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North-central Montana lawmakers were in Helena last week, where they attended caucus orientation and were issued their standing committee assignments ahead of the next legislative session. State Rep.-elect Jacob Bachmeier, D-Havre, will sit on the House committees on Education, State Administration and Agriculture. Bachmeier, 18, who defeated incumbent Republican Stephanie Hess for House District 28 this November, said he is more than satisfied with his assignments. “I couldn’t be happier, particularly with the Education Com...
For many, the winter sports season means basketball, but along the Hi-Line, wrestling is just as important and now, with high school wrestling just over a week away, the wait for some on-mat action won’t be long. Certainly, wrestling fans from this area are somewhat spoiled. The Havre High wrestling team has dominated Class A for the better part of two decades and has currently won four consecutive state championships. Yet, the Blue Ponies, led by long-time head coach Scott F...
Three Montana State University-Northern seniors were named Frontier All-Conference for the 2016 football season. The league released the All-Conference list and postseason awards Wednesday afternoon. Northern defensive end Tyler Craig was named First-Team defense, while senior offensive lineman Pete Morales was named First-Team offense. Both were Second-Team standouts a year ago. MSU-N senior running back Zach McKinley was named All-Conference for the third straight season,...
Fourteen months after the store moved into its location in the Atrium Mall Annex, Havre Home & Party is going out of business. Jill Miller, who has been managing the store, cited the tough economy and competition from other retail chains such as the Dollar Tree in Holiday Village Mall as factors in the closing. "This year is a slow economy; everybody is in the same position." Miller said. She said the decision was made about three weeks to a month ago. "It's pretty sad,...
Havre Daily News staff Most of the trees are ready for the ninth annual Festival of Trees, one of the last events for Friday and Saturday's major kickoff of the Christmas season. The fundraiser for the Boy's & Girls Club of the Hi-Line at 500 First Avenue starts at 7 p.m. in the club's Multi-purpose Room, following events throughout the area starting Friday. Chinook holds its kickoff Friday, and Havre's Town Square on the 300 Block of First Street will be busy all Saturday...
The Havre High School gymnasium was bursting as much with traditional American Indian culture as it was with students Tuesday as students from Havre High and sixth-graders from Havre Middle School filled the bleachers to witness an instructional powwow. "We just wanted to do something for Native American Indian Heritage Month," said Mike Haugen, principal at Havre High, "so we just thought this was a way to educate our students on Native American culture." Though Havre High Sc...
A local cooperative that has spread since it incorporated in 1954 to 16 counties in central Montana is now looking to expand in Havre. Triangle Communications, headquartered just west of Havre, is asking businesses in northwestern Havre if they are interested in taking the cooperative up on its offer to provide fiber optic broadband internet and telephone services. "This has been a long time coming, and we've had hundreds of requests to serve Havre over the years," Robert...
VA service officers coming to area Judy Loendorf and/or Steve Mulonet, service officers for Montana Veterans Affairs will be visiting Rocky Boy Veterans Center, from 10 a.m. to noon, Dec. 2 and Dec. 16 to meet with veterans interested in applying for benefits. Any veterans wanting to apply for benefits should bring a copy of their discharge paperwork with them. If weather is bad on days of travel, people can stay tuned to the local radio stations and the Havre Daily News for updated information on the revised outreach...
Before year’s end, let’s have one sort of Kumbaya moment as we turn the page on words and expressions that have sort of worn out their welcomes in 2016. We can start with Kumbaya, the 1920s folk song kept alive by Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and dozens of other musicians through the decades until politicians and pundits appropriated the term (loosely, “come by you”) to mock fake, usually progressive, group merriment. Speaking of progressives — and we mean you, MSNBC pundits — find a linguistic crutch to replace “sort of.” If you h...
Have you ever had something in your life at which you were afraid to take an honest look? I’m not talking about major life-threatening things here. We generally face up to those after a short dip into denial. What I’m talking about is a niggling fear like that which I’ve avoided bringing under my personal surveillance spotlight for over a year. It terrifies me inordinately to even talk about it. So, here goes. My daughter had knee replacement surgery, second knee, about three weeks ago. She’s doing great, healing more qu...
And now a public service announcement for all you prodigal sons and daughters making the pilgrimage back home for the annual Turkey Day reunion. Prepare for some ultra ugliness out there, people. Expect extra enmity. You are entering enemy territory and should anticipate the landing area will be mined. We’re not talking about the normal stomach spasms associated with tryptophan poisoning by over sampling the turducken or Aunt Hoogalah’s dupamouche. Beware the bubbling casserole dish nowhere near any apparent heat source. This...
Editor, A huge thank you for everyone who participated in the Bobcat/Griz Food Drive. The Bobcats won the football game but the Griz fans certainly turned out when it came to the food and hygiene donations. A special thank-you goes to Sunnyside School that collected nearly 500 pounds of food, 300 pounds of which were for the Griz. Students and staff of Sunnyside, well done! At Havre High School, the Griz fans again won in the food collection against the Bobcat fans. The Key Club of Havre High School would like to say...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a Tuesday 8:23 a.m. report from the area between Lincoln and Wilson avenues that a city dumpster had been run into. —— Officers investigated and made an arrest after a First Street caller reported Tuesday at 1:21 p.m. that a semitractor-trailer pulling a flatbed loaded with tanks clipped a light. No further information about the charges was provided. —— A Third Street business caller reported Tuesday at 1:56 p.m. that a window had been broken out over the weekend, and officer...
Hill County Cemetery District will meet at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, at the cemetery office. • Call to order • Public comment • Approval of minutes from previous meeting • Old business • New business • Claims...
MATT VOLZ Associated Press HELENA — Montana residents won’t be allowed to use their driver’s licenses to access military bases, nuclear power plants and federal facilities starting Jan. 30, and they’ll need another form of identification to board commercial aircraft a year after that, federal officials said Tuesday. Officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent Montana Gov. Steve Bullock a letter rejecting the governor’s request to delay implementation of the federal Real ID Act of 2005. The state previousl...
MATT VOLZ Associated Press HELENA — Medical marijuana advocates and patients are asking a judge to fix a mistake in a voter-approved ballot initiative that inadvertently delayed the re-opening of shuttered pot dispensaries in Montana by eight months. A state law that limited medical marijuana providers to three patients apiece took effect Aug. 31 after a five-year battle, leaving thousands of registered users without legal access to the drug. Earlier this month, Montana voters passed Initiative 182 to repeal the t...
Jacqueline Ann Gagne of Aurora, Colo., 87, passed away Nov. 12, 2016. Services will be held at Horan and McConaty, 11150 E. Dartmouth Ave., Aurora, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, at 10 a.m. followed by the processional and ceremony at Fort Logan National Cemetery, 3698 S. Sheridan Blvd., Denver, CO 80236, at 11:30 a.m. Jacqueline was born in Havre, Montana, Oct. 24, 1929. She married Robert Joseph Gagne in October of 1963. She was a retired employee of Aurora Public Schools. She was...
Press release HELENA — Montana Stockgrowers Association will celebrate 132 years of serving the state’s ranchers with their Annual Convention & Trade Show Dec. 7-9 in Billings. This year’s meetings at the Radisson Hotel will host a trade show, educational workshops, policy meetings, over $100,000 in prizes and live music. “It is time to make plans to attend the Annual Convention in Billings. Greet old friends and meet new ones while you work together to discuss important issues and set policy to guide your leadership for the...
Welcome back to all league bowlers. We are in the 10th week of the season, and we apologize for the delay in the local bowling report. As most of you know, we have been going through some major changes at the lanes. We have new owners and a new name. Congratulations to Chad and Suener Springer for purchase of the lanes, which is now the Harvest Moon Lanes. I know the new owners will do their best to make the lanes an exciting, fun and clean environment for all leagues and family bowling. Let's all support the young, local fam...
If anyone needed any more evidence that the 2016 season is now over for both the Montana Grizzlies and Montana State Bobcats, they need look no further than the Big Sky All-Conference list, which was released Tuesday afternoon. Between the Griz and Cats, just one player earned Big Sky First-Team honors, that being Montana State senior offensive lineman J.P. Flynn. And for the Griz, Tuesday marked the first time since 1984 that they didn’t put a player on the First Team. M...
The last time the Montana State University-Northern Skylights went on the road, they were looking for some good competition. But, neither team Northern played two weeks ago in Kirkland, Washington, could slow the Skylights down. Now however, Northern won't have to look for stiff competition, because they're flying directly toward it. The No. 16 Skylights (6-0) are headed to Jackson, Tennessee, this weekend for a pair of games in the Rotary Classic, a tournament that has a...
