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MISSOULA — Any talk of a another streak brewing in the annual series between Montana and Montana State is over. And it died in much the same way the actual streak, a 16-year Griz streak over the rival Bobcats, did — in front of a shocked, sellout crowd at Washington Grizzly Stadium. The un-ranked Bobcats, winners of just three games coming in, ran for 368 yards in a 24-17 win over No. 22 Montana in the 116th Brawl of the Wild Saturday in Missoula. "It's funny, there is thi...
Press release Karen Bowen, a Montana Farm Bureau Century Club member from Havre, got the keys to a 2015 Chevy Silverado 1500 as winner of the Montana Farm Bureau Federation Silverado Giveaway. Bowen's name was drawn from 25 selected entries during the Montana Farm Bureau Annual Convention Nov. 13-16 in Billings. Bowen said she was thrilled with winning and explained how she got in the final drawing, stemming from a meeting with Ed Bandel, MFBF's District 8 director, and his...
The second annual Intertribal Anti-Meth Symposium took place Friday at the District 4 HRDC Building, with a strong emphasis on curing addiction through traditional tribal practices, grassroots efforts in reservation communities and spiritual wellness. Speakers and representatives who have been touched by the effects of substance abuse and addiction were present, including recovery advocates from the Rocky Boy's, Fort Belknap, Fort Peck and Blackfeet Indian reservations....
A local group heard Friday about ways they can help others in the community through United Way. Pastor Curt Curtis of the Havre Assembly of God Church spoke to members of the local Pachyderm Club at their bi-weekly meeting in the Duck Inn Vineyard Room Friday about his work on the executive board of the United Way of Hill County. The United Way of Hill County is one of 1,800 around the world, the website for the United Way says, and raises money for local nonprofits it...
Whether diners come alone or with family and friends, whether they are locals or visitors, everyone is welcome to a full turkey dinner, with trimmings and companionship, for free for Thanksgiving. Havre's Community Thanksgiving Dinner is set for Thursday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at St. Jude Parish Center, 440 7th Ave. Sponsored in full by an anonymous donor, this decades-old event serves about 800 meals - at the Parish Center and through home deliveries - each Thanksgiving. "So...
MATT VOLZ Associated Press HELENA — The Montana commissioner of political practices plans to dismiss an ethics complaint filed by a Republican lawmaker against Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock over the governor’s use of the state plane, an attorney for the commissioner said Friday. Assistant Attorney General Stuart Segrest disclosed the pending decision in the confidential case during a hearing in federal court. Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl confirmed that he plans to issue a decision today in the com...
HELENA (AP) — Gov. Steve Bullock has appointed Chinook attorney Yvonne Laird as judge for Montana’s 17th Judicial District, which covers Blaine, Phillips and Valley counties. Laird replaces retiring Judge John McKeon, who came under fire recently for giving a 60-day jail sentence to an eastern Montana man who pleaded guilty to raping his 12-year-old daughter. McKeon, who had earlier announced his plans to retire at the end of November after 22 years on the bench, said the sentence was allowed under state law. Laird rec...
Gary A. LaValley, 63, passed away due to natural causes at Northern Montana Hospital Friday, Nov. 18, 2016. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016, at Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016, at First Lutheran Church with Pastor Tanner Howard officiating. Graveside services will follow at 3 p.m. in the Joplin Cemetery. Gary's family has requested that memorial donations be made to the LaValley Gi...
A fledgling program started in the last year to help resolve substance abuse issues at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation has received a shot in the arm. Jolin Sunchild, project coordinator for the Chippewa Cree Tribal Adult Healing to Wellness Program, said this morning that a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration could help the drug court move toward its goal of curbing substance abuse issues at the reservation. “We hope we can make a diffe...
The Hill County Sheriff’s office has two potential deputy openings and Sheriff Don Brostrom said that low pay has been an issue. Brostrom said Friday that one former deputy said, in a resignation notice, that low pay was a reason for leaving and the deputy could make more working for the city police department. Brostrom said the sheriff’s office is operating on the same budget as it was in the mid-1980s. In an article from September 2015, Havre Daily reported that the starting salary for Hill County Sheriff’s deputies is $3...
BILLINGS (AP) — A group of 30 to 45 bighorn sheep will be transferred as scientists pursue research into deadly pneumonia outbreaks among Montana herds. The 482 sheep last counted in the herd is more than the recommended range of 292 to 358. Game Management Bureau chief John Vore said decreasing the population of a dense herd can help reduce the risk of an outbreak. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks veterinarian Jennifer Ramsey said baseline data is difficult to collect and that the department has probably moved infected s...
HELENA (AP) — Researchers want to pinpoint why a Montana river became cloudy and hurt outfitters for the third straight summer. The Montana Standard reports findings from research on the Beaverhead River could be released in January. Darrin Kron of the Department of Environmental Quality said it's too early to identify the cause, but noted that divers found hazy water at the bottom of Clark Canyon Reservoir. Spokeswoman Lisa Peterson said cloudiness dissipated as water moved downstream from the reservoir. She said the d...
MSU News Service BOZEMAN — Montana State University Extension has published a new MontGuide which details how to transfer a Montana vehicle title after the death of an owner. “After a Montana resident passes away, there are many tasks to be completed to settle his or her estate,” said Marsha Goetting, MSU Extension family economics specialist and co-author of the MontGuide “Transferring a Montana Vehicle Title After the Death of an Owner.” “One question family members often ask is, ‘How is the title of a vehicle trans...
Press release The Montana Taxpayers Association will be holding its 95th Annual Meeting Dec. 7, at the Radisson Colonial Hotel in Helena. The assocation is planning an agenda filled with pertinent topics as it prepares for the upcoming legislative session. Gov. Steve Bullock will be the speaker at the noon luncheon. The agenda topics following lunch include: • The economic outlook for Montana; • Discussion panel on local option sales tax; • Report from the infrastructure coalition; • Presentation of the upcoming state b...
Buses halt for Thanksgiving North Central Montana Transit buses will not run Thursday and Friday in observance of Thanksgiving. The buses will resume their regular hours next Monday. Community Pool hours changed for Havre High swim meet Press release To prepare for and hold the Havre High School swim meet the weekend of Dec. 10, the Havre Community Pool will be closed Saturday and Sunday Dec. 3-4 and Saturday and Sunday Dec. 10-11. Family swim will not be held at the pool Thursday, Dec. 8. For more information, call 265-6719...
We’re all so fixated on what’s happening right now in Washington — where Team Trump, shocked by its own victory, is scrambling to form a government with predictable incompetence — that it’s easy to ignore what’s happening in the states beyond the Beltway. That’s where the Democrats are getting their butts kicked in ways not seen since the 1920s. When the dust settles, they’ll control a mere 30 of the 98 partisan state legislative chambers. Their incessant losses at the grassroots level have put the Republicans ful...
For years, enforcement advocates have urged Congress to complete a wall along the shared U.S.-Mexico border. And for an equal number of years, the immigration lobby has asserted that it can’t be done, and insisted that no wall would stop illegal immigration. The popular argument is that a 20-foot high wall would only increase the sales of 21-foot high ladders. But since President-elect Donald Trump promised to build “a big, beautiful powerful wall” and made that pledge the cornerstone of his immigration enforcement platf...
When is a treaty not a treaty? According to the Obama administration, whenever the president says so. This claim is especially dubious with respect to the Paris agreement on global warming, which as Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has shown, is more ambitious than predecessor agreements that were universally accepted to be treaties. Surely if President Obama possesses an asserted authority to declare an agreement identical in form and more ambitious in substance than previous treaties to be a nontreaty...
Apparently we were too quick to take Donald Trump at his word during the campaign. After a visit to the White House, a tour of the Capitol and a heart-to-heart with Lesley Stahl, Trump is furiously issuing clarifications. He told Stahl that law-abiding undocumented immigrants are “terrific people,” that President Obama is “very smart and very nice,” and that Bill Clinton is “very, very, really, very nice.” More revisions are reportedly on the way, including: What he said: “(I’m) calling for a total and complete shutdown of Mu...
Havre Police Department Acyonna Braan Sponsler of Havre, 22, was arrested on a Justice or City court warrant Friday at 10:15 a.m. near Second Avenue. —— Kenton Eagle Chasing of Havre, 44, was arrested on a federal warrant Friday at 12:11 p.m. at a First Street business. —— Robert Alexander McConnell of Havre, 36, was arrested on charges of driving with a revoked or suspended driver’s license and violations of conditions release, and Farrah Agnes McConnell was arrested for driving without insurance, Friday at 7:23 p.m. on Sixt...
KALISPELL (AP) — Two Kalispell women who pleaded guilty to locking children in a dark basement without food and only a bucket for a toilet were sentenced Friday to serve time in prison despite a plea agreement that recommended deferred sentences. “I think these children were both abused and neglected by the defendants,” District Judge Robert Allison said as he issued the sentences. “I find it somewhat ironic that the parties are asking for probation for having imprisoned the children.” Alison sentenced Amy Lynn Newman, who lo...
Denny Johnson of Havre passed away Nov. 18, 2016, in Great Falls at Peace Hospice. Visitation will be held at Edwards Funeral Home in Chinook Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Graveside services will follow at 2:30 p.m. at Kuper Memorial Cemetery in Chinook. Edwards Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements....
While much of the state was focused on the Brawl of the Wild, there were some other critically important games going on, as all five high school football classifications decided their state champions this past weekend. While, Class A, Class B, Class C 8-Man and Class C Six-Man all held their championship games Saturday, Class AA held its Friday night and the affair between Billings Senior and Glacier ended up being a historic one. In a year of title droughts ending, Billings S...
The Glacier Nationals went on the road this past weekend, for games against Great Falls and Helena. Unfortunately for the Nationals, they are both games they would probably rather forget. The Nationals, who play in the Frontier Division of the NA3HL, took on the Americans Friday night in Great Falls and the Bighorns Saturday in Helena in a pair of Frontier division contests. In the first game, the Americans steamrolled the Nationals, beating them 12-0. The result wasn't much...
