Matter, Hutchins win Havre races

Three weeks after some 3,635 ballots were mailed out to active registered voters across the city, Havre elected two new City Council members Tuesday, and rejected a proposed $30 million street reconstruction mil levy.

The nonpartisan elections were a mostly low key affair, with few major differences between the candidates and

without the onslaught of ads that characterize state and national elections.

In the open Havre City Council race in Ward 1, Ed Matter, a former school board member and retired radio station manage, beat out Doug Vance, an engineer and vice president of Heberly & Associate...