donald. When he walked into the dressing room of the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant, where some of the contestants were naked, he said, “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.” The possibility that the young women, some of them only 15, might not want to show him anything, apparently didn’t occur to him. As he explained to Howard Stern, “I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it.” His awesomeness, in other words, entitles him to see...
Members of the Havre and Montana State University-Northern communities assembled in Northern's Student Union Building Ballroom Monday night to take part in All Lives Matter, a forum about the root causes of tension between African Americans and law enforcement. Christina Estrada-Underwood, director of the Office of Diversity Awareness and Multicultural Programs at MSU-Northern, said that the idea to hold the forum came when Northern senior Badhasa Margarsa came to her and...
Editor, I’ve heard your question, “Why should we vote for G. Bruce Meyers?” Here is my response. 1. My opponent did not bother to show at the forum last week in Havre to face me. Someone said that he did not want to answer the hard questions. I think that the real reason is because he is taking the Indian vote for granted. 2. I’ve talked with voters in Fort Belknap who said that my opponent has no platform (what he would do for the people). Again, taking the Indian vote for granted. 3. I am for transparent state governm...
Dorothy (George) Dugdale of Havre, 68, passed away Oct. 23, 2016. Cremation has taken place and a memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016, at St Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church. In lieu of flowers, Dorothy’s family has asked for memorials to be sent to Bear Paw Hospice. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit Dorothy’s online memorial page and leave a message of condolence for her family at www.hollandbonine.com....
Beloved mother and grandmother Hazel Sullivan, 92, died on Oct. 23 of natural causes at Marias Medical Center in Shelby. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, at Faith Lutheran Church. Arrangements are in the care of O'Connor Funeral Home. Hazel was born to Norwegian immigrants Otto and Lena (nee Fredrickson) Landsverk March 4, 1924. She grew up on the family farm north of Turner just a few miles from the Canadian border. The family had a home in...
County levies An editorial on the Opinion Page in Friday’s Havre Daily News about the county asking for a mill levy to replace the mill levy that has been paying for the Hill County Detention Center misreported that if cuts were made they could cause cuts to the Beaver Creek Park budget. The park does not receive tax money for its budget....
Kadia Miller, Havre Cross Country Running at the state cross country meet is nerve-racking, but it didn't seem to bother Havre High freshman Kadia Miller. Miller, in her first state meet, last Saturday in Kalispell, ran a 19:59.5 to finish in 19th place overall. Miller has been Havre's top runner all season long, and her finish in her first state meet, sets her up for a very bright future in Class A cross country. Her run also helped the Blue Ponies to a 12th-place finish....
In just their second season as an NAIA program, the Montana State University-Northern cross country teams have now wrapped up the regular season. The Lights and Skylights did that at last week’s UGF Invitational in Great Falls. The Northern women got an outstanding performance from freshman Rachel David, who finished 15th overall with a time of 20:50.4. David paced the Skylights, who finished sixth with 146 points. Carroll College won the women’s meet with 29 points. McK...
Last Saturday, inside Blue Pony Stadium, Montana Tech’s Nolan Saraceni put on a show. The reigning Frontier Conference Offensive Player of the Year rushed for 232 yards and five touchdowns against a very good Montana State University-Northern rush defense. Of course, Saraceni wasn’t alone in the game when it came to star running backs. Northern’s Zach McKinley piled up 115 yards on a Tech defense which was allowing just 88 yards rushing per game coming in. Yes, it’s safe to...
The really exciting part of the high school volleyball season is here. But before local teams could look ahead to district tournament play, they had to take care of some final regular season matches last week. Last Monday saw the Chester-Joplin-Inverness Hawks win two more District 6C East matches when they swept the Hays-Lodge Pole Thunderbirds in two matches at home. CJI won the first match by scores of 25-5, 25-9 and 25-6, getting nine kills and two blocks from Kimberli...
The 2016 high school football season seemed to go quicker than usual, and this last week, all but two local teams from the Hi-Line played their final football game of the season, as just two, North Star and Chester-Joplin-Inverness, advanced to the postseason. While the Hawks clinched their playoff spot a week earlier with a win over Power-Dutton-Brady, CJI still had a road game against Fort Benton last Wednesday and surprisingly, the game didn't go as planned. The Longhorns,...
