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Recently, a number of my friends and I received cards in the mail supposedly offering a “$100 gift savings card good at Wal-Mart or Target!” All that was needed was to call “toll-free” to 1-866-903-0947, supplying a claim number provided on the card. Calling the number, I was given the usual sales pitch, then told that I had to supply my credit card number and make a call charge before I could collect my $100 credit. Of course, I refused to supply my credit card number and its expiration date. Later on, contacting Walmart...
I will do anything to avoid any mall in any large city. I don't know what possessed me to suggest the mall. It was a nice day. My 5-year-old granddaughter Lexi and I could have hung out on the waterfront. For 25 years I had lived within 10 miles of the Silverdale Mall. Frequently, two or three years would pass without me needing to mall shop. But I wished to buy one more thing for my trip. A store there carried the exact underwear I wanted. There is a "playland" center at the...
Workers at the Montana Department of Environmental Quality are back at work today, scattered in four locations around Helena. The employees were out of work starting Monday when the department shut down its headquarters building because tests showed high levels of lead residue throughout the building, sometimes as high as 40 times greater than federal standards. We’re glad the department employees are back doing their valuable work. Trust us, their work is very valuable, despite what you may have heard from some members of t...
This letter is to address the concerns that Fran Buel had with me using my “opinion” while serving on the Hill County Park Board, as I wonder if she would still feel the same if I had the same opinion as she. As I serve on the Park Board, I plan to use what little knowledge I have, knowledge I can gain, research I can do, my best judgment, my own conscience and listen to people (even Fran), plus my own opinion, to try to do the best job I can do, while being fair to all the “inhabitants” of the county parks. Just to clarify...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated an 8:07 a.m. Wednesday call from Wilson Avenue about a Jeep that was broken into and a toolbox that was taken from it. ——— Officers investigated a 1:05 p.m. Wednesday call from Bullhook Boulevard about the theft of a client’s iPad. ——— Officers investigated a 4:36 p.m. Wednesday call from 5th Avenue about the theft of medicine. Hill County Sheriff’s Office Deputies responded to a 3:10 p.m. call from 11th Street North about the calling party’s neighbor driving badly near childr...
Lori Roberts reads "Click, Clack, Boo" Wednesday afternoon at the Havre-Hill County Library story time. Roberts wore a Mother Goose costume. Story Time happens every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. at the Havre-Hill County Library. The event is free, and everyone is welcome....
Addi Vaughn, 2, cleans a pumpkin Wednesday evening at Montana State University-Northern. MSU-Northern will be hosting a community children's Halloween costume party tonight beginning at 5:30 p.m. Children in costumes can go trick-or-treating indoors tonight at the Atrium Shopping Mall from 3-5 p.m., at the Holiday Village Shopping Center from 5-7 p.m., and at the Northern Montana Care Center from 6:30-7 p.m. See also page A3 for Halloween safety tips....
The hours at the crossing into Canada north of Havre switch back to the 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. winter schedule Friday. What will happen in 2104 — again — is uncertain. U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Canada Border Services Agency this year stretched the summer hours at the Port of Wild Horse to a few extra months, again, though only after uncertainty whether that would be done again. Havre Mayor Tim Solomon, co-chair of the Wild Horse Border Committee, said this morning that the committee will again try to get an ext...
BILLINGS — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has declined to settle a voting rights case in which American Indians in Montana sued to establish satellite voting offices on three reservations. Residents of Fort Belknap and other Indian reservations say the offices are needed to make up for the long distances they must drive to reach county courthouses for early voting or late registration. At Fort Belknap, they say, people living in remote Lodge Pole have to go to Chinook to register to vote. After a now-retired judge d...
A group advocating for widening U.S. Highway 2 to four lanes across Montana has invited Mike Tooley, the director of Montana Department of Transportation, to speak at its annual meeting, Friday, Nov. 8, in Havre. Highway 2 Association President Bob Sivertsen said in a press release that the meeting, along with Tooley’s presentation, will include a discussion of the association’s activities in the past year and discussions of highway issues and changes to the association’s bylaws and election of its officers. Sivertsen said in...
The wide receiver position at Havre High has been deep and star studded over the years. It seems like no matter who the Blue Ponies graduate the previous season, there is always a senior wide out ready and willing to step up and take over. This season, that senior happens to be 5-6, 160-pound Thomas Gruber. Last season Gruber was a junior starter, but may have gotten lost in the shadows of First-Team All-State receiver Zach Plum and First-Team All-State tight end Thurman Holds...
In the final days before the the election of Havre’s mayor and Ward 4 councilperson, the candidates are wrapping up their campaigns by keeping up with voters and urging people who have not voted already to do so. Voters have until 8 p.m. Tuesday to get their ballots into the clerk and recorder’s office at the Hill County Courthouse. Those who did not receive their mail-in ballots or have lost theirs can go to the clerk and recorder’s office to receive a replacement ballot. Mayoral race Former mayor Bob Rice said that he wi...
I’m a big believer in what the The Weather Channel tells me. Ask my friend and colleague Tim Leeds, he’ll tell you just how strictly I follow The Weather Channel and its prognostications. And on the afternoon of Sept. 7, The Weather Channel was telling me some severe weather, some ugly stuff was headed towards Havre. And that weather wasn’t just headed towards Havre, it was barreling down on Blue Pony Stadium and the Havre Blue Ponies’ game with arch rival Miles City. As fate...
Once again, the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team is in the national spotlight. For the third straight season, the Lights begin a new year ranked inside the NAIA Coaches Preseason Poll. The poll, which was released on Tuesday, has Northern ranked 24th. The Lights are already off to a 5-0 start this season, and have a home game with NCAA Division II Montana State-Billings coming up on Friday night. After falling in the first round of the 2013 NAIA...
The Montana State University-Northern wrestling team didn't get off to the kind of start it was looking for, as the Lights dropped their season-opening dual to North Idaho College last Saturday in Coeur d' Alene, ID. Now however, MSU-N will get a chance to shift gears as the Lights compete in their first tournament of the new season. The Lights will be in Laramie, Wyo., Saturday for the annual Cowboy Open, a tournament which features NCAA Division I stalwart Wyoming, as well...
Prep Football Playoffs CLASS A First Round, Nov. 1-2 Polson (5-3) at Hamilton (6-3) Miles City (6-3) at Havre (5-4) Lewistown (2-6) at Laurel (6-3) Butte Central (5-4) at Whitefish (7-2) Quarterfinals, Nov. 8-9 Polson/Hamilton winner at Billings Central (7-1) Miles City/Havre winner at Columbia Falls (8-0) Lewiston/Laurel winner at Dillon (8-0) Butte Central/Whitefish winner at Belgrade (7-2) CLASS B First Round, Nov. 1-2 Huntley Project (7-2) at Glasgow/Hinsdale/Nashua (7-1) Deer Lodge (7-2) at Fairfield (6-1) Townsend...
Since Mark Samson took over as head coach of the Montana State University-Northern football program in 2004, the Lights have played five night games at Blue Pony Stadium. And in four of those, Northern didn't lose. And that's why the Lights should be glad they welcome in Montana Tech on Saturday night. Northern has lost three straight games, and a Frontier Conference night game might be just what the Lights need to stop the skid. Saturday night's game, like many of MSU-N's...
It's getting late in the Frontier Conference season, and yet, the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team remains perfect. But even with a No. 24 ranking in the NAIA, a 12-0 conference record and 21 total wins on the season, the Skylights still have plenty of challenges ahead of them. Northern has a two-game lead over Rocky Mountain College in the Frontier standings, but the Skylights will have to rise to the occasion once more if they're going to keep it, because...
