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It’s back to the drawing boards as Havre city officials look for ways to improve the city’s deteriorating streets. Voters Tuesday rejected the proposal to increase taxes $30 million over 20 years to reconstruct many city streets. The plan was defeated 918-1,199, losing in all four wards. Supporters knew from the beginning they would have a hard time convincing voters to approve that kind of tax hike, but council member Terry Lilletvedt she was encouraged at the support the proposal did get. “Almost 1,000 people voted for t...
Two pieces of equipment obtained by the Havre Fire Department may save lives because of the quick response time they allow. Firefighters were busy in the basement of the fire station on Tuesday, learning the intricacies of the new equipment which they say will enable them to work fast and provide faster care to people in heart distress. Fire department engineer Nate Courtnage, the fire department's training officer, said that when he arrives to find someone suffering from a...
On July 14, Bradley and Mandy Briney of Kalispell brought their two-year-old daughter, Thelma Mae, to the emergency room with a bad tummy ache A large mass was found in her stomach, and after she was rushed to Seattle Children’s Hospital, it was determined that she had a very rare form of cancer. Spots were found on her lungs. She has undergone extensive treatment, surgeries, and high doses of chemotherapy since then. Thelma has a long road ahead of her, but doctors are hopeful that things will continue to get better. The e...
Police have found 14-year-old Aliyah Gray, and she is safe and sound. Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich said the missing persons alert issued for her has been cancelled. Authorities will interview her and determine where is the best place for her to live now. He said there is a possibility she will face charges. Aliyah had been living with her grandmother in Havre, but turned up missing Monday afternoon. She reportedly told friends she was going to walk to visit her biological mother in North Dakota. Authorities became...
A foreign national who was doing construction work in Havre faces charges he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old Havre girl who met him via Facebook. Eblin Javier Caceres-Martinez, aka Javier Martinez, of Honduras is in the Hill County jail on $50,000 bond facing charges of sexual assault, a felony, and unlawful restraint, a misdemeanor. An arraignment hearing in which Martinez would enter his initial plea was scheduled for this morning but was expected to be continued until an interpreter could be found. According to a...
City Judge Virginia Seigel has recommended to the commission reviewing Havre's form of government that a city manager form of government be established. That would be the best way to run the city government on a day-to-day basis, she said. And the manager would help the city to prepare a vision for its future. Seigel is the latest city official to appear before the review commission with ideas on how the city's form of government should be changed. As she spoke Tuesday night,...
Three weeks after some 3,635 ballots were mailed out to active registered voters across the city, Havre elected two new City Council members Tuesday, and rejected a proposed $30 million street reconstruction mil levy. The nonpartisan elections were a mostly low key affair, with few major differences between the candidates and without the onslaught of ads that characterize state and national elections. In the open Havre City Council race in Ward 1, Ed Matter, a former school...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a Tuesday 8:02 a.m. report from 3rd Street that someone had driven over the caller’s lawn. —— Officers investigated a report made at the police station Tuesday at 1:29 p.m. that a jeep had been stolen. —— Officers investigated a report of vandalism called in from a 1st Avenue facility Tuesday at 1:55 p.m. —— A caller at a 1st Street business reported Tuesday at 2:28 p.m. someone had stolen a stereo. Officers are investigating. —— A two-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 2 West wa...
Press release This month, Havre’s Community Alliance Church will serve as a collection site for Operation Christmas Child — the world’s largest Christmas project of its kind. The annual Samaritan’s Purse project is a favorite of many Havre residents, families, churches and groups who spread joy to millions of children around the world by filling shoeboxes with fun toys, school supplies, hygiene items and notes of encouragement, a press release says. “Through the simple act of filling a shoebox, someone in Havre can make a ta...
From AgPR DeWITT, Mich. — Ag Transition Partners, a group of educators and agricultural consultants, is continuing its no-cost farm transition planning project that includes no-cost consulting services to help producers move their transition plans forward. There are three webinars to prepare participants, along with on-site or virtual coaching and action plan templates. American Agri-Women, the nation’s largest coalition of farm, ranch and agri-business women, is supporting the project and hosting the program’s webin...
Gladyce Lillian (Johnson) Klette passed away of natural causes on Oct. 31, 2015, at Missoula Social and Rehabilitation Services Assisted Living. She was lovingly cared for in her final days by the wonderful staff (especially Noelle, Rose, and Autumn), along with Partnership In Home Care Hospice. It was fitting that her last day was Halloween, her favorite holiday. Gladyce was born in Havre, Montana, to Theodore and Bertha (Nordsven) Johnson. After growing up on a homestead farm southwest of town, she graduated from Havre...
For three Hi-Line volleyball teams, the season marches on. But how long that season will last for Chinook, Chester/J-I and North Star will all come down to the next three days in Belt. Starting Thursday morning, the Sugarbeeters, Hawks and Knights will all play in the 2015 Northern C Divisional tournament, where two spots at next week’s Class C state tourney are on the line. The tournament also includes the top two teams from the District 7C, Belt and Geraldine-Highwood, a...
For a lot of reasons, I can’t wait until next year. I’m the type who loves looking forward to exciting things, things like a planned vacation to the U.S. Open tennis tournament, playing golf again and going hiking in wild places like Glacier and Yellowstone National Park. And, this time of year, I’m always looking forward to next year, because, eventually, another season of Havre High tennis will be upon me. But, there’s one forward-thinking issue that I just can’t stand, an...
There is no arguing that it has been a successful season for the Havre High volleyball team. But, when the season started, the Blue Ponies had a goal of making to the Class A state tournament and finally this week, they have the chance to make that goal a reality. And for the first time in recent years, HHS will not go into divisionals as an underdog. In fact, when the Eastern A Divisional starts Thursday in Livingston, the Ponies will find themselves as one of the tournament...
In just one year, MSU-N's K.J. Rech has gone from one of the new guys to one of the Lights' senior leaders Every time you move up a level in basketball, there’s a big adjustment period. From high school to college, and if you’re one of the few, to the pros. Montana State University-Northern senior K.J. Rech has made several jumps up the basketball ladder, and he’s certainly adjusted well. Rech, who has played basketball in three states, is a two-year starting forward for the L...
Thursday High School Volleyball Havre at Eastern A In Livingston Chinook, C/J-I, North Star at Northern C in Belt College Volleyball Skylights at Tech, 7 p.m. Friday High School Volleyball Havre at Eastern A In Livingston Chinook, C/J-I, North Star at Northern C in Belt Hockey Glacier at Yellowstone Saturday High School Football Havre vs Columbia Falls, 1 p.m. Chinook vs Ennis, 1 p.m. C/J-I at Twin Bridges, 1 p.m. Box Elder at Custer, 1 p.m. High School Volleyball Havre at...
Prep Football Class AA First round Friday Great Falls CMR (5-5) at Bozeman (9-1), 7 p.m. Kalispell Flathead (6-4) at Helena Capital (8-2), 7 p.m. Billings West (6-4) at Billings Senior (9-1), 7 p.m. Saturday Kalispell Glacier (8-2) at Helena (8-2), 1 p.m. Class A First round Butte Central 49, Hamilton 14 Billings Central 28, Laurel 0 Columbia Falls 9, Polson 6 Sidney 28, Belgrade 20 Quarterfinals Saturday Billings Central at Dillon, noon Columbia Falls at Havre, 1 p.m. Butte Central at Miles City, 1 p.m. Sidney at Whitefish,...
After a summer of widely differing weather across Hill County and a major hailstorm in July, the end of the 2015 growing season holds no surprises, or records. "It was a miserable year," said Les Rispens, executive director of Hill County Farm Service Agency. Condtions across the northern portion of the county went from what Rispens described as "substantial drought" in the northwest corner of the county, with some farmers seeing near total crop loss, to average precipitation... 
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