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Shawn E. Sargent, 46, passed away due to natural causes at Northern Montana Hospital on Monday, May 6, 2019. A visitation will be held from 10:00 a.m. until 1:45 p.m., with his celebration of life service taking place at 2:00 p.m., all on Friday, May 10, 2019, at Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit Shawn’s online memorial page and leave a message of condolence for his family at http://www.hollandbonine.com....
U.S. Postal Service carriers in north-central Montana are joining fellow carriers across the country who will be collecting non-perishable food items Saturday for the 27th annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. “It’s a tough time of year for some of these local food banks,” Havre USPS city mail carrier Travis Abdallah said, and the mail carriers want to help alleviate some of the shortages. Customers can leave non-perishable food donations in a bag near their mailbox before their...
Havre Police Department Officers opened investigation of and arrest warrant scam reported at the police station at 9:20 a.m. Tuesday. -- Two summonses were issued after an officer requested backup for a fight at Havre High School Tuesday at 11:16 a.m. No details on the charges were provided. -- Tuesday at 12:35 p.m., an officer initiated investigation of a sexual or violent offender registry violation. -- A caller at a First Street West business asked Tuesday at 1:14 p.m. to s...
HELENA - During the 2019 legislative session two Havre women made their voices heard in Helena, and Gov. Steve Bullock signed into law Tuesday two bills they requested. Havreite Keeley Wilson, owner of Ladybug Bites, and Andrea Melle, divorced mother of two adults with autistism spectrum disorders spoke to their local representative about the bills that they wanted to see in the Legislature. Rep. Jacob Bachmeier introduced House Bill 607, which eliminates the cost of the...
An online story published Tuesday by the Havre Daily News about Gov. Steve Bullock signing into law bills requested by Havreites misreported the home town of Rep. Mary Caferro, D-Helena....
The Great Northern Fair Board released an agenda today for a special meeting Thursday including voting on a fair manager contract. The board has had four fairground managers in the past four years, and has been without a manager since spring of last year, when the Hill County Commission furloughed the manager while he board dealt with budget problems. The manager later resigned the position. The fair board ran last year’s fair using volunteers. Thursday’s meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. in the Community Center at the Great Nor...
The results from Tuesday’s school elections are in, with many having elections by acclamation with only one candidate running for each seat. Havre Public Schools had an election by acclamation, with Teresa Miller retaining her seat on the board and Brian Williams taking the seat vacated by Wayne Bolken, who did not run for re-election. In Chinook, voters cast ballots on mill levies, approving a $27,186.09 levy for the elementary district, an increase of about $8.32 for a home with a market value of $100,000, 222-109. The C...
Staff and wire The Montana Department of Agriculture announced it has extended the 2019 hemp license application deadline to Wednesday, May 15. The department’s announcement follows the announcement of a hemp processing facility opening in Havre. IndHemp LLC announced April 30, the day before the original deadline to apply for a hemp license, that it is opening a processing plant in Havre. The owners had been working to open a plant in Glasgow with plans to eventually open a Havre plant, but switched to Havre first due to d...
Great Northern Fair Board announced it will hold a special meeting Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in the Community Center at the Great Northern Fairgrounds. The meeting agenda is: Call meeting to order Roll call of members Recognize and record public attendees Approve minutes Public comment — Anything brought up here will be added to next month’s new business to be discussed and voted upon New business 1. Review of office proposals 2. Vote on contract of manager 3. Asphalt repair quote The next regular Great Northern Fair Board mee...
On Friday May 3, 2019, heaven received a great gift. Russell J. Fisk, loving husband, father, and grandfather, and former longtime resident of Dillon, MT. passed away peacefully at the age of 83 in Belgrade, MT, surrounded by family members. Russ was born on November 11, 1935, in Harlowton, MT, to Russell George and Ina Mae (Eaton) Fisk, being the third-oldest of 14 brothers and sisters. Russ was raised and educated in Harlowton, where he was an outstanding athlete especially...
When I was a student at West Point in the 1990s, the military component of my education focused on high-intensity conflict and Cold War-era strategies and tactics. Those were the wars of recent memory, so that’s what we trained for. After my graduation and the events of Sept. 11, however, my generation of military officers faced a new set of challenges. Rather than engaging in armored conflict focused on seizing and holding terrain, we found ourselves in a multi-dimensional, complex environment where the goal was not to destr...
Press release Missoula songwriter David Boone has returned after a seven-year hiatus to release the first two singles from his forthcoming album “A Bubble To Burst.” The tracks, “Country Song” and “Work in Progress,” were produced by UK-based Danton Supple, known for his work producing acts like Coldplay and U2, and “Work in Progress features Pearl Jam bassist and Big Sandy native Jeff Ament on bass. Boone was sidelined with medical issues, and this represents his first release since his 2012 album, titled “DAWNS.” The...
From Montana Western Rebekah Levine, geomorphologist and assistant professor in the Environmental Sciences Department at Montana Western, collaborated on a watershed research project with the Nature Conservancy. Their joint research was published in "Earth and Space News," a publication by the American Geophysical Union. Levine began her research on winter snowfall in 2012 with a goal to discover a way to use snowfall patterns to predict dry conditions later on in the season....
From Humanities Montana The Montana Center for the Book, a program of Humanities Montana, announced it is accepting nominations for the third annual MCB Prize. Nominations will be accepted from May 1 to July 15. The Montana Center for the Book Prize will be awarded to up to five programs across the state, nominated by a community member or self-nominated in recognition of their efforts to promote literacy and literature in their region. Award-winning programs will receive a $1,000 cash award, be featured on the Montana...
The Havre Northstars American Legion baseball team will be back on the diamond tonight, in what starts a lengthy road trip. Havre will travel to Great Falls tonight to take on the Class AA Great Falls Chargers in one nine-inning game. The game was originally schedule to be played in Havre and against the Great Falls Chargers A, but, this season, Great Falls is fielding only one legion baseball team. On Sunday, May 19, the Northstars will head to Conrad to open their 2019...
The Montana State University-Northern rodeo teams wrapped up their 2019 spring season and the Big Sky Region season last weekend in Great Falls. The Lights and Skylights took part in the 2019 Big Sky Region Finals, hosted by the University of Providence. The two-day rodeo took place inside the Four Seasons Arena and while many Lights and Skylights did well, several Northern rodeo stars also wrapped up a solid season for head coach Doug Kallenberger. With the Big Sky Region...
When it comes to local track teams, few have more experience than the Fort Benton girls and one of the Longhorns, most experienced and decorated athletes is junior Nicole Axtman. Axtman has been a key contributor for the Longhorns the past two years as Fort Benton has racked up team trophies, winning the District 9C title twice, the Northern C Divisional title twice and the Class C state championship back in 2017, before finishing as the runner-up in 2018. While the Longhorns...
Monday, the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation office in Havre and the Hill County Conservation District received a shipment of trees from the state to help agricultural producers with their conservation efforts. "It's a big service the conservation district does," NRCS Soil Conservationist Laurie Massar said. The conservation district received more than 7,000 trees ordered in Hill County by more than 20 producers, she said. The trees also come in a wide...
The storied Harlem Wildcat wrestling program will have a new head coach this season. But, the man in charge will be a name everybody associated with the program knows well. Longtime Harlem head coach Lyle Faulkinberry announced recently that he has decided to come out of retirement to take over the Harlem program. At the end of the 2018-19 season, Joe Shupe, a longtime assistant to Faulkinberry, announced he was retiring from coaching. Shupe took over the program after...
