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Billings — Any time the Havre High wrestling team heads to the Rimrock Auto Arena in Billings, great things happen. This past weekend, the Blue Ponies won their fifth consecutive team championship and crowned five individual champions. Parker Filiius and Jase Stokes each became the first four-time champions in school history and Havre lapped the field, winning by 136.5 points. It was truly a performance for the ages. Faced with mounting pressure to make history, Filius and S...
State Rep. Kelly McCarthy, D-Billings, held a phone conference Sunday night with members of the Hill County Central Committee to convince area Democrats he is the party’s best candidate to win the special election for Montana’s only seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Hill County delegates Brenda Skornogoski, state Rep. Jacob Bachmeier, former City Councilwoman Janet Trethewey and Jack Trethewey, a member of the Montana State Democratic Party’s Executive Board were on the call. Joe Skornogoski, who has been chose...
Billings - The Havre High wrestling made history at the 2017 All-Class State Wrestling meet and the Blue Ponies did it in more ways than one. Havre won a school record and tied a Class A record by winning its fifth consecutive team championship. HHS placed a total of 11 wrestlers in the meet, all of them in the top five on its way to 257.5 points. Columbia Falls was second with 131 and Glendive was third with 125. "I was really pleased with the ways the kids competed," HHS...
For more than 30 years, the Havre City-County Airport has been paying power bills for nonexistent services, airport and city officials say. Airport manager Tony Dolphay discovered about six months ago that the airport has been paying NorthWestern Energy, formerly Montana Power Co., electric bills for 163 unmetered runway lights that don’t exist. A 1985 lighting project converted the runway lights from unmetered to metered. The runway lights bill went from a consistent flat rate to a metered rate — electricity was now cha...
Blaine County and Hill County Republicans will hold their Lincoln-Reagan Dinner Saturday in the Commercial Building on the Blaine County Fairgrounds. Don Richman, chairman of the Blaine County Republican Party and former state Senate candidate, said the dinner is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the groups in both counties. The Hill and Blaine county group host the annual fundraising dinner jointly. Richman said the dinner will begin at 5 p.m. with a cocktail hour, followed by a prime rib dinner. The dinner will...
The Havre Daily printed a press release about scholarships offered through Havre Public Schools Education Foundation on Page A3 of Thursday’s edition of the paper that included incorrect information about the Friends of Music band and choir scholarships. The scholarships are $750....
The weekly legislative video conference usually held in the Robins Administration Building Tuesdays at noon will be changing locations. The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce hosts the videoconference which allows north-central Montana lawmakers to interact with members of the public by way of video during the legislative session. An email from the Chamber Friday said Tuesday’s videoconference will be at Northern Montana Hospital in the First Floor Conference Room 1. The email said that the Feb. 28 videoconference will be held a...
Lorraine M. Otto, 92, passed away Friday, Feb 10, 2017, at Big Sandy Nursing Home due to natural causes. Services will be held Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, at 11 a.m. with a viewing one hour prior at St. Margaret Mary's Catholic Church with Father Pete Guthneck officiating. Burial to follow at Big Sandy Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit Lorraine's online memorial page and leave a message of condolence for her f... Full story
Press release Although Havre High School took a small team to the national qualifier speech and debate tournament at Great Falls over the weekend, it saw success, with two students getting up on stage to be named as alternates to the National Speech and Debate Association national tournament, set this year in June in Birmingham, Alabama. Four-year Havre High speaker Ethan Smith, a senior, competing in dramatic interpretation against more than 50 speakers from Class AA, A and BC schools, again made his mark in preliminary roun...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a motor vehicle crash after a 16th Street caller reported Friday at 8:10 a.m. that a car ran into him as he was backing out of his driveway. —— Darius Richard Moreno of Havre, 43, was arrested on charges of driving with a suspended driver’s license and failure to carry or produce proof of insurance Friday after an officer investigated suspicious activity Friday at 8:25 p.m. —— Officers investigated a theft report after a Havre business caller reported Friday at 1:20 p.m. that whee...
They say, it’s hard to beat the same team three times in one season. But the Montana State University-Northern Lights made the feat look pretty easy Saturday night. On the road in Butte, the Lights were gunning for a third straight win over the Montana Tech Orediggers, and thanks to some hot shooting, Northern did just that with a 76-62. Saturday night’s win also allowed the Lights to stay in the top half of the Frontier Conference standings with just four games left. Northern...
The Glacier Nationals were hoping to build on a streak-busting win over the Billings Bulls last Friday night in Havre. Unfortunately, the Gillette Wild were just too good. Glacier made its last long road trip of the season, traveling to Gillette, Wyoming for a pair of NA3HL Frontier Division games against the Wild — and falling in both contests. Gillette has one of the top defenses in the Frontier, and it showed both nights. On Friday night, the Wild beat the Nationals 12-2 a...
The Havre High girls basketball team has had some tough battles with Class B opponents in recent weeks. The Blue Ponies got another one on senior night. Saturday night at the HHS gymnasium, HHS seniors Naomi Terry, Ceyara Plante, RayAn VandenBos and Kristen Nash played their final home game of their careers, and while it was tough, the Blue Ponies sent the seniors out with a 59-51 win over the Rocky Boy Morning Stars. “Our seniors played great tonight,” Pony head coach Dus...
Just last month, the Havre High boys basketball team was blown out in a rivalry game at Rocky Boy. And while the Blue Ponies didn’t beat the Stars in the rematch, the game itself was a much different story. Rocky Boy came into the HHS gymnasium Saturday night and left with a 61-51 win, closing out its regular season. But the win didn’t come without a big fight from the Blue Ponies, who led 16-12 on a 3-point barrage. Isaac Warp hit three 3-pointers in the first quarter, and...
GREAT FALLS — The Montana State Swimming Championships is the toughest test of swimming many young swimmers will ever face. But it’s also the most exciting. Thus, it was a tough, and exciting two days for the Havre Blue Ponies as they competed at the state meet Friday and Saturday at the Swarthout Pool in Great Falls. The Havre girls came to the meet as the defending Class A state champions, and the Ponies left Great Falls with a solid 31 points, and a third-place finish. In...
Billings - The Chinook wrestling team went to the All-Class State Wrestling meet hoping to repeat the magic it had in past seasons. And while that didn't quite happen, Tate Niederegger made sure the Sugarbeeters closed out the tournament and his career in an appropriate fashion. Going into the tournament, the Beeters had a slim hope of defending their Class C championship with just two wrestlers. Yet any hope of winning a team trophy went by the wayside when Niederegger lost...
Billings - As far as high school sports in Montana go, there is no single event that can rival finals night at the All-Class State Wrestling meet, and Saturday inside the Rimrock Auto Arena at the Metra, the Havre Blue Ponies once again owned the night. While the Blue Ponies have always had a big presence on finals night, HHS outdid itself this year, with a school-record tying seven finalists and five state champions, which also tied a previous high for the Ponies, done most... Full story
BILLINGS — The accomplishments of the Havre High wrestling program are hard to fathom. But what’s even harder to fathom is that before this past weekend, the Blue Ponies had never had a four-time individual state champion. Of course, that changed when Jase Stokes and Parker Filius made Havre High history Saturday night inside the Rimrock Auto Arena at the Metra, doing something no Blue Pony has ever done — become a four-time champ. “It’s bittersweet,” HHS head coach Scott Fili... Full story
BILLINGS - Over the years, the Havre High wrestling team has had some memorable state tournaments inside the Rimrock Auto Arena at the Metra, but there was never a day quite like the one the Blue Ponies enjoyed Saturday. That's because Havre made history at the 2017 All-Class State Wrestling meet and it did so without batting an eye. HHS ran away with the team competition, securing a school-record fifth consecutive state championship with 257.5 points. Columbia Falls finished... Full story
