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Hill County Attorney Jessica Cole-Hodgkinson took over her new duties Nov. 25, and she says the word busy is inadequate when it comes to describing her workload during the last three months. "To say that we are busy is like saying the Titanic sprang a bit of a leak," she said Friday. Before she came onboard, two deputy attorneys left for other law jobs in August under former County Attorney Gina Dahl. Since then, one replacement was hired in October, but the other position...
Press release Local residents have a chance to talk to their state lawmakers face-to-face this week. Bear Paw Development Corp. and the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce have partnered to sponsor a meeting with area legislators during this week’s transmittal break of the Montana Legislature. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday at 6 p.m. in Bear Paw Development’s Large Conference Room on the second floor of the Ryan Building, located at 48 Second Avenue in downtown Havre. “During this mid-session break from all the work in Hele...
HELENA (AP) — The Montana House has passed a bill to change the rules on charter schools for the state. The House approved the measure 55-44 Monday. It now goes to the Senate for consideration. The bill by Democratic Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy of Box Elder would allow a school district to request a charter school if 20 percent of voters there petition for one. Windy Boy and Republican Reps. Jim O’Hara of Fort Benton and Casey Knudsen of Malta voted for the bill. Rep. Jacob Bachmeier D-Havre voted against it. The schools wou...
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and its partners will host a workshop March 8 at the Northern Agricultural Research Center to help landowners figure out what to do with their expiring Conservation Reserve Program acres. Farm Service Agency Hill County Office Executive Director Les Rispens said Friday about 6,000 CRP acres in Hill County are expiring this year. Residents in neighboring counties have more acres expiring than Hill County residents, he added. During the workshop, discussions will center on the...
Northern reschedules bingo to make room for basketball Havre Daily News staff Due to the Montana State University-Northern Lights men’s basketball team playing host to Rocky Mountain College in the quarterfinals of the Frontier Conference playoffs, Northern is rescheduling its monthly bingo night for March. Northern will hold its community bingo Wednesday, March 8, from 5 to 7 p.m. For $5, people can play bingo in the university Student Union Building Ballroom. The bingo night normally is held the first Wednesday of each m...
This week marks the halfway point of the 90-day legislative session and the beginning of a weeklong break, called transmittal. On Friday, Feb. 21, the Senate cleared all bills presented for consideration. The Montana House agreed to let the Senate release early to transmittal. With the House in session, days are still counted as “in session” until next Wednesday, when the House is released for transmittal. There have been just over 1000 bills introduced during this session, which is actually below average. The budget sho...
Jess L. “Tab” Angstman III, passed away Monday, Feb. 27, 2017. Services will be held at a later date. Please visit Tab’s online memorial page at www.hollandbonine.com to leave a message of condolence for the family. A full obituary will follow....
William H. “Bill” Baltrusch, 87, passed due to natural causes at his residence Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017. Visitation will be held from noon to 1 p.m. and funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Friday, March 3, 2017, at the Havre Assembly of God Church with Pastor Curt Curtis. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit Bill’s online memorial page and leave a message of condolence for his family at www.hollandbonine.com....
Thomas Nelson, 40, passed away Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. No services are planned. Please visit Thomas’ online memorial page at www.hollandbonine.com to leave a message of condolence for the family....
MALTA — Jessie M. Crowder, 25, a cook and desk clerk, died Feb. 24, 2017, in an automobile accident at Malta. The family will receive friends from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, March 3, 2017, at the Kirkwood Funeral Home with sharing of Jessie stories around 5 p.m.. Memorial services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, March 4, at the Kirkwood Memorial Chapel. Interment of her cremated remains will be at a later date in the Malta Cemetery. Condolences for the family may be left at kirkwoodfuneralhome.com....
Marvin Turner, 64, passed away Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. Services will be held at a later date. Please visit Marvin’s online memorial page at www.hollandbonine.com to leave a message of condolence for the family. A full obituary will follow....
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a sex offense crime after a report was made Monday at 9:09 a.m. at the police department. —— Officers investigated after a Third Street caller reported Monday at 12:04 p.m. that a vehicle had backed into their vehicle. —— Jessica Rae Alcorn of Box Elder, 40, was issued a summons on charges of driving with a suspended or revoked driver’s license and careless driving after a 13th Street West caller reported Monday at 12:12 p.m. that their car was hit by another car. —— Office...
Frank Runs Above, HLP Boys Basketball It was a magical Saturday night for all of the HLP Thunderbirds as they captured the Northern C title. But it was a huge two days for senior Frank Runs Above. In the championship game, Runs Above notched a key 16 points, helping HLP win their first title in 10 years. But one night earlier, he scored 29 points as the T-Birds held off 9C rival Chinook in the Northern C semifinals in Great Falls. Runs Above was also a football standout for...
Due to a lack of active roster players, the Glacier Nationals of the North American Tier 3 Hockey League forfeited two games that they had been scheduled to play this past weekend against the Yellowstone Quake. The Nationals have been battling both injuries and illness, which played a role in the forfeiture. Glacier had been scheduled to play two games in the Havre Ice Dome against the Yellowstone Quake last Friday and Saturday, yet ended not playing either game. In the most...
The high school basketball postseason is only two weeks old. In other words, there’s still two weeks to go. But whatever happens from here, just look at what area teams have accomplished. Rewind one week, and it was a spectacular weekend of 9C basketball at the Havre High gymnasium. There, we got to see Box Elder/Hays-Lodge Pole part three, we got to see the sheer dominance of the Box Elder girls, and a great run by the North Star girls. Not far down the road, on that same w...
There’s no question the Rocky Boy Morning Stars showed they were good enough this season to be playing at the Class B state tournament in Billings in two weeks. Unfortunately, they just could not sink the basket that would have sent them there. Rocky Boy lost a heartbreaking two-point game to Wolf Point in Saturday’s Northern B girls consolation game, 49-47 in Glasgow. A win would have sent the Morning Stars to their first Class B state tourney, but they just couldn’t get o...
And just like that, the Frontier Conference’ regular season is over. Saturday night was the finishing touch on an incredibly competitive and sometimes wild Frontier season. But the end also brings a new beginning, and when the Frontier Playoffs tip tonight, with the women going first, things will just start to get interesting an entertaining. On the women’s side, Lewis-Clark State ran away with the Frontier regular season crown, finishing with just one loss on the season. The...
HHS Spring Sports Parent Meeting Havre High will be holding its spring sports parent meeting for softball, track and tennis on Monday night at 7 p.m. All three sports will hold individual meetings at Havre High School. Parents of student-athletes planning to participate in a spring sport should attend. Students are also reminded that they must have a sports physical completed before they can participate. Havre High tennis sign-up day The Havre High tennis team will hold its player and sign-up meeting on Tuesday, March 7,...
Two games is all that stood between the Havre Ice Hawks high school hockey team, and their 2017 state tournament. And the Ice Hawks got a much-needed split in those games. Havre was inside the Havre Ice Dome Saturday for a pair of games against the Glasgow Ice Dawgs, and while Havre dropped the morning affair, the Ice Hawks stormed back to win the rematch. In the second outing, Havre peppered the Ice Dawgs with 49 shots in a thrilling 4-3 win. Ethan Roberts netted a hat trick...
