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  • Missing persons alert

    Updated Jun 5, 2015

    Missoula Police Department is requesting a Missing Endangered Person Advisory for Callen Cassidy-Robinson, a 6-year-old boy, and Sula Cassidy-Robinson, a 1 year old girl. The children are believed to be in danger and were taken by their non-custodial mother Heather Lynn Cassidy. She is a white female, 6 foot, 140 poundss with red hair and hazel eyes. They were last seen in Twin Falls, Idaho on May 3, 2 and were seen in a silver 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser bearing Montana license plate BFC602. For more information, view poster...

  • Englehardt, Holt sentenced on meth charges

    Tim Leeds|Updated Jun 5, 2015

    Two Havre men were sentenced in federal court in Missoula to prison terms on methamphetamine charges alleging they helped run a distribution ring running from California through Ravalli County and to the HI-Line.. Judges sentenced Nicholas Clinton Holt and Kelly James “Jim” Englehardt in separate cases on related charges. Holt pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring with Englehardt and Bruce Anthony Glass of Victor and Matthew Lennon Kehs to sell meth including in the Havre area. Federal Judge Dana Christensen sentenced Hol...

  • Correction - Elder abuse trial

    Updated Jun 4, 2015

    A front-page story in Wednesday’s edition of the Havre Daily News misreported that Ryan Mickelson was representing Bonnie Killebrew in the elder abuse trial of Trina Frickel in state District Court in Havre. Mickelson is a deputy Hill County Attorney and was representing the state, which prosecuted Frickel....

  • Book details Gildford's 1960 basketball championship

    John Kelleher|Updated Jun 4, 2015

    Frank Spragg was never much of a basketball player when he played at Belgrade High School, but like most Montanans, he developed a lifelong affection of the sport. Spragg was good at writing, though, and enjoyed it very much. He had done some writing for pleasure. Spragg became fascinated with the life of Jim Owens, a Wibaux player he competed against and found out that he went on to coach Holy Rosary High School in Bozeman to the state Class C championship in 1961. A friend s...

  • Frickel found not guilty of elder abuse

    John Paul Schmidt|Updated Jun 4, 2015

    A jury found Trina Frickel, who was accused of elder abuse, not guilty after less than two hours of deliberation at the end of a two-day trial in state District Court in Montana. The state charged Frickel with allegedly misappropriating funds from the 88-year-old’s account for her own use. After two days of jury selection and testimony, the jury retired to deliberate at 4:14 Wednesday afternoon. The jury informed the court at 5:59 p.m. it had reached its verdict. Killebrew said the joint bank account she set up so Frickel cou...

  • Living History events abound this Saturday

    Pam Burke|Updated Jun 4, 2015

    While the common thread among historical attractions everywhere is to teach people about history, Havre's Living History Da,y Saturday, provides the opportunity to experience the area's history come to life as well. Living History brings together efforts at several of the area's historical sites and annual events that welcome people to take part in activities, demonstrations and re-enactments that bring the area history back to life. Fort Assinniboine During this weekend...

  • Railroad museum remodeling complete

    John Kelleher|Updated Jun 4, 2015

    Volunteers have redesigned the men's and women's rooms at the Frank DeRosa Railroad Museum in downtown Havre to look like the old-fashioned depot rest rooms. The work was done with the help of members of the International Association of Fire Fighters and representatives of Schine Electric and Bear Paw Lumber. The museum bought a plaque that will be hung on the wall near the rest rooms....

  • Aaniiih Nakoda College DeMaND program honors CDL grads

    Updated Jun 4, 2015

    Aaniih Nakoda College Rebecca Bishop-Goss The graduation ceremony for the 5th Session of the Aaniiih Nakoda College Developing Montana and North Dakota Workforce - DeMaND - Project Commercial Driver's License Training was held May 20 in the Returning Buffalo building. Ten students completed their CDL training, and passed the state of Montana CDL testing. Two more students will complete their testing in mid-June. The CDL students and their family and friends were invited to...

  • Looking out my back door: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night

    Sondra Ashton|Updated Jun 4, 2015

    Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds reads an inscription on the James Farley Post Office in New York City, the unofficial postal creed. Maybe the creed also applies to the UPS. Although it makes no mention of tornado, hurricane, earthquake, tsunami or flash flood or volcano, I believe both delivery services strive to do a decent job. Through my own stupidity, I got tangled in a Brown Truck...

  • For the Record, June 5, 2015

    Updated Jun 4, 2015

    Havre Police Department Officers investigated a suspicious activity call from 5th Avenue. The caller reported Wednesday at 7:13 a.m. finding her car door open and someone’s cellphone sitting on the seat. Thomas Lovell, 40, of Great Falls was issued a summons for theft of labor or services after a caller at a 1st Street hotel reported Wednesday at 9:43 a.m. that a customer left without paying. Hill County Sheriff’s Office Deputies assisted another agency in response to a 1:39 p.m. Wednesday call about a disturbance on Amt...

  • Obituary - Art Otto

    Updated Jun 4, 2015

    Art Otto loved Montana, and Montana loved him. He grew up at 1514 1st St. in a home built by his dad, the late William H. Otto (2012) and Muriel Otto (2014), and lived with his sister, Patty (1970), his sister, Barbara (Phoenix, Arizona), and his brother, Bill (Omaha, Nebraska). Art was a faithful son and cared for both his father and mother as they aged. He made trips to Havre from Kalispell on a monthly and sometimes weekly basis to mow lawns, hold hands, play his trumpet or read his Bible to his mother, who, for a time,...

  • Obituary - Muriel Otto

    Updated Jun 4, 2015

    Muriel Otto, wife of the late William Otto (2012), died nine days before her son, Arthur Edward, on Dec. 15, 2014, in a Kalispell, Montana, care center. She was 94 years old and had lived most of her life in Havre. She was born and grew up on her parents’ farm near Plentywood, Montana, until she graduated as valedictorian from her Westby, Montana, High School class of 1939. She travelled to Havre to attend Northern Montana College, where, two weeks before her graduation, she was offered a full-time position as a secretary for...

  • Black Powder spring shoot held for 36th year

    Updated Jun 4, 2015

    Press release Eighty-nine shooters participated in the 36th annual Bullhook Bottoms Black Powder Club Spring Shoot held May 23-25 at historic Fort Assinniboine south of Havre. The weather cooperated and was beautiful for three days giving excellent shooting conditions with some wind at times and temperatures in the high 70's. Cameron Griggs, Havre, captured the overall aggregate trophy with a score of 185 in five matches including 25-yard offhand, 50-yard offhand, 100-yard off...

  • BULLHOOK BOTTOMS BLACK POWDER CLUB 36TH ANNUAL SPRING SHOOT RESULTS

    Updated Jun 4, 2015

    8 - 89 shooters 25 Yd Offhand Cartridge, Men 1st: Dick Hanson, Havre 44 2nd: Ty Williams, Havre 44 3rd: Alan Dees, Havre 43x 25 Yd Offhand Cartridge, Women 1st: Kathy Lynch, Havre 42 2nd: Tina Bender, Great Falls 30x 3rd: Linda Herzog, Great Falls 29 25 Yd Offhand Cartridge, Juniors 1st: Noah Molitor, Havre 45 2nd: Leyton Shennum, Havre 44x 3rd: Nick Molitor, Havre 44 25 Yd Pistol 1st: Scott Somerville, Sweetgrass 90xx 2nd: Kelly Buxbaum, Savage 90 3rd: Dick Hanson, Havre...

  • Obituary - Barry William Shelden

    Updated Jun 4, 2015

    Barry William Shelden was born in Glasgow, Montana, on March 24, 1956, to Percy and Alice (Beck) Shelden. He was the youngest of six siblings, with four sisters and a brother. The family moved to Havre in 1962 where he graduated from Havre High School in 1974. Barry married his high school sweetheart, Shelley Helmbrecht, in 1976. The couple had resided in Hingham since 1987. They had three children, Haylie, Dustin and Nicholas, and two grandsons, Mason and Brock. His...

  • Locals play in Six-Man All-Star game

    George Ferguson|Updated Jun 4, 2015

    The second of four big all-star football games this summer is set to kick off. Saturday night in Custer, the annual Six-Man All-Star game will be held and three local standouts will be taking part. Playing for the Red Team, which is composed of players from the Six-Man North and West Divisions, will be North Star's Jaxon Simonson and Thatcher Smith, as well as Big Sandy's Kyle Strutz. All three players earned Northern Division Six-Man All-Conference honors this past season, wh...

  • North Stars host Havre Jamboree

    Chris Peterson|Updated Jun 4, 2015

    School is out, the weather is heating up and that means baseball is about to start in earnest for the boys of summer. The Havre North Stars of the American Legion baseball league, have played just six games so far this season but are ready to ramp up their schedule, starting with three games this week. Havre, which is taking part in the North Star Jamboree, will open its busy weekend Friday against the Lethbridge Giants at 6 p.m. Saturday, the North Stars will face the...

  • United battle in close games on the pitch

    Chris Peterson|Updated Jun 4, 2015

    The Hi-Line United soccer teams were busy again this past weekend as both the U-19 and U-14 teams hit the road for a pair of games on Saturday. The U19 team was in Helena and took on a select squad from Missoula that defeated the United by a score of 8-1 with the lone goal coming from Clifford Lenhardt. Then, in their second game of the day, the United took on Butte and had a much more respectable outcome, losing 2-1. Trey Scofield, who has been on a scoring spree of late,...