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Other than delivering the Boston Globe door to door each morning before junior high school, the first clock-punching job that I ever had was that of a dishwasher. In 1980 $3.10 per hour was amazing money compared to delivering papers. The work was smelly and strenuous but hey, did I mention the astronomical pay rate? If the number of dinners served were favorable to the owner/chef, he would make me any item from the menu right before we closed the kitchen and finished the cleanup process. It was a great gig. During college,...
The North Central Montana Stockgrowers Association spent some time during its annual meeting to hold a panel discussion about what the American Prairie Foundation is doing. The panel consisted of APF president Sean Gerrity, Manager of Field Operations for APF Bryce Christensen, former Blaine County commissioner and local rancher Art Kleinjan and head of the Montana Community Preservation Alliance Mike Ereaux. Though questions were open to everyone, most were directed to Gerrity about the intentions of foundation. He attempte...
Democratic Party announces change in directors HELENA (AP) — The Montana Democratic Party is getting a new executive director less than two weeks after big election losses to the Republicans. Executive Director David Benson was released last week. The party says Service Employees International Union political director Ted Dick of Helena will replace him. A Democratic party spokesman says the election losses have nothing to do with the change, and says no other moves are planned. Montana Democrats lost many seats in the s...
Vera Mae Leens of Mesa, Ariz., passed away on Nov. 11, 2010, at the age of 90, as a result of congestive heart failure. Vera had lived the majority of her life in Havre, Mont., and since 1975 had made her residence in Mesa. Born on July 4, 1920, Vera was one of seven children. Of her siblings, she is only survived by one sister, Mary Powell of Salt Lake City, Utah. Her husband, Emil Leens, passed away in 1976. She is survived by her three children, Larry Leens of Mantua, N.J., and Allan Leens and Linda Strong, both of Havre,...
Havre City Council will meet a half hour earlier tonight at 6:30 p.m. to hear what the public wants to do with Community Transportation Enhancement Program money. The council opened the discussion last month to allow people to come up with ideas, get estimates for project costs and find ways to pay the 13.84 percent local matching fund required by the state for those funds. The council will hear what people came up with tonight so they can have a proposal sent to the state by the end of the year, with the hope of having a pro...
Despite the recession causing hard times for everyone, people reached deep to help others in need during last week's Everybody Loves Firefighters food drive. Penny Velk, director of Havre Food Bank, said the collection by Havre firefighters and other volunteers netted 10,041 pounds of food, the most ever for the ELF drive. Havre firefighter Cody McLain, who helped coordinate the drive with Velk, said this morning that the success of the drive was "awesome." "I have never seen that much food in my life," McLain added. He said...
Zach hite A collection of evidence gathered by the Havre Police Department has led to the arrest of Merrill A. Gray, a 33-year-old Havre man, for the robbery of the Magic Diamond Casino Oct. 19. County Attorney Gina Dahl filed an affidavit Wednesday asking for felony robbery and misdemeanor theft charges to be filed against Gray, who is being held in the Hill County Detention Center. The affidavit contains several details from the police investigation that implicate Gray in the robbery. Years ago, Gray, who is a custodian at...
The Montana State University-Northern volleyball team's Frontier Conference Tournament opener got off a to a rocky start. But the Skylights made sure their season didn't end without a fight. Friday night in Lewiston, Idaho, MSU-N's season did indeed come to an end with a three-game loss to nationally ranked Rocky Mountain College, but Northern showed some grit in its last match of what has been a much-improved season. Rocky, which wound up getting upset in the semifinals by Carroll College, but still received an at-large bid...
The Tennessee Titans suffered their second straight road loss Sunday as they fell to the Miami Dolphins 29-17 in Miami. But former Havre Blue Pony marc Mariani was plenty busy competing against some old friends. Sunday's game between the Titans and Dolphins reunited Mariani with former Grizzly teammates Dan Carpenter and Lex Hilliard, and they went head-to-head. Carpenter, Miami's Pro Bowl kicker fed Mariani four kickoffs, and the former UM wide receiver dazzled his old teammates with some nifty moves to the tune of 92...
A short-handed Montana State University-Northern wrestling team saw mixed results at Saturday's Cowboy Open hosted by the University of Wyoming in Laramie. The Lights held out key starters, including Evan Hinebauch, Ethan Hinebauch, Anthony Weerheim, Rudy Shaffroth and Chase Dirden Saturday. But one Light saw plenty of success. Northern true freshman Cameron Neiss wrestled his way to an outstanding second-place finish in the amateur division at 133 pounds. Neiss compiled a tech fall in the first round, back-to-back pins in...
It was a difficult weekend of near misses and tough losses for both the Montana State University-Northern men's and women's basketball teams. The Lights took to the road for the second time in 2010, traveling to Las Vegas for the prestigious Vegas NAIA Shootout. Once in Las Vegas, Northern squared off against a pair of NAIA powerhouses in No. 4 Robert Morris, which beat the No. 25 Lights 78-77 on Friday night, and Vanguard University, which took down Northern 73-69 on Saturday afternoon. The game against Robert Morris was a...
The end came quietly for the Montana State University-Northern football team. But the Lights went out giving the No. 2 Carroll College Fighting Saints all they had. Northern wrapped up its season with a 35-10 loss to the Saints on Saturday in Helena. The loss left the Lights with a 3-7 record in Frontier Conference play, as well as overall. But Northern had some moments Saturday, even in the face of adversity. The Lights were decimated with injuries for the second straight year, and went into Saturday's finale without...
Beeters 28, Titans 26 Power-Dutton-Brady 12 14 0 0 — 26 Chinook 6 0 8 14 — 28 First Quarter P-D-B — Eric Sievers 24 run (pass failed), 10:52 Ch.inook — Josh Jones 28 pass from Lane Schmitt (run failed), 7:54 P-D-B — Tiegan Johnson 5 pass from Logan Rossmiller (run failed), 2:38 Second Quarter P-D-B — Kyler Johnson 37 pass from Rossmiller (run failed), 8:13 P-D-B — T. Johnson 25 pass from Kyle Pederson (T. Johnson pass from Pederson), 5:31 Third Quarter Chinook — Zach Molyneaux 18 run (run failed), 8:41 Chinook — safet...
BIG SANDY - In the game of football a lot depends on how a team starts, and in state playoff action, the Big Sandy Pioneers saw that first hand. Saturday in Big Sandy, the Northern C Pioneers hosted the Eastern C Savage Warriors in a Class C Six-Man state semifinal matchup. But suffering a 41-38 loss, the Pioneers' impressive season came to an end. The postseason loss was only the second loss of the season for the young Pioneers. And competing in the state semifinal game was big accomplishment for the Pioneers team that head...
CHINOOK — Coming into Saturday's historic semifinal win over the Power-Dutton-Brady Titans, Chinook freshman Zach Molyneaux was really waiting in the wings for his chance to have an impact on the Beeters' vaunted rushing attack. And that's only because his older brother, Tyler Molyneaux came into Saturday's 28-26 come-from-behind win as the leading rusher in Class C football, and he, along with junior Ben Stroh are the best two-back tandem in eight-man football. But after Saturday, that tandem turned into a trio as the y...
CHINOOK — The Chinook Sugarbeeters were trying to make history, but it was history which wasn't on the Beeters' side. Having never played for a state championship in football at any level, Chinook also had history working against it at halftime of Saturday's Class C semifinal game with Northern C rival Power-Dutton-Brady in Chinook. History says teams just don't come back from 26-6 halftime deficits, especially teams that rely so heavily on the running game. But Saturday afternoon was all about history for the Beeters and t...
BILLINGS (AP) — A more than 30-year employee of Montana State University and its campuses has been named chancellor of Montana State University-Billings. Rolf Groseth succeeds Ron Sexton, who retired in August after serving as chancellor at MSU-Billings since 1995. Groseth was named interim chancellor in July. Groseth served as acting chancellor at Montana State University-Northern for 18 months, prior to the selection of Frank Trocki as permanent chancellor last year. MSU President Waded Cruzado announced Groseth's a...
Tribal court could resolve Little Shell dispute BILLINGS — Opposing factions within Montana's landless Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians have agreed in principle to tribal court proceedings aimed at resolving their differences. Representatives of the two sides said Monday that details still were being worked through an intermediary, James Steele Jr., chairman of the Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council. The 4,300-member tribe last year split into two groups — each with an elected council — after disagreeing on the l...
JEANNIE NUSS,Associated Press MOUNT VERNON, Ohio (AP) — Searchers have pulled a car out of an Ohio lake where they have been looking for three people who remain missing a day after a 13-year-old girl who disappeared along with them was found bound and gagged in a nearby home. Authorities are looking for 32-year-old Tina Herrmann, her 10-year-old son, Kody, and Herrmann's friend, 41-year-old Stephanie Sprang at a park in Mount Vernon, about 40 miles north of Columbus. The park is near a house where Herrmann's daughter, 1...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Shortly after veteran Rep. Charles Rangel of New York walked out of his ethics trial in protest, a House panel began closed-door deliberations Monday on 13 counts of alleged financial and fundraising misconduct that could bring formal condemnation. Only recently one of the most powerful members of Congress, Rangel was reduced to pleading in vain for colleagues to give him time to raise money for a lawyer before taking up the charges. The 80-year-old congressman left when they said no, and the rare p...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook unveiled a new messaging platform Monday that takes aim at one of the Internet's first applications, e-mail. Though CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't go as far as declaring e-mail dead, he sees the four-decade-old technology as secondary to more seamless, faster ways of communicating such as text messages and chats. In other words, Facebook is betting that today's high school students are on to something. "We don't think a modern messaging system is going to be e-mail," Zuckerberg said at a special even...
HELENA (AP) — Gov. Brian Schweitzer launched plans Monday to cut almost all the state's tax on business equipment and give homeowners a property tax refund as part of his budget plan — making tax relief a primary goal even before Republican lawmakers taking over the Legislature have a chance to do so. The Democratic governor unveiled the highlights of his budget plan to a room full of agency directors, staff and a few Republicans who will be running the Legislature at the start of the year. Schweitzer said his budget increase...
