Hi-Line stores still short of bread

Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown

An empty shelf in the bread isle at Gary and Leo's Fresh Foods Saturday afternoon.

The collateral damage of last year's Hostess implosion is still afflicting some Havre businesses.

Between the closure of the Sweetheart store on 2nd Street and the Billings-based vendor who further provided baked goods to the Hi-Line, it's become harder to buy a loaf of bread.

At Walmart, Dennis Pearson, manager of the grocery department, said the store lost almost all of its bread offerings.

"Most of our bread, 99 percent, was supplied by Hostess, " Pearson said. "Basically, now w...