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With a plethora of events set to run during the 32nd annual celebration of Havre Festival Days Sept. 14-16, deadlines to register for many events are coming up just around the corner. One deadline is this weekend — the Hi-Line Quilt Guild will be holding its registration for the annual Festival of Quilts Saturday. The show, which will be held at the east end of the Holiday Village Mall, will run Sept. 14-16 and includes the chance for viewers to vote on the best quilts as well as to participate in a quilt raffle that will b...
Students aren't the only ones getting new equipment this fall. Northern Montana Hospital is updating their imaging, with a new computed tomography scanner this month and a new magnetic resonance imaging machine next month. The CT scanner was wheeled into the hospital this week to replace the old machine that has been used for nine years. "It's a new state-of-the-art scanner," Steven Liston, a radiologist from Northern Montana Hospital said. "It's faster, which means less repeat scans." It's faster because it has got 10 times...
After a brief moment of tacit approval, the Havre City Council wrapped up the public hearing on the then preliminary 2013 budget on Wednesday evening with unanimous approval for the budget and the city taxes that accompany it. The 6:30 p.m. hearing was a continuation of Tuesday night's first public budget hearing at the end of the regular council meeting, which was recessed rather than the usual adjourning. The nearly 40-page budget is made up of 24 pages of revenue and 15 pages of expenditures which attempt to spell out the...
Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau praised President Barack Obama for his stand on education and Native American issues when she spoke to the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night. Juneau also got in a word of praise for the state's two top college sports teams. AP photo Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Jueau speaks to the Democratic National Convention Wednesday. Juneau was one of 10 women added to the speakers' list to shore up the party's strong lead among women voters....
A former governor is coming to Havre to dispute claims that the GOP is working against the interests of American women. Gov. Judy Martz, who served as lieutenant governor under Marc Racicot's leadership from 1996-2000 and as Montana's governor for the four years following, will present "What War on Women?" in Havre at 7 p.m. Monday in the Havre High School auditorium. The event is sponsored by the Hill County Republican Central Committee. Committee Chair Andrew Brekke said this morning that Martz is holding events around the... Full story
People can wish Havre's own NFL football star well, with a card on display at Boxcars Restaurant & Lounge to sign. "I think it's a great thing," Havreite Faye Brubaker said after she signed the card for Tennessee Titans player Marc Mariani, sidelined for the season with an injury Aug. 23 in a preseason game against the Arizona Cardinals. Sandy Anderson, who owns and operates Boxcars with her husband, Craig, said the card had just arrived at the restaurant Wednesday morning. Several people had signed the poster-sized card by... Full story
JOLIET, Ill. — Drew Peterson, the swaggering former suburban Chicago police officer who generated a media storm after his much-younger fourth wife vanished in 2007, was convicted Thursday of murdering his third wife in a case based mainly on secondhand hearsay statements from the two women. Peterson, 58, sat stoically looking straight ahead and did not react as the verdict was read. Several of his third wife's relatives gasped before hugging each other as they cried quietly in the courtroom. AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, In t...
HELENA (AP) — A lobbyist who became the face of the effort to legalize medical marijuana in Montana and helped draft the initiative approved by voters in 2004 won't see jail time on a federal conviction related to the pot business he co-founded. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen sentenced Tom Daubert Thursday in Missoula to five years' probation. Daubert had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to maintain a drug-involved premises, a charge that stems from the 2011 raid of a Montana Cannabis, the medical marijuana p...
Leona Sorensen Leona Agnes (Belschner) Sorensen of Big Sandy, Mont., passed away on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, due to complications from surgery for colon cancer. She was born on Nov. 2, 1929, to Charles and Clara Belschner and grew up in Eagle Creek. She graduated from Big Sandy High School and was a lifelong fan of the Pioneers. On June 21, 1947, she married Leonard Marinus Sorensen, and they began building a life together on their farm near Verona. They worked side by side for 51 years until his death in 1999. She was...
Dr. William A. "Bill" Rader's memorial service is 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012, at St. Jude Parish Center....
Margaret "Peggy" Jean Allison, born March 1, 1930, in Havre, died Sunday, Aug. 26, in Arizona. She was the eldest of five children. Survivors include her brothers, Bud and Bobby; her children, Lonnie (Marie), Rande (Susan) and Sandy (Randy Erickson); grandchildren, Katie (Luke) Ostrom, Ryan, Tara, Courteny and Eric Allison, Michael and Mark Kwiatkowski, Travis Erickson; and one great-grandchild, Hailey Ostromn. She was preceded in death by her son, Steve....
Currently before Congress is the Parental Rights Amendment which would explicitly define the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education and care of their children as a fundamental right. Believe it or not, this right is not expressly stated in our Constitution, but is only an implied right. This shortcoming in our Constitution has led to the erosion of parental rights by court decisions and international law. Historically, the Supreme Court consistently maintained that parents possess a "fundamental right to...
Recently I have been rethinking my personal war against kochia, a common noxious weed, otherwise known as tumbleweed, romanced in song by the Sons of the Pioneers, engraved in our western history by Zane Gray. One day the thought tumbled into my head, at that moment vacant and dreamy, that nobody ever wins a war. How true, I thought. So why do I stand out in the blazing sun, my hands encased in protective gloves, ripping kochia up by the roots? Oh, my aching back! Sondra...
Soon area police will be visiting places that sell alcohol in Hill County to determine if the sales meet state laws. Bars, taverns, restaurants and clubs are prohibited from selling alcohol to people under 21. For a long time in Montana, the law was a joke — widely ignored by all concerned. There has been a big change in public attitudes about drinking in recent years, and that has been reflected in the compliance checks conducted by Havre police and other organizations. Local businesses have had a good, though certainly n... Full story
Editor: I attended the street meeting with Rep. Denny Rehberg. I don't know exactly what words to use the describe the mayhem caused by the opposition. The bad language and rude, false accusations about what he had done or maybe what he will do. There was very little conversation going on about what we need to do in America to get people back to work and the national debt. I do realize and sympathize with the Democrats and the bad decision they made when they hung their hats on this president. But all the yelling and... Full story
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Convention Watch shows you the 2012 political conventions through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item. ___ AP Photo/Charles Dharapak President Barack Obama waves as he joins Former President Bill Clinton during the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday. AFTER BILL The crowd is thinning at the Democratic National Convention, even as the roll call of the states to nominate Barack Obama goes o... Full story
The Havre High golf teams have a busy four weeks ahead. And its starts this weekend for the Blue Pony squads. On Friday, the Blue Ponies will take to the Pine Meadows Golf Club in Lewistown for the Lewistown Invitational, one day ahead of Saturday's Havre Invitational, which is scheduled to be played at Beaver Creek Golf Course. Friday's meet in Lewistown will feature the host Golden Eagles, as well as teams from Browning and Livingston. This will be the Ponies' first look at... Full story
It's already been two weeks since the Montana State University-Northern Lights and Carroll College Fighting Saints kicked off the 2012 football season at Blue Pony Stadium in Havre. But what a two weeks it has been. Carroll followed up its 31-6 win over Northern with a great showing at Football Championship Subdivision and Big Sky Conference power Portland State last Saturday night. The Saints led the Vikings 6-0 in the first quarter, before eventually losing 38-20 at...
The Electric City Classic volleyball tournament is never referred to as an easy weekend, but for the Havre High volleyball program, it definitely makes for a lighter weekend when compared to the Blue Ponies season opening weekend last week. Friday and Saturday the Central A Ponies will compete in Great Falls, competing against a tough field of Class AA teams. The Ponies and Lewistown Golden Eagles will be the only Class A squads in attendance, while the rest of the field will be filled with teams like Missoula Sentinel, CMR,... Full story
The NAIA volleyball season is already a month old. And now the real fun begins. This week marks the start of the 2012 Frontier Conference season – a season in which the league has a new school and some teams trying to chase down four-time defending Frontier champion Lewis-Clark State. Over the next two and a half months, the conference, which is known as one of the strongest in the NAIA will be a race to the postseason. The Frontier features some powerhouse teams, like LC Stat...
Montana State University-Northern outside hitter Kelsey Williams is just a junior, but she's already been around the block a time or two when it comes to Frontier Conference volleyball. Williams transferred to Northern last season from Lewis-Clark State, though she is a native Montanan. She was the 2009 Montana Gatorade Volleyball Player of the Year, and was a force for the Helena High Bengals. She was also a standout on the basketball court and in track and field, but her...
With a plethora of events set to run during the 32nd annual celebration of Havre Festival Days Sept. 14-16, deadlines to register for many events are coming up just around the corner. One deadline is this weekend — the Hi-Line Quilt Guild will be holding its registration for the annual Festival of Quilts Saturday. The show, which will be held at the east end of the Holiday Village Mall, will run Sept. 14-16 and includes the chance for viewers to vote on the best quilts as well as to participate in a quilt raffle that will b... Full story
OAK CREEK, Wis. — As worshippers prayed and meditated at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin on Sunday morning, about a dozen women were preparing food in the temple kitchen for a post-service meal that is open to community members, regardless of religious affiliation. AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps A woman reacts outside the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, Wis, after a shooting took place, Sunday. Then the shooting started, sending terrified congregants scrambling for cover. When the gunfire finally ended in a shootout between a g...
Havre Daily News/John Kelleher Bikers take off at the start of the Kellen Lund Memorial Bike ride Saturday at Pepin Park. Four-year-old Arden Sorensen was at the tail end of the bicyclists in the three-mile category at the Kellen Lund Memorial Bike Ride Saturday. He was one of the youngest bicyclists, and unlike many others, this was the first time he participated at the bike ride. He had his troubles. Unable to balance, he got off his bike and walked it along for a while, looking a bit bewildered. Then he got back on, and... Full story
A crowd of about 30 people paraded around the track at Hoon Field in Chinook Friday night, attired in purple T-shirts that read "Survivor. " Friends and relatives cheered them as music like "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor blared from the public address system. Some have been cancer survivors for a decade or more. Others were attending their first Relay for Life, which is sponsored by the American Cancer Society. While survivors were hugging with each other and posing for pictures, John Hebbelman talked about his harrowing... Full story
