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Sally Farnham, a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, sister, friend and child of God passed away on Oct. 23, 2014. She died in her home surrounded by family after a long and courageous struggle with ovarian cancer. Sally was born on May 3, 1948, in Malta, Montana. She graduated from Malta High School in 1966 and obtained an associate's degree from Northern Montana College in Havre in 1968. She opened Sally's Beauty Shop in Malta upon graduation. Sally married Hubert... Full story
Laurel The Montana educators, at their annual conference, have given Havre Public Schools an award for technology, innovation and infrastructure. The award was one of two such prizes handed out at the conference last week. The award is well-deserved. The school had made great use of technology in education by providing iPads to students and encouraging other kinds of technological innovations. It upgraded the infrastructure by making tremendous improvements in Sunnyside Intermediate School and Havre High School....
The Havre High football program has many great traditions, but the greatest among them is the final walk that each Blue Pony football player gets to experience in their final game at Blue Pony Stadium. For the 2014 senior class that final walk will come tonight when the Ponies host the Browning Indians on senior night. Havre can still make the Class A State playoffs with a win over the Indians, but even with a win the Ponies can finish no higher than third, which means if... Full story
The Havre High football team had to win to get in. And the Blue Ponies did just that. On senior night Friday at Blue Pony Stadium, HHS dismantled Browning 62-0 in the regular season finale for both teams. Dane Warp threw two touchdown passes to Jacob Labrie, while senior Gunner Aageson scored twice on the ground. HHS built a 41-0 halftime lead and never looked back in improving to 4-5 overall, and finishing third in the Central A with a 2-2 record. HHS will travel to Miles... Full story
A case against a woman who fled an Anaconda hospital in June after being accused of giving birth while on methamphetamine has expanded. Michelle Renee Yallup, 30, of Butte, is now one of 17 charged with taking part in a massive meth trafficking ring that supplied the illegal drug to Great Falls, Butte and Havre. Authorities began investigating this trafficking organization in January. Three of those charged are from Havre. According to a United States District Court of Montana press release the three Havre residents are:... Full story
Duane S. Sargent was born Oct. 8, 1935, in a country home south of Chinook, Montana, to Charles L. Sargent and Stella L. Hall Sargent. He passed away Friday, Oct. 17 - nine days after his 79th birthday - of heart failure. Duane began school at Columbia Falls, Montana, later moving north of Havre and attending Spring Coulee School through eighth grade. He was very active in 4-H, having won many state awards, including a scholarship, which he had to use in North Dakota because...
Havre Police Department Kaycee Leigh Chiefstick, 20, of Box Elder was issued a summons on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia on Thursday at 9:07 a.m. ——— James Adam Walker, 34, was issued a summons on Thursday at 12:20 p.m. on a charge of failing to carry or produce proof of insurance. ——— Officers were called to assist a citizen At Havre High School Thursday at 12:33 p.m. ——— Officers were called to assist a citizen on 6th Street on Thursday at 3:38 p.m. A man collapsed. ——— Officers investigated a report made at t... Full story
On the evening of Oct. 16, 2014, God called his angel from Omak, Washington, home to his side. Ume Mae Johnson passed quietly and unobtrusively in her sleep of natural causes, leaving without a fuss, which was her way. Anyone who was fortunate enough to have crossed paths with Mae will never forget the dynamo in the tiny package, who made everyone feel welcome and would give the shirt off her back without a second thought. Mae entered this world on Nov. 18, 1931, in Okinawa,... Full story
Bruce Harold Sunchild’s change of plea hearing has been reset for Oct. 30. Sunchild was chair of the Chippewa Cree Tribe’s Business Committee in 2011 and was later charged with theft from an Indian tribal organization and accepting bribes. He was originally scheduled to plead guilty Monday. He took the chair after his predecessor, Raymond “Jake” Parker, resigned the day before he pleaded guilty to embezzling from the tribe. Sunchild was indicted with former Havre Public School Board Chair Chad Huston, who received more in... Full story
Montana State University-Northern is opening the doors of Dr. Slaughter's Horror Hospital tonight at 8 p.m. "The criminally insane on the second floor have escaped," a flyer for the haunted hospital warns. "The dead in the basement morgue have been reanimated, the power is out, the hospital staff seem possessed, and the patients are dying to escape." The haunted hospital will open every day at 8 p.m. until Halloween. It closes at midnight, except on Halloween, when it will... Full story
For this 42nd installment honoring the 150th anniversary of Montana Territory and 125th anniversary of statehood, we examine articles from the Oct. 23, 1914 issue of The Box Elder Valley Press. The big news was in regard to a bond issue that would appear on the ballot, asking voters to approve the bond to construct a new courthouse for Hill County. This was not the first time a courthouse bond proposal was put before voters. Aug. 2, 1913, the issue failed by a vote of 628 against and 531 for a Hill County Courthouse, leaving... Full story
The Glacier Nationals, of the North American Tier 3 Hockey League better be used to playing on the road because after two more road games this weekend, they will be in the midst of five consecutive games away from the Havre Ice Dome. The Nationals have gotten off to a slow start in the Frontier Division of the NA3HL and are just 1-8-1 in their first 10 games. Their lone win of the season came back on Oct. 4 over the Yellowstone Quake in Havre, the same team Glacier will face...
Last Saturday was a watershed moment for the Montana State University-Northern Lights. But they certainly don’t want their thrilling 37-34 win over Montana Tech at Blue Pony Stadium to be their last high point of the 2014 season. Instead, the Lights (1-5, 2-5) will put their latest win, and added confidence to the test when they visit the Eastern Oregon Mountaineers (3-3, 4-3) Saturday afternoon inside Community Stadium in LaGrande, Oregon. Kickoff in Oregon is slated for 2 p...
The Montana State University-Northern volleyball team was trying for a fresh start last weekend at home. And while the Skylights played much, much better, they still came away from their latest home stand empty-handed. Now, things get even more difficult for Northern (1-8, 5-17) as the Skylights take to the road for two daunting matches. Tonight, MSU-N is in Billings to face the No. 1 team in all of NAIA, the Rocky Mountain College Battlin’ Bears. MSU-N then travels to H...
Americans, like humans everywhere, love holiday traditions, and a college town in New Hampshire has started a new Halloween tradition to rival any All Hallow’s Eve custom as college students and unwitting townsfolk rioted the Samhain out of the Keene Pumpkin Festival last weekend. Keene, New Hampshire, is home of the Keene Pumpkin Festival, Keene State University, and the Keene police department and their military-style armored vehicle, as well as a guy named Steven who apparently doesn’t understand the U.S. Con... Full story
This weekend is going to be an important one for the Havre High volleyball team, and it’s not just because the Blue Ponies are set to play their final home matches of the season. HHS has a pair of key Central A conference matchups ahead of it Saturday at the HHS gymnasium, where the Ponies will square off against both Belgrade and Livingston on senior day. Not only does Havre want to send its seniors out with a pair of victories, but the Ponies also have a golden opportunity t... Full story
The goal of every high school football team is to get into the playoffs. And despite struggling at times this season, the Havre Blue Ponies are just one win away from doing just that, getting back to the Class A State playoffs. Tonight, the Ponies will play their final regular season game of the 2014 season, when they host Central A rival Browning inside Blue Pony Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7. A win clinches the third seed in the Central A and gets Havre into the postseason.... Full story
The Montana State University-Northern wrestling team will enter the 2014-15 season as the No. 5 team in the country. The Lights come into the new season fresh off back-to-back third-place finishes at the NAIA national tournament. And ,as always, expectations, and hopes are high. Thursday night, the Lights ran a dress rehearsal for the season-opening meet next weekend as they held their Maroon/Gold Dual at the Armory Gymnasium. “It didn’t go too bad,” Northern head coach Tyson... Full story
"Haunted Hotel Oakland" opened Thursday and will continue to frighten those who dare enter it until Halloween night. Chelby Gooch, the president of the Havre Jaycees chapter, said they began working on the haunted hotel around three weeks ago. "We came up to do some changes," she said. "We try to change it up a little every year." She said this year, they changes four of the rooms to keep repeat visitors guessing as to what lies around the next corner. "Yes, it's going to be...
Monte and Dawn Fauque of Shelby, Montana, announce the engagement of their daughter, Fallon Rae Fauque, to Richard Isaac Melby, son of Dennis and Paula Melby of Kremlin, Montana. The bride-to-be is a graduate of Montana State University-Northern and is an oncology RN at University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona. Her fiancé is a graduate of Montana State University-Billings and is a sports anchor/reporter at KVOA-TV in Tucson, Arizona. The couple became engaged...
Here are activities planned at North-Central Senior Center for the coming week: Monday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (except for medical you have to call in early to make arrangements); painting at 1 p.m.; Tuesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (except for medical you have to call in early to make arrangements); Bingo at 1:15 p.m.; Wednesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (except for medical you have to call in early to make arrangements); TOPS at 8 a.m.; cards at 1 p.m.; Thursday — Transpo...
By Francine Brady and Rachel Rawn Havre-Hill County Library A chill is in the air. At this ghostly, beastly time of year, you may want to read some of these spooky tales. “It” by Stephen King is a story that preys on your childhood fears. “Wolfen” by Whitley Strieber has you listening for the whispers in the night, and fearing the shadows you don’t see. “Ghost Story” by Peter Straub involves mysterious deaths and a creepy man with golden eyes. These three books have been made into movies, but the films cannot compare to th...
And Joseph said to his brothers who had sold him into slavery in Egypt “Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good … ” — Genesis 50:20 Out our way, one of the first lessons you learn when working horses is that there can be only one boss. He’s a little rusty (as am I), but Goliath responds to neck rein and leg pressure and trusts me to know where we are going. Oh, I know there are lush patches of grass here and there still green and juicy that he’d like to visit, but he also knows that under saddl...
It has been another fun and exciting high school football season in Montana and believe it or not, this weekend marks the end of the 2014 regular season. Yet, football fans along the Hi-Line shouldn't get too discouraged as a number of local teams are on the verge of locking up a spot in the postseason. The North Star Knights (5-2, 5-2), who reside in the North division of Class C Six-Man football have already locked up a spot in the playoffs, while others such as the Chinook...
