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City workers were working to turn off water that was bubbling through the asphalt and sidewalks on 3rd Avenue. The Masonic Lodge's basement was fairly flooded by the time the workers turned off the water supply to the main the ruptured. The owners of the Havre Historic Post Office said their basement was untouched as they were moving water pumps to help empty the Masonic Lodge basement. There is significant damage to the street....
A youth who has been incarcerated as being the main suspect in the stabbing of three college students was given two years of probation for a separate case. Justice Lawrence Brown, 17, was ordered to fulfill two years of probation and psychological treatment Tuesday after admitting sexual intercourse without consent July 20. Brown went through a psychosexual evaluation as part of the case. Marla North, a counselor who was the main witness at the deliberation, said after...
Event brings law agencies and community together National Night Out brought hundreds out to the Montana State University-Northern campus for a chance to meet with and learn about various law enforcement agencies from the area. "It went very well," said Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich. "It was a great turn out. Looked like there probably was over 400 people up there." U.S. Border Patrol, Havre Police Department, Havre Fire Department, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Hill...
A former Montana State University-Northern chancellor has recently been named as interim president at another institution. James Limbaugh, who resigned from his position in Havre in August 2014, recently finished receiving pay for the position. His contracted salary was continued as part of a severance package. His contract was up June 30. The Ventura County Star, based in Oxnard, California, reported in July that Oxnard College announced he would be taking the helm of the school. Oxnard College is an accredited two-year...
Opportunity Link Inc. was selected to receive $100,000 for “a creative placemaking project to support vibrant rural and tribal communities in Northcentral Montana with the arts at their core.” The money will be used to create an art trail and for the commissioning of public art along the Hi-Line. “It’s going to be for making an arts trail on the Hi-Line, getting communities together, finding out where the arts’ location are, hopefully creating a mobile app that will help tourists and residents find those art-related things th...
A Montana nonprofit is awarding $8,000 to $10,000 to help filmmakers tell stories of life in Montana. Ken Egan, the executive director of Humanities Montana, said they have been giving out the grant for 30 years. Some of the bigger humanities movies to gain assistance from the grant are “Indian Relay,” which covers relay races in reservations and “Class C,” which is about women’s basketball in Class C towns in Montana. Egan said the list continues. “It’s a beautiful study of life in Montana,” Egan said of “Class C.” “Wha...
Melinda Barnes, the executive director of Bike Walk Montana, an organization that urges governments to accept resolutions or ordinances that keep in mind the safety of bikers and appearances of towns, gave a presentation at the Havre City Council meeting Monday. Barnes maintained at the meeting that there is a large push in the nation for people who choose to use alternate modes of transportation than personal vehicles. “Nearly one-third of our population does not drive,” Barnes said. The number is from a national sur...
The 2015 Annual Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation Powwow brought hundreds upon hundreds of people to the powwow grounds Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The powwow was bigger and better than it has been in years, with the stands fairly filled with attendees to watch the four grand entries throughout the weekend. Special events such as Saturday night's men's fancy dance special, the consistent stick game playing near the grounds and the All Nations Ultimate Warrior Competition nearby...
The Blaine County Wildlife Museum has showcased the natural beauties of the state for years now, and looks to capture even more of Montana. Tammy Edwards has been manager of the wildlife museum for four years. She maintains the museum during the summer and teaches while it's closed. She said it's a fine summer gig. After a local theater closed in the late 1980s, a Chinook group decided they didn't want the building to decay. "They came up with this idea about starting this...
A former Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation official was sentenced to 68 months in federal prison Wednesday at the Missouri River Federal Courthouse in Great Falls. John "Chance" Houle, in addition to the five years and eight months, was also ordered to pay a restitution of $646,446. The restitution will be split three ways - between the Chippewa Cree regional water project, the Chippewa Cree Tribe itself and the United States Internal Revenue Service. Houle pleaded guilty to...
A Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation official pleaded guilty Tuesday to bribery and theft from the reservation. Timothy Warren Rosette, 52, of Box Elder changed his plea Tuesday during a hearing in the Missouri River Federal Courthouse in Great Falls to guilty for two counts of bribery and one of theft from tribal lands. Rosette was the director of the Rocky Boy Health Clinic's Environmental Health Unit and director of of the Roads Division for the tribe during the time listed in the indictments. He is guilty of working with S...
“Today” is scheduled to broadcast its episode that will feature the Havre Historic Post Office Tuesday. Film crews arrived in Havre to film Drs. Erica Farmer and Marc Whitacre’s story of how they took the dilapidated building on the 300 Block of 3rd Avenue and revitalized it to its present state. Longtime NBC broadcaster Bob Dotson became interested in the story after a Missoulian article featured the couple’s story. “This story fit perfectly in the kind of thing I do,” Dotson said in June during his work in Havre. Dots...
HAVMAT, Havre's alternative arts and entertainment publication, is sponsoring a stand-up comedy show tonight at Eagle's Aerie #166. Local comedian and HAVMAT contributor James Carden decided to organize a night of comedy some months ago and his efforts have come to fruition. Missoula comedians and Carden himself will be telling their jokes to the crowd at the Eagles Club tonight. Carden has performed in shows from all over the state, including Missoula, Billings, Great Falls...
The Tri-Agency Safe Trails Task Force released its annual report for the last fiscal year and has reportedly been busy. The task force doesn’t release information publicly as each case occurs and self-reports statistics of their work every year. In the 2014 to 2015 year, the task force worked 213 cases, 54 of which were in the fourth quarter, or April to June. The year stats extend from July 1, 2014 to June 31, 2015. In these cases, they seized: • Meth — 218.5 grams from April to June for a total of 352.2 grams in the year...
A Box Elder man who was convicted in connection to a murder was sentenced to another term in prison for violating his probation. Jordan Charles Demontiney was sentenced to five months custody with 44 months of supervised release after using alcohol and methamphetamines during his probationary period after serving his first sentence for second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 11 months custody and 49 months of supervised release in an earlier revocation. “Within approximately two months of releasing from custody, the d...
A fire fully took a residence's garage and two vehicles parked outside it around 5:30 this morning. Firefighters received a call at 5:33 a.m. from the 600 Block of 2nd Avenue about a fire that had begun in a garage. When the fire was extinguished, the garage was a total loss. Fire Chief Tim Hedges said there was about $30,000 worth of damage to the structure and $20,000 worth of damage to two vehicles parked next to the garage. It took 10 firefighters to battle the blaze, he...
Holly Williams, the daughter of Hank Williams Jr., will bring Nashville to Havre when she takes the stage Sunday night. Williams, 31, is the big entertainment for Sunday. Her website states that “part of the key to Holly Williams’ success as a singer-songwriter is that it’s never been her mission to try and live up to the legacy cast by her famous and prolific father and grandfather … nor has she spent a lot of time trying to live it down.” Williams has paved the way for her own sound in country music and released two accla...
The 2014 Miss Great Northern Rodeo passed on her crown at the coronation at Great Northern Fairgrounds Thursday. Paige Raty, a Montana State University-Northern student and rodeo team member, was crowned the 2015 Miss Great Northern Rodeo at the Great Northern Fair. "Surprising," Raty said about being crowned. "I didn't see that coming at all. It feels great." This was Raty's first pageant and competing in it was a last-minute decision, she said. "It went extremely well," she...
Vander Swensen, 15, a Boy Scout of America looking for his Eagle Scout status, is going to replace the mock train at Rotary Park in order to give back to the community. Every Eagle Scout candidate embarks on a projects to receive that top rank, and they have to be projects where the youth works with others to improve a community. Swensen chose the train. "What we're doing is, there's a wooden train there for kids to play on and it's all beat up - there's broken boards...
Most every Sunday of September, Havre Trails will be organizing hikes — some accompanied by educational lectures. The schedule is not set in stone just yet, but a hike through the Bear Paw Ski Bowl with Dave Martens, a hike to view and discuss fall foliage and a hike through Beaver Creek at night to view stars through telescopes are some of the ideas the group plan to organize for September and October. At Havre Trails’ monthly meeting Monday at the Elks Lodge, they also discussed working with the International Dark Ski...
(Havre Daily News reporter John Paul Schmidt spent two days as a carnival worker at the Blaine County Fair. This follows up on his stint as a pig wrestler at the Great Northern Fair last year. Here is his report on his adventure in Chinook.) Last year, I braved the pig-wrestling pits at the Great Northern Fair and was trodden over. “Big Betty” sent me into hiding from fairs for a year, until the prospect of carny life lulled me back into the game. In an official Havre Daily News investigative series, I looked to the next fai...
The Havre Jaycees have been putting on a fireworkss show for more than 40 years and a lot goes into planning one out. Jason Murri is in charge of the fireworks show every year and it's something he always wanted to do. He began in 2002 and does about three shows a year around the state. "It was just interest," Murri said. "If you wanted to do the fireworkss, you joined the Jaycees." All fireworkss are set off electronically, Murri said. Through the use of wires connected to a...
The severe thunderstorms that hit Hill County left many farmers in the area taking huge losses to their crops. The up to 97 mph straight-line winds, flash rain and hail for many crops finished off an already terrible year. "We probably lost about - it's hard to say - for sure 80 percent of it is gone," said local farmer Jon Stoner about his crops. " ... It just absolutely annihilated it. We've never seen anything like it." Stoner said he has crop insurance, but it won't cover...
Elizabeth Pilar, an acclaimed short story writer from Detroit, will be at the Havre-Hill County Library tonight at 7 p.m. to read excerpts from her new book, "A Blue Moon in China," and speak to people about her experiences traveling through China. "My book is a memoir," Pilar said of her novel. "It's about the two months I traveled through China in 1988." The book is a look back into China's recent pre-tourism history and tells the tale of a 21-year-old with $400 to fund two...
The Kids MAT summer camp brought more than 70 kids to the Little Theatre at Montana State University-Northern to create, develop and put on their own show. Collette Hagen is an intern with Montana Actors' Theatre and recent college graduate who is helping the kids make the show, named "Into the River." "This is a program for kids to come and, basically, they create the show all by themselves," Hagen said. The camp started Monday, when the kids split into groups and created...
