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page design and photos by nikki carlson story by krista corner One veteran's tour of duty in World War II took him to many of the most famous battles of the South Pacific, and his ship was one of the first inside the harbor at Tokyo. Earl Pollington reminisced Wednesday about life in Kremlin, coming to Montana from Michigan, the U.S. Navy and a marriage of almost 60 years. Pollington, 92, served his country in World War II aboard the U.S.S. San Diego, an anti-aircraft cruiser. He has lived a colorful life, coming to Montana f...
Daniel Horton Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com The Havre High girls basketball team entered the weekends play as the No. 2 team in the Central A, but after two outstanding performances the Blue Ponies walked away in a two-way tie for first. On Friday the Ponies defeated the Belgrade panthers, the Central A's top team, 50-43, and on Saturday the Ponies defeated the Livingston Rangers, the Central A's third-place team, 48-37, both at the HHS gymnasium. Since the Rangers and Panthers...
Alice Flora (Sargent) Fox, 87, a homemaker and retired farm and ranch operator, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009, in the Special Care Unit of the Northern Montana Care Center where she received excellent care by many who loved her and were by her side, along with Pastor Rowlie and Suzette Hutton, her grandson Wade, and her daughter Karen. Funeral services will be Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, at 1 p. m. in the Fifth Avenue Christian Church with burial following in Highland Cemetery. Memorials may be sent to the Fifth Avenue...
HDN Staff and wire report Continuing his fight to increase benefits for military veterans, Sen. Jon Tester teamed up with Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer in the U.S. Senate Thursday. Tester introduced Schweitzer during a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee, which examined the Iraq war's impact on rising health care costs for veterans, a release from Tester's office said. Schweitzer talked about the “unseen costs” of caring for veterans wounded in the war, especially veterans living in Montana and rural America. “Ha...
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Congress is set to tackle the economy this week by considering President Barack Obama's cho i c e to head the Treasur y Department and by acting on legislation to spur economic growth. The Senate could confirm Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary as early as today, after delaying a vote because Geithner failed to pay some of his federal taxes earlier this decade. Geithner settled his delinquent taxes shortly before Obama nominated him, and senators from both parties...
State pension funds plummet $1.7 billion KAHRIN DEINES Associated Press Writer HELENA The state's pension funds have nose-dived by an unprecedented $1.7 billion over the past six months, following the path of other funds and stock markets worldwide and leading state financial planners into uncertain territory. The state's investment director, Carroll South, said the 22 percent drop in value is the largest the funds have ever had. But despite the funds' plunge in worth, he said, it is too risky to make any immediate changes...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com Work has started to finish the Hill County Courthouse bottom level, which should have new office space, including for the Hill County Extension Office, the County Sanitarian and Planner Office and the Hill County Attorney, completed this year. Hill County Commission Chair Mike Wendland said last week that the final configuration is set and now being built. “It's pretty well spelled out in the drawings, what's there and what's going to happen n...
page design and photos by nikki carlson story by krista corner One veteran's tour of duty in World War II took him to many of the most famous battles of the South Pacific, and his ship was one of the first inside the harbor at Tokyo. Earl Pollington reminisced Wednesday about life in Kremlin, coming to Montana from Michigan, the U.S. Navy and a marriage of almost 60 years. Pollington, 92, served his country in World War II aboard the U.S.S. San Diego, an anti-aircraft cruiser. He has lived a colorful life, coming to Montana f...
Daniel Horton Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com The Havre High girls basketball team entered the weekends play as the No. 2 team in the Central A, but after two outstanding performances the Blue Ponies walked away in a two-way tie for first. On Friday the Ponies defeated the Belgrade panthers, the Central A's top team, 50-43, and on Saturday the Ponies defeated the Livingston Rangers, the Central A's third-place team, 48-37, both at the HHS gymnasium. Since the Rangers and Panthers...
Alice Flora (Sargent) Fox, 87, a homemaker and retired farm and ranch operator, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009, in the Special Care Unit of the Northern Montana Care Center where she received excellent care by many who loved her and were by her side, along with Pastor Rowlie and Suzette Hutton, her grandson Wade, and her daughter Karen. Funeral services will be Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, at 1 p. m. in the Fifth Avenue Christian Church with burial following in Highland Cemetery. Memorials may be sent to the Fifth Avenue...
HDN Staff and wire report Continuing his fight to increase benefits for military veterans, Sen. Jon Tester teamed up with Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer in the U.S. Senate Thursday. Tester introduced Schweitzer during a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee, which examined the Iraq war's impact on rising health care costs for veterans, a release from Tester's office said. Schweitzer talked about the “unseen costs” of caring for veterans wounded in the war, especially veterans living in Montana and rural America. “Ha...
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Congress is set to tackle the economy this week by considering President Barack Obama's cho i c e to head the Treasur y Department and by acting on legislation to spur economic growth. The Senate could confirm Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary as early as today, after delaying a vote because Geithner failed to pay some of his federal taxes earlier this decade. Geithner settled his delinquent taxes shortly before Obama nominated him, and senators from both parties...
State pension funds plummet $1.7 billion KAHRIN DEINES Associated Press Writer HELENA The state's pension funds have nose-dived by an unprecedented $1.7 billion over the past six months, following the path of other funds and stock markets worldwide and leading state financial planners into uncertain territory. The state's investment director, Carroll South, said the 22 percent drop in value is the largest the funds have ever had. But despite the funds' plunge in worth, he said, it is too risky to make any immediate changes...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com Work has started to finish the Hill County Courthouse bottom level, which should have new office space, including for the Hill County Extension Office, the County Sanitarian and Planner Office and the Hill County Attorney, completed this year. Hill County Commission Chair Mike Wendland said last week that the final configuration is set and now being built. “It's pretty well spelled out in the drawings, what's there and what's going to happen n...
page design and photos by nikki carlson story by krista corner One veteran's tour of duty in World War II took him to many of the most famous battles of the South Pacific, and his ship was one of the first inside the harbor at Tokyo. Earl Pollington reminisced Wednesday about life in Kremlin, coming to Montana from Michigan, the U.S. Navy and a marriage of almost 60 years. Pollington, 92, served his country in World War II aboard the U.S.S. San Diego, an anti-aircraft cruiser. He has lived a colorful life, coming to Montana f...
Daniel Horton Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com The Havre High girls basketball team entered the weekends play as the No. 2 team in the Central A, but after two outstanding performances the Blue Ponies walked away in a two-way tie for first. On Friday the Ponies defeated the Belgrade panthers, the Central A's top team, 50-43, and on Saturday the Ponies defeated the Livingston Rangers, the Central A's third-place team, 48-37, both at the HHS gymnasium. Since the Rangers and Panthers...
Alice Flora (Sargent) Fox, 87, a homemaker and retired farm and ranch operator, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009, in the Special Care Unit of the Northern Montana Care Center where she received excellent care by many who loved her and were by her side, along with Pastor Rowlie and Suzette Hutton, her grandson Wade, and her daughter Karen. Funeral services will be Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, at 1 p. m. in the Fifth Avenue Christian Church with burial following in Highland Cemetery. Memorials may be sent to the Fifth Avenue...
HDN Staff and wire report Continuing his fight to increase benefits for military veterans, Sen. Jon Tester teamed up with Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer in the U.S. Senate Thursday. Tester introduced Schweitzer during a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee, which examined the Iraq war's impact on rising health care costs for veterans, a release from Tester's office said. Schweitzer talked about the “unseen costs” of caring for veterans wounded in the war, especially veterans living in Montana and rural America. “Ha...
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Congress is set to tackle the economy this week by considering President Barack Obama's cho i c e to head the Treasur y Department and by acting on legislation to spur economic growth. The Senate could confirm Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary as early as today, after delaying a vote because Geithner failed to pay some of his federal taxes earlier this decade. Geithner settled his delinquent taxes shortly before Obama nominated him, and senators from both parties...
State pension funds plummet $1.7 billion KAHRIN DEINES Associated Press Writer HELENA The state's pension funds have nose-dived by an unprecedented $1.7 billion over the past six months, following the path of other funds and stock markets worldwide and leading state financial planners into uncertain territory. The state's investment director, Carroll South, said the 22 percent drop in value is the largest the funds have ever had. But despite the funds' plunge in worth, he said, it is too risky to make any immediate changes...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com Work has started to finish the Hill County Courthouse bottom level, which should have new office space, including for the Hill County Extension Office, the County Sanitarian and Planner Office and the Hill County Attorney, completed this year. Hill County Commission Chair Mike Wendland said last week that the final configuration is set and now being built. “It's pretty well spelled out in the drawings, what's there and what's going to happen n...
page design and photos by nikki carlson story by krista corner One veteran's tour of duty in World War II took him to many of the most famous battles of the South Pacific, and his ship was one of the first inside the harbor at Tokyo. Earl Pollington reminisced Wednesday about life in Kremlin, coming to Montana from Michigan, the U.S. Navy and a marriage of almost 60 years. Pollington, 92, served his country in World War II aboard the U.S.S. San Diego, an anti-aircraft cruiser. He has lived a colorful life, coming to Montana f...
Daniel Horton Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com The Havre High girls basketball team entered the weekends play as the No. 2 team in the Central A, but after two outstanding performances the Blue Ponies walked away in a two-way tie for first. On Friday the Ponies defeated the Belgrade panthers, the Central A's top team, 50-43, and on Saturday the Ponies defeated the Livingston Rangers, the Central A's third-place team, 48-37, both at the HHS gymnasium. Since the Rangers and Panthers...
Alice Flora (Sargent) Fox, 87, a homemaker and retired farm and ranch operator, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009, in the Special Care Unit of the Northern Montana Care Center where she received excellent care by many who loved her and were by her side, along with Pastor Rowlie and Suzette Hutton, her grandson Wade, and her daughter Karen. Funeral services will be Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, at 1 p. m. in the Fifth Avenue Christian Church with burial following in Highland Cemetery. Memorials may be sent to the Fifth Avenue...
HDN Staff and wire report Continuing his fight to increase benefits for military veterans, Sen. Jon Tester teamed up with Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer in the U.S. Senate Thursday. Tester introduced Schweitzer during a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee, which examined the Iraq war's impact on rising health care costs for veterans, a release from Tester's office said. Schweitzer talked about the “unseen costs” of caring for veterans wounded in the war, especially veterans living in Montana and rural America. “Ha...