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Gay Winnifred McLain Gay Winnifred McLain, 80, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, at Northern Montana Care Center of natural causes. She and her husband, Richard, had just moved back to Havre from Enumclaw, Wash., three weeks ago. Her funeral Mass will be 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010, at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church with Father Dale Yurkovic officiating. Services and arrangements have been entrusted to Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. Gay Winnifred McLain, 80, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, at Northern Montana...
North 40: Everybody wins, except for the losers Craigslist, arguably the Internet's largest online classified advertising site, has been pressured into shutting down one of its most popular advertising sections: adult services. Yes, as in services of the oldest profession kind. Wink. Wink. Seventeen state attorneys general, including Montana's Steve Bullock, signed a letter to Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and chief executive Jim Buckmaster strongly suggesting that the company shut down the adult hi-jinks or suffer...
For wolf solutions, look to Montanans for the best ideas It's like a bad horror movie where the monster keeps coming back no matter how many times you think it's been killed. In Hollywood, the worse the villain, the more times they come back to haunt you until it becomes painfully obvious that you'll need a silver bullet to solve the problem once and for all. With the fall of Judge Donald Molloy's gavel, the gray wolf was re-listed as an endangered species. It happened a year after the slaughter of 120 sheep on a single...
CI-105 an chance for positive tax reform State Rep. Bob Lake Death and taxes, the old adage goes, are the only two sure things in life. Well, at least death doesn't get worse every time the Legislature meets. Every session we go in to tweak tax policy here and there, and every session we're presented with new ideas to "enhance revenue," the code phrase for tax hike. What's resulted after years of tweaks and enhancements is a hodgepodge of taxes, fees, credits, deductions, exceptions, and holidays. You can add a third "sure...
The Miles City Cowboys proved be too much for the Havre Blue Poinies in a Class A nonconference football game Friday night at Blue Pony Stadium. The Cowboys took advantage of six Havre turnovers in a 34-14 win. Havre got two touchdown passes from Justin Jensen, including a first-half strike to Ryan Brandt. But HHS still trailed 19-7 at halftime, and Miles City scored 21 unanswered points before the Ponies scored a TD with just seconds remaining in the game. Havre fell to 1-1 on the season, and the Ponies play at Sidney next...
A big Fiday night of high school football on the Hi-Line. In Sunburst, the Chinook Sugarbeeters romped to a 57-8 win over the Sunburst Refiners in a Northern C showdown. Also in the Northern C, the Chester/J-I Hawks suffered a tough loss to Centerville, 26-16 in Chester. In Class B action in Harlem, the Choteau Bulldogs trounced the Harlem Wildcats 55-0. Friday's Scores The Associated Press PREP FOOTBALL Absarokee 42, Broadview-Lavina 0 Anaconda 33, Whitefish 0 Augusta 42, Valier 34 Baker 47, Wolf Point 14 Belgrade 13,...
A remark by Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., about gun control referencing President Barack Obamais making some political hay for Democrats. "If Obama is president, maybe you need to spend more time developing a gun lock, a trigger lock," Rehberg is quoted as saying in Thursday's edition of The Ravalli County Republic. Rehberg made the remark with a chuckle to Bonnie and Randy Jones, owners of Bitterroot Tool and Machine Shop, after Randy Jones asked about gun control. The Republic reports. Rehberg's Democratic opponent in the...
Tonight High School Football Havre High vs Miles City, 6 p.m. Harlem vs Choteau, 7 p.m. Chester/J-I vs Centerville, 7 p.m. Chinook at Suburst, 7 p.m. Big Sandy vs Alberton, 7 p.m. Hays-Lodge Pole at Circle, 6 p.m. High School Volleyball Havre High at Electric City Classic in Great Falls Chinook at North Star Centerville at Box Elder College Volleyball MSU-Northern at UM-Western Saturday High School Football North Star vs Heart Butte, 1 p.m. High School Volleyball Havre High at Electric City Classic in Great Falls Valier at...
The next three days are a football junkies dream. Especially if you have any sort of connection to football in Havre. Tonight, Saturday and Sunday, the town might as well be the mecca of football on all levels. That's because on one rare weekend, you have three connections to football in three days with Havre High kicking things off tonight, the Montana State University-Northern Lights playing at home on Saturday, and Marc Mariani playing in his first regular season NFL game on Sunday morning. To any football fan with any...
What a start. First the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team matched its 2009 win total in its first three weeks of the season. The Skylights went an outstanding 7-3 this preseason. And on Thursday night in Butte, Northern kept things rolling by sweeping the Montana Tech Orediggers in the Frontier Conference opener for both teams. The Skylights beat the Orediggers by scores of 25-18, 29-27 and 25-20 to go to 1-0 in league play. Northern finishes its first conference road trip tonight against UM-Western in...
The "Turk" didn't come for former Havre Blue Pony Marc Mariani last Saturday. That's what NFL players call whoever is in charge of bring players to the coaches' office on final cut day of training camp. Instead, Mariani got through cut day and has been preparing all week to open his first NFL season when the Tennessee Titans take on the Oakland Raiders Sunday in Nashville. Mariani was stellar in the preseason, leading the NFL in all-purpose yards, as well as leading the Titans in yards-per-catch, punt and kickoff yardage and...
The 2010 Frontier Conference football season couldn't have started any better for the Montana State University-Northern Lights. A dominating conference road win was exactly what the Lights were hoping for on the dawn of a brand new season. But that 20-3 win at UM-Western already seems like a long time ago. And with the first of two bye weeks behind them, the Lights turn their attention to pushing forward when they host Montana Tech in their home opener Saturday at 1 p.m. inside Blue Pony Stadium. "I think we got some things o...
The Havre High Blue Pony football team is eager to get their season started — Again. The Central A Blue Ponies (1-0, 1-0) opened their season with a dominating 66-21 win over Whitefish nearly two long weeks ago. And after a week-two bye the Ponies will finally retake the gridiron. Tonight at Blue Pony Stadium in Havre the Ponies will host the Miles City Cowboys at 6 in a Class A nonconference matchup. And after a long bye week after only the first game of the season, there are some mixed feelings. "It almost felt like were b...
Rehberg, McDonald, spar over gun control comment, national Democratic support Tim Leeds, [email protected] The supporters of two of the contenders for Montana's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives are accusing each other of taking things out of context in a search for top headlines. The Montana Republican Party issued a release Thursday saying the national Democratic party has thrown in the towel on Democratic candidate Dennis McDonald, while McDonald and the state Democratic Party are asking Rep. Denny Reh...
Dennis McDonald brought his campaign for Congress to Havre and the Hi-Line on Thursday, telling a crowd at the Eagles Club that he wanted to be part of the team that will "help get the economy out of the ditch it's in." McDonald gave a brief speech, listened to people who came forth with ideas and questions, and chatted with reporters about the issue he said was the biggest concern for voters: jobs. McDonald toured the Hi-Line on Thursday, stopping in Glasgow, Malta and Fort Belknap before ending the day in Havre. He is headi...
Montana Tavern Association convention heads to Havre John Kelleher, [email protected] As many as 300 people will be in Havre for the better part of a week starting Sunday for the 55th Montana Tavern Association's convention and trade show. "Havre has been great to us, and we are planning a great convention," said Bob Anderson, executive director of the Helena-based organization. Havre won the right to host the convention two years ago in a bidding process, Anderson said, adding that 1988 was the last time the assoc...
Andy Carlson will remain at the helm of Havre Public Schools until a full-time superintendent is hired. Havre Public Schools trustees voted unanimously during a meeting Tuesday evening to appoint Carlson, also the district's director of education, as the interim superintendent, after chairperson Shad Huston gave the recommendation of the superintendent committee to appoint him. After the meeting, Carlson said he realizes that some community members feel frustrated and angry about the turn of events, but that he wants to...
BLM director to answer monument questions in Malta Tim Leeds,[email protected] Another top-level federal official is coming to north-central Montana next week. U.S. Bureau of Land Management Director Bob Abbey will be in Malta Thursday to hear and answer questions about a contentious issue: whether plans are in place to create a national monument in the area. Abbey's meeting, sponsored by the Phillips and Valley county commissioners, is scheduled to begin Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Malta High School gymnasium. Hill...
Panel sends tougher DUI measures to Legislature MATT GOURAS,Associated Press Writer HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Lawmakers hoping to change Montana's drinking and driving culture agreed Friday to send a series of tougher proposed laws to the full Legislature. Montana has long ranked among the worst states in drunken driving statistics. Lawmakers and policy leaders are increasingly deciding the time has come to crack down. Proposals approved Friday by the Law and Justice Interim Committee include efforts to reduce the number of m...
Crews try to reach smoldering homes after blast JASON DEAREN,Associated Press Writer JULIANA BARBASSA,Associated Press Writer SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) — All that was left of some houses Friday were chimneys, rising from still smoldering ruins. Burned-out cars sat along ash-covered streets. And a rescue worker with a dog searched door to door for missing people. The day after a gas line ruptured and a towering fireball roared through a suburban San Francisco neighborhood, killing four people, officials were trying to d...
Taun Mark Kultgen Taun Mark Kultgen, 44, who loved carpentry and mechanics and had worked for the past 13 years as one of the top operators for Lonesome Dove Concrete Pumpers, died Tuesday from injuries received from an industrial accident at the Rainbow Dam jobsite near Great Falls. His funeral will be 3 p.m. Saturday at the Whitlash Community Church, 40 miles north of Chester. Following burial at the Whitlash Cemetery, a luncheon will be held at the community hall. Arrangements are by Rockman Funeral Chapel in Chester. Surv...
Phillip J. Lipp Our dad, Phillip Lipp, 88, died on Sept. 7, 2010, in Kalispell. Phil was born March 8, 1922, to Andrew and Katharine Lipp in Fairchild, Mont. The family of eight moved to a farm south of Hingham in 1923. Phil graduated from Hingham High School in 1940 and attended Carroll College and Montana State College. He was inducted into the Army Air Corps in September 1942 and served in Iran and Saudi Arabia. He was honorably discharged in November 1945. Phil married a Hingham girl, Clara Muller, on Oct. 8, 1946, and...
To an improved two-lane configuration began in earnest this week, with heavy equipment moving dirt south of the road. Lori Ryan, Montana Department of Transportation public information specialist, said the work that began Monday was to do some work south of the existing lanes and some shoulder work. While 35 mph zones will be used in the sections where work is being done, Ryan said no major delays are expected. The construction has caused some controversy over the last eight or nine years. The Havre-to-Fort Belknap section...
Behind the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line, kids were standing and hurling gobs of paint. They weren't aiming for each other, though. The North Central Montana Transit bus that hauled kids to the club over the summer was under attack and nearly covered in bright colors. So, it must be said, were the kids. "I'm gonna leave it on for a few days," Devyn Solomon said, looking down at her green arms. Luckily, the paint is washable, and so is the bus. By the time school starts, the rain should have cleaned it back to white, and...
A 63-yearold Helena woman convicted of exploiting an elderly man and living off of his income until he was nearly destitute has been sentenced to three years in prison and must pay $100,000 in restitution. A jury convicted Maureen Molina in May, and District Judge Jeffrey Sherlock sentenced her last week to 10 years in prison with seven years suspended. Court records say Molina met the man in 1996 when he was about 80 years old. At the time, he was managing his own finances, owned his home free and clear and had about...
