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HELENA (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena is dropping group health insurance plans for its 200 employees in parishes, schools and social services across western Montana, a spokesman for the diocese said. Instead, the diocese will help those workers find individual insurance coverage on the market, and compensate them within limits when they purchase their own plans, diocese spokesman Dan Bartleson said Wednesday. The diocese plans to make the change by January, he said. Across the nation, some religious groups and sc...
On behalf of the United Way Board of Directors, I would like to thank the Havre Daily News for the thermometer add that reminds the community of the progress of the fund drive. It is this community support and working together that demonstrates the spirit of Havre and the surrounding communities. Thank you to our donors and if you haven't yet donated — please consider it now. Thank you, sincerely, Karen Sloan, United Way of Hill County past president...
Me and my big mouth, blathering away about creating a new life without constraints of old beliefs and cultures and language and familiar surroundings. Oh, didn’t I sound so rosey-posey. Pollyanna on Big Gulp Valium. Would you like fries with that? Did I ever get my comeuppance. Let me begin at the beginning. First, getting through customs at the border into Mexico was a huge let-down. I had done my research. I had heard all the stories about people who had had to empty t...
In the news business, we talk about stories that are good news/bad news. These are the kinds of stories that please both the optimists and the pessimists. The sad case of Yellowstone County Treasurer Max Lenington is a good news/bad news story. Bad news: Lenington, who also serves as assessor and superintendent of schools, wrote a racist and homophobic email to his sister on a county computer. It disparaged President Barack Obama and his race. Lenington shouldn’t be writing political and personal emails on county-owned c...
Havre Police Department Officers issued a summons at a 6:20 a.m. Wednesday motor vehicle stop on 1st Street. No other information was given. ——— An 8:06 a.m. Wednesday two-vehicle, noninjury motor vehicle crash on Bullhook Boulevard was investigated. ——— Officers issued a summons at an 8:56 a.m. Wednesday motor vehicle stop on 8th Avenue. No other information was given. ——— A summons was issued to a 16-year-old for shoplifting after officers received a 10:24 a.m. Wednesday call from a 1st Street business about a non-comba...
Maureen Odegard, the principal of Highland Park School, said the buddies program started last year with three high school boys who began going to Highland Park after Odegard talked to High School Principal Craig Mueller. They spoke of kids at Highland Park School who just needed someone to talk to, be their friends and listen to them. Mueller found three boys who were willing to go down to Highland Park, and it turned out to be such a success that this year, 21 high school...
A representative of Idaho law enforcement said Wednesday afternoon that officials continue to work on the murder investigation of a Havre man found dead in Idaho Sept. 8, and no new details are available at this point. Teresa Baker, public information officer for the Idaho State Police, said in an email that the investigation into the death of Kendall Quinnell, 36, continues and that information about the results of the investigation will be released as it becomes available. Quinnell’s body was found Sept. 8 in Shoshone P...
As the first batch of food collected at the annual ELF food drive arrived at Van Orsdel United Methodist Church Wednesday night, the crowd of about 40 people sprung into action. The volunteers - many of them youth from Van Orsdel and First Lutheran churches - had been sitting, waiting patiently for the food to come. Havre firefighters and volunteers had traveled through the east side, lights flashing and sirens blowing, collecting food that people had left on their porches....
National Weather Service expects more winter weather to hit north-central Montana by the weekend, with the remnants of the last snowfall still on the ground. Weather Service predicts a Canadian cold front to come through the area by Saturday, bringing 2 to 4 inches of snow on the plains and 5 to 10 inches in the mountains. Temperatures in north-central Montana are expected to drop into the teens by Saturday, with wind chills at zero to minus 10 degrees. Weather Service’s advisory warns people to expect poor driving conditions...
The Frontier Conference championship is settled. Carroll College kicker Connor Smith decided that when he booted a game-winning, 38-yard field goal against Rocky Mountain College Saturday afternoon at Nelson Stadium in Helena. In a wild affair, RMC went ahead 35-34 with just :55 left in Saturday’s contest, but the Saints methodically went down the field and got close enough for Smith to win the game and send Carroll to its 13th conference title in the last 14 seasons. After a...
Every season, the Montana State University-Northern football program welcomes in a new recruiting class filled with freshman standouts and new transfers. But at the end of every season, the Lights must also say goodbye to a talented group of seniors playing in their final game in a Lights’ uniform. Saturday afternoon, when MSU-N hosts Rocky Mountain College at Blue Pony Stadium in Havre, the Lights will honor nine seniors exiting the program. This year's seniors include defens...
The beginning of the college wrestling season is somewhat quiet for the Montana State University-Northern Lights. But it’s about to get very loud and very intense. Tonight, the No. 2 Lights travel to Great Falls to battle arch rival and sixth-ranked UGF in the first of two rivalry duals between Montana’s only college wrestling programs. The action kicks off at 7 inside UGF’s McLaughlin Center. The rivalry between MSU-N and UGF has been heated since the Argos added wrest...
It’s back to work for both Montana State University-Northern basketball teams this weekend. And both MSU-N squads will be involved in key nonconference games. The 24th-ranked Northern Lights travel to Phoenix for a pair of games in the Arizona Christian Tournament, while the Skylights visit Great Falls for two games in a preseason event hosted by UGF. The Skylights (4-0) are coming off a pair of exhibition games last week. Northern played the University of Wyoming down to t...
When the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team finished off the Rocky Mountain College Battlin’ Bears last Friday night in the Armory Gymnasium, it was certainly a big moment for an MSU-N program that had won just eight conference matches combined in 2009 and 2010. But the Skylights have no intentions of letting the regular season Frontier Conference championship they earned with that four-set win over Rocky be the crowning moment in what has been the most dominant...
