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  • Obituary - Lawrence Faber

    Updated Nov 3, 2014

    Lawrence Faber of Cleveland passed away of natural causes on Oct.. 23, 2014, just six days after his 88th birthday. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, October 29, 2014, at 2 p.m. at Chinook High School Auditorium with a reception afterwards at the Wallner Hall. Arrangements have been made with Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook. Condolences may be left for the family at http://edwardsfuneralhomemt.com. Born to Theodore and Mary Ellen Faber, Lawrence grew up on a ranch...

  • Northern Alumni Auction raises around $15K

    John Paul Schmidt|Updated Oct 27, 2014

    The Northern Alumni Foundation Chinese Auction raised funds for scholarships that will be given to Northern students. Saturday, people filed into the Student Union Building at Montana State University-Northern to bid on items in the live, silent and Chinese auctions. A Chinese auction is similar to a live auction, but the difference is to bid, you must give a dollar to a person holding up a numnered sign until the auctioneer says the number. When he says it, the sign goes down...

  • Quick Pic: Playing for Blue Pony pride

    Updated Oct 27, 2014

  • Havre native works with NASA

    Tori Thomas|Updated Oct 27, 2014

    Last month, a research team from Montana State University joined the International Space Station and sent research experiment Micro-8, into outer space. This was done through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. One of the research participants was Kela Bergren, 24 - a Havre native. Bergren graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Cellular Biology and Neuroscience from MSU in 2013. Bergren's love for science began at...

  • For the Record, October 27, 2014

    Updated Oct 27, 2014

    Havre Police Department Officers investigated a report from 1st Street Friday at 8:21 a.m. concerning vandalism. An automobile’s windows were shot out. ­ ——— Officers investigated a report from a U.S. Highway 2 business Friday at 8:26 a.m. concerning vandalism. A truck was vandalized. ­ ——— Paula Gartner Mclain, 65, of Havre was issued a summons on a charge of failing to yield at a stop sign Friday at 11:59 a.m. ­——— A 15-year-old was issued a summons on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia Friday at 12:45 p.m. a...

  • Obituary - Sally Farnham

    Updated Oct 27, 2014

    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 degree from Northern Montana College in Havre in 1968. She opened Sally's Beauty Shop in Malta upon graduation. Sally married Hubert...

  • Obituary - Alice B. (Doney) Pewonka

    Updated Oct 27, 2014

    Alice B. (Doney) Pewonka passed away on Oct. 14, 2014, just one day short of her 91st birthday at the Northern Montana Care Center in Havre, Montana. A memorial Mass will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church, and will be followed by interment in Highland Cemetery. Alice has requested that memorials be made to St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church or to Bear Paw Hospice. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and a...

  • Dems hitting the Hi-Line this week

    John Kelleher|Updated Oct 27, 2014

    Montana Democrats will launch a four-day tour of Montana at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation Thursday. The tour will be highlighted by Gov. Steve Bullock and Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana. The effort is aimed at convincing undecided voters and encouraging party faithful to get to the polls for the election, which includes races for the U.S. Senate and U.S House. It will conclude Sunday in Butte. The group will hit three of the Hi-Line’s Democratic bastions. The Rocky Boy rally will be held at 8 a.m. at the tribal headquarters in...

  • American Red Cross schedules several Hi-Line blood drives

    Updated Oct 27, 2014

    The American Red Cross will hold blood drives along the Hi-Line next week. The schedule is: • Monday, Nov. 3, St. Jude Parish Center, noon-5:30 p.m. • Tuesday, Nov. 4, Wallner Hall, Chinook, 1-6 p.m. • Tuesday, Nov. 4, Harlem High School, 2-6 p.m. • Wednesday, Nov. 5, Montana State University-Northern Student Union ballroom, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. • Thursday, Nov, 6, American Lutheran Church, Turner, 1-5 p.m. American Red Cross encourages donors to make a blood donation before the holiday season. Blood donations often decline b...

  • Havre High School speech and debate kicks off season

    Updated Oct 27, 2014

    Special to the Havre Daily News The Havre High School speech and debate team opened the season with some success at its home tournament, but couldn’t quite edge out the Belgrade High School Panthers in the team competition. Havre took second in the tournament Saturday with 52 points, while Belgrade won the team sweepstakes competition with 85. Fergus County High School took third with 23 points. The tournament saw 14 schools including Havre, with the Blue Ponies Northern Class A rival Browning also competing, and both G...

  • Letters to the Editor: Thanks to the community for help with Havre speech, debate and drama meet

    Updated Oct 27, 2014

    Editor: I wanted to thank everyone who helped us at the Havre High School invitational speech, drama and debate tournament Saturday. We can’t put these tournaments on for the students without help from the community, and, again, people from north-central Montana went above and beyond normal to get the tournament done. From the people who judged to the people who helped behind the scenes, I want to extend our heartfelt thanks, including to the Havre High School and Havre Public Schools administration, faculty and staff h...

  • Pony netters fall at home

    Chris Peterson|Updated Oct 27, 2014

    The Havre High volleyball team had an opportunity to move up in the Central A standings at home, but with a pair of losses to conference opponents, the Blue Ponies weren’t able to make any headway. HHS hosted both Livingston and Belgrade inside the HHS gymnasium Saturday. The Ponies lost a five-game heartbreaker to the Rangers by the scores of 25-19, 26-24, 12-25, 23-25 and 15-12. Then, HHS lost to Central A power Belgrade in straight games by the scores of 25-9, 25-8 and 25-1...

  • HHS races to the finish line

    Chris Peterson|Updated Oct 27, 2014

    The Havre High cross country teams ran the final meet of the season as the Blue Ponies competed against the best runners in Class A at the state meet. The Ponies had high hopes for the weekend but neither the boys or girls teams managed to finish in the Top 10. The HHS boys finished 12th overall and the girls finished 13th Saturday in Helena at the Bill Roberts Golf Course. On the girls side of things, Corvallis walked away with the state championship, finishing with a total...

  • Ponies stampede their way in

    Chris Peterson|Updated Oct 27, 2014

    The Havre Blue Ponies had two objectives they wanted to achieve against Browning — clinch a berth in the Class A state football playoffs and send the seniors out with a win. Check and check. The Ponies were dominant against the Indians Friday on senior night inside Blue Pony Stadium, routing Browning by the score of 62-0 in a Central A conference clash. The win clinched the third seed in the Central A for Havre and means HHS will travel to Miles City Saturday for the o...

  • Lights rally to beat Pronghorns

    George Ferguson|Updated Oct 27, 2014

    Friday night in Lethbridge, Alberta, the Lights pulled off a thrilling comeback, defeating the Pronghorns 93-87 in overtime. The Lights trailed the Pronghorns late in the second half, but, behind the stellar shooting of point guard Trevail Lee, who scored a game-high 28 points, the Lights clawed their way back into the game, and evened things up at 78-78 after four quarters of play. Northern erased the late deficit by outscoring the Pronghorns 26-14 in the fourth stanza....

  • Lights blown away at EOU

    George Ferguson|Updated Oct 27, 2014

    The Montana State University-Northern Lights were hoping to build on a thrilling win over Montana Tech last Saturday at Blue Pony Stadium. Instead, the Lights went the other way entirely. Northern ran into a buzzsaw in the form of the Eastern Oregon Mountaineers, who snapped a two-game losing streak by thrashing the Lights 70-21 Saturday at Community Stadium in LaGrande, Ore. EOU scored the game’s first 42 points, blanking Northern in the first half. MSU-N also lost q...

  • Northern spikers fall at Frontier powers

    George Ferguson|Updated Oct 27, 2014

    Life on the road in Frontier Conference volleyball is never a picnic. But this weekend, it was especially tough for the young Montana State University-Northern Skylights. Northern traveled to Billings Friday night to face the Rocky Mountain College Battlin’ Bears, the No. 1 team in all of the NAIA. And for an encore, the Skylights had to face the Carroll College Fighting Saints Saturday night in Helena. Northern was swept in both matches, dropping its conference record to 1...

  • Skylights win in Canada

    George Ferguson|Updated Oct 27, 2014

    Over the course of their first four games, there weren't many trying moments for the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team. But Saturday afternoon in Lethbridge, Alberta, there were plenty. One day after dispatching Mount Royal University, The Skylights found themselves in a battle with the Lethbridge Pronghorns. And Northern's veteran team responded by grinding out a 69-60 victory to finish off their second road sweep in Canada in the first three weeks of...

  • Cat-Griz Report: Griz get dropped by Cal Poly

    Updated Oct 27, 2014

    SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — Chris Brown ran for 226 yards and two touchdowns as Cal Poly ground out a 41-21 win over No. 7 Montana Saturday night. The win was just the third in 18 meetings with the Grizzlies. Montana (5-3, 3-1 Big Sky) now joins Cal Poly (5-3, 4-1) and four other teams with one loss. Idle Montana State is now the lone unbeaten conference team. The Mustangs got a 5-yard run from Brandon Howe with :48 left in the first half to make it 14-14 and Chris Brown engineered three straight touchdowns in the second h...

  • Harlem, Rocky Boy runners shine at state

    George Ferguson|Updated Oct 27, 2014

    The 2014 high school cross country season came to an end Saturday afternoon. And for a select few local prep runners, it was a great ending. At the Class B and C state meet, which was held at the Bill Roberts Golf Course in Helena Saturday, the Harlem boys earned a solid eighth-place finish with 287 points. Rocky Boy finished in 14th place with a score of 450. Red Lodge captured the state championship with 74 points. Manhattan was second and Townsend was third. Individually,...

  • Nationals edged in two road shootouts

    Chris Peterson|Updated Oct 27, 2014

    The Glacier Nationals of the North American Tier 3 Hockey League went on the road to finish a five-game road trip looking to end their winless streak at four or at least gain some points in the Frontier Division Standings. The Nationals traveled to Cody, Wyoming, and accomplished one of their goals as they squared off against the Yellowstone Quake, a Frontier Division rival in back-to-back games Saturday and Sunday. Both games were filled with drama and the Nationals lost in...

  • Class A playoff field is set, and it's wide open

    Chris Peterson|Updated Oct 27, 2014

    After nine weeks of excitement, the regular season is over for Montana high school football teams and the playoffs, which is what we’ve all been waiting for, are set to begin. The Havre Blue Ponies will be among the 12 teams that qualified for the Class A state playoffs, and after back-to-back wins over Polson and Browning, by the scores of 39-21 and 62-0, it’s safe to say the Ponies are playing as well as they have all season. Their 4-5 overall record and 2-2 record in Cen...

  • Pony Extra: A night they won't forget

    Chris Peterson|Updated Oct 27, 2014

    If there was any question about how much playing high school football meant to the seniors on the Havre High football team, and in particular Gunner Aageson and Levi Huston, it was answered on senior night inside Blue Pony Stadium. To say it bluntly, it meant a lot, maybe more than words can describe. Aageson and Huston, two of just 11 seniors this season for the Blue Ponies, each enjoyed a moment they will remember for the rest of their lives as they played at home for the...

  • Updated Oct 22, 2014