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Hill County Superintendent of Public Schools Diane McLean has filed to run for county commissioner. McLean, who is running as a Republican, submitted her paperwork to the County Clerk and Recorder's Office Wednesday. She will be vying for the District 2 seat on the commission now held by Jeff LaVoi, who is retiring. Ted Solomon, a rancher and businessman from South Havre, announced last he would make a bid for that same seat last week. McLean said she had been "toying with the...
The Havre High boys basketball team overcame a 14-4 first-quarter deficit to beat Hamilton 58-49 in the first round of the Class A state tournament Thursday afternoon in Missoula. The win pushed Havre into Friday's semifinal where it will face Billings Central for a berth in the state tournament. Dane Warp scored 33 points for the Ponies, while fellow senior Jerod Boles add 17 and four 3-pointers. Havre faces the Ram Friday at 6:30 p.m., with the winner meeting either Hardin...
Republican candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen was in Havre Wednesday night for a campaign fundraiser. The event, hosted by the Hill County Republicans, took place in the TownHouse Inn of Havre. where local activists, school board members and other residents gathered to hear Arntzen speak about her experience and articulate her vision for Montana's education system. Arntzen has been a Billings grade school teacher for 23 years and was first...
Twenty-five years ago, there was an opening for an animal control officer in Hill County and Gordon Inabnit needed a job. Inabnit chased his last dog yesterday, the day he celebrated his retirement. Originally from Conrad, Inabnit moved to Havre in 1982. His most unusual catch happened during the beginning of his animal control career. Someone outside the city limits had owned a number of exotic cats - panthers, tigers and African lions - that he began to neglect. Hill County...
Jordan Lee Carlson, born in 1988, will spend the next 50 years of his life in state custody for the deliberate homicide of his then-girlfriend, Dawn Beeman. Carlson was sentenced Feb. 5 to the Department of Public Health and Human Services for “the balance of his natural life,” the sentencing document says. He cannot be considered for parole for 50 years. During the sentence hearing last month, the victim's father read a letter on behalf of the victim's mother, who was not there. The state, represented by Assistant Att...
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When I was a child growing up in Indiana, I loved Christmas for one reason: The mailman delivered the annual box of clothes sent by Aunt Ann, practically new hand-me-downs from cousin Nancie, a year older. Back then my grandma made most of our clothes. Back then, home sewn dresses were not “cool.” I lived for Nancie’s clothes. Attitudes are vastly different today. There is a world of difference between “homemade” and “Hand Crafted.” Each year Grandma sent me off to school wit...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a trespass report after a caller from Assinniboine Avenue reported the trespass at 10:59 a.m. Wednesday. —— Kristopher Ray Probert, 28, of Havre was arrested on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia after officers were called to assist probation and parole at a 2nd Street Northeast address Wednesday at 11:33 a.m. —— Matthew Isaiah Baer, 31, of Havre was arrested on a charge of criminal contempt Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. at the police station. —— Sheldon Joseph Flying, 46,...
When the 2016 Class A state boys basketball tournament kicks off today in Missoula, the excitement will be palpable. The eight teams in the field, six of which made it to the state tourney a year ago, are playing in famed Dahlberg Arena, the home of the University of Montana Grizzlies. And if that wasn’t enough, one of those eight squads will be crowned state champion when the tournament concludes Saturday night. Here’s a rundown of each team in the Class A state tournament, w...
Dane Warp, Jerod Boles and Nate Rismon have all had great careers as Blue Pony basketball players. The only thing they haven’t done, is win a state championship. And with three more wins this week at the Class A state tournament, the three seniors can end their careers on the highest note possible. “We have just always complimented each other well,” Boles said. “Dane was always the scorer and Nate was always the great defensive player and I was always just kind of whateve...
The Class C state boys basketball tournament is one of the biggest sporting events in Montana each year. Even though it brings together eight of the smallest communities in the state, it’s the best attended tournament each spring. And the 2016 state tournament, set for today, Friday and Saturday at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls should be no different. With local powers Box Elder and Belt in attendance, as well as an exciting Arlee team, and a few others who h...
The Montana State University-Northern Skylights are always one of the best defensive teams in the NAIA, at least, in head coach Chris Mouat’s tenure. And when they needed it the most, the Skylights once again led on that defensive effort. Northern used a smothering defensive effort, and a 14-3 fourth-quarter run to hold off a huge change from the Rocky Mountain College Battlin’ Bears in the first round of the Frontier Conference Playoffs Wednesday night at the Armory Gym...
An NAIA wrestling season is close to seven months long. But it really comes down to the next two days in Topeka, Kansas. For the third-ranked Montana State University-Northern Lights, who have had an incredible season, which included a 10-2 dual record and a West Region championship, it’s indeed all about the next two days at the NAIA national tournament which runs Friday and Saturday inside the Kansas Expocentre Northern comes into the tournament with 10 wrestlers in the f...
May 1 is the deadline for couples who have turned 66 by Dec. 31, 2015, to exercise an option called “file and suspend.” Also, couples, when one is 66 and the other is at least 62 as of Dec. 31, 2016, are eligible to file and suspend. New legislation will bring that strategy to an end on May 1. Many people have been exercising this strategy with their prospect of living longer. The strategy works like this: The one with the most Social Security files at full retirement age — FRA. The one with less Social Security files a res...
