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  • Quick Pick: Roaring in the 20s at Northern

    Updated Feb 10, 2015

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  • Locals look at anti-bullying bill

    Tori Thomas|Updated Feb 9, 2015

    Shylo Main, a Havre resident, said that her son, Hunter Strait, committed suicide in 2010 due to bullying. Strait was 14-years-old at the time and was an eighth-grader at Hays-Lodge Pole Middle School. “He was a great kid, always smiling — always happy,” she said. Main said that she did not find out until a year or two later exactly what had happened. “The week before (he committed suicide), he was suspended from school because he walked out of class,” she said. “Apparently during class there were a group of boys that were sp...

  • Quick Pick: Honoring the seniors

    Updated Feb 9, 2015

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  • Highway 2 group will redouble efforts

    John Kelleher|Updated Feb 9, 2015

    Members of the Highway 2 Association are worried that some people think their cause is dead. Two members said at Friday’s meeting in Havre that people have told them they thought that supporters had given up on the thought of making the highway four lanes from Culbertson across the northern tier of Montana. Nothing could be further from the truth, members agreed, and they plan to reinvigorate the campaign. New, brighter signs advocating “4 for 2” will be placed along the highways, the group’s website will be updated and a F...

  • Rocky Boy embezzler trial scheduled in federal court

    John Paul Schmidt|Updated Feb 9, 2015

    A man indicted for theft of funds from a tribal organization has been through his arraignment and now awaits his jury trial. Timothy Warren Rosette pleaded not guilty at the Missouri River Federal Courthouse Tuesday and was scheduled Thursday to have his jury trial April 8 at 9 a.m. Rosette is the former director of the Chippewa Cree Tribe Roads Branch and the Rocky Boy Health Clinic’s Environmental Health Division He is alleged to have accepted bribes from James Howard Eastlick, Jr. and the Hunter Burns Construction C...

  • Paranormal researcher, psychic medium to speak at Northern

    Updated Feb 9, 2015

    Montana State University-Northern Christopher Moon said he had his first paranormal experience at the age of seven. At the age of 12, he said, he had a definite psychic/medium sense, and began doing remedial paranormal investigations. At the age of 16, he said, he decided he could no longer turn his back on what he felt he was truly meant to do. In 2004, he published his first issue of his now worldwide distributed Haunted Times Magazine. Christopher is also one of the few people who can accurately operate Thomas Edison’s T...

  • Johnson on seed committee

    Updated Feb 9, 2015

    Press release Ernest Johnson, a Chinook alfalfa seed grower, has been named to a three-year term on the Montana Seed Committee. Gov. Steve Bullock made the appointment to a three-year term. The Montana Alfalfa Seed Committee provides direction for research and marketing toward the continued growth of the alfalfa seed industry in the state....

  • Early education, tax cuts, drones and public tracing at the Legislature

    Updated Feb 9, 2015

    By Michael Wright Community News Service UM School of Journalism In her address to a joint session of the Montana Legislature last week, Superintendent Denise Juneau praised Montana’s schools and called for more investment in them. “We have a lot to be proud of in this state,” she said. Juneau listed accomplishments like the highest graduation rates in the state’s history and growth in organizations like the Future Farmers of America. She also called for investment in Gov. Bullock’s so-called Early Edge preschool plan, whi...

  • Our View: Drug testing of the poor will accomplish nothing

    Updated Feb 9, 2015

    People who receive farm supports of any kind. County employees who plow our roads. City workers who keep our water and sewer systems working even on holidays. Contractors who build our state-owned buildings and highways in good shape. People who are down on their luck and need Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to feed their children. Private attorneys who do contract work for the state. Police officers who keep our streets safe. Lawmakers who we send to Helena to make laws to protect us. These are just some people who r...

  • For the Record, Feb. 9, 2015

    Updated Feb 9, 2015

    Havre Police Department Officers investigated a 6:34 a.m. Friday call from 3rd Street about an unknown man in a house. —— Marcus James Jones, 19, of Havre was arrested on a charge of probation violation after an officer served a warrant at 9:35 a.m. Friday on 1st Street. —— A two-vehicle, noninjury motor vehicle crash was investigated after officers received a 2:21 p.m. Friday call from 2nd Street. —— A noninjury motor vehicle crash between a Jeep and a GMC pickup truck was investigated after officers received a 3:57 p.m. Fri...

  • Obituary - Robert R. "Buzz" Harris

    Updated Feb 9, 2015

    Robert R. “Buzz” Harris, 65, passed away on Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, at Billings Clinic. Arrangements are pending. Memorial Services will be held later in the spring. Service and cremation arrangements are under the care of Creel Funeral Home in Lewistown, Montana. A full obituary will follow Tuesday....

  • HHS boys clip Class B Fairfield at home

    Chris Peterson|Updated Feb 9, 2015

    One thing you can say about Havre High boys basketball team is that it plays exciting games, as the Blue Ponies continued a recent trend with two games that went down to the wire this weekend. The first game took place on Friday, when the Ponies hosted Fairfield of Class B in a non-conference tilt that went down to the final minute before HHS pulled out a 54-49 victory. Then, on Saturday, Havre paid a visit to Central A rival Lewistown. Yet, this time, the Ponies fell short...

  • Northern sweeps Orediggers

    George Ferguson|Updated Feb 9, 2015

    The Montana State University-Northern men’s and women’s basketball teams needed to find a way to win a big road game Saturday night in Butte. The Skylights needed a win to keep the momentum they built Thursday night at Lewis-Clark State going, while the Lights, they just needed to win. And both did just that, as Northern swept the Montana Tech Orediggers. The men’s game was an emotional roller coaster for the Lights, who were coming off a thumping at the hands of LC State...

  • Road To Billings: Ponies own the Central A mats

    Chris Peterson|Updated Feb 9, 2015

    The wrestling meet the Havre Blue Ponies have been waiting for, the All-Class state meet, is finally the last one remaining on their schedule after they dominated the Central A divisional meet Saturday in Livingston. And thanks to the wrestling clinic the Ponies put on in Livingston, they will send 16 individuals to state this weekend in Billings. In fact, every Havre wrestler that competed at divisionals qualified for state with no HHS wrestler finishing worse than third...

  • Pony girls split with a pair of Eagles

    George Ferguson|Updated Feb 9, 2015

    FAIRFIELD — Havre High head girls basketball coach Dustin Kraske prophetically stated that the Fairfield Eagles don’t know what it’s like to lose heading into Friday night’s showdown between the Class A and B defending state champions. And while the Blue Ponies, who came into the game at the Fairfield Gymnasium, on an eight-game winning streak, nearly showed the Eagles what it was like to lose for the first time in five years, getting close wasn’t quite enough. The Ponies watc...

  • Rough weekend for the Nationals

    Chris Peterson|Updated Feb 9, 2015

    After three straight victories, the Glacier Nationals came back to earth this weekend as they were shutout on consecutive nights by the Great Falls Americans and Helena Bighorns. The Nationals opened their weekend on Friday when they hosted the Americans, a team they had just defeated less a week before, and in a game that was never really close, they were defeated 7-0. Wade Wiley and Blake Miller each scored to put the Americans up 2-0 at the end of the first period. Great Fa...