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Articles from the May 19, 2022 edition


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  • Quick pics: A circus comes to town

    Updated May 19, 2022

  • Independent Les Odegard files for Hill County Commissioner

    Patrick Johnston|Updated May 19, 2022

    Independent Les Odegard is running for Hill County commissioner as a write-in candidate, running against incumbent Diane McLean, a Republican and Hill County Commission Executive Assistant Sherri Williams, a Democrat, in this year's general election. Odegard, who's lived in Havre since 2002, said he's been thinking about running for two years now and filed as an independent because he believes the positions should be non-partisan. He said he's been an active member of the...

  • MSU Extension publishes variety of new MontGuide factsheets to aid Montanans

    Updated May 19, 2022

    From the MSU News Service BOZEMAN — Montana State University Extension recently published six new MontGuides on a variety of topics to provide unbiased information for Montana citizens. As part of their outreach efforts, MSU Extension specialists and agents write MontGuides with information gathered during their research and outreach work throughout the year. The fact sheets are designed for all Montanans, including agricultural producers, home gardeners, families, landowners and other groups. New and existing MontGuides a...

  • Producers reminded to sign up to be counted in Ag Census

    Updated May 19, 2022

    Montana Department of Agriculture HELENA — The Montana Department of Agriculture is reminding agricultural producers to sign up for the 2022 Census of Agriculture before June 30. Taken only once every five years by the United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service, the census provides a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. The Census of Agriculture covers land use and ownership, operator characteristics, production practices, income and expenditures, a...

  • Deadline extended for public comment on ag competition challenges

    Updated May 19, 2022

    Press release The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a 30-day extension to the public comment period to identify the impacts of concentration and competition challenges in seed, fertilizer, other agricultural inputs, and retail markets. The new deadline is June 15, 2022. Three RFIs — requests for information — were published in the Federal Register on March 17, 2022, each with a 60-day comment period ending May 16, 2022. USDA seeks information about competition matters as they relate to: (1) fertilizer; (2) seed and...

  • Montana primary voters must be registered by noon on June 6

    Updated May 19, 2022

    HELENA (AP) — Montanans who want to cast a vote in next month’s primary election must be registered with their county elections office by noon on June 6, under an order by the Montana Supreme Court. The justices, in a 4-1 ruling Tuesday, said changes to election laws passed by the 2021 Legislature will remain in effect for the June 7 primary. District Court Judge Michael Moses of Billings had ruled last month that a law ending Election Day voter registration appeared to unconstitutionally burden the right to vote and he tem...

  • Obituary - Melissa Lynn Johnson-Nagel

    Updated May 19, 2022

    Melissa Lynn Johnson-Nagel, 46, passed away due to natural causes at her residence Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Wake services began at 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, 2022, and will continue until her funeral services, which will be at 10:00 a.m. Friday, May 20, 2022, all at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church. Burial will follow in the Morsette Family Cemetery....

  • For the Record, May 19, 2022

    Updated May 19, 2022

    Havre Police Department Animal control was notified about a Wednesday 11:24 a.m. report of a raccoon in a garbage can on Fourth Street. —— A caller on First Street West reported finding a knife in the alley Wednesday at 4:26 p.m. —— After Tierra Sunchild reported to Havre police that someone committed identity theft and used her name during an arrest made Tuesday, officers at 8:04 p.m. Wednesday arrested Ariel Micheala Sunchild of Havre, 31, on a charge of obstructing a peace officer or other public servant and on six Jus...

  • Correction - For the Record

    Updated May 19, 2022

    Tierra Sunchild was misreported in Wednesday’s For the Record as having been arrested Tuesday because Ariel Micheala Sunchild falsely used her identity during an incident and that identity, Tierra Sunchild, was listed in the dispatch log. Tierra Sunchild was not arrested Tuesday but Ariel Sunchild was arrested Wednesday for obstructing a peace officer and on multiple misdemeanor warrants....

  • Looking out my Backdoor: My world and welcome to it

    Sondra Ashton|Updated May 19, 2022

    My world is all I have to share. My world is ordinary. It is not much of a gift. Since it is all I have to give, I gladly welcome you through my doorway. Take today. I got up on the “wrong side of bed” so to speak. Instead of getting up when I woke up, I let myself go back to sleep “for just a few minutes.” It’s not like I have a schedule. When I did get out of bed, much later, I felt like I was living in a vat of molasses in January, every movement forced through a fugue sta...

  • Court ruling shines a bright light on Republican primaries

    Updated May 19, 2022

    It’s standard strategy in Republican primaries. Every GOP candidate suddenly sounds like a cross between Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman. They all embrace classic Republican philosophies, which in the economic realm, include a strong belief in private initiative and competitive free enterprise as the best means of providing consumers with the most stuff at the least cost. But then something very strange happens on the way to our monthly power bills. Many of these “competitive, free market Republicans” take a detour down...

  • Havre softball wins first Northeast A division title

    Kason Clark|Updated May 19, 2022

    This season has been one to remember for the Havre High softball team. Throughout the season, the Blue Ponies have dominated conference play to earn the No. 1 seed in the Northeast A Divisionals this week in Miles City. They opened the postseason Tuesday with a 7-3 win over Miles City to advance to the divisional title game against Lewistown Wednesday afternoon. In a rematch of last year's title game that Lewistown won, the Ponies got their revenge and won 4-0 for the...

  • Blue Ponies set to compete in Eastern A Divisionals this weekend

    Kason Clark|Updated May 19, 2022

    As the school year soon comes to an end, so too does the spring sports season. The Havre High track and field teams will begin the final two weeks of the season as they begin the postseason with the Eastern A Divisionals in Lockwood this weekend. In her first year leading the Blue Ponies, HHS head coach Kari Filius wants to see her athletes lay it all on the line this weekend. "(We want) to get as many kids qualified for state as we can," Filius said. "For those kids that...

  • Great Falls Chargers come back to defeat Havre Northstars

    Kason Clark|Updated May 19, 2022

    Early on in Wednesday night’s game in Great Falls, it looked like the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club would run away with the contest as they took a 10-3 lead halfway through their game against the Great Falls Chargers AA team. However, the Chargers worked their way back into the contest to cut the lead to 13-10 heading to the bottom of the ninth. In the final frame, the Chargers used walks and singles to get on base and bring home runs to tie the game. With t...