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  • Local students to help fight hunger

    John Kelleher|Updated Apr 5, 2016

    Havre High School student Emily Brurud is organizing Fight Childhood Hunger Week, with activities that will try to raise awareness of local hunger issues. The weeklong efforts, starting Monday, will be aimed at educating people about hunger issues, raising money to help fight hunger and getting people involved in volunteering for anti-hunger efforts. Brurud appeared before Havre City Council Monday seeking — and getting — their support for the effort. The organizers will place bright orange boxes Gary & Leo’s Fresh Foods and...

  • Quick Pics: Dazzling riding in the Bigger Better Barn

    Updated Apr 5, 2016

  • Discover Downtown event set for May 14

    John Kelleher|Updated Apr 5, 2016

    Discover Downtown, a celebration of Havre life and an effort to promote downtown, will be held Saturday, May 14. The all-day event will involve blocking off 3rd Avenue from 3rd to 4th streets to traffic where vendors — local and home-based businesses — will be encouraged to set up booths. A walking path down the middle of the avenue will encourage people to mingle. A 5-K run and a one-mile fun run will be held through downtown streets. The program is being put on by doctors Marc Whitacre and Erica Farmer of Havre His...

  • People to walk, run against autism

    Alex Ross|Updated Apr 5, 2016

    April is Autism Awareness Month and a group of local families of children with autism spectrum disorders are planning a fun run and walk to raise awareness of the condition. “It’s just a time to recognize those people who have autism spectrum disorders, to celebrate them and just bring more awareness to them,” Jessie Fuzesy of Quality of Life Concepts, a social services agency in Havre that provides services to those with autism, said. The Autism Fun Run and Awareness Walk is slated for Saturday, April 30. There will be tw...

  • Quick Pic: A Spring Fling for Northern athletics

    Updated Apr 5, 2016

  • My Neighbor in Need, April 5, 2016

    Updated Apr 5, 2016

    From My Neighbor in Need The website http://www.myneighborinneed.org/havre provides local citizens a way to ask for help from their community and a way for the community to give back. Current Needs Neighbor in Need — A local woman who has fallen on hard times is in need of a used, clean queen mattress. She recently moved into a trailer, and the mattress that was provided is very old and has the springs poking out of it. If you have a used, clean queen mattress and would like to donate to her, please call us at 4...

  • Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited set annual banquet

    Updated Apr 5, 2016

    Press release New surprises are surfacing along with the Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited’s favorite games, raffles and drawings, which will again award hundreds of sponsored prizes worth thousands of dollars during the group’s annual walleye banquet docking at the Havre Ice Dome April 16. The smoke-free banquet features all-you-can-eat secret batter walleye, baron of beef and all the baits to ready people for an evening of winning entertainment as guests game for big screen TVs, patio furniture, barbecue grills, home fur...

  • Letter to the Editor: Climate change will affect agriculture in Montana

    Updated Apr 5, 2016

    Editor: Climate change is harming Washington’s shellfish industry. According to its Department of Health: “As CO2 reacts with seawater, it lowers pH and reduces the concentration of carbonate ions … .” Shellfish are less likely to form shells in an acidic environment. That endangers this valuable high-protein, low-fat food source. Evidence of ocean acidification in the Pacific Northwest is compelling. Some can be found online at http://www.doh.wa.gov/CommunityandEnvironment/ClimateandHealth/Shellfish. Also, harmful algal b...

  • For the Record, April 5, 2016

    Updated Apr 5, 2016

    Havre Police Department Roger George Miller, 32, of Havre was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct after a caller from a 2nd Street business asked Monday at 2:49 p.m. for an officer to stop by. —— Officers initiated an arrest Monday at 3:43 p.m. near 2nd Street. No further information was provided. —— Officers investigated a report of theft after a caller from a 1st Street West called Monday at 8:45 p.m. to report missing medication. —— Officers investigated a vandalism report after someone near College Park Plaza...

  • Correction - Anti-vaccine doctor

    Updated Apr 5, 2016

    A front-page headline for a story in Monday’s edition of the Havre Daily News about Dr. Jerry Taylor’s presentation during New Idea Expo incorrectly identified him as an MD. Taylor is an NMD, a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine....

  • Obituary - LaVerna McFadden

    Updated Apr 5, 2016

    LaVerna McFadden, 97, formerly of Inverness, died March 29, 2016, in Lakeside, Montana. Memorial services are pending....

  • Spring is back, so is the Cal Wearley Meet

    George Ferguson|Updated Apr 5, 2016

    There are a lot of big sporting events in Havre every year, and one of them is the annual Cal Wearley Invitational track meet — which is also the first meet held each spring at the Havre Middle School Track. And once again, the Cal Wearley meet, which gets underway at 8 a.m. Wednesday in Havre, should be an exciting and highly competitive meet. The Cal Wearley always brings in some great teams from around the area, and this year’s meet should be no different, as all of the...

  • Ponies take the field at home for first time

    Chris Peterson|Updated Apr 5, 2016

    The Havre High softball team got its season started this past weekend in Great Falls. But those games were just exhibition games - the game tonight against Browning is for real. Of course with the forecast for rain, it's possible the Blue Ponies and Indians will need to reschedule, but if the weather cooperates, Havre and Browning will open Central A conference play tonight at 5 at the Sixth Avenue Memorial Field. Both the Indians and the Ponies come into the game 0-0 on the...

  • Skylight vollyeball signs star middle blocker

    George Ferguson|Updated Apr 5, 2016

    Montana State University-Northern head volleyball coach Bill Huebsch has been hot on the recruiting trail as of late. And, Huebsch recently announced the addition of a third member to his 2016 recruiting class. Huebsch announced the signing of Haley Yoder, a 6-2 middle blocker from Woodland High School in Woodland, Washington to an NAIA national letter of intent. Yoder, the career leader in kills and blocks at Woodland High, also holds individual season records for most...

  • Hi-Line Athletes of the Week

    Updated Apr 5, 2016

    Jake Sedahl, Havre Tennis The spring sports season has just begun, but already, Havre High junior tennis player Jake Sedahl is making quite the impression. In his first two meets of the season, Sedahl is 5-0 in doubles, while playing with multiple partners. Sedahl and fellow junior Trey Hanson won the Cut Bank Invite title two weeks ago, while Sedahl won matches for Havre with Jeff Miller, Kennedy McKay and Jack Johnsrud at last Saturday's Conrad Invite. Sedahl, who plays thre...