News you can use
News you can use
Sorted by date Results 1 - 9 of 9
Fairgoers ride the Star Trooper of Brown’s Amusements, the carnival at the 2013 Great Northern Fair. While the numbers are not final, and don’t appear to be record-setting, the manager of the Great Northern Fairgrounds said the attendance seemed to be decent this year. Tim Solomon said he hopes to have more numbers on attendance gathered by the end of the day. The carnival apparently had decent attendance, as did most events in the evening entertainment, Solomon said, wit... Full story
The tournament schedule continued this week at Prairie Farms Golf Course, as the annual Havre Public Schools Foundation Blue Pony Scramble was held Sunday. The event didn’t draw as many teams as in different years, but as a head coach in the Blue Pony system, I’d personally like to thank everyone who did come out for the 18-hole, four-person scramble. To those of us in the Blue Pony family, the support means a great deal. The team of Kyle Sheppard, Kirk Miller, Katie Wir... Full story
Another Havre youth baseball season has come to an end this summer, but the Havre 15-year-old Babe Ruth All Stars didn’t go quietly. Over the weekend, the Babe Ruth ball players went 4-2 at the state tournament in Whitefish. And after losing the opening game, it may have been one of the more memorable youth baseball runs Havre has seen in some time. With the four wins, Havre ended the season as the third-best team in its state division They first suffered a 10-4 loss to H... Full story
MISSOULA (AP) — The lightning-strike victims lay inert on a Glacier National Park trail late last Wednesday afternoon. "I was a little freaked out," Steven Keith recounted Monday of the scene on St. Mary Falls Trail. "I've never seen a dead body myself, other than in a casket." But while a woman he knows only as Beth began administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation to Travis Heitman of Kalispell, Keith mustered up recollections of his last CPR brush-up a couple of years ago and went to work on Kensey Leishman, a Missoula n... Full story
A project several years in the making has come through for North Havre residents, with the state fully funding a project to upgrade the sewer system in the unincorporated community. “It’s very good news for the users of that system, for a lot of different reasons,” Bear Paw Development Corp. executive director Paul Tuss said this morning. “But primarily it’s good news because it’s 100 percent grant funded.” Bear Paw has been working on a project to replace exposed sewer force mains that run under the Milk River en route to t... Full story
GREAT FALLS (AP) — The Cascade County health department and the owners of several casinos in Great Falls are in a battle over a workaround the casino owners believe allows their customers to gamble while smoking. Brothers Doug and K.C. Palagi and their attorney and business partner Gregory Smith filed a lawsuit against the Cascade City-County Board of Health after they were threatened with a misdemeanor citation alleging their smoking shelters violated Montana's Clean Indoor Air Act, the Great Falls Tribune reported Sunday. T... Full story
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a report made at 3:33 p.m. Monday of homeless people camping out behind residences off Montana Avenue. ——— Monday at 4:01 p.m. officers investigated a report of a vandalized vehicle on 17th Street West. ——— Officers investigated a report made Monday at 4:17 p.m. of a forged check used at a 3rd Avenue business. ——— After receiving a complaint at 4;33 p.m. Monday of ongoing thefts from a 1st Street West business, officers investigated the issue. ——— A caller at a 1st Street busines... Full story
For the second time in a week, Border Patrol agents again assisted in rescuing some lost rafters. The assistance to the Glacier County Sheriff’s Office illustrates a main topic at a Senate field hearing in Havre July 12: the need for and increasing occurrence of agencies working together. Border Patrol agents from Shelby used a thermal imaging device to locate three rafters lost on Cut Bank Creek July 17. Last Saturday at 1 a.m., Glacier County law enforcement again requested assistance locating three lost rafters, Border P... Full story
Everett G. Topham, 85, of Havre passed away Sunday, July 21, 2013, at his residence of natural causes. Visitation will be held from 4 to 7 p.m., Thursday, July 25, 2013, at Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, July 26, 2013, at Van Orsdel United Methodist Church. Interment will be at a later date in Arlington Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, with full military honors. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements.... Full story