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Richard Elijah (Chase) Grandbois, Wus-Da-Wan, "Bobtail Bear," passed on to the other side to join his Lord and savior and relations suddenly at 25 years old on May 30, 2014, in Tucson, Arizona. He was born on Aug. 26, 1988, to Cheryl Ann Cheryl (Gros Ventre/Mandan) and Raymond Grandbois (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) in Tucson, Arizona. Richard was an enrolled Mandan member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold, ND. He was intelligent, devoted to his Catholic religion, tenacious in his interests, had a wry wit and...
Kenneth Vincent Alexander, 68, died Tuesday, June 3, 2014, at his home in Box Elder of natural causes. His wake service began at 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 4, at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church with his Traditional Native American Funeral 11 a.m. Friday, June 5. His burial will follow at the Rocky Boy Veterans Cemetery. Services and arrangements have been entrusted to Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. You may sign Kenneth’s online guest book and share memories at www.hollandbonine.com. Kenneth was born June 3, 1946, in Rocky Boy to...
State Rep. Kris Hansen, R-Havre, withstood a challenge Tuesday in her bid to move to the state Senate, and now advances to the general election. Hansen defeated Chester farmer Carl Mattson 1,744 to 927, with more than 65 percent of the vote. She now faces Sen. Greg Jergeson, D-Havre, in the Nov. 4 general election for Senate District 14 that runs from the Canadian border in Liberty and western Hill counties, including Havre, through Chouteau County to just outside of Great Fal...
Terri Healy Frey believes that education is essential for young people. Her three children all graduated from Montana State University-Northern. Most of her relatives also have Northern diplomas. In her job as the Native American adviser at Havre Middle School, she always encouraged students to get good grades so they could go to college. Then, she said, she felt she should follow her own advice. She enjoyed her time as a certified nursing assistant at Northern Montana Care Center and decided a nursing career was good for...
The Board of Directors for the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line performed a ceremonial groundbreaking to celebrate the start of construction for the new addition to their building. The 4,000 square-foot addition will contain a multi-purpose room and kitchen. Currently, the club is cooking meals on hot plates and George Foreman grills. When they are cooking for children, they could be cooking 180 dinners a night. The board has not reached its goal of $1.8 million just yet, but...
Burl Miner, 79, retired general manager of Hill County Electric, Triangle Telephone and Central Montana Communications, passed away on May 29, 2014, at a Glendale, Arizona, hospital after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. Burl was a self-made, admirable and very accomplished man, who modestly insisted we not tell his life story, but only speak of his love of family in his obituary. He wrote so many heart-felt expressions in his last hours, most of them telling how...
Richard Elijah (Chase) Grandbois, 25, died. Wake and rosary will be Thursday, June 5, 7 p.m., at St. Paul’s Mission Rec Center in Hays. Funeral Mass is Friday, June 6, at 10 a.m., at St. Paul’s Mission, Hays. Richard is the son of Raymond Grandbois of Turtle Mountain, North Dakota, and the late Cheryl Chase of Tuscon, Ariz....
Incumbent Blaine County Commissioner Dolores Plumage handily kept her seat Tuesday, defeating Carlotta Benson in the Democratic primary with more than 83 percent of the vote, 178 to 36. Plumage is uncontested in the general election. She was uncontested in both the primary and general election in 2008. Plumage won the seat in 2002 after a federal judge ruled Blaine County’s at-large voting system violated the rights of Native Americans and ordered that only voters from the commissioner’s district could vote in the ele...
Havre voters in November will elect a three-member commission to review the way the city government operates. Voters approved creation of the commission in Tuesday's primary election. According to the Montana constitution, voters every decade get the opportunity to decide if they want to review the form of government. While Havre voters narrowly approved the proposal to form a review commission, voters in Hingham, Hill, Blaine, Chouteau and Liberties counties and the cities of Harlem and Chinook all narrowly voted against...
In her win in Tuesday’s primary, Hill County Treasurer and Assessor Sandy Brown added an exclamation point to her victory four years ago. Tuesday, Brown defeated her previous boss, former Hill County Treasurer and Assessor Carrie Dickson, with more than 77 percent of the vote, 834 to 245. In 2010, Brown defeated Dickson 1,414 to 935, slightly more than 60 percent of the vote. No Republican filed this year, making the primary win a win for the office for Brown. In 2010, Republican Bill Gupton withdrew from the race to take a...
Kris Hansen, who is now the Republican candidate for Senate District 14 facing Greg Jergeson in the general election for state Senate, was waiting in anticipation at the Duck Inn's Vineyard Room Tuesday night for voters' ballots to be counted. "I feel like I have worked pretty hard on this one," Hansen said before the results began coming in. "I'm hopeful that the effort I put in is going to come to fruition in the next couple of hours." Hansen said her opponent, Carl Mattson, ran a clean campaign and she was pleased by it....
Rep. Roy Hollandsworth, R-Brady, withstood a challenge Tuesday from a Hingham farmer and aviator in his bid to remain in the state House of Representatives. Hollandsworth defeated Darrold Hutchinson 1,230 to 714. He now faces Democratic Chester farmer Rob Laas in the general election Nov. 4. Laas, who was unopposed in the primary, received 508 votes. Hollandsworth is running for his fourth term but in a new district. Redistricting shifted his area to include Hill County, which previously had been in other districts, in House...
Blue Pony Football Camp Havre High head football coach Jason Christenson is offering three different Blue Pony football camps this summer. The High School Camp, open to grades 9-12 will run from June 23-27 at a cost of $55. The Middle School Camp, open to grades 6-8 at a cost of $45, will run June 23-26 and the Lil’ Blue Pony Camp, open to grades 3-5 at a cost of $35, will run June 23-25. Registration forms can be picked up at, and need to be returned to, Havre High School. For more information, contact Christenson at 2...
The Montana State University-Northern volleyball team is just two months away from the start of a brand new season. But head coach Bill Huebsch is still hard at work on the recruiting trail. Huebsch recently announced the signing of 6-0 middle Mikayla Virostek to an NAIA national letter of intent. Virostek is the fifth MSU-N recruit in the 2014 recruiting class. Virostek comes to Northern from Enchant, Alberta. She attended Vauxhall High School while playing three years of...
The school year ended Tuesday, and with it, another sports season at Havre High also came to an end. In the race for the Great Falls Tribune All Sports trophy, Havre High finished with 46 total points and three Class A state placings. Havre finished in 13th place overall and was fifth among Class A schools. Bozeman High won the trophy with six different Class AA state championships and a total of 128 points. Points are awarded to the top four teams in each class in their...
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The entire Havre North Stars American Legion baseball roster got an at-bat Tuesday night, and it was a complete team effort that resulted in the come-from-behind victory. Tuesday at Legion Field in Havre, the North Stars played one seven-inning game against the Great Falls Outlaws Senior Babe Ruth squad. The Outlaws jumped out to a dominating lead, but it was the North Stars who came away with the impressive 9-8 win at home. Havre remains 2-2 in the North, but improved to 4-5...
