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The Havre High boys and girls swim teams wrapped up the 2011 portion of the high school swimming season with plenty of laps in the Great Falls High Pool over the weekend. The Blue Ponies were in Great Falls for a four-team meet on Friday, then competed in the annual Great Falls Invitational All-Relay Meet on Saturday. Friday was a good day for the Ponies as they took on Class AA powers CMR and Great Falls High, as well as Class A rival Hardin. In the meet, the Pony boys took...
For the second straight weekend, the Havre High wrestling team took on some of the state's top talent. And as this year's young team continues to grow, the Central A Blue Ponies were able to find more success. Friday and Saturday the Ponies were in Great Falls for the annual CMR Holiday Classic wrestling tournament. And after finishing as the No. 4 team a year ago, the Ponies came in and finished as the No. 7 team this season, earning 132 points. Great Falls High took the No. 1 spot for the second straight season, finishing...
It's early, but there was alre Chinook's Emily Dennis (middle) shoots over North Star defenders during a District 9C girls basketball game last Thursday in Gildford. North Star's Haylee Anderson (right) drives with the ball during Thursday night's girls game between the Knights and Chinook Sugarbeeters in Gildford. ady a pair of big, big games in the District 9C girls basketball season this past weekend on the Hi-Line. And two of them involved the Chinook Sugarbeeters, the def...
Northern's Nikki Tresch drives to the basket during Saturday's Duck Inn Classic game against Minot State. On Thursday night, the shots weren't falling for the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team. Yet, the Skylights still clawed their way to their 11th win of the season. In Saturday afternoon's Duck Inn Classic finale at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse, the long-range shot became a weapon for the Skylights as they reached win No. 12 on the season by knocking...
Blue Pony Sammy Evans (middle) lays up a shot during Saturday's basketball game against the Belgrade Panthers in Havre. Havre High's Neya Bischoff (left) is guarded by a Livingston defender during a Central A girls game Friday night at the HHS gymnasium. Havre High sophomore Peyton Filius (right) drives toward a Belgrade defender during a Central A girls basketball game between the Ponies and Panthers Saturday at the HHS gymnasium. Havre beat the Panthers one day after also beating rival Livingston. Coming into the weekend,...
Black Friday is a week away, signalling the return of the holiday shopping season and with it the return of concerns of downtown merchants about the parking situation. After last year's holiday shopping seasons, some of those merchants asked City Council to do something about parking spots downtown being taken up for days at a time, which led to the passing of a new ordinance that rearranged the downtown parking area to be held to a two-hour limit. Thoughts are mixed on how effective those changes were. "It's been going...
Laurels — Bozeman City Council, following the lead of Havre, has banned the use of cellphones by drivers. The action will save pedestrians and passengers from serious injury and death. Laurels — Once again, numerous volunteers are combining their talents to put on the annual Festival of Trees. The program is a night of fun for people who attend, and it provides a considerable sum of money for the benefit of the Boy & Girls Club of the Hi-Line, a most worthy cause. Dart — A private investigator and police are looking into...
Communities and states all over the country — including Havre — are preparing to beef up patrols over the holiday season with a grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Havre's Acting Police Chief Gabe Matosich said this week that the department will have extra patrols around town, starting next week and continuing through Jan. 1. "We'll have several extra patrols out in the afternoons, evenings and nights, kind of high density patrols, " Matosich said. Matosich said the patrols, and the state via fed...
The following signs may signal the presence of child abuse or neglect. The child: - Shows sudden changes in behavior or school performance; - Has not received help for physical or medical problems brought to the parents' attention; - Has learning problems (or difficulty concentrating) that cannot be attributed to specific physical or psychological causes; - Is always watchful, as though preparing for something bad to happen; - Lacks adult supervision; - Is overly compliant, passive, or withdrawn; - Comes to school or other...
With the national attention focused on charges that a former Penn State assistant football coach sexually abused children — sometimes on campus — a common question is: Why? Why has it taken nearly a decade before any action was taken, and what are the legal — and moral — requirements in Montana? A grand jury indicted former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky, including on testimony that a man reported to head coach Joe Paterno that he had witnessed abuse in 2002, but no action was taken. In Montana, state law requires some to...
David P. Blumfield David P. Blumfield, 94, a long-time Havre resident, died Nov. 11, 2011. Dave was born on May 5, 1917, in Great Falls, to Edward and May (Patience) Blumfield. He grew up in Great Falls in a traditional Scottish home and obtained his education through high school there. In 1941, Dave enlisted in the U. S. Army and was assigned to the Army Air Corps. He spent his military career as a parachute specialist in New Guinea and Australia. He came home in 1944 and married Henrietta "Reca" Albertini. They had two...
Margaret Graff Margaret Elizabeth Graff, 91, a Hi-Line farmwife who enjoyed gardening, cooking, baking, reading, quilting, bird watching, and traveling, died of natural causes Monday, Nov. 14, at the Chester nursing home. Vigil prayers will be 5 p. m. Sunday, Nov. 20,, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Chester. Funeral Mass will be 11 a. m. Monday, at St. Mary's. Burial will be at Chester Cemetery with a reception to follow at the church. Arrangements are by Rockman Funeral Chapel in Chester. Memorials may be given to St....
Scott S. Preuninger Scott S. Preuninger, 59, a longtime resident of Manchester, Mich., passed away suddenly Nov. 1, 2011. He was born Feb. 13, 1952, in Billings, Mont., to Leonard G. and Laurel A. (Stevenson) Preuninger. He graduated from Seoul American High School in Korea, attended Northern Montana College in Havre, Mont., and received his Bachelor of Science from Siena Heights University, Adrian, Mich. When Scott was 16, he got his pilot's license and flew as a commercial pilot for many years. He was a member of the...
WASHINGTON — The House has rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have forced Congress to balance its budget every year as a way to reverse years of deficit spending. AP Photo/Harry Hamburg Rep. Nan Hayworth, R-N.Y., center, accompanied by, from left, Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., Rep. Austin Scott, R-G., and Rep. Rick Berg, R-N.D., shows a photo of her children, Will and Jack, during a House Republican freshmen news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday to discuss a Balanced Budget Amendment. A m...
WASHINGTON — The House has rejected a proposal to amend the Constitution to require a balanced budget, seen by many as the only way to force lawmakers to hold the fiscal line and reverse the flow of federal red ink. The 261-165 vote was 23 short of the two-thirds majority needed to advance a constitutional amendment. Democrats, swayed by the arguments of their leaders that a balanced budget requirement would force Congress to make devastating cuts to social programs, overwhelmingly voted against it. AP Photo/Harry Hamburg M...
GREAT FALLS (AP) — The Cascade County attorney's office is warning students at Great Falls High School not to post any online messages about the victims of alleged locker-room hazing or they will face charges of intimidation or tampering with a witness. Alex Botina-Roehm is charged with rape and two counts of sexual assault after the boys reported Roehm lifted them up by their crotches in the showers. Students were told Thursday that anyone who posts messages on online sites or sends text messages regarding the alleged v...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno has a treatable form of lung cancer, according to his son. Penn State coach Joe Paterno stands on the field before his team's NCAA college football game against Northwestern, in Evanston, Ill. on Oct. 22. Former Penn State coach Paterno has a treatable form of lung cancer, according to his son. Scott Paterno says in a statement provided to The Associated Press by a family representative that the 84-year-old Joe Paterno is undergoing treatment and that "his doctors a...
One of the most coveted high school athletes in Montana has made up his mind about his future. Chinook senior Benjamin Stroh has comitted to the University of Wyoming where he'll wrestle for the Cowboys. Stroh, who is a three-time Class B-C state champion and undefeated in his last two years of wrestling, will join his older brother, Robert in the Cowboys' program. Stroh was being heavily recruited on the national level, and was also a budding college football prospect. Stroh...
The MSU-Northern women's basketball team improved to a perfect 6-0 on the season after defeating Valley City State 62-52 Friday night in Great Falls. Northern is playing in the UGF Tournament and will face Central Baptist College on Saturday afternoon. The MSU-N men were also victorious on the road Friday night in Vallejo, Calif. Northern rolled past Menlo College 87-62 to improve to 9-2 on the season. The Lights will take on California Maritime Academy on Saturday night. For full coverage, see Monday's Havre Daily...
Northern's Hunter Azure (left) holds the leg of Southern Oregon's Brad Tamishiro during a 141-pound match Friday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. The No.1-ranked Southern Oregon Red Raiders made it a clean sweep of Montana. One night after beating fourth-ranked UGF in Great Falls, the Raiders took out seventh-ranked Montana State University-Northern 27-18 in an NAIA wrestling dual Friday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. The dual was closer than the final score indicated as Northern battled back from a 12-0 deficit...
STILLWATER, Okla. — The Oklahoma State University women's basketball coach and his assistant coach were killed when the single-engine plane they were in during a recruiting trip crashed in steep terrain in Arkansas, the university confirmed Friday morning. The university said Kurt Budke and Miranda Serna died in the crash Thursday afternoon in the Winona Wildlife Management Area near Perryville, about 45 miles west of Little Rock. The pilot, former Oklahoma state Sen. Olin Branstetter, and his wife Paula also died in the cras...
Montanans should all be gravely concerned by the most recent actions of Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg to undermine worker rights, job training and higher education in America. It is a well-known fact that America's working people have never been more under siege. Unemployment rates continue to be at historic highs. Wages and benefits have stagnated to a point that America's middle class is evaporating. Relative to their peers in the 1950s to the 1970s, today's middle class is almost unrecognizable. Relative wage earnings...
Modern, sleek, stylish, cordless telephones and cellphones are a huge disappointment. Not that I want to go back to the old wooden box mounted on the wall that you "dialed" by ringing up the operator who connected you to the party to whom you were calling. That wasn't very handy, besides those were all party lines and that's all I need is everybody in the neighborhood listening in on my juicy conversations, confirming their every suspicion that I am both dorky and vapid. Pam...
Editor: The American Red Cross Blood Drive held on Nov. 7 again surpassed our goal of 110 donors. There were 122 donors and 108 successful units drawn. Just a note to you in high school. You can give blood at 16 now with parent or guardian consent, so you may want to consider that for the next draw. There were several multiple donor pins given out. We thank our dependable donors and welcome all new donors. You can make an appointment by calling the Red Cross at (800) GIVE LIFE or simply walking in the door. Our thanks to the...
Editor: This letter is just to let people know that we would like to say thank you to all of you who helped put out the fire last week at our place. Thanks to Hilldale Colony and all our neighbors and Blaine County Fire Department. Hartland Colony North of Havre...
