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  • Blue Cross Blue Shield presents $50,000 grant to Rocky Boy Schools

    Updated Aug 18, 2017

    by Tim Leeds Representatives of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana surprised Rocky Boy Schools Superintendent Voyd St. Pierre and members of the schools' faculty and staff when they showed up during staff orientation day with a Healthy Kids, Healthy Families $50,000 check. Blue Cross Blue Shield Public Relations Coordinator Randi Heigh told St. Pierre and the faculty and staff that the grant application covered all five pillars of the program - nutrition, physical activity,...

  • Hi-Line Living - Giving and Growing: Bob Doney

    Paul Dragu|Updated Aug 18, 2017

    It took four years of tilling the ground before Bob Doney had a plot that could produce, he said. Once that plot off Bullhook Drive was fertile, Doney was off and growing and hasn't looked back since. Every year for the last decade, Doney has not only grown more food than he and his wife could eat, but he has given most of it - three-quarters of it - away to the Havre Food Bank. Giving, Doney, said, is something he picked up from his parents - much like growing food. Doney cre...

  • Quick Pics: Lego Time at the library

    Updated Aug 18, 2017

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  • LaFond State Farm in second year of school supply drive

    Paul Dragu|Updated Aug 18, 2017

    Although the originator of last year’s back-to-school supply drive moved on, the employees of Tom LaFond State Farm are aiming to continue the annual supply drive. Office Manager Angela Twombly said last year was such a success that the office employees would love to be able to help area students in the same capacity this year. Students at all three public Havre elementary schools, along with those at St. Jude Thaddeus School as well as some Havre Middle School students, received necessary supplies last year. In addition t...

  • BNSF presents Havre with heritage award

    Tim Leeds|Updated Aug 18, 2017

    Local officials and residents were féted Thursday by BNSF Railway as the company presented Havre with an award recognizing its extensive history and connection with the railroad. Ross Lane of Billings, BNSF regional director of public affairs, said the railroad started recognizing communities with deep ties to the company a few years ago while he presented an award to Havre Mayor Tim Solomon and a check to Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line Board Chair Susan Somers. "We...

  • Celebrating History: War news and crop reports

    Updated Aug 18, 2017

    By Emily Mayer Apparently, people were taking it easy either attending the Chautauqua or trying to escape the heat by going to the mountains 100 years ago. As with both last week and this week, there isn’t much news in The Havre Plaindealer. In war news, those who were ranching sheep were encouraged not to slaughter them, but to keep them for breeding purposes; motorists were warned to save gasoline (rationing, anyone? It wasn’t just World War II); and the Army was assuring draftees that they would be placed where their skill...

  • Local News - HHS Class of '67 reunion coming up

    Updated Aug 18, 2017

    The Havre High and Havre Central Class of 1967 50th Reunion will be held Sept. 1-3. Register online at Havre Public Schools Education Foundation website at http://www.hpseducationfoundation.com, go to: What’s Happening - Reunions. Fees will be collected at the door....

  • Looking out my Backdoor: Felled by A blackberry bramble

    Sondra Ashton|Updated Aug 18, 2017

    I certainly never expected to spend an afternoon in the emergency room of the local hospital on my holiday with my son and granddaughter. Just an innocent scratch, I tried to tell myself. Lexi and I, along with Deckard the Dog, had walked the newly-hacked trail to the “Fort” in the woods, constructed by Lexi’s grandpa and father. If you’ve never been around wild blackberries, you need to know, the vines are indestructible. Left to grow uninhibited, blackberry brambles will ev...

  • View from the North 40: When the going gets tough, get wordy

    Pam Burke|Updated Aug 18, 2017

    This has been a tough week, so to get through it I thought long and hard about what the people I know and respect do to cope with adversity: They play to their strengths — meditation, prayer, binge eating. So I turned to the only thing I have going for me, writing. Sometimes you need that knife’s-edge state of mind to cut out that which is troubling you. Specifically, the so-called alt-right rally of white nationalists, white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan members in Cha...

  • Correction - Spangelo obituary

    Updated Aug 18, 2017

    Incorrect information about the time of the memorial service for James W. Spangelo was submitted for an obituary that ran on Page A5 in Thursday’s edition of the Havre Daily News. The service is Saturday at First Lutheran Church in Havre at 11 a.m....

  • Correction - Fire kills Ohio woman

    Updated Aug 18, 2017

    In the front-page story “Vehicle-ignited fire kills Ohio woman” in Thursday’s edition of the Havre Daily News, the vehicle that was engulfed by the fire was a small cross-over SUV....

  • For the Record, Aug. 18, 2017

    Updated Aug 18, 2017

    Havre Police Department Officers investigated after someone near the Skate Park reported Thursday at 8:45 a.m. that someone found a box of ammo. —— Officers investigated a car that had a temporary and an expired license plate Thursday at 11:57 a.m. on First Street West. —— Officers investigated a Ninth Avenue call Thursday at 12:10 p.m. about a car that had been backed into sometime in the previous two days. —— Officersinvestigated a Thursday 12:54 p.m. report at the police station about a shoplifter. —— Terry Lee Peter...

  • Agenda - Havre City Council

    Updated Aug 18, 2017

    Havre City Council will meet Monday, Aug. 21, at 7 p.m. in Havre City Hall. The meeting agenda is: Call to order Pledge of Allegiance Roll call Minutes Committee reports Public comment on agenda items 1 through 8. For items not on this agenda, public comment will be taken at the end of the agenda. Comments here are limited to one minute. Regular agenda — 1. Ordinance No. 900 – (Second Reading) An Ordinance Amending Title 6, Chapter 2, Section 5, Animal Running At Large. 2. Ordinance No. 901 – (Second Reading) An Ordin...

  • Obituary - Daniel "Danny" LaMere

    Updated Aug 18, 2017

    Daniel “Danny” LaMere passed away Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. A wake was held starting at 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, and services were held today, Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, at 10 a.m., all at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Rocky Boy with burial to follow at Rocky Boy Cemetery. Please visit Danny’s online memorial page and leave a message of condolence for his family at http://www.hollandbonine.com Daniel Gabe LaMere was born March 23, 1956, in Great Falls to William and Vir...

  • From the courts: District Court

    Paul Dragu|Updated Aug 18, 2017

    A Havre man was sentenced Monday in District Court in Havre to probation for pointing a pistol at a man and for having drugs without a prescription. Eric William Brewer, born in 1993, received a three-year deferred imposition of sentence for felony assault with a weapon and a two-year deferred imposition of sentence for felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs. The sentence was part of a plea deal that dismissed a misdemeanor charge of carrying a concealed weapon offense, and if Brewer abides by the conditions of his...

  • Quick Pics: Four generations of Bouchers

    Updated Aug 18, 2017

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  • Senior Center News, Aug. 18, 2017

    Updated Aug 18, 2017

    North Central Senior Citizens Center, Aug. 21-25 Monday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; bingo at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m; TOPS at 8 a.m.; cards at 1 p.m.; mall or Walmart shopping from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; cards at 1 p.m. Friday — Medical transportation will be available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. but people must make a request at least 24 hours in advance. Pinochle — First place, Marge Matzk...

  • Out Our Way: Goliath's Covenant Trail: The big lie

    Updated Aug 18, 2017

    Out our way, it was once understood that our word was our bond. Yet there have always been those who, as they said in the movies, “speak with forked tongue.” Liars and cheats have always been a problem and so it’s not surprising God condemns it. This is especially true when it comes to public trust — for those who lie in public are considered especially wicked. In the ancient world before the days of CSI and FBI labs, evidence was mainly eyewitness accounts. It took two witnesses, whose testimony agreed with each other,...

  • Hello God. It's me, Mara

    Updated Aug 18, 2017

    You know, Lord, this happened long ago, but it’s still fun to remember it was a lovely season way back then, perfect for picking berries. Oh yes, mosquitoes were humming, trying to find skin. The sun played peek-a-boo with the fluffy clouds as the clouds slowly sailed on by. And oh, that gentle summer breeze was welcome. How fun to pick plump, juicy berries near the tops of the bushes; it’s much easier on a person’s back. Near the season’s end, berries aren’t plentiful but there were enough for sampling as the bucket bottom w...

  • Blue and White Time: Havre High volleyball, football teams on display Saturday

    Chris Peterson|Updated Aug 18, 2017

    It's been a long wait for Havre High sports fans, but this weekend, it's finally over as football and volleyball are both set to return to the stage with their annual Blue-White scrimmages. The Blue Pony golf teams were already in action earlier this week, but the first glimpse of the HHS football team will come Saturday, with the Blue-White game starting at 5:30 p.m. The Pony volleyball team will also hit the floor for the first time, in a scrimmage of their own, which starts...

  • PONIES ON THE PRAIRIE

    George Ferguson|Updated Aug 18, 2017

    The Havre Invitational golf tournament is steadily becoming one of the best events on the Class A golf scene. And the 2017 version, played Thursday, was certainly proof of that. The Havre Blue Ponies hosted a strong field of teams, including Laurel and Billings Central, two Eastern A powers, as well as Central A rivals Browning and Lewistown on a sun-drenched and windless day at Prairie Farms Golf Course. Junior varsity squads from Class AA Great Falls High and CMR were also i...