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Both U.S. Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin said Wednesday that a new focus is on the northern border, and it takes a different view than working on the southern border. "This is a different type of border It's large, it's sparsely populated and it needs to have lots of smaller ports along its length, but in the meantime we need to work to strike the right balance (between trade and travel and security)," Napolitano said during a town hall meeting...
A branch of the federal agency charged with health promotion for the Native American population is holding its biannual meeting on the Hi-Line this week. The Tribal Counci l Advisory Committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met in Havre this morning before setting out for an on-site visit and meetings at the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. The committee will meet at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation Tuesday and will meet again in Havre Wednesday. According to the CDC website, the committee advises the...
Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation could be setting plans by Saturday night to bring the last of its residents evacuated due to flooding home, Chippewa Cree Tribal council Member John "Chance" Houle said today. Federal officials told U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., that the assessment of damages on the reservation are likely to be complete by Monday, allowing Gov. Brian Schweitzer — as well as Tester and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. — to take action to help Rocky Boy with the damage. Houle said most of the water threatening the age...
Judge Rice announces retirement Judicial Nomination Commission will search for new district judge Tim Leeds [email protected] After 37 years of working with laws in Havre, District Judge David Rice announced his retirement effective Nov. 30. Rice, 64, said Tuesday he and his wife, Linda, have decided this is a good time to end his legal career. "I have been pondering this for a few months," he said. The state Judicial Nomination Commission will now seek applicants to forward to the governor to select a new judge. Rice... Full story
School board replaces in-school suspension with detention Tim Leeds [email protected] The Havre school board Tuesday unanimously approved replacing in-school suspension with detention in an effort to reduce missed classes. District Superintendent Andy Carlson told the board before its vote that many issues out of the district's control make students miss classes. Suspension is something the school decides on. "It's absenteeism we can control," he said. Kipp Lewis, Havre High School assistant principal, said when he... Full story
NCMT celebrates one year, 18,000 passengers Tim Leeds [email protected] The local bus system held a barbecue Tuesday to celebrate its first year of operation and its transportation of nine times as many passengers as anticipated. North Central Montana Transit system director Jim Lyons said that from Aug. 24, 2009, through Aug. 23, 2010, the system transported 18,012 passengers — the system was approved for creation with the expectation of transporting 2,000 to 4,000 each year. The buses connect with the Rocky Boy's an...
Annexation lawsuit hearing moved to Lewistown Tim Leeds [email protected] A hearing on whether Havre's annexation of 100 properties last year will go forward has been moved to another city. Judge E. Wayne Phillips of Lewistown — the third judge presiding over the case — moved a Friday, Sept. 3, hearing from Havre to Lewistown after he discovered the courtroom in the Hill County Courthouse would not be available for the 10:30 a.m. hearing. The hearing is to determine whether a request for an injunction preventing the...
Project leaders look to future Tim Leeds [email protected] Water users and local, state and federal officials were looking to the future Friday during a celebration of the first hookup on a project that will eventually supply water to 30,000 Montanans in the region. "This is the beginning of the end," Dan Keil, president of the North Central Montana Regional Water Authority, said in Havre Friday. "Hopefully, it doesn't take as long as it took to get here." A group started the day at TownHouse Inns of Havre,...
One of the two contested Hill County races in the general election has lost a candidate. Re p u b l i c a n William "Bill" Gupton, who was facing Democrat Sandy Brown in the Nov. 2 general election for Hill County treasurer and assessor, filed his paperwork Tuesday with the Hill County Clerk and Recorder's office to withdraw his candidacy. Gupton spoke this morning with a reporter from a site near Anaconda, where he will work as manager for the company that will administer the new power generation plant being built there by... Full story
Montana's junior senator, Jon Tester, is looking to get a new perspective on the board that governs passenger rail travel in the United States. Tester is urging President Barack Obama to appoint someone from the West to the open position on the Amtrak board. "Amtrak's importance in Western states should not be ignored," Tester wrote in a letter to Obama. "Some of Amtrak's busiest routes and stations are in the West — as are some of its greatest opportunities for growth and expansion." Amtrak, formed in 1970 through an act o... Full story
A couple accused of transporting and hiding the remains of a young girl before they were arrested near Havre face new charges. Prosecutors in Bryan County in Oklahoma this week charged Denise Wolf with child abuse and child abuse by neglect, and Abel Wolf with enabling child abuse and child abuse by neglect. The couple is accused of transporting the body of Cheyenne Wolf, the daughter of Abel Wolf and stepdaughter of Denise Wolf, from Oklahoma to Oregon, where they hid the body. They had moved from Oregon to Montana and were...
Great Northern Fair Manager Tim Solomon told the Hill County Fair Board this week that the 2010 fair, held in July, saw good numbers and good returns. "The little robot did a good job," board Chair Bert Corcoran said, referring to a robot operated by remote control with its operator talking to fairgoers through a transmitter. He said the food booths, overall, did very well. "(They) are right up there with the record," he said. The carnival saw good numbers, although they were nowhere near a record amount, he said. Several...
Staff and Wire Report The Montana Supreme Court says it won't block a proposed ballot initiative capping the interest rates on payday loans. Initiative I-164 limits payday loans to an annual percentage rate of 36 percent. Backers gathered enough signatures earlier this year to qualify for the ballot. But the payday loan industry argues the lower rate would make the short-term loans unprofitable. Industry representatives asked the state Supreme Court to toss out the initiative, arguing the ballot statement drafted by the... Full story
A good-sized crowd gathered at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway rail yards in Havre at 7:30 a.m. Saturday to celebrate a unique partnership in the region — BNSF's testing of locally made biodiesel to see how well it runs their locomotives. BNSF is partnering with Montana State University-Northern's biodiesel testing facility, Earl Fisher Biofuels in Chester, Bear Paw Development Corp. and Opportunity Link Inc. to conduct extensive yearlong testing of biodiesel at its Havre facility. The testing began July 1. "This p...
U. S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., faced some sharp questions and comments about his stance in Congress during a listening session i n H a v r e Saturday. "I've been a liberal all my life," one man in the audience, who declined to give his name to the Hav r e Dai l y N e w s , t o l d Rehberg. "I don't appreciate the left … being characterized as radical, out of touch wi th the main stream. Can you s t o p t h a t , please." Havre was the second of four stops in a listening session tour Re h b e rg h e l d over the w...
For the first time in a six-state region, a Native American tribe has signed an agreement to act as a sovereign nation in administering its own disaster funding. Raymond "Jake" Parker, chair of the Chippewa Cree Tribal council at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, and Robin Finegan, regional Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator, signed a nation-to-nation agreement at Stone Child College at Rocky Boy Tuesday. Finegan commended the Tribal representatives for their persistence, dedication and commitment to...
During a meeting of the Hill County Fair Board, members said they want to quell a rumor apparently going around the county: The board is not planning to kick 4-H out of the fair. "I've heard on the street that the fair board is going to do away with 4-H, but there's nobody here that wants to do away with 4-H," board member Tom Farnham said. Three Hill County 4-H representatives attended the meeting, and discussion of the future of the activity took the first half of the meeting, coming out with an agreement that a commi t tee...
Local, state and federal officials will gather in Havre Friday morning to celebrate another major achievement in creating a regional water system: The connection of the North Havre Water District to the water treatment plant in Havre. The connection will provide treated water to rural residents in northern Hill County, and eventually be connected to the Rocky Boy's/North Central Montana Regional Water System once it is completed. The celebration starts at 9 a.m. in Havre, then will tour north to the new system, which began... Full story
Havre city officials may soon have more authority to fight diseased and blighted trees on city and private property. The city council's Ordinance Committee gave tentative approval to legislation that would give Parks and Recreation officials the authority they say they need. Lawyers will compile changes made during Tuesday's meeting, and the ordinance will be voted on at the next meeting. The date has not been set. But the ordinance will not include a provision that opponents feared gave the city unilateral permission to...
U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., said Tuesday that review of the rest of a Department of Interior memo, part of which was leaked in February, confirms his worst fears. "The new pages make a disturbing case for bypassing Congress with a unilateral Presidential designation of National Monuments," Rehberg said in a release. "This was the worst-case scenario, and it's no longer hypothetical." Rehberg has criticized the department since some of the memo was leaked for making secretive plans to designate some 13 million acres of l... Full story
Semi swerved to avoid head-on collision Tim Leeds [email protected] Michael Kinsey of Harlem was cited with numerous legal violations, including minor in possession of intoxicants and driving under the influence, after he crashed the car he was driving into a semitrailer just east of Chinook at 7:35 a.m. Saturday. Kinsey, 19, and the passenger in the 1999 Buick Regal he was driving, Cameron Gilham of Harlem, 21, were injured in the crash and transported to Northern Montana Hospital by ambulances from Blaine and Philli...
In a shor t special meet ing Wednesday, the Hill County Republican Central Committee nixed Deputy Hill County Treasurer Wanda Larson's bid for its nomination as the Republican candidate in the race for Hill County treasurer and assessor. The committee did not take the tabled discussion of her nomination back up during its Wednesday meeting, effectively ending her request. C ommi t t e e Chair Andrew Brekke said after no one seconded a motion to take the discussion back up that the c o m m i t t e e wished Larson luck and... Full story
The Havre City Council Tuesday unanimously approved the first readings of resolutions setting the taxes and fees needed to pay for flood control, street maintenance, street lights and garbage removal for the 2010-2011 fiscal year. Council President Allen "Woody" Woodwick presided over the meeting. Havre Mayor Tim Solomon and Council members Gerry Veis and Janet Trethewey were excused from attending the meeting, Woodwick said. The assessments were broken down by service, with the total for flood control in the Bull Hook...
After hearing from Wanda Larson, a potential Republican candidate for Hill County treasurer and assessor, the Hill County Republican Central Committee voted 8 to 1, to table her selection as the party's candidate. "We have some work to do as a committee," said Dennis Morgan, who made the motion to table. He declined to elaborate after the meeting. At the beginning of the meeting, Committee Chair Andrew Brekke said Larson had contacted the committee to express her interest. He said earlier this week she was the only person...
With the first pit to hold trash nearly completed and a contractor selected to build facilities at the site, the new landfill east of Havre is expected to be open by next spring, Hill County Sanitarian Clay Vincent said. "They are probably two-thirds of the way through moving dirt for the first cell, or hole, the trash will be put in," he said. He said there have been some delays with the weather, but the crews have been working whenever they have dry enough weather. The Unified Disposal Board that oversees the operation of...
