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The last time I went to a phone store (such a thing!) and asked for a dumb phone, one that just made and received calls, the young clerk looked at me with such pity and compassion, bordering on grief, that I should be so clueless. Indiana never was a forerunner for national cultural/industrial progress. The first telephone from my childhood was a darkly stained oak box solidly mounted on the kitchen wall. The black conical-shaped speaking tube flared from the center. One...
Local people are invited to the annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner at St. Jude Parish Center, across from Pepin Park, at 440 7th Ave. Dinner will be served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thanksgiving Day. The event is free and people don't have to be a member of any church or a Havre resident to attend. Those who come can look forward to a full meal - turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy, stuffing, relish, wheat or white rolls, and for dessert, pumpkin pie. The Community Thanksgiving...
Lockdown procedures initiated at Havre Public Schools Tuesday, were carried out with little trouble, Havre Public Schools Superintendent Andy Carlson said. The procedures, aimed at keeping students safe, we're undertaken after school administrators learned Gabriel Arkinson, a prisoner being escorted from Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation to the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, had escaped into the city's downtown area. He was apprehended two hours later. "I think we did a nice...
Intertribal Native American leaders met Wednesday to discuss ways of curbing methamphetamine use on Indian reservations and agreed that the cure consisted of a large dose of going back to the basics. A picture of a lush mountain on the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation stood in front of the spacious hall of the HRDC Building on 5th Avenue as 54 people lined in to attend the Intertribal Methamphetamine Symposium. Most of those seated at the rectangular foldout tables were leaders...
From Operation Christmas Child Havre families, churches and groups are not waiting until Thanksgiving Day to express gratitude. Instead, this week they are giving back by lovingly packing gifts of joy for children around the world living in extreme poverty or affected by war, disease and natural disaster. For many of these children, it will be the first gift they have ever received. Through Nov. 23, Havre residents will be helping to pack 250 shoebox gifts filled with toys, school supplies, hygiene items and notes of...
Havre Police Department Robert Alexander McConnell, 35, of Havre was arrested on charges of violation of conditions of release, driving with a suspended or revoked driver’s license, careless driving and criminal contempt, after a caller reported Wednesday at 7:50 a.m. a man passed out at 14th Avenue and 8th Street. —— Michael George Martinez, 44, of Harlem was arrested on a charge of criminal contempt after a Boulevard Avenue caller reported a man breaking out her car window Wednesday at 8:16 a.m. —— James Patrick Trueax Jr...
A front-page story in Wednesday’s edition of the Havre Daily News about police apprehended a prisoner who escaped in Havre misreported that an employee of Heirloom Jewelers had locked himself into the shop. The owner of the business says it has no male employees....
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team got to play a rare early season game inside the state of Montana Tuesday night. And the Skylights get to do it again Friday afternoon. But, Northern is hoping the second time around is a lot better than the first. The fifth-ranked Skylights (5-0) put their unbeaten record on the line Friday afternoon when they take on another NAIA heavyweight in Wayland Baptist University. The game will be played at UGF's...
It's not often that you have a first-year head coach in the state championship game. But, for the Box Elder Bears and co-head coach Neil Rosette Jr. that's exactly the situation they will find themselves in Saturday. The Bears, who went 11-1 this season under the tutelage of Rosette Jr., who doubles as the school's athletic director, and Joel Rosette, who is also the head coach of the girls basketball team. Yet, just because Rosette Jr. is in his first year on the job,...
Veteran Tommy Cooper and the Lights make their home debut tonight against SOU Montana State University-Northern wrestling team members are already no stranger to big duals this season, and that includes junior 157-pounder Tommy Cooper. But with two big duals already done, Cooper and the Lights are gearing up for their biggest dual yet — a home debut tonight against arch rival Southern Oregon. For Cooper, it’s yet another exciting test in what has been an excellent start to...
Getting locals to predict the outcome of the annual Cat-Griz has been a time-honored tradition here at the Havre Daily News, and a big reason why is that Havre is pretty much one of those classic towns divided. In other words, there’s plenty of Griz fans and plenty of Cats fans to go around. Havre just isn’t one or the other. Now, I personally don’t have to say which side of the divide I sit on because I’m pretty sure everyone already knows. But, I do hope our local Montana...
