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Articles from the February 20, 2023 edition


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  • Weather stopping schools, buses, other services

    Updated Feb 21, 2023

    Several local schools announced they would close today due to the blizzard conditions, with others announcing limited or altered busing. North Central Montana Transit is not running today. Havre Animal Shelter also announced it is closed to the public today and the Havre office of The Salvation Army announced it would be closed today due to the weather. Blaine County Library is closed, and Chippewa Cree Tribal Court announced it is starting at 10 a.m. Aaniih Nakoda College...

  • New co-op processes culled deer for food bank

    Patrick Johnston|Updated Feb 20, 2023

    The Havre Food Bank received a few hundred pounds of venison harvested from local deer culled as part of the City of Havre's Urban Deer Population Management Plan, deer that were processed in the newly opened Montana Premium Processing Cooperative. Havre Animal Control Officer Pete Federspiel picked up the nearly 250 pounds of venison Friday morning to be carted off to the food bank, a donation he said wouldn't be possible without the co-op's help. "We don't have a processor i...

  • Quick pics: 9C champions crowned

    Updated Feb 20, 2023

  • Thanks for years of basketball scorekeeping

    Updated Feb 20, 2023

    from Carol Bymaster Gabrielsen Portrait of a Pony If you have ever attended the 9C District Basketball Tournament in Havre, you have, no doubt, seen Todd Donoven, sitting at the scorer's table. Todd has been keeping basketball scorebooks in Havre for the past 35 years. The 9C Tournament this past weekend was his final time for keeping the official scorebook. Todd has been around basketball and scorebooks pretty much his whole life. His dad kept the books for KG until Todd and...

  • Obituary - Brittney Lea Ahenakew

    Updated Feb 20, 2023

    Brittney Lea Ahenakew, “Sweetgrass Woman,” 33, passed away at Northern Montana Hospital Thursday, February 16, 2023. Wake services began at 5:00 p.m. Saturday, February 18, 2023, and continued until her funeral service, which was at 10:00 a.m. today, February 20, 2023, all at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church. Burial followed in the Parker Family Cemetery....

  • Obituary - Jean Y. Green

    Updated Feb 20, 2023

    Jean Y. Green, 89, passed away at Benefis Healthcare Wednesday, February 15, 2023. Cremation has taken place, and a memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, February 23, 2023, at Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery. Her family has suggested memorial donations be made in Jean’s memory to the Care and Comfort Home or St. Jude School....

  • For the Record, Feb. 20, 2023

    Updated Feb 20, 2023

    Havre Police Department Officers assisted with a medical call on Third Street Friday at 9:17 a.m. -- A fake $20 bill was reported at a U.S. Highway 2 Northwest business at 9:45 a.m. Friday. -- Officers assisted with traffic control Friday at 10:52 a.m. where a vehicle had broken down at First Street and Fifth Avenue. -- A summons was issued after officers reported Friday at 1:35 p.m. they were chasing down an dog on First Street Northeast. -- A First Street caller asked...

  • THE BEARS ARE BACK

    Kason Clark|Updated Feb 20, 2023

    After several days of great basketball games, the District 9C Boys Basketball Tournament finally wrapped up at Havre High Gymnasium Saturday night with its championship game. In the final game of the weekend, the Box Elder Bears got rolling to defeat Chester-Joplin-Inverness, 80-56, to win the District 9C. The Bears had suffered some tough losses in the 9C tournament before this year, so finally claiming that title is a relief. "It feels great. We've had some heartbreak here...

  • Back in Black: Chinook wins one final 9C championship

    Kason Clark|Updated Feb 20, 2023

    All season, the Chinook girls basketball team had been the best team in the District 9C as it went undefeated in conference play. The Sugarbeeters continued their run to the District 9C championship game Friday night at Havre High Gymnasium where they faced the North Star Knights. While the Sugarbeeters had a slow start, they pulled away in the second half for the 47-33 victory to win the 9C title. "This title means a lot," Chinook junior Mya Berreth said. "We've worked hard,...

  • 2023 Havre Daily District 9C All-Tournament Teams

    Updated Feb 20, 2023

    7 Havre Daily District 9C Boys All-Tournament Team Tracen Jilot - Box Elder; Matthias Blackbird - Box Elder; Blake Harmon - CJI; Karson Pulst - CJI; Braydon Cline - Big Sandy; Kody Strutz - Big Sandy; Landis Arganbright - Fort Benton; Garrett Spicher - North; Star ; Ryan Doyle - Turner; Brenden Fetter - Chinook. 2023 Havre Daily District 9C Girls All-Tournament Team Alexus Seymour - Chinook; Hallie Neibauer - Chinook; Bree Swanson - Chinook; Laynie Sattoriva - North Star;...

  • Longhorns survive thriller in 9C consolation game

    Kason Clark|Updated Feb 20, 2023

    On Friday night at Havre High Gymnasium, the Fort Benton Longhorns and Hays-Lodge Pole Thunderbirds battled it out in the District 9C Girls Basketball consolation game. With a spot in the Northern C Divisional on the line, the Longhorns and T-Birds went back and forth throughout the night. The Longhorns came back from a deficit to start the fourth quarter as they came back to tie the game, 37-37, with less than a minute left in the game. After the Longhorns got the ball back,...

  • Pioneers run past North Star for Northern C Divisional berth

    Kason Clark|Updated Feb 20, 2023

    On Saturday at Havre High Gymnasium, the District 9C Boys Basketball Tournament consolation game took place between the Big Sandy Pioneers and the North Star Knights. With a spot in the Northern C Divisional on the line, the Pioneers got rolling early and never looked back as they won 65-25. "The first half of that game was probably the best first half of basketball we've played all season," Big Sandy head coach Rhett Simanton said. "We really need that. It came when we...

  • Skylights bury Orediggers on senior day

    George Ferguson|Updated Feb 20, 2023

    Time and time again this season, the Montana State University-Northern Skylights were on the verge of a much-needed win. But, before Saturday, the young Skylights had been unable to close the deal. That all changed on the final game of the regular season, however. On senior day in the Armory Gymnasium, Northern won its final Frontier Conference game of 2023, as the Skylights beat the Montana Tech Orediggers. “Just really happy for our kids,” MSU-N head coach Chris Mouat sai...

  • Tech shocks Northern men with a buzzer beater

    George Ferguson|Updated Feb 20, 2023

    Already having played two close games against the Montana Tech Orediggers this season, the Montana State University-Northern Lights needed a win on senior day too secure the No. 2 seed in the upcoming Frontier Conference tournament. And for 39 minutes and some change Saturday in the Armory Gymnasium, it looked the Lights were going to get it. The 11th-ranked Orediggers, though, had the last shot and Michael Ure made the most of it as he canned a controversial 3-pointer at the...

  • Lights finish sixth at tough Cascade Conference Championships

    George Ferguson|Updated Feb 20, 2023

    The Montana State University-Northern wrestling team entered the postseason as one of the youngest teams head coach Tyson Thivierge has ever had. And wrestling in the loaded Cascade Collegiate Championships wasn’t going to be a walk in the park. And at the end of the two-day CCC in Prescott, Arizona, the Lights wound up finishing in sixth place with a pair of finalists, and five tickets to the NAIA national tournament punched thus far. In the team race, Northern scored 85 poin...