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  • Hays woman dies in crash near Lodge Pole

    Updated Aug 20, 2015

    Staff and wire report Zanetta Rochelle Lester, 22, of Hays died in a rollover crash early Tuesday morning near Lodge Pole. The Montana Highway Patrol said Lester was westbound on BIA Route 11 at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday when her sport utility vehicle went off the right side of the road. She overcorrected twice and the SUV went into a ditch, rolling at least four times. Lester was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene....

  • Quik Pic: Marching for Havre High

    Updated Aug 20, 2015

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  • Blue Ponies paint the H

    Updated Aug 20, 2015

    Havre High School's football team spent a part of Wednesday repainting the big H that adorns Blue Pony Stadium. Coach Mark Samson led the team in the effort. He hopes that each year the Blue Ponies will be involved in some kind of team-buildings event that will improve school facilities. After they finished their work, the team was treated to a lunch served by team members' mothers. The Blue Ponies open their fall season Saturday, Aug. 29, against Whitefish...

  • Havre airport opens back up for business

    John Paul Schmidt|Updated Aug 20, 2015

    One runway at the Havre City-County Airport is back open and Cape Air will be continuing its regular schedule. Saturday, after being closed for 21 days, Cape Air will resume flights. Terry Knowlton, the airport manager, said both runways should be open Sept. 11, tentatively. “Things went really well,” Knowlton said Wednesday about the construction. “We got really good weather. They’re out there painting lines now.” One runway was totally milled out and asphalt was relaid. Funds were from a city-county match and the federal g...

  • Havre man sentenced to 5 years in car shooting

    Updated Aug 20, 2015

    Doug Hopf was sentenced this week on charges of assault with a weapon, criminal endangerment and tampering with witnesses or informants — all felonies — to five years in prison. Hopf, born in 1968, was arrested after officers responded to a call in November about a man who was accusing another of trying to kill someone. Nov. 29, Hopf shot a firearm at a vehicle which one man occupied. Earlier that night, Hopf went to a bar with the girlfriend of the man he shot at and they returned to his residence afterward. The man who was...

  • Pachyderm Club brings property tax official to Havre

    Updated Aug 20, 2015

    The North Central Pachyderm Club announced that the speaker for its meeting Friday, Aug. 21, is Jason Boggess, the Northern Montana regional manager for the Montana Department of Revenue. Boggess will discuss the six-year reappraisal process for property taxes and the plan to go to the two-year reappraisal. He will answer any questions concerning these processes for any local citizens. There will be a no-host buffet luncheon at noon in the Duck Inn Vinyard Room. The public is invited to attend. The North Central Pachyderm...

  • For the Record, Aug. 20, 2015

    Updated Aug 20, 2015

    Havre Police Department An officer initiated an investigation into suspicious activity in the old IGA parking lot Wednesday at 6:42 a.m. Rochelle Lynn Jones, 27 of Hayes was subsequently arrested on a Justice or City court warrant for failure to comply. —— Officers received a call at 2:25 p.m. Wednesday that a gold S10 ’90s Chevy was passing people in the turn lanes and going all over the road. Ryan Gallagher, 33, of Great Falls was issued a summons for careless driving. —— Officers responded to a domestic disturban...

  • Obituary - Delores Strissel Anderson

    Updated Aug 20, 2015

    Delores Anderson, 79, died of natural causes on Aug. 3, 2015, at a Yuma, Arizona, hospital. She was born Delores May Genger on Jan. 23, 1936, in Great Falls to Dora Thorn and Wilbur Genger. Delores grew up and received her formal education at Box Elder. After her graduation from Box Elder High School in 1955, she continued her schooling at Northern Montana Hospital in Havre, where she earned an L.P.N. certificate. Delores married William A. Slocum in 1956. She worked as a...

  • Obituary - Ronald E. Wilson

    Updated Aug 20, 2015

    LEWISVILLE, Texas - Ronald Wilson, 78, passed away on Aug. 9, 2015, at a hospital in North Dallas. A private family memorial gathering will take place this week in Lewisville, Texas. Ronald was born the first child of Helen and Gerald Wilson of Harlem on Oct. 29, 1936. Except for two years in Tacoma, Washington, during World War II, and a couple years in Turner, Montana, during high school, he lived in Harlem with his family and graduated from Harlem High School in 1953. After...

  • Correction: Jury clears St. Marks of fraud allegations

    Updated Aug 20, 2015

    A front-page article in Tuesday’s edition of the Havre Daily News titled “Jury clears St. Marks of fraud allegations” misreported the name of the law firm representing the Chippewa Cree Tribe in the reported court proceeding. The tribe was represented by Pepper Hamilton....

  • 2015 MSU-N football preview: Lights geared up for a fresh start this fall

    George Ferguson|Updated Aug 20, 2015

    Starting over, starting something new, even something unfamiliar, it’s not easy on anyone. It’s especially not easy for a college football program. And, under first-year head coach Aaron Christensen, that’s exactly what the Montana State University-Northern Lights have been doing the last several months. Christensen was hired as Northern’s third official head coach since the football program was re-instated nearly two decades ago. He replaces Mark Samson, who guided the Lig...

  • Talented Skylights ready to roll

    George Ferguson|Updated Aug 20, 2015

    In the world of sports, a short-term memory is a good thing. It’s always best to leave the past in the past. And that’s exactly what the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team is setting out to do this season. In 2014, the Skylights started the season one year removed from one of the best season’s in school history, falling just short of winning a Frontier Conference championship. However, with the loss of five quality seniors from that 2013 squad, the Skylights cou...