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A man was arrested during a forum Wednesday night at Montana State University-Northern after he made a profane outburst and refused to leave during discussion of the university Senate painting over a protest logo on its Hello Walk. Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich identified the man this morning as Henry Charles Valdez, 31, of Havre who was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct at about 8:30 p.m. He was transported to Hill County Detention Center and held on $185 bond,...
A Havre woman has opened her own salon in the Atrium Mall. Tina Dion, an esthetician and master makeup artist who graduated in July from The Montana Academy of Salons in Great Falls, is the owner of Tina's Salon. "It is my goal to help others love their skin by providing with the information, tools and treatments they need to feel healthier and beautiful," Dion said. The salon is housed in what had once been a doctor's office on the bottom floor of the Atrium. Dion said she...
The local university student senate voted against supporting a student proposal to endorse the right of demonstrators protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. "We are not here for you to get a political idea. We are here and we pay taxes for you so you can get an education," Willard Fladager, a local resident who spoke against going forward with the resolution, said Wednesday during a forum in the Montana State University-Northern Student Union Building Ballroom before the...
MISSOULA (AP) — University of Montana President Royce Engstrom is stepping down effective Dec. 31, as the university continues to face declining enrollments and budget cuts. Commissioner of Higher Education Clayton Christian announced today that he and Engstrom reached the decision after “careful discussion and consideration.” After the November Board of Regents meeting, the commissioner’s office made it clear that the university was overstaffed. UM said it would rank academic programs in order to make decisions on further...
DAN ELLIOTT Associated Press DENVER - Dozens of slinky, ferocious and rare ferrets are settling in and making babies at their new home in Colorado, one year after they were released at a wildlife refuge outside Denver. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service counted 47 endangered black-footed ferrets last month at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. That includes 20 out of the original 28 captive-born ferrets that were released there in 2015, a survival rate of 71...
BOZEMAN (AP) - Gov. Steve Bullock's budget proposal for the next two years includes a 10 percent cut for the Montana Highway Patrol - a $7.7 million reduction that would mean the loss of 27 jobs, most of them troopers. "The governor is aligning expenses with revenues across the entire budget," Bullock's spokesman Tim Crowe said. The patrol's reduction is its proportion of the reductions in fuel taxes. The Department of Transportation also faces cuts due to decreased fuel tax...
HELENA (AP) — A woman who was criminally committed to Montana State Hospital has sued the state, claiming she was sexually assaulted and impregnated by another patient at the psychiatric facility. In the lawsuit filed last week in District Court in Helena, the woman said the hospital failed to supervise her adequately, leading to the rape that resulted in the birth of a child, Lee Newspapers of Montana reported. A Department of Public Health and Human Services spokesman declined to comment on the ongoing litigation. The w...
HELENA (AP) — The Montana Department of Corrections has pledged to strengthen its oversight of a private prison in Shelby after auditors recently found weaknesses in the agency’s monitoring of guard staffing levels, health care services and food service. Department officials said checks have already been increased to ensure mandatory security staffing levels are being met, and they will build more comprehensive checks in the other areas. The Legislative Audit Division did not find any major violations at the Crossroads Cor...
Press release BOZEMAN — The U.S. Department of Agriculture Montana Farm Service Agency Executive Director Bruce Nelson announced that the deadline to submit ballots for the 2016 County Committee Elections has been extended to ensure farmers and ranchers have sufficient time to vote. Eligible voters now have until Dec. 13, to return ballots to their local FSA offices. Producers who have not received their ballot should pick one up at their local FSA office. “We’re extending the voting deadline to Dec. 13 to give farmers and r...
Press release December 1 is World AIDS Day and the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services and local partners are using the commemorative event as an opportunity to increase awareness about who may be at risk, and to decrease the stigma of HIV/AIDS. The 2016 World AIDS Day theme is “Leadership. Commitment. Impact.” State-supported HIV treatment and prevention programs are committed to reducing the epidemic in Montana by facilitating planning, implementing strategic HIV prevention activities and ensuring acc...
Press release Stone Child College on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation has recently been awarded a professional development grant from the U.S. Office of Indian Education to provide financial support to any enrolled tribal members who are seeking a bachelor’s or graduate degree in education. The purpose of the program is to address and help alleviate shortages in Native American teaching staff in schools with significant Native American student populations. Training teachers who are responsive to the socio-cultural bac...
Carmen, who had cancer, has recently died. Carmen is one of my Mazatlan friends. I just learned of her death. I grew to love Carmen and looked forward to seeing her each year. But that was not always the way. My first Mazatlan vacation, time passes in a blur, but it had to have been at least a dozen years ago, Carmen met Kathy and me at the airport in the resort van. The price of a “free” pick-up at the airport was a promise to give half a day to the time-share sales staff. Carmen’s job was to shuttle us into a commi...
For the Democrats, no activity is immune from reflexive accusations of sexism and racism, not even soul-searching. The initial postelection debate on the left has brought some tentative breaks with the party’s oppressive and self-limiting identity politics. And they have been met, predictably, with a furious counterattack wielding all of the usual rhetorical weapons of identity politics — lest fresh air penetrate the intellectual and political hothouse where transgender bathroom issues loom incredibly large and it is for...
Two months before joining the government in an entry-level position, President-elect Donald Trump has been learning the ropes and is busier than a bartender 10 minutes before midnight at a Times Square Applebee’s on New Year’s Eve. A large amount of time was spent selecting a cabinet of deplorables from his basket of deplorables and making sure the two sons from his first marriage, Uday and Qusay, had the proper security clearances. Their safari trophies were also expedited though customs. Trump cleverly kept America’s enemi...
It’s 3 a.m. and Donald Trump can’t sleep. Restless, he tosses back and forth between Egyptian cotton sheets. The sweat builds on his forehead. His teeth grind. A tinpot dictator in some far-flung land has made a joke about his hands. The rage builds. He reaches for the phone glowing silently on the nightstand. In the darkness, Melania reaches out to steady his (perfectly adequately sized, he thinks) hand. “Don’t do it,” she warns. “You’ll regret it.” But she’s already too late. His deeply tanned face flushes crimson r...
Editor: A quote from the book “The Way of the Heart,” by Raymund Andrea. “Open your morning paper and note the trend of things for a day, and what do you find? The everlasting wrangling of politicians, those clever saviors of the world; the undisciplined tempers and ravings of men of high estate, only high financially; and those of low estate — the mob. From a cultural point of view, both are a reproach and a warning; from a spiritual point of view, they are a menace.” Frank Mclain Havre...
Alma H. Klobofski, 88, passed away due to natural causes Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, at Northern Montana Care Center. Cremation has taken place, and memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, at First Lutheran Church with Pastor Tanner Howard officiating. Alma's family has requested that memorial donations be made to First Lutheran Church, the Havre-Hill County Library, or to the charity of the donor's choice. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted wi...
A Havre woman was sentenced to three years probation Monday in District Court for selling methamphetamine outside her apartment. Aleisha M. The Boy, born in 1991, received a three-year deferred imposition of sentence for felony criminal distribution of dangerous drugs. The sentence was pursuant to a plea deal that dropped one additional similar charge. If The Boy abides by the conditions of the sentence, she can have the offense struck from her record. The offense happened last year. A Safe Trails Tri-Agency Task Force agent...
Hill County Park Board Hill County Park Board will meet at the Timmons Room of the Hill County Courthouse, Monday, Dec. 5, at 5:30 p.m. 1. Approval of minutes 2. Approval of agenda 3. Guests and public comments on agenda items only 4. Cabin business 5. Old business: FEMA close-out update; Proposed organization of Finance & Planning Committee; Removal of old office 6. New business: Change in Department of Labor’s overtime law – Kathy Olson 7. Rules and Regulation Committee 8. Cabin Owner’s Association report 9. Friends of Be...
Havre Police Department Officers assisted a citizen after a caller asked police Wednesday at 12:12 p.m. to have a person removed from their residence. Hill County Sheriff’s Office Richard Lee Sutherland of Box Elder, 32, was arrested on a state District Court warrant Wednesday at 5:19 p.m. at the Hill County Detention Center. Havre Fire Department Emergency medical personnel responded to two calls Wednesday and one today....
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A draft plan unveiled Monday for two recently created Idaho wilderness areas prohibits campfires at high elevations to protect whitebark pine and eliminates horses and other recreational stock in some areas to protect alpine soils. The U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced the availability of the 67-page document intended to guide management of the 138-square-mile Hemingway-Boulders Wilderness and the 142-square-mile White Clouds Wilderness, both in central Idaho. The agencies s...
Beginning this trapping season, Montana trappers need to turn in the complete lower jaw of bobcats, otter and swift fox for aging. Both sides of the lower jaw of the harvested animal must be cleaned and air dried before being submitted. Trappers are no longer required to turn in the skulls of harvested bobcats, otter and swift fox....
From Fish, Wildlife and Parks Despite mild weather throughout November, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks will not extend the 2016 big game general season. Still, 41 hunting districts have a shoulder season that allow antlerless elk hunting, largely on private land, through December, and in several instances into the new year. Not all shoulder seasons are open to general license holders, and hunters need to know what licenses are valid and when and where they can hunt. Be sure to read the regulations. A shoulder season is a...
For the second year in a row, Frontier Conference men's and women's basketball will feature each team playing each other three times during conference play. For the Montana State University-Northern men and women, the merry-go-round starts this weekend as the Lights and Skylights open league play with road games at Montana Tech tonight, and Lewis-Clark State Saturday night. For the No. 16 Skylights, this weekend's games mark the start of Northern's march to try and get back to...
It’s hard to truly describe the dominance of the Havre High wrestling program over the past two decades. And as another season is set to start this weekend, the Blue Ponies come in having won eight of the last 10 Class A state championships, including the last four. But of all the state championships Havre has won, there are a number of reasons why this year could be more historic than ever. And that’s why, as the new season looms, the Ponies and their fans are glad they are...
