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Youth sports are an investment. They are an opportunity for kids to be active, while at the same time learning valuable skills in the sport they are playing, and in life. For years in Havre, there was no form of football for youths to participate in until they reached the middle school level. Fortunately, that has changed and one of the programs that provides young athletes an opportunity to play the sport is the Havre Flag Football program. The program is run by the Boys & Gi...
HELENA (AP) — U.S. Sen. John Walsh of Montana said Thursday he is dropping his campaign for office amid allegations that he plagiarized large portions of a 2007 research project he wrote for a master's degree. In a statement to supporters, the former National Guard commander said he is leaving the race but will keep the seat he was appointed to until his term ends in January 2015, when the winner of November's election is sworn in. "I am ending my campaign so that I can focus on fulfilling the responsibility entrusted to m...
The Havre-Hill County Library Summer Reading Program was a smashing success. We want to say thank you to our generous donors: Creative Leisure, Dairy Queen, Radio Shack, Carol Pleninger, Chris Comp, Mark Peterson, Jason Barkus, James Dahl, Tim Solomon, Havre Police Protective Association and Friends of the Library. With your contributions, we had the highest numbers we have seen in a long time. A total of 355 people signed up for the program. Eighty-three participants completed their goal with a total of 165,066 minutes read,...
In the midst of preparations for a grand opening of Havre’s newest medical facility, a U.S. senator announced the clinic has received a quarter-million dollars in funds to expand its services. U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., announced Wednesday that the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act — Obamacare — is providing $250,000 to Bullhook Community Health Center to add mental health care services and develop new models of care. “Mental health issues pose some of the greatest challenges facing America,” Tester said in a...
A co-author of a book detailing strategies for eliminating poverty told people at the end of a two-day seminar Wednesday that they have to use what they learned. The key to success, she said, is for people to apply what they have learned in relationships with individuals, in their institutions and in the community. "Please don't let it die," Terie Dreussi-Smith, co-author of "Bridges Out of Poverty," told about 115 people in the Havre High School auditorium. "The last thing...
A Havre woman accused of robbing a pharmacy at gunpoint — with a stolen BB gun — and selling the prescription drugs at a Havre hotel told investigating officers she had been “hearing voices” in the time before the incident. Arlene Morsette, born in 1984, was scheduled for arraignment on 10 felony charges Wednesday in state District Court in Havre, but that hearing was delayed and was rescheduled for 8:30 Friday morning. She is accused of stealing more than 6,000 prescription painkillers and about $400 in cash July 21 from We...
A Havre woman who tried to withdraw from her plea agreement will spend most of six years in custody for assaulting her husband with his own .22 caliber pistol. Cindy Stidham, born in 1965, was sentenced in state District Court in Havre Tuesday to six years with the state Department of Corrections with four suspended and the recommendation she be screened for drug addiction and mental health issues. The sentence was less than the 10 years with eight suspended recommended in the plea agreement and a probation officer’s recommen...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a 2:20 Wednesday call from 3rd Avenue about a bike leaning against a tree that does not belong to anyone in the area. ——— Officers investigated a 4:53 p.m. Wednesday call from 16th Street West to make a welfare check on a man. ——— Crystal Michelle Blatt, 40, of Havre was arrested on charges of theft of lost or mislaid property and probation violation after officers responded to a 7:55 p.m. Wednesday call from a 2nd Street business about a stolen iPhone. ——— Hadushka Anthony...
As the summer wears on, the fall sports season gets closer and closer and before we know it, we will be watching football games Friday nights at Blue Pony Stadium. It should be another exciting year for Havre High Sports and believe it or not the fall season is set to start in less than two weeks when the Havre High golf team competes in a tournament in Great Falls starting Aug. 18. After a strong year in athletics that saw the Blue Ponies capture state championships in girls...