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Hundreds of U.S. paratroopers touched down in shattered Portau- Prince overnight as U.N. and other aid organizations struggled today to get food and water to stricken millions. Fears spread of unrest among the Haitian people in their fourth day of desperation. Hard-pressed government workers, meanwhile, were burying thousands of bodies in mass graves. The Red Cross estimates 45,000 to 50,000 people were killed in Tuesday's cataclysmic earthquake. More and more, the focus fell on the daunting challenge of getting aid to...
Things were busy at the Hill County Clerk and Recorder's Office — and the Montana Secretary of State's Office — Thursday with the opening of the candidate filing for the 2010 elections. On the federal level, Democrat Dennis McDonald has filed as a candidate for Montana's sole seat in the House of Representatives, saying he believes this is the year to unseat incumbent Republican Denny Rehberg. "I don't ever recall a time when there was so much angst among the public," McDonald, a Montana Democratic Party chair, said. Rehberg...
A Libby logger who speaks around the nation and has created a presidentially recognized educational program brought a message of woe — and success and hope — to agriculture producers at the winter grazing seminar in Havre Thursday. Bruce Vincent, president of Communities for a Great Northwest, told the people at the grazing seminar that a new movement has to save the business and culture of Montana and all of rural America. "There's a way to save the last best places. We're going to have to save the last best people to do it,...
The Frontier Conference season is now underway, and the Montana State University-Northern men's and women's basketball teams are ready for a good old fashioned rivalry. On Saturday night, the Lights and Skylights will play host to the University of Great Falls in the conference home-openers for MSU-N. The Skylights play at 6 p.m. and the Lights take the floor at 8. For the Northern women, Saturday's battle with UGF will be about getting back in the win column. The Skylights (0-2, 9-9) dropped their conference openers at...
AP-GfK Poll: Climate for GOP keeps getting better LIZ SIDOTI,AP National Political Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Tilted toward the GOP from the start of the year, the political environment has grown even more favorable for Republicans and rockier for President Barack Obama and his Democrats over the long primary season that just ended with a bang. With November's matchups set and the general election campaign beginning in earnest Wednesday, an Associated Press-GfK poll found that more Americans say the country is headed in the w...
Date: 9/15/2010 6:30 PM BC-US--Wisconsin Prosecutor-Sexting,4th Ld-Writethru/1108 Eds: Updates with new statement from prosecutor. APNewsBreak: Wis. prosecutor 'sexted' abuse victim RYAN J. FOLEY,Associated Press Writer CHILTON, Wis. (AP) — A prominent Wisconsin district attorney sent repeated text messages trying to spark an affair with a domestic abuse victim while he was prosecuting her ex-boyfriend, a police report shows. The 26-year-old woman complained last year to police after receiving 30 texts from Calumet County D...
Schweitzer says drug companies avoiding taxes HELENA (AP) — Gov. Brian Schweitzer says new laws are needed to collect taxes on income that he says big drug companies are hiding overseas. Schweitzer says he will bring the proposal to the Legislature when it meets in 2011. The move is the latest by Schweitzer to shed light on the pharmaceutical industry. He is highly critical of the prices drug companies charge in the United States, and the deals Congress has made with the companies. Schweitzer says the drug industry has h...
In what seemed like the blink of an eye Saturday, the Eastern Oregon Mountaineers NAIA playoff hopes were gone. Leading Carroll College 12-0 in the first quarter, the Saints ripped off 49 unanswered points to leave LaGrande, Ore., with a 49-12 win, and in their wake, left the Mounties at 0-3 on the season and 0-2 in Frontier Conference play. Hopes were high for EOU this season after going 7-4 a year ago. The Mounties started the year ranked No. 20 in the country and returned an all-american quarterback in junior Chris Ware....
Thursday High School Volleyball Chinook at Box Elder, 6 p.m. North Star at Big Sandy, 6 p.m. Friday High School Football Havre High at Sidney, 7 p.m. Harlem vs Roundup, 7 p.m. Chester/J-I vs P-D-B, 7 p.m. Chinook vs Fort Benton, 7 p.m. Big Sandy vs Heart Butte, 7 p.m. High School Volleyball Hays-Lodge Pole at Box Elder, 6 p.m. College Volleyball MSU-Northern at UGF, 7 p.m. College Rodeo MSU-Northern Rodeo, 7 p.m. Great Northern Fairgrounds Saturday High School Football North Star at St. Regis, 1 p.m. Hays-Lodge-Pole at...
The Hill County government is working closely with state and federal agencies to try to resolve a broken drain at Beaver Creek Dam south of Havre. "We want to get at it before it turns cold," Hill County Commissioner Kathy Bessette said Tuesday. Bessette said the commissioners have been in contact with the state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation and the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service to find the best way to fix, or at least temporarily improve, the problem. Both of those companies have purview o...
The city of Havre is looking at the idea of allowing medical marijuana growing facilities and dispensaries in commercial areas. Members of the city's Planning and Zoning Committee said their proposal would limit the number of facilities in the city but would enable those who are entitled to medical marijuana to get it. The proposal is designed after a law recently enacted in Bozeman. Under the proposal, medical marijuana facilities would be allowed in commercial zones, which include a wide swath of the city along U.S....
The Havre Public School system released the enrollment numbers for this school year at Tuesday night's Board of Trustees meeting. The total numbers — 1,890 kindergarten through 12th-grade students — have remained fairly steady with previous years, though there are larger incoming classes at Havre High School, Havre Middle School and Highland Park Early Primary School. The largest class size is that of Havre High's incoming freshman. With 175 students, the freshman class now represents more than 30 percent of that sch...
The failure of businesses to voluntarily register with the city of Havre has prompted a dispute between some City Council members and Mayor Tim Solomon. Members of the council's Planning and Zoning Committee said Tuesday night they had wanted to make the licensing procedure mandatory, but had backed down and agreed to Solomon's request that businesses voluntarily register. But now, committee Chair Janet Trethewey said she felt like the mayor had "thrown us under the bus." And fellow committee member Pam Hillery said Tuesday...
Zoning proposal would restrict Havre med marijuana facilities John Kelleher, [email protected] The city of Havre is looking at the idea of allowing medical marijuana growing facilities and dispensaries in commercial areas. Members of the city's Planning and Zoning Committee said their proposal would limit the number of facilities in the city but would enable those who are entitled to medical marijuana to get it. The proposal is designed after a law recently enacted in Bozeman. Under the proposal, medical marijuana...
Zoning proposal would restrict Havre med marijuana facilities John Kelleher, [email protected] The city of Havre is looking at the idea of allowing medical marijuana growing facilities and dispensaries in commercial areas. Members of the city's Planning and Zoning Committee said their proposal would limit the number of facilities in the city but would enable those who are entitled to medical marijuana to get it. The proposal is designed after a law recently enacted in Bozeman. Under the proposal, medical marijuana...
Large classes and small classrooms aging Zach White [email protected] The Havre Public School system released the enrollment numbers for this school year at Tuesday night's Board of Trustees meeting. The total numbers — 1,890 kindergarten through 12th-grade students — have remained fairly steady with previous years, though there are larger incoming classes at Havre High School, Havre Middle School and Highland Park Early Primary School. The largest class size is that of Havre High's incoming freshman. With 175 student...
Mayor, committee spar over business licences John Kelleher, [email protected] The failure of businesses to voluntarily register with the city of Havre has prompted a dispute between some City Council members and Mayor Tim Solomon. Members of the council's Planning and Zoning Committee said Tuesday night they had wanted to make the licensing procedure mandatory, but had backed down and agreed to Solomon's request that businesses voluntarily register. But now, committee Chair Janet Trethewey said she felt like the...
Planning proceeds to fix dam Tim Leeds, [email protected] The Hill County government is working closely with state and federal agencies to try to resolve a broken drain at Beaver Creek Dam south of Havre. "We want to get at it before it turns cold," Hill County Commissioner Kathy Bessette said Tuesday. Bessette said the commissioners have been in contact with the state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation and the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service to find the best way to fix, or at least...
Donald Marble Donald Marble, 72, of Chester, passed away in Tucson, Ariz., of pancreatic cancer on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010. Donald Raymond Marble was born April 10, 1938, in Kalamazoo, Mich. He was the son of Jack and Mona Marble of Kalamazoo. Don graduated from Richland High School, Richland, Mich., in 1956. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1963 with a master's degree in aeronautical engineering. During his university years, Don was a summer employee of the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho and Montana, primarily...
Gay Winnifred Hayford McLain Gay 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 Catholic Church with Father Dale Yurkovic officiating. A fellowship luncheon will be held at St. Jude Catholic Church Parish immediately after the service. Memorial contributions in Gay's honor may be made to the St. Jude Parish or...
Gay Winnifred Hayford McLain Gay 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 Catholic Church with Father Dale Yurkovic officiating. A fellowship luncheon will be held at St. Jude Catholic Church Parish immediately after the service. Memorial contributions in Gay's honor may be made to the St. Jude Parish or...
For a document more than 220 years old, the U.S. Constitution has stood up well to the passage of time. Since its adoption in 1787, it's been amended only 27 times — just 17 times since the Bill of Rights guaranteed Americans some of our most treasured civil liberties. On Friday, we celebrate Constitution Day. It's a good time to be thankful for all that the Constitution provides us as Americans, and a good time to be mindful of how eager some are to strip its protections away. What would America be without freedom of r...
"I fell in love with him because he smelled like horses and leather," I told Karen. "He swung me up on his rope horse and taught me to ride. Well, the horse taught me to ride. My husband taught me to notice things along the trail. I had a tendency to ride with my head down, looking for rattlesnakes. He taught me instead to pay attention to my horse's ears, which would twitch and point if he saw a snake along the way. When I didn't have to worry about snakes, I learned to look out over the land. We rode for fun every evening,...
Despite her claims in the Havre Daily News and at recent political meetings, Wendy Warburton was not a s u p p o r t e r o f Mo n t a n a S t a t e University-Northern during her term in the Legislature. In fact, she was one of the few legislators who voted against the appropriations bill for Northern. Had a majority voted with her, Northern might well be closing its doors as we speak. Despite MSU-N's excellent educational record and its appeal for Montana s tudent s, Warburton has voted with those who would close its doors...
Pitching has been a trademark of the Havre North Stars American Legion baseball team all season long. But now that Havre's bats have become more than consistent, the North Stars are becoming awfully dangerous. And on Wednesday afternoon at Legion Field, the North Stars showed yet again just how dangerous a team they've become by sweeping the Vauxhall Spurs with great pitching and bigtime hitting in a Northern District doubleheader. The North Stars beat Vauxhall by scores of 7-2 and 11-7 to run their current winning streak to...
