Annexation process chugs along

The city of Havre efforts to annex 14 properties west of the city have slowed, according to two officials who are taking part in the discussion.

“They are moving forward slowly, way too slowly,” said Mayor Tim Solomon.

The city wants to annex the 14 properties, the Holiday Village Mall going west.

City officials say the tax money taken in from those properties will ease the burden on taxpayers in the existing city limits.

But opponents say the city’s efforts to annex the properties have been legally flawed.

The annexation efforts have been going on for more than eight years, an...