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  • Presenters discuss state workforce shortage

    Paul Dragu|Updated Sep 30, 2016

    Employer-training professionals put on a two-part presentation Wednesday in the Montana Room of the Havre Inn and Suites, where the focus was on employers creating a work environment that keeps employees. The unemployment rate in Montana is below the national average, 4.3 percent, and projected to drop even more in the coming years. Vision West co-owner and training and development coordinator Mark Willmarth and Meagan Lannan administrator specialist at Job Service in...

  • Lt. Gov. Cooney in Havre

    Alex Ross|Updated Sep 29, 2016

    Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney met with city officials to discuss local infrastructure needs and get a glimpse of work being done on Bullhook drainage on Second Street during a visit to Havre Wednesday. "We knew there were some real specific infrastructure issues happening in Havre, and I wanted to take a look and meet with folks in the city," Cooney said after touring the construction site where box culverts are being installed in Bullhook, the drainage ditch which runs beneath the...

  • Northern Alumni Auction set for Saturday

    Tim Leeds|Updated Sep 29, 2016

    A scholarship fundraiser for Montana State University-Northern described as an easy-going, fun time is again going on in Havre, including its legendary Chinese auction. MSU-Northern Alumni Foundation Executive Director Jim Bennett said the foundation’s Northern Alumni Auction will start at 6 p.m. Saturday in the Ballroom of the university’s Student Union Building. “It’s a great event, and it’s a fun way to support the students at Northern,” Bennett said. “I encourange everyone, if you’ve never been, to check it out, and if...

  • Rocky Boy up to $1.6 million in DOJ grants

    Tim Leeds|Updated Sep 29, 2016

    A grant-writing firm announced this week that the federal government has awarded Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation more cash to help with law enforcement, courts and services for victims Jim Swan, CEO of RJS and Associates, said grants announced Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation are in addition to a $480,233 grant announced earlier, bringing the total to more than $1.5 million. Ken St. Marks, chair of the Chippewa Cree Business Committee, the top governing body at Rocky Boy...

  • CASA state office closes, local chapter mostly unaffected

    Paul Dragu|Updated Sep 29, 2016

    For more than 10 years, the Court Appointed Special Advocates office in Helena helped recruit, train and coordinate the volunteers who advocate for abused and neglected children, but now that office will be closing down though the effects are expected to be minimal, representatives say. The board of directors for CASA, which is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, voted to close the office due to lack of money. Executive Director of CASA of Hill County Mark Douglass said the closing of the Helena office will have a minimal...

  • MAT slates auditions Friday for 'Haymarket Eight'

    Tim Leeds|Updated Sep 29, 2016

    The local acting troupe is moving on with a new season, holding auditions Friday for a different kind of theater. Montana Actors’ Theatre founder and Artistic Director Jay Pyette said the two-day production of “Haymarket Eight” by Derek Goldman and Jessica Thebus will be Reader’s Theatre. “Reader’s Theatre is a staged dramatic reading of a compelling script,” he said. “MAT actors will take you on an intriguing journey simply with the spoken word, a few minor costume pieces, and some sound effects.” The poster for the au...

  • Agenda: Hill County Park Board

    Updated Sep 29, 2016

    Hill County Park Board’s monthly meeting will be in the Timmons Room, Hill County Courthouse, Monday at 5:30 p.m. 1. Approval of minutes: 2. Approval of agenda: 3. Guests and public comments on agenda items only 4. Cabin business: #10 Shambo Loop 5. Old business: Lodge Repairs discussion: Feasibility Study update FEMA close-out update Stream Health Discussion update Committee structure – Finance Committee Re-assessing park Fees Park apparel at Farmstock/Festival Days/Friends Gala 6. New business: Ty Hedalen, MAT Str...

  • For the Record - September 29, 2016

    Updated Sep 29, 2016

    Havre Police Department Officers investigated a report of vandalism called in from 11 Street West Wednesday at 10:28 a.m. —— Alexander Dennis Eakins of Havre, 27, was arrested on charges of unlawful restraint, possession of dangerous drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia, disorderly conduct and revocation of suspended or deferred sentence after a Second Street caller reported a domestic disturbance Wednesday at 11:31 a.m. —— Kathy Casares of Havre, 58, was issued a summons on a charge of obscene phone call after someone rep...

  • Obituary: Mary Elizabeth Kaluza Thronson

    Updated Sep 29, 2016

    Mary Elizabeth Kaluza Thronson, 98, passed away on Sunday, September 25, 2016 at her home in Great Falls. Funeral liturgy will take place at 10:30 a.m. at Holy Spirit Catholic Church Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, with a reception immediately following. Interment will take place at 2:30 p.m. at the Calvary Cemetery in Havre, Montana. Arrangements are in the care of O'Connor Funeral Home. Mary E. Thronson was born Sept. 1, 1918, to Frank and Mary Gaida Kaluza in Savoy, Montana. She... Full story

  • Letter to the Editor: Vote yes on I-182

    Updated Sep 29, 2016

    Editor, My name is Jerrica Friedt, and I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when I was 17 years old. Now I am 26 and a mother of two, and I rely on medical cannabis to alleviate my symptoms and to help me make it through each day with this debilitating illness. My 2007 diagnosis marked the beginning of a long battle with prescription drugs and treatments that disagreed with my body and left me in serious pain. Daily injections of Copaxone resulted in a severe allergic reaction, then daily injections of Betaseron left me...

  • Letter to the Editor: Vote for new tribal council at Rocky Boy

    Updated Sep 29, 2016

    Editor, I would hope that the people vote wisely for once in their lives and vote for those who are not currently in office. I also hope they do not vote for anyone else who was in the Rocky Boy tribal council previously. We do not need the same old replay of the past which nearly destroyed this reservation. I have decided not to run this time around and not because I didn’t have the money to file but because someone must do what I do. When I find that someone who will replace me on the outside, looking in, then I will c...

  • Letter to the Editor: What to look for in a candidate

    Updated Sep 29, 2016

    Editor As A. Martin wrote, “If we would know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women are in it, their influence embrues the whole of life.” When voting, I look for sanity, sound thinking, sincerity, and political experience. Frank McLain Havre...

  • Guest Column: Closure of CASA Montana state office will not effect local services to children

    Mark Douglass, Hill County CASA executive director|Updated Sep 29, 2016

    After more than a decade supporting local CASA programs and volunteer advocates with supplemental training, outreach, and statewide coordination, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Montana’s state office will discontinue operation October 31, 2016. The CASA of Montana state office added value to the efforts of Montana’s local CASA programs, whose role has always been – and remains – to recruit, train, and coordinate the volunteer advocates who directly serve our endangered children in court. Although the state o...

  • Frontier Notebook: A week of rest for Lights, Frontier

    George Ferguson|Updated Sep 29, 2016

    Most of the Frontier Conference will get a well-deserved rest this week. But one team that will be back in action is the team nobody probably wants to play right now, including its opponent, the College of Idaho Yotes. After losing their first two games, and losing their starting quarterback to an injury, it would have seemed like the Southern Oregon Raiders might be in for their first down season since joining the Frontier five years ago. But in the immortal words of Lee...

  • Skylights hit the road

    George Ferguson|Updated Sep 29, 2016

    Life on the road has been tough on the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team. But, the Skylights have two chances this weekend to turn that trend around. Northern (2-2, 3-9) faces its only back-to-back road trip of the season this weekend, starting with a match at Montana Tech tonight in Butte. MSU-N wraps up the trip with a visit to Lewis-Clark State Saturday afternoon. And the Skylights, who are perfect 2-0 at home and are right in the middle of the pack in the...

  • Blue Pony Naomi Terry inks with Skylight basketball

    George Ferguson|Updated Sep 29, 2016

    Another Havre Blue Pony has decided to stay home. This time, it’s Blue Pony senior standout Naomi Terry, who will continue her basketball career by playing for the Montana State University-Northern Skylights starting next fall. Northern head coach Chris Mouat announced the signing of Terry, a 5-5 Blue Pony guard, Wednesday afternoon. “Naomi is an outstanding competitor,” Mouat said. “She plays with a ton of passion and is pretty fearless. I really like her toughness, especia...

  • Big matches ahead for Blue Pony spikers

    Chris Peterson|Updated Sep 29, 2016

    The Havre High volleyball team has been working on improving over the past few weeks and while the Blue Ponies have gotten some good results against Class B opponents, the real test starts with matches against CMR and Lewistown this week. The Ponies, who just played their first home match of the season last Saturday, will be back in the HHS gymnasium tonight, as they host their Class AA rivals. The match will start at approximately 7. “I think that we are getting better,” HHS...

  • Ponies tee it up on the big stage

    George Ferguson|Updated Sep 29, 2016

    For high school golfers around the state, this weekend is the culmination of hard work, dedication and a lot of swings. And that’s very true for eight Havre Blue Ponies. On Friday and Saturday, the Blue Ponies will tee it up at the 2016 Class A state tournament, which will be held at Hamilton Golf Club, and while neither the HHS girls or boys are likely going to be in contention for a team state championship, veteran head coach Brett Gilman said both teams can have a great f...

  • Quick Pic: Bagging the big one

    Updated Sep 29, 2016

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  • Prep Football, Volleyball, College Standings

    Updated Sep 29, 2016

    Prep Football Standings Central A Conf. Overall Havre 1-0 4-1 Lewistown 1-0 3-1 Belgrade 0-0 2-2 Browning 0-1 0-5 Livingston 0-1 0-5 Eastern A Conf. Overall Sidney 1-0 4-1 Billings Central 1-0 3-1 Laurel 1-0 3-1 Miles City 0-1 2-3 Hardin 0-1 2-3 Glendive 0-1 1-3 Northwest A Conf. Overall Polson 1-0 3-1 Columbia Falls 0-0 4-0 Whitefish 0-0 2-3 Frenchtown 0-1 1-4 Southwest A Conf. Overall Dillon 1-0 4-0 Butte Central 1-0 3-2 Hamilton 1-1 2-3 Stevensville 0-1 2-3 Corvallis 0-1 2-3 1B Conf. Overall Fairfield 1-0 4-0 Shelby 1-0...