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Plain Green, the online Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation-based high-interest loan company, has suffered a legal setback in U.S. District Court in Northern Illinois, the Chicago area. A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that a company trying to collect on a loan made by Plain Green does not have authority to enforce a loan agreement with a Chicago-area man because the deal was made under tribal law. This is one case of several working their way through the court systems concerning high-interest loans based on tribal lands. W...
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The jobless rate in Montana went up slightly during July, but Gov. Steve Bullock said Montana still leads the nation in the improved economy. The unemployment rate increased from 3.9 percent to 4.0 percent. The national average has been about 5.3 percent over the past year. The unemployment picture across the Hi-Line has shown improvement over the last year, according to figures provided by the Montana Labor Department. “With strong job growth and more people on the job than ever before, Montana’s economy continues to lea...
Antelope Court, a multi-family handicapped-accessible housing complex to be located on Havre’s south side, may come a step closer to becoming a reality this week. Karen Thomas, executive director of District 4 Human Resources Development Council, the group behind the project, told the Havre Daily News the application for the final grant is being vetted by the Montana Department of Commerce. HRDC should know if is eligible for the housing grant by the end of this coming week. Paul Tuss, executive director of Bear Paw D...
Standing before 400 cheering students and their families in the Montana State University-Northern gymnasium Friday, Chancellor Greg Kegel accepted a $250,000 check. The money came from CHS Foundation and will go toward the campus' new Automotive-Diesel Technology Building. Foundation executive director William Nelson handed an oversized check to the chancellor at the ceremonies. CHS Foundation is the charitable arm of CHS Inc, an agribusiness cooperative owned by farmers...
Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament was on hand with city officials and a good-sized crowd Friday for a noon ribbon-cutting to mark the grand opening of a new section of Havre's skate park. The ceremony took place at the skate park, located at 9th Street and 9th Avenue, with young bike riders and skateboarders speeding about. Ament, a Big Sandy native and skateboarding enthusiast, provided the $50,000 to cover the cost of constructing a skatable pool, a concrete bowl about...
The Havre woman whose roof was mistakenly torn off by a contractor pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge that she violated an order of protection. Krissa Kirby of Havre denied the allegation that she was illegally in contact with Julie Ridgeway, owner of Ridgeway Construction Co. She entered the plea to the misdemeanor charge through her attorney, William Cameron of Helena, in Havre City Court. Another hearing into whether Judge Virginia Siegel should extend the order of protection was called off after Ridgeway exercised her...
From Angi Gabrielsen When Dani Alex announced in June 2015 her retirement from teaching dance after almost 50 years, her dancers and their families were left devastated and scrambling for what to do next. Many of her dancers were not interested in any other sport or dancing for any other teacher. The loss of Dani's Northstar Dance studio affected approximately 80 students and their families. "What a shame," I thought. "Someone should do something." I could not bear the idea...
Havre Police Department Officers issued a summons on a charge of vicious dog to Anthony Thomas Filler, 25, of Havre after a U.S. Postal Service representativee called the department at 10:53 a.m. Friday to report a dog bit a postal carrier in the face. —— Officers investigated a report made at 2:13 p.m. Friday at the police department that somene threatened an employee of the complainant Thursday. —— Ordell James Denny, 18, of Box Elder was arrested for shoplifting following a call at 2:53 p.m. Friday from a 1st street...
My name is Claire B. Zion, I was born in Great Falls, Montana, on Nov. 5, 1920, and I passed away Aug. 21, at 1:30 a.m., at Peace Hospice in the presence of my beloved daughters. My mother and father, Clara (Woodward) and John Bohling, homesteaded north of Dutton, and I am thankful to have the farmland I inherited from them to this day. I met the love of my life, Forrest "Scotty" Zion of Choteau at an air show. He was so handsome and the dearest man in the world. We married...
Blue-White day is a yearly tradition for the Havre High football and volleyball teams, and after each team debuted in front of the hometown fans on Saturday, optimism reigns. Both Blue-White scrimmages were made more significant by the fact that the Mark Samson and Tamecia Jarvis were making their debuts as the respective head coaches of the Blue Pony football and volleyball teams. Samson, who has three Class AA state titles on his resume, has been working hard with his...
The Montana State University-Northern Lights had high hopes, and were hoping to shine bright under the lights of Dickinson, North Dakota, for their season-opening game. Instead, things turned stormy for the Lights, just as the weather did Saturday night inside the Besiot Activities Center. Northern, which had won its two previous games against Dickinson State, was stymied on offense, and a couple of special team’s miscues helped lead the Blue Hawks to a 17-7 win. However, t...
Montana State University-Northern is not at all unfamiliar territory for Greg Kegel, but the position he found himself in around this time a year ago certainly was. Kegel arrived at MSU-Northern in 1982, teaching industrial technology and draft design, where he became a known advocate for increasing opportunities and programs for students in high-tech fields. In 2001, he became a dean at the college, but it wasn’t until late last August that he was thrust into the spotlight when he was appointed interim chancellor. The c...
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