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Ken Blatt St. Marks, chair of the Chippewa Cree Business Committee, won't call a committee meeting for this morning. Committee members ordered St. Marks to convene the session so they could decide whether or not to remove him from office. St. Marks said Rocky Boy police delivered a letter to him last week signed by five people listed as tribal council members. But St. Marks, in a letter delivered to the members over the weekend, said only three of those who signed are validly elected board members. The others are holdover...
See today’s sports sections for coverage of the Central A and Northern C tournaments....
Numerous winter weather advisories are in effect across the state, and Hill County may experience some of the effects of these warnings. To the south, Cascade and Chouteau counties are both experiencing winter weather advisories. Toole County is under one as well, while Phillips to the east has a wind chill advisory. Liberty, Hill and Blaine counties are clear of advisories; however, Havre is slated for an 80 percent chance of snow today, a 30 percent chance of blowing snow tonight and a 20 percent chance of snow Tuesday. As...
Paranormal researcher and psychic medium Chris Moon led ghost investigations on the campus of Montana State University-Northern Thursday night during the "Moon Family Psychic Experience." Moon's mother, Paulette, who is also a psychic, did tarot card readings at the event as well. Moon said he had his first paranormal experience at the age of 7. "I woke up in the middle of the night, and there was an apparition of a little boy standing at the end of my bed who didn't speak,"...
Press release The Hi-Line Regional Science Fair will be held at Montana State University-Northern’s Student Union Building Tuesday, March 10. Students in grades 5-12 from Culbertson to Chester to Turner will attend to compete for awards, prizes and recognition. This fair has been held on the campus for 24 years. Approximately 150 students will be interviewed by judges several times throughout the day, starting at 9 a.m. The morning session of judging ends at about 12:30 p.m. with the afternoon judging beginning at 1:30 p.m. T...
Press release ST. PAUL, MINN. — A north-central Montana resident has received a special “thank you” for his contributions to the community. The Rev. Peter Guthneck of Big Sandy, Mont., was selected to receive free fuel from Tanks of Thanks®, a program that rewards people who do good deeds to help make their communities just a little bit better. The Tanks of Thanks program from CHS and Cenex retailers encourages people to nominate friends, family and neighbors for free fuel as a way to say thank you for doing good in the co...
Editor: This is the written testimony I submitted to the Montana House on House Bill 477: As a taxpayer and citizen of the state of Montana, I see HB 477 as an attempt by the government, to take away a freedom that I believe the Supreme Court of the state of Montana, has basically reaffirmed through the Baxter decision. We call ourselves the land of the free. We recruit, train and pay young men and women to defend that freedom both here and abroad. We are free to choose where we want to live, to choose friends, to choose a...
Editor: On the heels of the big Oscar win for the film “Still Alice,” many of us are asking ourselves “Am I at risk for Alzheimer’s?” The answer is, if you have a brain, you are at risk. Alzheimer’s disease is a global epidemic. Worldwide, at least 44 million people are living with the disease. Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. It kills more Americans than diabetes, and more than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s d...
Editor: Every sportsman should be aware of Senate Bill 247. It deals with the closure of one of our hunting seasons in Montana, specifically the closure of all sage grouse hunting in the state. It is an attack on hunting plain and simple. Anti-hunters applaud the bill. It takes the process of season setting away from our Fish, Wildlife and Parks and puts it into the hands of politicians. Our sage grouse are managed under a plan that took years to develop. It is called the Adaptive Management System. In Montana, sage grouse...
Editor: I would like to thank Rep. Stephanie Hess of Havre for sponsoring one of the bills I brought forward in this legislative session. House Bill 75 creates a sexual assault prosecution unit within my office’s Prosecution Services Bureau. Sexual assault is a particularly heinous and prevalent crime that impacts for too many in our state and nation. One in four college women report surviving rape or attempted rape at some point in their lifetime. Twenty-five percent of women and 16 percent of men report having been s...
Here is a modest proposal: The Montana Legislature ought to give itself a raise. Legislators earn an average of about $10 an hour. Even though they enjoy some good health benefits with the pay, it‘s almost to the point that if Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy’s proposal to hike the minimum wage to $10 had been approved, it would have affected the lawmakers who voted on it. We’re not proposing that our lawmakers should be paid the obscene amounts that other state dole out to their lawmakers. We are proud that we have a citizen legis...
Laura M. Palm, 104, a retired school teacher, died peacefully at the Sweet Nursing Home in Chinook on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. Her funeral is today at 1:30 p.m. at Chinook Presbyterian Church with burial in the Kuper Memorial Cemetery. A reception at the Senior Citizens Center will follow. Arrangements have been made with Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook. Condolences may be left for the family at http://www.edwardsfuneralhomemt.com. Born Sept. 14, 1910, in Chinook, Laura grew up...
Sue Rawlings Hotzel, 79, passed away on Feb. 23, 2015. She was born on Dec. 20, 1935, on the bank of the Kootenai River in a cabin near Libby, Montana, to Carl Denzil and Margaret Grant Hunter Rawlings. After graduating from Libby High School, she attended college in Havre, Montana, where she met and married Arthur Dolman. She lived in various states on the East coast, Ohio and Texas before moving back to Havre with her husband and three children. After her divorce, she married William Hotzel and welcomed his three children...
Ora Beverly Gist, 80, passed Feb. 27, 2015, in Chinook. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday, at the Edwards Funeral Home in Chinook. Arrangements have been made with Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook. Condolences may be left for the family at http://www.edwardsfuneralhomemt.com....
March Madness is officially here. And while the last two weeks of the high school basketball season will surely be a part of that madness, boy oh boy, did February go out with a bang. First, there was the District 9C tournament in Havre. And while that was exciting, there’s no way anyone could have predicted what we’d see when the action shifted to Great Falls for both the Central A and Northern C divisional basketball tournaments. In fact, there was so much drama packed int...
GREAT FALLS — The Box Elder Bears are definitely one of the best teams in Class C boys basketball. But despite four straight wins to close out the Northern C tournament, the Bears will not be going to Billings to defend their state title. After an opening-round loss to Highwood, the Bears rallied to get third place but were unable to challenge after Highwood lost to Belt in the championship game Saturday night to finish second. Just before the championship game at the Four S...
GREAT FALLS — Finishing in third place at the District 9C tournament wasn’t what the Chinook girls basketball team had in mind when the Sugarbeeters set their postseason goals. And that finish last week in Havre was certainly going to make the Beeters’ goal of reaching the Class C state tournament much more daunting. But after six games in three days at the Northern C Divisional in Great Falls, the Beeters nearly made that goal a reality. After losing to Belt in the Northern C...
After an up and down season, following their move to Havre, the Glacier Nationals ended their season against two of the toughest teams in the Frontier Division and came up short to close their 2014-15 campaign. The Nationals opened the final weekend of their season in Great Falls Friday, where they were defeated by the Americans 5-1. Then, Saturday, Glacier played host to the Billings Bulls and lost by the narrowest of margins, 4-3 inside the Havre Ice Dome. Against the...
At the end of January, the Montana State University-Northern women’s basketball team walked out of the McLaughlin Center having suffered their worst loss of the season at the hands of the Great Falls Argos. Fast forward one month to Saturday night, inside an emotionally charged, sold-out Armory Gymnasium, and the Skylights got their payback. On senior night at MSU-N Saturday night, No. 10 Northern belted the No. 24 Argos 75-60 in a game that was never as close as the final sco...
The Montana State University-Northern Lights didn't know it at the time. But a three-point comeback, and a 16-9 run in overtime against arch rival University of Great Falls Argos saved their season. On senior night, Saturday night at the Armory Gymnasium, the Lights forced their way into this week's Frontier Conference playoffs with a 62-55 win over the arch rival Argos. Had MSU-N lost the game, the Lights would have been on the outside looking in at the six-team playoff,...
GREAT FALLS - The Havre High boys basketball team didn't win the final Central A divisional championship, but in spite of that, they still ended up giving the Blue Pony faithful a night to remember That's because the Ponies' 75-70 loss to Belgrade Saturday night in Great Falls at the CMR Fieldhouse will be remembered not for the loss, but by the incredible performance of Havre's Dane Warp, which helped force two overtimes before the Panthers finally prevailed. Warp, a...
The Havre Blue Ponies are so close to reaching the Class A state boys basketball tournament they can taste it. And now, all they have to do to get there is win one more game. The Ponies (13-7) will take on the Livingston Rangers (10-11) in a challenge game for second place in the Central A divisional and a berth in the state tournament on the line. The two teams will go head-to-head tonight at 8 inside the CMR Fieldhouse. Havre defeated Livingston twice this season once in...
GREAT FALLS — If anyone should be disappointed that the Central A divisional will no longer exist after this season, it’s the Havre girls basketball team. Because after all, the Blue Ponies have owned the tournament for the last four years and have done so by winning four consecutive championships. The fourth of those titles came this past weekend, when the Ponies conquered Livingston and Lewistown on back-to-back nights inside the CMR Fieldhouse, to wrap up a fourth consecuti...
