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A hearing on whether to remove Ken Blatt St. Marks as Chippewa Cree tribal chairman will be held Monday at tribal headquarters. Tribal council voted Friday to suspend St. Marks for a second time. Monday’s hearing is being held “to afford Ken Blatt St. Marks due process and a full and fair opportunity to respond to all charges as required by the Constitution,” the tribe said in a letter to employees. In the letter, Interim Chairman Richard 'Ricky' Morsette sent a memo to all Rocky Boy staff that they were to get paid leave... Full story
Karen Vosen has been attending the Festival of Trees for about six or seven years - ever since the festival was created to raise funds for the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line. Every year she has made a quilt to be put up for bidding and is contributing a quilt this year as well. "I make quilts all the time, and I thought that is somewhere I can donate to them," she said. Vosen, a Havre resident, said she has sewed all of her life and started making quilts in 1996. She said...
People at the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce were looking at coming up with new ways of celebrating Christmas. Chamber President Debbie Callahan, a runner herself, decided that it would be good to combine the Christmas spirit with the health craze. So they came up with the idea of a Santa Run. People will get dressed up in costumes, adults as Santa and youngsters as elves. The temperature is supposed to be close to zero Saturday, at 4 p.m., when registration starts, so the elv...
"The parade of lights has been such a huge thing in Chinook for so many years," said Heather DePriest, the president of the Chinook Area Chamber of Commerce. The 29th Annual Parade of Lights and 4th Annual Festival of Trees in Chinook will be putting people in the holiday spirit Friday. There will be the usual parade participants of the police, firefighters and color guard and then the colorful creations of those who wish to take part in the festivities. Mr. and Mrs. Santa...
Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation departments and programs donated money to keep the tradition of giving a Thanksgiving meal free to every enrolled member of the Chippewa Cree tribe. The Vocational Technology Center at Stone Child College was stocked Tuesday with volunteers creating 1,200 baskets in which a turkey, stuffing, bag of potatoes, cranberry sauce, cake mix and other items are placed. Organizers gathered at the college around 8 a.m., but were unable to start creating... Full story
Volunteer Gus Sharp will be up early Thursday morning getting ready to deliver Thanksgiving meals to shut-ins around Havre. A team of people will deliver the turkey dinners that have been prepared by volunteers for the Community Thanksgiving Dinner. Most people will enjoy the community atmosphere of the Thanksgiving dinner, but for those who cannot make it, Sharp and his team will be making deliveries. "All of the names that are called in to the senior center, I take care of...
° Montana State University-Northern — Closed Thursday and Friday ° Hill County offices — Closed Thursday, open Friday ° City of Havre offices — Closed Thursday, open Friday. Police and fire departments are open both days. ° Rocky Boy tribal offices — Closed Thursday and Friday ° HRDC — closed Thursday and Friday ° North Central Montana Transit — will not run buses Thursday and Friday ° Chinook City Hall — Closed on Thursday, open Friday.... Full story
Havre Police Department An officer, responding to a call from 1st Street at 8:34 a.m. in which the caller said a man across the street was yelling at him, arrested Marvin Daniel Flying, 49, of Hays on a charge of disorderly conduct. ——— An officer investigated a report from Cleveland Avenue at 10:23 a.m. in which the caller said a dog was poisoned Sunday. ——— An officer making a motor vehicle stop at 2:38 this morning on 2nd Street West issued summonses to Jourdan David Knudson, 19, of Havre on charges of stop sign violat... Full story
Hill County Park Board meeting agenda Hill County Park Board will meet at the Timmons Room of the Hill County Courthouse Monday, Dec. 1, at 5:30 p.m. The agenda is: 1. Approval of minutes 2. Approval of agenda 3. Guests and public comments on agenda items only 4. Old business: No. 12 Mooney Coulee; Reum cabin; committees work session; Kiwanis Cabin siding; cabin inspections 5. New business 6. Cabin Owners Association report 7. Hill County Parks Foundation 8. Friends of Beaver Creek 9. Superintendent report 10. Claims: 11.... Full story
Peter A. Miller, 62, of Big Sandy, passed away on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014, at Benefis Healthcare of natural causes. Cremation has taken place, and private family burial services will be held at a later date. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.... Full story
Alvin L. Donner, 79, formerly of Havre, passed away Nov. 19, 2014, at St. Vincent Providence, Portland, Oregon, of natural causes. Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m., Monday, Dec. 1, 2014, at Donelson Funeral Chapel in Portland, with Father Jose Ugalde officiating. Burial will be at 2 p.m. for family only at Mountain View Cemetery, Oregon City. Alvin was born Nov. 17, 1935, in Portland, Oregon, to Alvin and Marie Donner. He lived in Oregon until 1946 then moved to... Full story
While we each individually look at what we should be thankful for in our lives, it might be nice at this time of the year to look at what we are thankful for and what inspires us in the public life of our community. Lots of Hi-Line people have inspired us in the last year. Usually it’s not the civic and political leaders we cover daily Instead it was the courageous everyday people who go above and beyond the call of duty in their private lives. Here are some of the folks who made us proud, people we are thankful for this T... Full story
There is a man who sits on a low trolley at a certain intersection roadway along the Malecon, a broad walk next to the seawall which runs about six miles around the harbor. I suppose one might call him a beggar. He is not homeless. I call him a dispenser of blessings, a beamer of joy. I don’t know his age, maybe in his 40s. He looks like the Smiling Buddha sitting on his platform, useless legs twisted beneath his body. The first time I actually “saw” him, and I still don’t... Full story
With the 114th Brawl of the Wild last Saturday in Missoula, the Big Sky Conference football season officially came to an end. And while Saturday didn’t go well for the Bobcats, Tuesday was a good day for both the Griz and Cats. The Big Sky released its 2014 All-Conference Team and postseason awards. Montana had 21 All-Conference selections, while MSU was right behind the Griz with 20. The Grizzlies also celebrated senior Zack Wagenmann being named Big Sky Defensive Player o... Full story
The 2014 volleyball season is one the Havre Blue Ponies would probably like to forget. They finished with a total of just four victories and finished fourth in the Central A regular season standings and at the divisional tournament. Yet, even though the season was a bit of a disappointment, the Ponies did manage to get a slew of players on the 2014 Central A All-Conference Team. Belgrade and Lewistown dominated the First Team with five selections between the two of them, but... Full story
MSU News Service BOZEMAN — A workshop on small grain production in Montana will be held Jan. 5-7 at the Burns Technology Center at Montana State University. Guest speaker at the 2015 Crop and Pest Management School will be Ruth Dill-Macky, professor of small grains pathology at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Plant Pathology. A hands-on practical session will feature an identification guide for weed seedlings and an application to identify grasses. MSU scientists from the Bozeman campus and the Central and Eastern... Full story
Special to the Daily News People can witness firsthand how Montana’s No. 1 industry is a tradition in transition at the Montana Grain Growers Association Annual Convention and Trade Show, scheduled for Dec. 2-4 at the Best Western Heritage Inn in Great Falls. “If you’re a grain producer, this is the annual event you don’t want to miss,” said Great Falls-area farmer Charlie Bumgarner, who is also this year’s MGGA convention chairman. Grain producers gather under one roof to network with growers from across the state, hear... Full story
