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The Havre High School speech and debate team, taking a relatively young set of speakers, did well at the 2011 state tournament in Laurel this weekend, although none could quite make it on stage by breaking into the top eight in their event. Havre qualified 14 competitors at divisionals, including two fourth-year speakers and eight first-year team members. The top six in each event from each of the four Class A divisions qualify to compete at state. Teresa Buerkle finishes ninth in Lincoln-Douglas The top finisher for Havre... Full story
Tennessee Titans return man and former Havre High star Marc Mariani shattered the Pro Bowl records for most return yards and numbe rof kickoff return yards in a game Sunday afternoon in Honolulu. Because of the NFC's 55 points scored, Mariani was a busy man, returning nine kickoffs for a whopping 326 yards with minutes still left in the game. Mariani also ran two reverses for a total of 11 yards and returned one punt for one yard. He also assisted on three special teams tackles in the game. The previous return records were...
Mona Lomax Erickson Mona Erickson passed away Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2011, at Marquis Suites in Butte, Mont., from natural causes at the age of 94. A memorial service will be held at St. John's Episcopal Church in Butte at 10:30 a. m., Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, with Father Toles officiating. Wayrynen-Richards Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mona was born April 22, 1917, in Bolton Lancashire, England, to John and Alice Lomax. Her father was away in the Army during World War I at the time of her birth. Mona and her...
Marjorie Patton Marjorie Marie "Midge" (Kelley) Patton, 96, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011, at Northern Montana Care Center due to natural causes. Funeral services will be 11 a. m. Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, at First Baptist Church, with Pastor John Chapman officiating. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery. Memorials in Midge's honor may be made to the First Baptist Church, 625 4th Ave., Havre, MT 59501 or to Northern Montana Care Center Chapel Piano Fund, P.O. Box 1231, Havre, MT 59501. Services and arrangements have...
HELENA — The Montana Supreme Court is setting up a possible challenge to aspects of the high profile U.S. Supreme Court decision that granted political speech rights to corporations. The state court decided Friday to restore Montana's century-old ban on direct spending by corporations on political candidates or committees. The lawsuit was prompted by U.S. Supreme Court decision from last year granting political speech rights to corporations. The Montana Supreme Court says the state has a "compelling interest" to uphold c... Full story
DES MOINES, Iowa — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich wept Friday as he recalled his late mother's end-of-life illnesses, a moment of poignancy in a notably negative Republican presidential Iowa caucus campaign with four unpredictable days yet to run. "I do policy much easier than I do personal," Gingrich told an audience of women as he tried to regain his composure. The tears flowed as the former speaker was responding to questions about his mother from a pollster and longtime political ally. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel R... Full story
MSU-Northern's Chris Brown is fouled during Friday night's men's basketball game between the Lights and the University of Alberta at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. The final score might not show it, but the MSU-Northern men's basketball team's return from a nearly four-week break was anything but easy. Still, the No. 19 Lights found a way to pull away from the University of Alberta 78-50 Friday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. The Lights broke the first half open via seven 3-pointers and an 18-4 run. The Golden Bears... Full story
There are just two days left in 2011. It sure did go fast. I guess people tell me the older you get the faster the years go by and I'm starting to believe them. It seemed like just yesterday I was covering the MSU-Northern men's basketball team winning the Frontier Conference championship in Helena. But that was nine months ago. It seems like just yesterday I was watching my tennis teams compete through a grueling, nearly all-night divisional tennis tournament in Bozeman.... Full story
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team went through a difficult stretch in 2010-11. The Skylights played hard and well at times, but things just didn't go their way. Northern fought injuries and close losses and wound up with just four wins in Frontier Conference play. But things have gone the complete opposite for head coach Chris Mouat and the Skylights so far in 2012. And MSU-N will look to finish off the year with its 13th win of the season when the...
MSU-Northern's Devin Jackson launches a shot during a men's basketball game against Dickinson State on Dec. 8 in Havre. The Lights host Alberta in the AmericInn Classic tonight at 6. One week from tonight, the Montana State University-Northern men's and women's basketball teams will open Frontier Conference MSU-Northern's Nikki Tresch and the Skylights finish nonconference play when they host Mount Royal Saturday at 3 p.m. play at home, against rival UGF. But before the...
I recently saw a catalog advertising rope-style horse halters made from glow-in-the-dark rope. No kidding. According to the ad, the rope is white in the daylight, then glows bright fluorescent green in the dark. Having owned more than my fair share of dark brown horses, I can see the appeal. Horses can't contain themselves in the daylight — they have to run away from you just to hear you cuss, or run to you to frisk you for treats (or possible treats, or the essence of the s...
Starting Sunday, Hill County will celebrate its 100th anniversary. In 1912, the cowboy town of Havre was rapidly changing into a city of its own — the business, educational and cultural center of the Hi-Line. Many of those who arrived in the are in that era took a huge gamble, leaving their lives back east so they could plant their hopes on the Hi-Line. They worked hard to provide a life for themselves and worked harder to build a vibrant community that they would now call home. Their work was chronicled in the history book "...
Despite years of heap-leach mining in the area, no one in Zortman is concerned about the situation on the mountains that loom over the town. Their water is fine. "Our wells are all out on the Ruby Gulch, " Clayton Wallace, owner of the Miner's Club Bar and Cafe in Zortman, said. "I never have been worried about it. The water samples say we're 1 percent purer than Lewistown and Lewistown is supposed to have the purest water in the state. " In fact, Wallace thinks there is plenty of opportunity to start up the Zortman Landusky...
Photo courtesy of Virginia Verkuehlen, "The Hi-Line Collection" C.C. Wallace delivers coal in Havre. To the right is the corner of the Clack building. The city of Havre was 18 years old in 1912, but it was just coming into its own. Telephones were unheard of just a couple of years earlier, but now there were several hundred in the city. The Havre Power Co. provided electricity to the city, and there were streetlights every couple of blocks or so. Sacred Heart Hospital opened in 1912. The city's first hospital, it was... Full story
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson, file photo Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway trains warm up for their long track journeys in minus 23-degree weather at the Havre train station in December 2005. People living in what was about to become Hill County 100 years ago likely had no idea what would be happening in the region today. Perhaps looking at what could be here at the end of another 100 years is even more difficult. Patrick Barkey, director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana in...
Brenda A. Wilson, 59, of Havre passed away Dec. 26, 2011, due to natural causes. Memorial services will be Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, at 1 p. m., at Immanuel Baptist Church, Havre. Arrangements are by Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook.... Full story
On Saturday, 30 eager bowlers took to the lanes all with the same objective in mind, to overcome the lane conditions and come out victorious in the annual Hi Line Lanes Challenge. Only one, Roman Surber, a local bowler, survived. Out of the 30 bowlers there was six women who put their skills up against the men and did very well. Two made the top 12 cut, and one, Laine Fitzpatrick, just missed the stepladder. Bowlers came from Cut Bank, Helena, Big Sandy, Harlem and Havre. STEP-LADDER RESULTS: Game 1: Brandon Berreth 233 and...
A number of prep athletes from across the Hi-Line were honored recently for their volleyball prowess. The District 6C East recently released its 2011 All-Conference list with three players from Chinook, three from Chester/J-I, three from North Star senior Shelby Lipp makes a pass during a District 6C East volleyball match earlier this month in Rudyard. Lipp was one of 10 local preps to be selected 6C East All-Conference for 2011. North Star and one player from Big Sandy... Full story
The Montana State University-Northern wrestling team is off to a great start in 2011. But the Lights have an ultra-tough December ahead of them. Northern goes into the month MSU-Northern's Ethan Hinebauch (right) locks up with a Western Wyoming opponent during an NAIA dual last month in Havre. Hinebauch is one of six Lights who are nationally-ranked this month. of December as the No. 7 team in the NAIA. The newest coaches poll has the Lights rated seventh while Southern...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train cruises east of Havre Tuesday afternoon. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway employees are finishing up repair work on the tracks between Havre and Chinook this week, laying about 22,000 ties. Their work wraps up a successful season for the railroad that has hired 415 people across Montana this year, including 98 in Havre. BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas said company's Hi-Line business has not yet returned to pre-recession levels, but the upturn in 2011...
Hi-Liners will get an opportunity to see many of the finest Christmas light displays on Tuesday, Dec. 20. The Hill County Community Foundation, Atrium Mall Merchants Association and North Central Montana Transit will sponsor a tour of Havre's finest decorated homes. "I think people will see a lot of variety of displays," said Lori Ryan, chair of the Hill County Community Foundation. The transit system will provide the buses, she said. Tours will be offered at 6, 7 and 8 p. m. for the second annual tour, she said. The first... Full story
Northern Montana Hospital's foundation is looking to build an addition south of the Sletten Cancer Center in the next few years, piquing the curiosity of their neighbors. At last Monday's Havre City Council meeting, Keith Nordrum, whose house on Ike Avenue faces away from the cancer center, asked questions about the proposed "Gift of Life" housing project to be built just past his backyard. The project would consist of one complex for four patients staying in Havre for cancer treatment. "We are hearing that people are... Full story
Courtesy photo The entrance to Camp Kiwanis leads to the offices of Beaver Creek Park as well as cabins, the Camp Kiwanis Lodge, the newly renovated historic chapel and other facilities. A meeting is slated for Tuesday to help create a group to help one of Hill County's main attractions. Dana Pyette, assistant to the superintendent of Beaver Creek Park, said the first meeting of Friends of Beaver Creek Park, scheduled for 7 p. m. in the Havre High School Auditorium, will help set the focus of the group and what it can do to...
Frances Kathman, 96, of Chinook, a housewife, passed away Nov. 25, 2011, due to natural causes. The rosary will be recited on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011, at 7 p. m., at St. Gabriel's Catholic Church. Funeral services will be held on Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, at 11 a. m., at St. Gabriel's Catholic Church. Arrangements are made by Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook....
Dolores Wiederrich Dolores (Dolly) Marie Wiederrich, 76, passed away on Nov. 28, 2011, at Northern Montana Hospital due to natural causes. Her funeral service will be Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, at 11 a. m. at St. Jude Thaddeus Church with Father Dan Wathen officiating. A luncheon will be held immediately after the service at the Parish Center. Burial will be at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Great Falls a later date. Memorials may be made in Dolly's honor to St. Jude Thaddeus Church or to Great Falls Central. Services and arrangements... Full story
