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We at the Havre Daily News shy away from telling people who to vote for. We express our opinions, some would say spout off, but we don’t endorse candidates or express views on just how to vote. We are making an exception, though. Voting is taking place this month. We think the decision is clear cut and want people to get behind the cadidate. USA Today is conducting a nationwide survey. It has nominated 20 underground attractions and is asking people to choose which one is the best. We admit to being biased, but we think H...
Sunrise Financial, a mysterious company apparently based in Great Falls, is buying property, most of them homes, at taxes sales and then holding onto them to let them rot. The reason for this is uncertain. Many experts can't see that there is profit to be made from the surreptitious business dealings of this rather unusual firm. The effect of all of this is crystal clear. Neighborhoods in Havre and probably throughout much of Montana are falling into disrepair and have lost...
Montana is looking for a new Indian Health director whose job it will be to close the gap in life expectancy between Natives and whites in the state. A study showed that Native men live 19 years less than whites in the state, which is surpassed by a 20-year gap for Native women. The figures are alarming, and it is up to every Montanan to work on a solution to the problem. Crow Tribal Health Director Todd Wilson said the problems are many and complicated and, thus, won’t be easy to solve. But difficutly should not be an e...
Laurel — People from throughout the Hi-Line are in Havre for the District 9C basketball tournament this week. The tournament is an enduring tradition in the area. It is smalltown America at its best. Older people often look back at the tournament as a highlight of their high school years. We hope everyone — players and spectators — have a good time while here. Dart — Often in the final stretches of a presidential campaign things turn nasty. The opposing sides go at each other with bitter venom. This year, candidates decided...
Laurel: A Teddy Roosevelt impersonator visited Havre High School earlier this week to give students a first-hand lesson in history. Hal Stearns, a Montana storyteller, spoke last week at the Senior Center of northcentral Montana giving people interesting facts about Montana’s many small towns. These are just two facets of great programs sponsored by Humanities Montana under its Hometown Humanities program that is focused on Havre this year. We’d like it if the special program never ended. It has provided lots of cul...
Laurel — The tiny town of Turner has a fighting spirit. Turner has seen a dramatic loss in population in recent years. Some small, rural towns have died out, but don’t count Turner out. The residents of this northern Blaine County community are fighting to stay alive. They have vibrant support for their high school basketball team as shown in a Havre Daily News story Wednesday. In the past, when the market wouldn’t support a privately owned grocery store, the community opened up a non-profit store. It’s a town full of spir...
We know lots of people who would make excellent mayors of Havre. People who have a real feel for the community. People from all political persuasions and parties who have a sense of where the city should be headed. People who are leaders in education, business, social organizations or non-profit groups who have worked with many people in the community. People with leadership skills who work with various political and social factions to keep the city moving in the right direction. The unfortunate thing is that very few, if...
Laurel: Residents of Fort Belknap Indian Reservation have declared a state of emergency because of the methamphetamine epidemic. It is fantastic to see the tribal government take such a strong stand against meth, and we hope it will continue in fighting the battle. Meth has taken a terrible toll on people on the reservation and in non-reservation areas throughout the Hi-Line. We hope municipal governments throughout the Hi-Line will follow the lead of Fort Belknap. Meth use is a serious problem and it has to be dealt with...
Seven years ago, Candi Zion sat at a small table not far from where Havre Pride was holding its twice-a-year Havre cleanup program. She looked a bit lonely. It wasn’t quite clear to many people just what she was doing there. She had to explain, she was holding a recycle drive. People could bring newspaper or bottles to recycle. A new group named Recycle Hi-Line had just been formed, and its goal was to encourage people to recycle items. It was an uphill fight, but little by little the idea of recycling caught on on the Hi-Lin...
When our new reporter Paul Dragu started covering news along the Hi-Line, he quickly noticed one thing: Use of meth was something that was involved in a lot of news stories: • The Havre school board hired a part-time drug counsellor at the high school. Abuse of prescription drugs was a concern, but the biggest topic was meth. • In many of the court cases he covered, the reason given for the criminal behavior was very often meth. • Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation is considering banning drug dealers in general and meth dealers...
This very special part of the planet that we inhabit faces some serious decisions in coming years. There are problems in our government, our social structure and in our infrastructure. All of the problems are fixable, and we hope the people of north-central Montana muster their intelligence and common sense to sit down and deal with the difficulties we face. For 2016, we’d like to see our area make these resolutions and tackle these problems: Meth Methamphetamine is one of the most dangerous drugs out there. It rips apart b...
Many of us use Christmas as a time to look at our lives and be thankful for our blessings. We hope Havre does the same this Christmas season. In the course of reporting the events in this community, we at the Havre Daily News have a better-than-average opportunity of seeing the good side of this special little part of Montana. We see the people who go out of their way to help folks during the Christmas season and perform important community services throughout the year. These are people who, without fanfare, give up their...
Laurel — Havre certainly has shown lots of Christmas spirit in the past week. Schools, colleges, fraternal organizations and others put on their finest and celebrated the season with plays, concerts and programs to help needy people. It’s a great community, and it is doing a good job spreading holiday spirit. Dart — During contract negotiations, usually union and management take turns blaming the other for negotiating the media. Recently, both the International Association of...
Jamie Eagleman, according to legal papers filed in District Court, stabbed a bartender in the back twice, attacked one police officer while carrying a knife she had concealed in her groin area. She lunged at another officer and threw knives at two staffers from the Hill County Detention Center. All of this, legal papers say, was prompted because Town Pump didn't want her to steal a pack of cigarettes and Magic Diamond Casino wouldn't serve her more than two beers although she wasn’t gambling on the machines. Now, the heart o...
Laurel — The Havre High School Choir performed at a concert Thursday night,. It is the first of many concerts planned for the holiday season by the music departments throughout the school district. We have an excellent music staff that is very knowledgeable on how to best capture the talent of our students and shape it into fine music. In coming week, make sure you attend a concert at the area schools or see music groups in public concerts. You will be glad you did. Dart — A prisoner who was charged with attempted hom...
Havre has a long tradition of people who do volunteer work for the community good. But it will take future generations a lot if they are to match the commitment Norm Gorder has shown this special spot on the earth over the last 77 years. Norm died at age 96 last week, volunteering right up until the end. It will take several young people to match the commitment — and the energy — that Norm put into his community work over the 77 years he lived in Havre. Norm offered the same kind of commitment to his employer and its cus...
A major effort is underway at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation to eliminate use of methamphetamine. Rocky Boy residents have seen the devastating effects on the drug on their communities and their children, and we are heartened to see the reservation-wide effort to curb use of the drug. Certainly, Rocky Boy is not the only community in Hill County to feel the devastation of a meth plague, but the Native community is showing tremendous leadership in taking on the problem head-on. We hope other communities and schools follow s...
Dart — The Fort Belknap tribal courts and corrections system is steadfast in making sure that the public doesn't know what is going on with the prisoner who escaped from custody in Havre last week. Under pressure from a reporter, an unnamed spokeswoman agreed that Gabriel Arkinson was still in custody at Fort Belknap. What judge ordered him to jail? What exactly is he charged with doing? How did he manage to escape custody in the middle of Havre? None of the public’s business, was the answer, in effect. Laurel — Commu...
The escape of attempted murder suspect Gabriel Arkinson in downtown Havre Tuesday showed the best of Havre and the Hi-Line, and it showed some ways day-to-day operations need to improve. Havre police officers and their colleagues from U.S Border Patrol, Hill County Sheriff’s Office and Montana Highway Patrol did a fantastic job of conducting a thorough and professional search for Arkinson, going door to door. They found him with the assistance of a Social Security Administration guard. After that, order was restored to H...
Editor: To the kind stranger who helped my daughter pick me up after a bad spill in the Domino's parking lot Tuesday evening, thank you. We both appreciated you taking a moment to help me/us. So, though I don't know who you are, I pray that God blesses you for your kind deed. Thank you, again. Sincerely, Mary Brown...
Havre city officials certainly aren't playing politics with the proposed $30 million streets repair program. There couldn’t be a worse time to present to residents a tax hike that will average more than $200 a year. Residents were just hit with a major increase in sewer rates because of a Washington- and Helena-mandated $10 million in upgrades to the wastewater treatment plant. While the state and the feds mandated the improvements they came with orders but no cash to help Havre taxpayers foot the bill. The city also has t...
Laurel — It’s Festival Days weekend, and lots of people will return home to Havre to see the parade and take part in the various programs and special events. Thousands of people will take part in the festivities, but it also takes thousands of people to put them on. The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce coordinates the efforts of the weekend, but most of the work is done by various groups that put on the shows, games and entertainment programs. We could start listing the volunteers who run the events, but we could never fin...
Laurel — A laurel goes to Montana State University-Northern for its effort to rehabilitate its lovely old Hagener Science Center building and especially for rehabilitating it to improve facilities for its worthwhile nursing program, which is vital for the Hi-Line. And a laurel goes to Montana State University President Waded Cruzado for her role in the effort. We hope the university system agrees to Northern's plan. Dart — State Sen. Art Wittich, R-Bozeman, blasted MSU President Waded Cruzado because she spoke out against som...
Darts: A court case is being held now concerning whether the present form of lethal injection is the best to use in Montana. There is something bizarre about such a debate. It seems best to us that the debate should be solved by simply eliminating the death penalty entirely in the state and coming up with a more effective punishment for people who have taken another’s life. The present form of killing convicted criminals is out of step with today’s thinking. No one seriously thinks it is a deterrent to crime. It is a long, dr...
People having heart problems are at a distinct disadvantage in rural areas. When people are undergoing full cardiac arrest, they have very little time to get care. It’s difficult enough when you are in metropolitan areas and close to clinics or hospitals. It’s a whole other story if you happen to be in Goldstone, 14 miles north of Rudyard. A new state program will help people in remote areas such as those along the Hi-Line. Under the leadership of Havre’s Janet Trethewey, the Department of Public Health and Human Servi...
