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Articles from the October 8, 2014 edition


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  • Medical marijuana figures released

    Staff and wire report|Updated Oct 8, 2014

    Hill County has three providers registered with the Montana Marijuana Registry, and there are 122 registered patients in the county who legally use medical marijuana. Blaine County has no providers and 23 patients, and Cascade has 286 patients to its seven providers. Chouteau and Liberty counties both have no providers, but Chouteau has 17 patients and Liberty has four. According to reports from the Montana Department of Health and Human Services, the leading condition registered patients list as their reason for being a...

  • Quick Pic: A beautiful start to the day

    Updated Oct 8, 2014

  • For the Record, October 8, 2014

    Updated Oct 8, 2014

    Havre Police Department Officers investigated an 8:38 a.m. Tuesday call from 16th Street about an item stolen from a pickup truck. —— Officers investigated a 12:34 p.m. Tuesday call from a U.S. Highway 2 East business about an item stolen out of a vehicle. —— Officers investigated a 2:01 p.m. Tuesday complaint at the police station about the reporting party’s adult daughter being scammed by a boyfriend. —— Officers investigated a 4:50 p.m. Tuesday call from 4th Avenue about a two-vehicle motor vehicle crash. Hill County S...

  • Quick Pic: Jogging for a good cause

    Updated Oct 8, 2014

  • Barsotti sentenced on scaled-down crash charges

    Updated Oct 8, 2014

    A Havre man was sentenced on misdemeanor charges stemming from an Independence Day crash that sent him and four others to the hospital, with the judge saying Kade Barsotti, born in 1993, seems to have learned a lesson. Barsotti was charged with criminal endangerment, a felony, and misdemeanor counts of negligent vehicular assault and driving under the influence after the vehicle he was driving crashed near the dam at Fresno Reservoir July 4, 2013. Barsotti pleaded guilty last week to the negligent vehicular assault and to an...

  • Top eight contest for Rocky Boy council

    John Paul Schmidt|Updated Oct 8, 2014

    The results of the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation vote for eight candidates to vie for the four tribal council seats are in. The eight out of 54 candidates, in descending order of number of votes, are: • Harlan Gopher Baker, with 268 votes • Calvin Jilot, 189 • Joshua “Waff” Seaton, 180 • Beau Mitchell, 178 • Ted F. Whitford, 157 • Jody LaMere, 155 • Jonathan Windy Boy, 139 • Russell Standing Rock, 134. There were 1,158 voters. Four council members will be chosen on Nov. 4 in conjunction with the state elections....

  • Habeger pleads on drug charges

    Tim Leeds|Updated Oct 8, 2014

    A Havre man accused of possessing drugs involved in an incident with another man found “freaking out” at a local parking lot last winter has pleaded guilty to some charges. Cory J. Habeger, born in 1987, pleaded guilty in a plea agreement Tuesday in state District Court in Havre to a felony charge of possession of methamphetamine and a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia. District Judge Dan Boucher ordered a presentence investigation and set sentencing for Dec. 1. The plea agreement recommends a five-year su...

  • MAT to run 'Seven' Saturday

    Tim Leeds|Updated Oct 8, 2014

    The second showing of "Seven" runs Saturday in Havre in a special two-show event put on by Montana Actors’ Theatre. MAT premiered its dinner-theater production of “Seven” in the Grand Union Hotel in Fort Benton Sept. 26, and is running the show Saturday in the former U.S. post office and federal courthouse, The Havre Historic Post Office on the corner of 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue. “The actors have done their research to be able to embody each of the characters and bring their story to life,” director Dana Pyette said abou...

  • Letters to the Editor: Sale of semi-postal stamps helps breast cancer research

    Updated Oct 8, 2014

    Editor: In October, the Havre Post Office is promoting sales of the Breast Cancer Research semi-postal stamp. The price for a pane of 20 breast cancer research semi-postal stamps is $12 with 20 cents of the purchase sent to provide funds for research, A semi-postal stamp is a postage stamp issuesd to raise money and is sold over and above the cost of the postage. Seventy percent of the net amount raised from its sales goes to the National Institutes of Health and 30 percent goes to the Medical Resarch Program at the...

  • 2014-15 MSU-N Basketball Preview: Skylights ready take it even further

    George Ferguson|Updated Oct 8, 2014

    The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team has had plenty of quality seasons in the nine that Chris Mouat has been the head coach of the Skylights. But his ninth season was truly special. The 2013-14 season was a banner one of the Skylights, who finished third in the Frontier Conference, was selected to play in the NAIA national tournament, then proceeded to reach the NAIA Sweet 16. In the land of women's NAIA basketball, it doesn't get a whole lot than...

  • George Ferguson Column: Blue Pony golfers should be proud of their great season

    George Ferguson|Updated Oct 8, 2014

    Last month, I put my golf clubs away, and with them, I put my weekly golf column to sleep for the year. I said I’d see everybody in the spring again, and that it was time to concentrate on fall sports, and then the long winter ahead. But, thanks to members of the Havre High golf teams, I get to talk about the game one more time before the miserable winter that I’m sure we’ll be doomed with gets here for real. The nine Havre Blue Ponies who made the trip to the Class A state to...

  • Havre High harriers set to race in Helena

    Chris Peterson|Updated Oct 8, 2014

    The Havre High cross country teams have just two meets left before they run for all the marbles at the Class A state meet. But, both of their remaining meets are important, starting in Helena this week for the preview meet. The meet will take place on the same course as the Class A state meet, which is set for Oct. 25. The meet this week in Helena will get underway Thursday afternoon. The preview meet features much of the same competition HHS will see at state and will serve...

  • Hi-Line Athlete Profile: Ryan Lund, Glacier Nationals

    Chris Peterson|Updated Oct 8, 2014

    There are few positions in sports like the goalie position in hockey. It takes a different mentality to stand between the pipes, while the puck flies at you. But for Ryan Lund of the Glacier Nationals, which belong to the North American Tier 3 Hockey League, he wouldn’t have it any other way. As a goaltender, it’s very easy to be both the hero and the goat. So far this season, the Nationals, who had just one player with previous experience in junior hockey, have had some gro...

  • NARC hires cropping systems agronomist

    Updated Oct 8, 2014

    From Northern Agricultural Research Center Kefyalew "Kefy" Girma Desta, Ph.D., a small grains cropping systems researcher, has been hired in the Department of Research Centers at Montana State University to work at Northern Agricultural Research Center. Kefy received his bachelor's degree in plant science from Alemaya University, Ethiopia, a master's degree in crop science from University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, where he performed research on the competitive interference...