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UPDATED: The Montana State University-Northern wrestling team has been really good, for a long time. That's thanks in large part to the coaching of now-veteran head man Tyson Thivierge. But, as good as the Lights have been, could this be the season when they are even better? That question will be answered over the next four months, but, given the trajectory the Lights have been on, and the roster they have this season, it's certainly possible that, Northern is headed for a big...
The Hill County Commission, the remaining members of the Rural Fire 1 District Board and Hill County DES Coordinator Amanda Frickel held a public meeting Wednesday to discuss the future of events at the Great Northern Fairgrounds in the wake of recent complications regarding fire codes. The legality of a number of Halloween events at the fairgrounds was called into question last week, and for a while it looked like many of these events were canceled. Most have since been approved by the commission, but the ongoing enforcement...
Gov. Greg Gianforte visited Blaine, Hill and Liberty counties Wednesday, where he spoke representatives of Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, the operators of Bear Paw Meats in Chinook and the staff of Liberty Medical Center in Chester, as part of his 56-county tour. At Bear Paw Meats, Gianforte spoke to owners Dexter and Karla Buck, as well as their daughter and Bear Paw Meats Manager Ashley Buck, who took him on a tour of the facility. During the tour, Ashley Buck talked about...
After participating in their regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday evening, the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees engaged in a long-term strategic planning meeting, where they discussed their goals for the future of the district. Montana School Boards Association General Counsel Debra Silk led the meeting, the first in a series, where trustees and school administrators looked at aspects of their strategic plan from 2016 and discuss revisions and improvements. Silk said strategic plans typically need to have 10- to 15-year...
The Hill County DUI Task Force presented the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line a $600 check Wednesday to pay for all the ribbons for Red Ribbon Week in Hill County schools. Red Ribbon Week is a nationwide drug abuse awareness campaign that Hill County schools participate in, and this year the task force decided that it wanted to help out. Red Ribbon Week started after the death of Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Enrique Camarena in 1985, who was murdered by drug t...
The Montana state COVID tracking map was not updated by this morning’s printing deadline. Wednesday it listed listed 994 new cases, 11,041 active cases, 463 hospitalizations and 2,321 deaths. The cumulative total for the state was 174,087 cases. Blaine County did not have an update Wednesday. Blaine County Health Department reported Tuesday 5 new cases, 70 active, 4 active hospitalizations, 1,369 total cases, 26 deaths. Hill County Health Department reported Wednesday evening that 15 new cases, 83 active, 13 active hospitaliz...
Havre Police Department Officers responding to a call from Eighth Street at 7:55 a.m. in which the caller said a man refused to leave arrested Gary Louis Doney of Havre, 59, on a Justice or City court warrant. -- Officers investigated a report made from an establishment on the 300 Block of First Street at 9:25 a.m. Wednesday that someone had tried to break into an automated teller machine. -- Havre police referred to Montana Highway Patrol a report made at 1:34 p.m. Wednesday...
Years ago, when I was in the hospital in India getting a new knee, I walked the corridors as part of my therapy. At the end of the hallway I stood at the window and watched the construction activity across an empty lot. A new building was going up the old-fashioned way, with men’s muscles, not machinery. The empty lot was not really empty. The men’s families were camped in the lot. I’m making an assumption here. Perhaps they were homeless people, but as I watched, they seemed to be the families of the construction worke...
Press release With demand for food bank services continuing to surge in Montana as the pandemic wears on, the Town Pump Charitable Foundation is matching $1,000,000 in contributions during its 20th annual fundraising campaign for food banks across Montana, including Havre Community Food Bank and Feed My Sheep Soup Kitchen. “The good work of Montana’s local food banks is especially vital in the ongoing pandemic,” said Bill McGladdery, of the Town Pump Charitable Foundation. “Please join Town Pump and our dedicated food ba...
The regular season finally comes to an end for the Havre High volleyball team with a doubleheader this weekend. First, the Blue Ponies head on the road to play Livingston on Friday night before they return home to face Hardin at Blue Pony Gymnasium on Saturday in their regular season finale. With the season coming to an end, HHS head coach Stephanie Huse hopes that her team keeps momentum going just before divisionals begin next week. "The expectation is that we are going to...
Coming off of a strong win over Rocky Mountain College, the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team looked to carry that momentum into a Wednesday-night match at Armory Gymnasium against the University of Providence. The Argonauts entered the match undefeated in conference play and looked to keep it that way when they played the Skylights. At the end of Wednesday night, it was the Argonauts who maintained momentum as they defeated MSU-N, 3-0, by scores of 25-15,...
Prep Football Playoffs Class AA First round Friday, Oct. 29 Helena Capital at Great Falls CMR, 3 p.m. Bozeman Gallatin at Helena, 7 p.m. Billings Senior at Kalispell Glacier, 7 p.m. Missoula Big Sky at Great Falls, 7 p.m. First-round byes: Missoula Sentinel, Bozeman, Billings West, Butte. Class A First round Saturday, Oct. 30 Miles City at Columbia Falls, 1 p.m. Libby at Billings Central, Herb Klindt Field, 1 p.m. Dillon at Sidney, 1 p.m. Frenchtown at Whitefish, 3 p.m. First-...
