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  • Busy weekend hits area

    Pamela Burke|Updated Apr 17, 2024

    Havre and surrounding communities have a lot going on over the weekend, starting Friday, enough that they deserve a highlight so people can plan ahead to fit as much into their schedule as possible. Along with the following events, an additional happening of note includes the Friday deadline for registering for Rocky Boy Health Center’s Basketball Tournament, for boys and girls in junior high and high school. To register people can contact [email protected] or 406-395-1701. Friday, April 19 • Set Free Church Rev...

  • Two injured in crash west of Harlem

    Pamela Burke|Updated Mar 22, 2024

    Two women were seriously injured Thursday early afternoon in a crash involving their passenger vehicle and two semitractor-trailers west of Harlem. Emergency responders were called to the crash on U.S. Highway 2 near mile marker 420 at 1:30 p.m. Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Matt Erickson said that at the time of the crash both visibility and road conditions were poor due to heavy snowfall. One of the semis involved in the crash was pulled to the side of the highway on the westbound side so the driver could clear snow from...

  • Heroics save girl from car fire

    Pamela Burke|Updated Nov 16, 2023

    Havre Police Department’s Animal Control Officer Pete Federspiel and Havreite Matt Boucher rescued the driver of a burning vehicle Wednesday. “They probably saved the girl’s life,” said Havre Police Capt. Ryan Pearson this morning. The crash reported at 3:40 p.m. Wednesday occurred after the driver of a vehicle on Eighth Avenue West near Boulevard Avenue had a medical issue, said Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Christopher Baker. The vehicle hit an embankment and the hot underside of the vehicle started dry grass at the sid...

  • Fire damages Saddle Butte home, pet crematorium

    Pamela Burke|Updated Oct 9, 2023

    Havre Fire Department responded to three fires in the Havre area over the weekend. Saturday at 8:33 a.m., Havre firefighters were called to a structure fire on the 2600 Block of 34th Street Southeast, in the Saddle Butte area of Rural Fire District 1. Fire Chief Nathan Courtnage said that seven personnel in two engines and an ambulance were on-scene. In mutual aid, Bear Paw Volunteer Fire Department also sent crew members with two engines and a water tender, and Chinook Volunteer Fire Department sent a crew with a water...

  • Weed and mosquito district drone battery burns

    Pamela Burke|Updated Aug 24, 2023

    The Hill County Weed and Mosquito District drone is out of commission for the season, the district supervisor said today, after the battery caught fire Wednesday. Terry Turner, the district supervisor, said they were out preparing to spray weeds with the drone when a malfunction caused the battery to catch fire. Havre Fire Department responded to the 900 Block of 18th Street at 9:31 a.m. and helped extinguish the fire. Turner said it was a new experience for everyone putting out a lithium battery. They carry sand with them,...

  • Off-road crash kills one in Blaine County

    Pamela Burke|Updated Jul 27, 2023

    A side-by-side off-road vehicle crash on private property near the intersection of Clear Creek and Sucker Creek roads in Blaine County Wednesday resulted in one fatality and two injuries. The crash was reported at 4 p.m. Wednesday to Blaine County dispatch and Blaine County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene along with Montana Highway Patrol. MHP Trooper Conor Doyle said this morning that the investigation and the report are not complete yet, but he was able to report that the driver of the side-by-side lost control o...

  • Man in jail after obstructing officers while transporting gunshot victim

    Pamela Burke|Updated Jun 19, 2023

    A man is in jail after an incident that occurred Sunday evening while he was transporting a woman with a gunshot wound from Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation to the hospital in Havre. Theodore Gregory Montes of Box Elder, 59, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, obstructing a peace officer, driving with a suspended or revoked driver’s license and reckless driving. Montes called 911 Sunday at 8:13 p.m. to report he was northbound on Laredo Road transporting a 55-year-old female with a gunshot wou...

  • Free fishing for Mother's Day

    Pamela Burke|Updated May 12, 2023

    Everyone can fish for free over the weekend in celebration of Mother's Day, and people who are new to fishing have some access to poles and tackle if they want to try it without investing in equipment. Saturday and Sunday, people are encouraged to get out on the water to take advantage of a statewide Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks program that was signed into law in 2021. "It's a pretty cool deal," FWP Region 6 spokesperson Marc Kloker said, adding that this program runs ove...

  • Anderson to talk about art at the library

    Pamela Burke|Updated Apr 18, 2023

    The public has an opportunity to attend a presentation by nationally recognized expressionist-impressionist artist Carolyn Anderson at Havre-Hill County Library Thursday starting at 7 p.m. In an evening event sponsored by Havre-Hill County-Library Foundation, Anderson will be giving her presentation "A Very Short Story of Art." From the Egyptians to the post Impressionists, Anderson said in a release, the presentation will guide people through the centuries as they learn how...

  • Massive C-130 lands at Havre airport

    Pamela Burke|Updated Jan 19, 2023

    Though the C-130 Hercules tactical aircraft that landed at the Havre City-County Airport Wednesday only stayed on the runway about 10 minutes before the flight crew took off again to continue the training run, that historic moment was almost four years in the making. The C-130 and its crew are part of the Montana Air National Guard wing based in Great Falls, and the aircraft is, as far as airport manager Tony Dolphay can recall, the largest airplane to ever land at the Havre...

  • Optics on the end of an era

    Pamela Burke|Updated Dec 29, 2022

    After 42 years serving the area, Havre business Evans Optical is closing its doors as the last of its founders, Jim Evans, retires from the eye-glass business at the end of the year. Evans, whose last day is Saturday, said the business was family-owned and -operated from the beginning, with his uncle, Bill Evans, his dad, Tiger Evans, and himself starting the business at the end of 1980. "Bill and I started it, but my dad invested in it," Evans said, adding that very soon...

  • Animal Shelter puts out a call for help

    Pamela Burke|Updated Dec 21, 2022

    The Havre Animal Shelter has taken in several cats and dogs recently, including several puppies, leaving the shelter over capacity, and the non-profit Friends of the Havre Animal Shelter has put out a call for help with expenses. Animal Control officer Pete Federspiel said this morning that the shelter has 39 dogs and puppies and 15 cats and kittens, which is well over the shelter’s normal capacity. In the past week alone, he added, the shelter has taken in a litter of four puppies, another six puppies that are likely from t...

  • Havre Eagles again running toy drive

    Pamela Burke|Updated Nov 30, 2022

    Havre Eagles Club is again holding its two charitable drives to benefit children and families for Christmas and is asking the community to donate toys and other gifts or monetary donations, and asking for the names of people who are in need of some help. “We’re just asking people to donate unwrapped gifts suitable for a boy or a girl at one of the locations. We’re also reaching out to businesses and community groups to adopt a family — we have quite a few families this year waiting for that,” organizer Candace Dess said. For...

  • View from the North 40: The great story is everything

    Pamela Burke|Updated Sep 9, 2022

    “I’m jealous,” my husband wrote as a comment to an article link he sent me. “What a cool way to lose an arm.” How many times does a person get to say that in a lifetime? A lot for some of us, and for sure John’s persona story about losing an arm is epic. An 18-year-old gets into a motorcycle crash just as a paramedic instructor is driving by. What are the odds? The surgeon on call at the hometown hospital that day had honed his trauma surgery skill as a Navy hospital surgeon at the front lines of the Vietnam War. Does it get...

  • View from the North 40: A little understanding makes everything better

    Pamela Burke|Updated Sep 2, 2022

    Sometimes, you just need to talk to someone who understands your condition. For instance, I have specific criteria to meet before protocols trigger a call to speak with a medical person. My doctor knows through experience I don’t call to see her for any old problem because she practiced medical due diligence, and asked one day why I waited so long before coming in. And I was, like, Hey, doc, I call for three reasons: 1) I’m off my feed. If I can’t stomach food, I’m critical. 2) I have something that registers in my mind as we...

  • Name in rollover crash fatality released

    Pamela Burke|Updated Jul 19, 2022

    The name has been released of a woman killed Saturday evening in a one-vehicle rollover crash on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. Laurie Maine of Lodge Pole was the sole occupant of a vehicle that rolled once in the ditch after a series of overcorrections on Beaver Creek Road near Lodge Pole. Main, who was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, died from blunt force trauma after she was ejected from the vehicle. She was declared dead at the scene....

  • Woman killed in Fort Belknap rollover crash

    Pamela Burke|Updated Jul 19, 2022

    A woman was killed Saturday evening in a one-vehicle rollover crash on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation on Beaver Creek Road. The woman, who was the sole occupant of the vehicle, was traveling northwest on a stretch of road that had recently been chip sealed and was posted as a 35 mph zone, said Trooper Matt Erickson, who was still investigating the scene. Erickson said it appeared that the driver had drifted the vehicle to the right then overcorrected, causing the vehicle to cross the centerline. The driver overcorrected...

  • Art in the Garden back for 2022

    Pamela Burke|Updated Jul 15, 2022

    Art in the Garden Tour 2022, a Havre Art Association sponsored event, will have artwork from local artists displayed among three backyards, in the Havre community, that are works of art themselves, and the public is invited to take the tour Sunday from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Art Association member and event co-organizer Ginnie Streeper said the artists and homeowners are excited to be holding the event again this year, and she feels that the yards really demonstrate a variety of what...

  • Loads of Havre events set for the weekend

    Pamela Burke|Updated Jun 3, 2022

    Today through Sunday, the first weekend into the unofficial start of summer after Memorial Day weekend, the Havre area will be hopping with activities for everyone to enjoy. A full write-up on the Bear Paw Marathon activities is on today’s Page A8, but beyond the race activities, the North Central Montana Everything Antique Show started at 10 this morning and will continue until 5 p.m. tonight. The Everything Antique Show will continue Saturday 8 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Great Northern Fairgrounds, with f...

  • Annual Air Fair set Saturday at Havre City-County Airport

    Pamela Burke|Updated Jun 3, 2022

    Air Fair 2022, the annual fly-in and breakfast at Havre City-County Airport, is set to start at 7 a.m., running as late as noon Saturday, and will be held rain or shine. Admission is free and open to the public to view the airplanes and talk with the pilots. The cost of the breakfast, which is prepared by the Havre Lions Club, is $10 per person and free to kids 5 and younger and to out-of-area pilots. The breakfast, with a choice of pancakes, sausage, eggs, biscuits and gravy, coffee and juice, will be served until about 11...