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The First Baptist Church is holding a spaghetti dinner fundraiser Thursday with proceeds benefiting The Salvation Army’s RISP program to assist people with needs. The dinner runs from 5 to 7 p.m. at the church, 625 Fourth Ave. in Havre. The dinner will feature spaghetti, garlic bread, a veggie platter, a beverage and dessert with “fantastic fellowship at a low, low price,” a flyer says....
Havre Daily News staff A new sign shows people coming into Havre the proud record of Havre High School activities. A sign created by Beaver Creek Designs lists all of the state championsips Havre High School teams have earned going back to the 1921 Havre High School state football championship -an championship before the term Blue Ponies was coined for the 1926 state championship Havre football team. Shawn Holden, owner of Holden's Hot Wheels and Beaver Creek Designs, said he...
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, Associated Press HELENA — Montana legislators turned their focus Tuesday on allowing school employees to carry concealed weapons on campuses and allowing lawmakers to arm themselves when conducting business at the state Capitol. Legislators said both measures were meant to defend against active shooters. On a 53-47 vote, the Republican-controlled House voted to advance a bill that would allow legislators to carry concealed weapons on state property, including the Capitol. Earlier in the day, the H...
No local state lawmakers showed up for their weekly legislative videoconference Tuesday, with several of them saying they had committee meetings or other engagements at that time. Lawmakers did not say before the videoconference that they would not be attending the weekly videoconference that for the first time this year was hosted in Conference Room 1 at Northern Montana Hospital. Several local officials and residents were at the hospital for the videoconference. Earlier...
The chairman of the Hill County Park Board has called a special meeting Feb. 22 to begin discussion and approval of the recommended lease requirements for Beaver Creek Park’s cabin lease sites, inviting the public to attend and comment at the meeting. The meeting is set for 5:30 p.m. in the Timmons Room on the bottom floor of the Hill County Courthouse. The park board intends to update the cabin lease. The board’s Rules and Regulations Committee worked on an updated version of the lease and will present their suggestions and...
Havre Public Schools will be buying two new school buses for $105,800 each to replace two old route buses with high mileage. The motion to make the purchase was approved Tuesday night during the Havre Public School Board of Trustees meeting, during which Director of Operations Jim Donovan said the district will also get $1,500 apiece for the two old ones. Donovan said the new buses are “pretty straight forward” flat nose Bluebird buses. The new buses may be purchased as early as next week, and Donovan said he expects the bus...
After several months of reaching out and gauging the interest of area businesses, Triangle Communications will soon provide phone and fiber-optic internet service in an area within Havre city limits. Triangle Communications CEO Craig Gates said Tuesday the company will offer phone, internet and some network maintenance services to business networks and residents in the area from Fleet Wholesale Supply on the western edge of Havre to the viaduct on Seventh Avenue and south to... Full story
Press release GREAT FALLS — The Montana Grain Growers Association and the Montana Grains Foundation will each offer scholarships to be used for the 2017-2018 school year. MGGA will award two $1,000 scholarships to students pursuing an agricultural related degree at the college of their choice. Applicants or their parent, grandparent, or legal guardian must be a current producer member of MGGA. MGF will award two $2,500 scholarships to Montana State University juniors or seniors, and two $2,500 scholarships, one of which is f...
Press release Bread is an integral part of most diets, and the Montana Seed Show Bread Contest offers bakers the opportunity to enter their favorites in the various categories. The Bread Show contest will be held Friday, March 10, in the Harlem High School big gym with entry time between 8 and 9:30 a.m. The categories for both adult and youth — high school seniors and younger — are regular white bread, 100 percent whole wheat bread, machine white bread and machine 50 percent combination whole wheat bread. All four cat...
Press release “Through with Chew Week” is observed in Montana Feb. 20-26 this year. Bullhook Dental Clinic is partnering with North Montana Tobacco-Free Coalition to provide free oral cancer screenings to spit tobacco users during this week. For appointments or more information, people can call 395-4305. Health professionals also may recommend people use the Montana Quit Line to help them stop their tobacco habit. The Quit Line can help people pick a quit date that is best for them and will provide them with clinical cou...
The congressional death in 1945 and the appointment of a federal judgeship appointment in 1969 triggered two Montana special congressional elections like the one we’ll have in 2017 once Rep. Ryan Zinke is sworn in as Interior Secretary. On Jan. 15, 1945, beginning his fifth term, Montana Congressman James F. O’Connor of Livingston, 66, passed away in Washington, D.C. O’Connor had been a Montana District Judge, served one term in the Montana Legislature, and unsuccessfully tried three times in Democratic primaries to get t...
Press release A new grief recovery group with a spiritual emphasis called GriefShare is being formed and will begin to meet Thursdays beginning Feb. 23 and continuing for 13 weeks. The GriefShare group will meet weekly to help those in need face challenges and move toward rebuilding their lives. “It may be hard for some to feel optimistic about the future right now. If someone has lost a spouse, child, family member, or friend, they probably have found there are not many people who understand the deep hurt they feel,” a rel...
Havre Police Department Robert Alexander McConnell of Havre, 36, was arrested on a violations of conditions release charge related to a 24/7 Sobriety Program violation Tuesday at 8:01 a.m. at the police department. —— Officers investigated a suspicious activity report after a Havre High School employee made a report Tuesday at 10 a.m. —— Officers investigated a burglary report after a Fourth Avenue caller reported Tuesday at 11:02 a.m. that their house was broken into again, and four guns are missing. —— Officers investigate...
Woman sentenced for having meth and pipes A Box Elder woman received three years probation Monday in District Court in Havre after being caught with methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia while trespassing. Brittany L. Henderson, born in 1995, received a three-year deferred imposition of sentence for felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs, a sentence in accordance with a plea deal that dismissed an additional misdemeanor charge. If Henderson abides by the conditions of the sentence, she can have the charges erased...
Press release HELENA — The Montana Pulse Advisory Committee will meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, in Great Falls at the Holiday Inn, 1100 Fifth St. S. The Montana Department of Agriculture’s mission is to protect producers and consumers, and to enhance and develop agriculture and allied industries. For more information on the Montana Department of Agriculture, visit agr.mt.gov....
Press release It was 2012, and the Dusenberry family was frustrated. Across their 600-acre farm and livestock operation in the Helena Valley, years of sound stewardship and management practices didn't seem to be making any real difference. " "We were disappointed in the output of our land," Tim Dusenberry said. "We were using more and more fertilizer, the cost was up to 75 to 80 dollars an acre, and the returns were still low. "It was time to look at a new way of doing things,...
Press release From hiring workers, leasing or buying land, implementing food safety measures, negotiating sales, forming an LLC, filing taxes, getting insurance and so on, legal issues work their way into every aspect of the sustainable farm. The Community Food and Agriculture Coalition is partnering with Farm Commons to host Sustainable Farm Law 101 in Missoula to help farmers make sure their businesses are legally secure. This two-day workshop March 10-11 is geared toward direct-to-consumer farmers. It is designed to help...
The Havre City Tournament at Harvest Moon Lanes is over and here are some of the top scores for the tournament. For the team event: Oxford Bar took first, 2,670; Harvest Moon Lanes took second, 2,625. In doubles, Monty Valdez and Steve Newbury took first, 1,328; Brian Adams and Caleb Young took second, 1,365. In singles, Brian Adams took first, 719; Shawn Mariani took second, 7-3. All events, Brian Adams took first, 2,082; Steve Newbury took second, 1,998. Congratsulations to all those placed and thank you from Harvest Moon...
While the District 9C tournament takes center stage this week in Havre, two more local schools are vying for postseason glory as well. Thursday through Saturday the Rocky Boy basketball teams will take part in the District 1B tournament in Cut Bank, while at the same time, Harlem is headed to the District 2B in Malta. For the Wildcats, the formula to make it to divisionals is simple, win and you’re in. The District 2B has just five teams, so a play-in game is used to d...
For teams that don’t win their respective conference championships, the NAIA Men’s and Women’s Coaches Poll are very important. The polls dictate the at-large berths to the NAIA national tourney. And that’s why the Frontier’s presence in the last regular season polls, released Tuesday, are such a big deal. The next poll won’t be released until the day after conference play ends, so, teams that are positioned in the polls right now are in good shape with two weeks to go. That...
Wednesday High School Basketball 9C Girls Box Elder vs Big Sandy, 1 p.m. Chinook vs Turner, 2:30 North Star vs CJI, 6 Ft. Benton vs HLP, 7:30 Thursday High School Basketball 9C Boys HLP vs CJI, 11 a.m. North Star vs Ft. Benton, 12:30 p.m. Chinook vs Big Sandy, 4 p.m. Box Elder vs Turner, 5:30 p.m. 9C Girls L/O 1 8 a.m. L/O 2 9:30 a.m. Semi 1 7 p.m. Semi 2 8:30 p.m. District 1B at Cut Bank District 2B at Malta College Basketball Skylights at UGF, 5:30 p.m. Lights at UGF, 7:30...
