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Richard Albert Rock Richard Albert Rock, 62, of Box Elder died of an apparent heart attack on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011, at Northern Montana Hospital in Havre. His service will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, at 11 a. m. at Rocky Boy Lutheran Church with Russell Standing Rock officiating. Burial will follow at Rocky Boy Cemetery. Arrangements have been entrusted to Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. Richard was born to Ed and Mary (Smith) Rock on May 8, 1949. He attended school in Box Elder, Eastern Montana College and Haskell... Full story
Paul Carl Schwan Paul Carl Schwan, 84, died Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011, of natural causes at Northern Montana Care Center. His rosary and funeral Mass will be Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, with the rosary being said at 1:45 p. m. and his funeral service beginning 2 p. m., all at Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery. Memorial contributions in Paul's honor may be made to the Diabetes Association, Montana Chapter, 3203 3rd Ave. N. Suite 203, Billings, MT 59101. Services and arrangements have been entru...
Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation has re-entered the online loan operation, this time connecting up with Plain Green LLC. From all indications, Plain Green is a far more respectable outfit than PDL Ventures, with which Rocky Boy was involved over the last two years. The Better Business Bureau reports all kinds of problems with PDL Ventures, with people making complaints that were never addressed by the company. Although the bureau gives Plain Green an F, the company has fewer complaints and a higher percentage of them resolved...
Margaret Mary 'Marge' McLean Margaret Mary "Marge" (Bartholomay) McLean, 90, peacefully passed away Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011, with her loving family by her side. A funeral service for Marge will be 2 p. m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, at the Northern Montana Care Center Chapel with Ila McClenahan officiating. Burial with full military honors will follow at Highland Cemetery. Memorials in Marge's honor may be made to North Central Senior Center, 2 W. 2nd St., Havre, MT 59501 or to the Northern Montana Care Center Chapel Fund, P.O....
Alvin "Bud" Christopherson, 86, last week was back in the town where he spent much of his youth. Bud came to Havre from his home in Salem, Ore. to attend his younger brother's funeral. Hank Christopherson, 85, died Oct. 22, marking the passing of another from the Greatest Generation that won World War II for the United States and for civilization. The Christophersons were born and raised in Montana, following their father, who work for the Burlington Northern Railway, up and down the Hi-Line. Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson...
Editor: Dennis does it again. Rep. Rehberg has co-sponsored a bill which can devastate the northern third of Montana. House Bill 1505, National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act, will not protect federal lands. It's an example of creating big government and granting the Department of Homeland Security the right to seize control of all federal land within 100 miles of the Canadian border. We could kiss goodbye to hunting, fishing, grazing, logging and recreation on federal land. All in the name of gaining "operational...
Paul Tuss of Havre, the executive director of Bear Paw Development Corporation, has been named to the Montana Board of Regents, which oversees the state's university system. Gov. Brian Schweitzer announced the appointment Tuesday afternoon. Tuss will fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lynn Hamilton of Havre, The term expires Feb. 1, 2013. Bear Paw is a private, non-profit organization that administers regional economic development programs in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips counties and Fort Belknap...
For the second straight week, a Montana State University-Northern player has earned Frontier Conference Special Team's Player of the Week. Northern kicker Juan Garcia earned the honor this week after senior defensive end Will Andrews won it a week ago. Garcia is a 6-foot, 185-pound junior, punter/kicker from Pacifica, Calif. In MSU-Northern's 41-14 loss to Eastern Oregon, two of Garcia's three punts were downed inside the 20-yard line. He was also 2-of-2 in extra points. From...
The Montana State University-Northern Lights are already 4-1 early in the 2011-12 basketball season. Now, the Lights can add the No. 15 ranking in the NAIA to their list as the season starts to heat up. The NAIA Top 25 Men's Basketball Preseason Coaches Poll was released recently and the Lights will start the year ranked 15th. Northern finished as the No. 19 in the final NAIA poll last spring after the Lights won a Frontier Conference championship and advanced to the first... Full story
Three second-half turnovers stopped any chance the No. 22 Montana State University-Northern Lights had at an upset of No. 4 Carroll College. The Lights trailed the Saints just 13-7 at halftime but Carroll turned three Northern miscues in the second into points as the Saints rolled to a 37-21 win over Northern Saturday afternoon in Helena. The Lights took advantage of an interception by Jordan Van Vaost who returned it for a score in the second half. With Saturday's loss, Northern fell to 3-2 in Frontier Conference play... Full story
The 12th-ranked Rocky Mountain College Battlin' Bears sent the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team to a fourth straight Frontier Conference loss Saturday in Havre. The Bears upended the Skylights by scores of 26-16, 25-22 and 25-17. Kelsey Williams had 13 kills and Hillary Isleifson had nine kills and one block to pace the the Skylights. Islefison also had a service ace in the loss. Northern fell to 3-4 in conference play and 11-8 overall as the Skylights reached the halfway point in the season. MSU-N will have...
BILLING — A new U.S. government report highlights serious gaps in mental health care for many American Indians and Alaska Natives, groups that suffer from problems including a teenage suicide rate more than twice the national average. One in five hospitals and clinics in Indian Country provide no mental health services, according to the Inspector General's Office of the Department of Health and Human Services. Only half provide drug therapy treatments, and at dozens of facilities some drug treatments are handled by n...
NEW YORK (AP) — The collection of people in tie-dyed T-shirts and star-spangled underwear have been cmped out in a granite plaza in lower Manhattan nearly two weeks — and show no signs of going away. They sleep on air mattresses, use Mac laptops and play drums. They go to the bathroom at the local McDonald's. A few times a day, they march down to Wall Street, yelling, "This is what democracy looks like!" It all has the feel of a classic street protest with one exception: It's unclear exactly what the demonstrators want. AP...
Each and every season the Havre High boys and girls cross country teams strive for conference titles as well as state hardware. And with a new season starting up this weekend, it is back to business for the Blue Ponies. Both Central A Blue Pony squads have already been hard at work. And with a few big names to replace, as well as running in a very dominant conference, head coach Kyle Fisher is already seeing that extra work paying off in practice. And that hard work will come to fruition when the Ponies open the season...
MSU-Northern quarterback Derek Lear runs with the ball during a Frontier Conference football game last fall in Havre. Lear is back for his sophomore season and will quarterback what should be a potent Lights' offense. For full coverage of the Lights season-opening game against Western, see Friday's Havre Daily News sports pages, as well as the HDN Game Day inside Friday's HDN. And that's just fine with the Lights. Although Northern went just 3-7 last year and finished near...
Havre High's Sadie Seidel (left) and Sammy Evans go for a ball during a 2010 high school volleyball match last fall in Havre. The duo is part of a large returning group of varsity player, all of whom should make the Blue Ponies one of the teams to beat this year, not just in the Central A, but in all of Class A volleyball. For more on the Ponies season-opening weekend in Belgrade and Livingston, see Friday's Havre Daily News sports pages. Heading into every season the Havre High volleyball team strives to improve in every asp...
People who use their cellphones while driving have one month left to stop before the city of Havre's new ban takes effect. One month from today, officers will be able to pull over drivers they see using a cellphone on the road. In that month, the city is taking some pre-emptive steps to ease people through the adoption of the new law. The Havre Police Department set up a booth at the Great Northern Fair this summer to let people know the change is on its way, talking with fair-goers and distributing an informational...
Rumors of a recent rash of break-ins have circulated Havre, but Acting Police Chief Gabe Matosich said Wednesday that, with a bit of prevention, people have nothing to worry about. Matosich confirmed that there were two incidents reported about two weeks ago, in which someone entered unlocked homes in the middle of the night. The homeowners would not have known an uninvited guest had been there, except for the missing items that the perpetrators had taken with them. While both of the incidents happened in the Highland Park...
Stacey Small, who won an electoral victory after losing a court battle about a previous election, will have to take to campaigning again after the election board at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation approved a protest and has ordered another special election. LeAnn Montes, attorney for the Chippewa Cree Tribe at Rocky Boy, said this morning that the results of the Aug. 18 election have been overturned and a new election to fill a vacant seat on the Chippewa Cree Tribe's Business Committee will be scheduled. "The election board,... Full story
Dorothy L. Gallik was born Sept. 28, 1929, to Clayton and Rose Gibbons in Lawton, N.D. She passed away on Aug. 30, 2011, at Peace Hospice in Great Falls, Mont. When she was 12 years old, Dorothy moved to Great Falls, Mont. She graduated from Great Falls High School in 1947. Dorothy was employed by Great Falls National Bank for three years, and in June 1950 married Edward Gallik. After they were married, she was also employed by Montgomery Wards in Billings, and helped Ed with his water hauling business in Great Falls. She...
HELENA — The hearings officer in Gov. Brian Schweitzer's three-year-old ethics case said Wednesday that the Democratic governor should be fined $4,100 for violating state law by appearing in a public service radio advertisement during his 2008 re-election campaign. The hearings officer appointed by the commissioner of political practices issued a proposed decision Wednesday in the penalty phase of the case, saying his order can be instructive to others trying to decipher the ethics law banning the use of state resources to p... Full story
HELENA — Republicans are seeking a court's intervention in their ongoing dispute with Attorney General Steve Bullock and his campaign fundraising methods. Bullock, a Democrat, has not formally declared if he will seek re-election or run for governor. Bullock has been raising money without specifying which office he is seeking. But his campaign website lets donors send in donations of up to $1,200 — an amount only a candidate for governor can accept. The past and present commissioners of political practice have said that not... Full story
BILLINGS — A state prison inmate can withdraw his guilty plea to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl after successfully arguing he made the plea only because his attorney told him a Hispanic man could not get a fair trial in Musselshell County, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled. One Supreme Court justice suggested the man's defense attorney be investigated for her failure to adequately investigate the case, The Billings Gazette reported (http://bit.ly/otVeqP) in Thursday's editions. Hector Valdez-Mendoza, 26, was charged...
TRIPOLI, Libya — In a fiery broadcast from hiding, Moammar Gadhafi warned Thursday that loyalist tribes in his main strongholds were armed and preparing for battle, a show of defiance hours after rebels extended a deadline for the surrender of the fugitive leader's hometown. The rebels, who have been moving troops toward remaining Gadhafi bastions across Libya, had shifted the deadline for the town of Sirte in hopes of avoiding the bloodshed that met their attack on Tripoli. AP Photo/Francois Mori Libyan boy holding a f... Full story
Montana all-american corner Trumaine Johnson (right) returns an interception during a Big Sky Conference football game at Northern Colorado last fall. After missing the FCS playoffs for the first time in 19 years, the talented Grizzlies should rebound this season. They didn't just lose the Big Sky Conference championship for only the second time in over a decade, they finished third, and of course, they missed the FCS playoffs for the first time since 1992. It was a lot to...
