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Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Before the wind begins to pick up, Unified Disposal Landfill manager Brad Tommerup on the east side of the new landfill sucks trash stuck along a 25-foot-tall fence with a Litter Critter vacuum Friday afternoon. Tommerup said that on non-windy days landfill employees will spend about two hours sucking up trash along the landfill's surrounding fences. Hill County Sanitarian Clay Vincent said a lot of the trash blowing around at the landfill, which opened the end of October and collects trash...
Hi-Line Lanes will be running a six game 9–pin No-Tap Singles Tournament on Saturday, Jan. 21 at 2 p.m. This will be a handicapped tournament with a max of 25 pins per game. Total score with handicap will be the winner. Entries will determine how many places will be paid. The cost will be $35 per bowler. A sign-up sheet is available at the desk. A big thank-you to the 120 bowlers who came out and bowled in the annual New Year's Eve Jackpot. A great time was had by all. The Food Bank promotion is still running. You may bowl o...
MSU-Northern's Laramie Schwenke (right) is one of the elite guards in all of the Frontier Conference. Despite injuries, Schwenke is having a huge senior campaign. She has positioned herself as one of the elite guards in the Frontier and is averaging 15 points, seven rebounds and four assists per game. She's scored 20 points or more four times this season and is shooting a career-best 46 percent from the 3-point-line. Schwenke also has a new backcourt mate in junior transfer...
If you like fast breaks and 3-point shooting, then men's basketball in the Frontier Conference is certainly for you. The league has always featured great guard play, whether it be point guards who can get up and down the floor and make scintillating passes, or whether it's deadly 3-point bombers. As a conference, the Frontier always puts players in the top of the NAIA in scoring, 3-point shooting and free-throw shooting and the 2012 season should be no different. There are...
DES MOINES, Iowa — A squeaker of an Iowa victory in hand, Mitt Romney headed Wednesday into the New Hampshire primary — in his own political backyard — insisting that staying power sets him apart from runners-up Rick Santorum and Ron Paul and the rest of the GOP presidential field. He shrugged off the promise of sharper criticism from his rivals. "I've got a big target on me now," Romney said, adding that doesn't faze him. "I've got broad shoulders. I'm willing to handle it." AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Republican presi...
Havre City Council jumped right into the new year's new business, with new council members. After swearing in the officials elected last November and the new Havre Police Chief Kirk Fitch, the council voted on a couple of resolutions adopting budgets for the city's Community Transportation Enhancement Program projects and lending support for another grant process for Havre Day Activity Center. Resolutions 3609 and 3610 were passed unanimously, accepting budgets for two of the three CTEP projects the city approved last year, t...
A Havre man convicted of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl will spend at least 15 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole. A jury found Clarence Edward Champagne, born in 1969, guilty of sexual assault following a three-day trial in August, after deliberating for 13 minutes. Judge Laurie McKinnon of Shelby sentenced him Friday in state District Court in Havre to 40 years in the Montana State Prison. McKinnon ordered that Champagne would not be eligible for parole for 15 years and ordered him to pay...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Before the wind begins to pick up, Unified Disposal Landfill manager Brad Tommerup on the east side of the new landfill sucks trash stuck along a 25-foot-tall fence with a Litter Critter vacuum Friday afternoon. Tommerup said that on non-windy days landfill employees will spend about two hours sucking up trash along the landfill's surrounding fences. Hill County Sanitarian Clay Vincent said a lot of the trash blowing around at the landfill, which opened the end of October and collects trash...
Havre Daily News/Zach White Havre Mayor Tim Solomon, left, breaks a tie Tuesday between council Republicans and Democrats in choosing the next City Council president during a City Council meeting. Solomon chose Republican Andrew Brekke. While the rest of Havre deals with the first week of keeping up new year's resolutions, Havre City Council made a few big changes of their own at Tuesday night's meeting. And these are going to stick. The first, and biggest, in an evening of swearing in new and existing officeholders was the...
William 'Ben' Oliver William "Ben" Oliver, 98, of Big Sandy, passed away Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, at Northern Montana Care Center due to natural causes. Funeral services will be 10 a. m. Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, at the Big Sandy United Methodist Church in Big Sandy with Pastor Ross Rettig officiating. A fellowship luncheon will be held immediately after the service at the church. His entombment will be held at 2 p. m at the Hillcrest Lawn Mausoleum in Great Falls, Mont. Memorials in Ben's name may be made to the Big Sandy...
LaVern Elizabeth McFadden LaVern Elizabeth McFadden, 99, a retired nurse's aide, died of natural causes, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, at a local care facility. Visitation will be held at Holy Spirit Catholic Church, 201 44th St. S., Great Falls, Mont., on Friday, Jan. 6, 2012, at 6 p. m., with a vigil service to follow at 7 p. m. Funeral liturgy will be held at Holy Spirit Catholic Church on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, at 10 a. m., with burial to follow in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Schnider Funeral Home is handling arrangements. LaVern...
Elinor R. Clack, right Elinor R. Clack, 95, formerly of Havre, Mont., passed away Nov. 27, 2011, at Viewpointe Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., of natural causes. A memorial service is being planned for late June 2012 in Havre. A notice will be sent out several weeks before the date. Arrangements were handled by Celebration of Life in Colorado Springs. Elinor served in the American Red Cross during World War II in New Guinea and Astoria, Wash. She graduated from the University of Montana with a bachelor's degree and from...
Violet M. Dannels Violet M. Dannels, 92, passed away Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011, at Northern Montana Care Center, due to natural causes. Violet has been cremated and along with her husband's ashes will be spread over the waters. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, April 28, 2012, at Holland & Bonine Funeral Home in Havre, Mont., at 11 a. m. Memorials in her name may be given to the charity of one's choice. Services and arrangements have been entrusted to Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. Condolences may be left for the...
Carroll Eugene Nielsen Carroll Eugene Nielsen, 79, passed away on Jan. 2, 2012, at his home due to natural causes. Memorial services will be held on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012, at 2 p. m., at Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel with Ila McClenahan officiating. Memorials in Carroll's honor may be made to a charity of a person's choice. Services and arrangements have been entrusted to Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. Carroll was born Nov. 30, 1932, to Jens and Lenore (Larsen) Nielsen. He attended school in Medicine Lake, Mont. In 1952,...
A Havre Boy Scout told the Hill County Park Board Monday that his project to upgrade a site in Beaver Creek Park south of Havre is well under way, and he held a successful fundraiser last weekend with more efforts on the way to pay for the work in his Eagle Scout project. Havre High School freshman Corey Lloyd said he made $410 selling bracelets and keychains during the weekend Christmas Bazaar at the Holiday Village Mall and received good support and interest in the project. "I have had several people (who) said they would...
As students return from the holidays next month, the administrators who run the Montana University System will be headed back to the grind of another legislative session, where they will, yet again, make the case for the vital importance of higher education to Montana. For now the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education and the Board of Regents are preparing for that 90-day extravaganza, using Gov. Brian Schweitzer's 2015 Biennium Executive Budget proposal as a starting point. The first priority is to keep up. "Our...
MSU-Northern's Ethan Hinebauch, left, locks the head of UGF's Shaun Lau during Tuesday night's NAIA dual in Havre. Make that two in a row for an MSU-Northern wrestling team that once felt like it would never beat the Great Falls Argos in a dual. On Tuesday night at the Armory Gymnasium, the No. 7 Lights edged the No. 6 Argos 21-20 in dramatic fashion. The deciding match came late, as MSU-N freshman Toby Cheff pinned UGF's Dylan Lemery at the 3:35 mark. Cheff's victory pushed Northern to a 21-16 lead, and though Tucker Erickso...
The Harlem wrestling team opened its season with a great showing at the Cascade Invitational last Saturday. Harlem placed second overall with 161 team points. Choteau was first with 229.5 points, whi9le Cascade-Simms was third. The Wildcats placed eight wrestlers overall and sent five grapplers into the finals. Shay Snider finished first for Harlem at 112 pounds, while Teague Jones was first at 125. Trent Noel also won the heavyweight championship for the Wildcats, while...
The Havre Ice Hawks high school hockey team hasn't had much luck so far this winter. On Saturday, the Ice Hawks were in Great falls to take on the Great Falls Americans, where they fell in a hard-fought game, 4-2. Havre got a goal from Dustin Armstrong, as he scored on an assist by Brandon Huntington. The Ice Hawks second goal came unassisted by Nick Howell. Havre goalie Josh Emge saved 33 shots, while Great Falls stopped 30 Havre shots. The Ice Hawks are back at home this wee...
It was a magical season for the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team, and the awards are still rolling in. Northern junior middle hitter Abby Nicholas was recently named to the 2012 AVCA NAIA All-Region Team. Nicholas, who ranked up 200-plus kills and over 100 blocks for a Skylights' team which made it all the way to the Frontier Conference championship match, was one just four players from the Frontier named to the First Team Northwest All Region Team. Five other...
Sports rivalries can go many different ways. Sometimes they're heated, with bad blood on both sides of coin, and sometimes, they are just a lot of fun for everybody involved. In the case of the rivalry between the Montana State University-Northern wrestling team and the University of Great Falls Argos – it's a little bit of both. But whether the rivalry is unfriendly or just plain fun, it's always intense because the Lights and Argos are the only two collegiate wrestling progr...
A recount will begin shortly in the close race for Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction. Incumbent Democrat Denise Juneau leads Republican Sandy Welch by 2,231 votes out of more than 468,00,000 votes cast. Most agree that Juneau lead cannot be overcome. Juneau is and should be acting like she is re-elected. Some argue that the whole recount process is a waste of state workers and money, although Welch's campaign is forking over more than $100,000 for the recount. We beg to differ. Scrimping and saving ought to be a ke...
After the ball drops this New Year's Eve, Havre will become a bigger city. The Havre City Council gave the final go-ahead in the annexation of 26 properties, a process that started a few months ago that will take effect on Jan. 1. The council voted unanimously to annex the properties, which surround the city and include the Havre Ice Dome, Havre High School's Blue Pony Stadium and Boothill Plaza. Annexing some of the properties on the southwest edge of town led to another portion of the council's agenda last night, an...
After 24 years with the USDA's Farm Service Agency including 19 years in Hill County, the county executive director has decided to move on to new activities. Mike Zook, Hill County FSA director, said this morning he has taken early retirement. "At the end of the year, I'll be done …, " Zook said, adding, "I'll sure miss our customers, our farmers. " Zook said he and his wife, Darcy, a first-grade teacher at Highland Park Early Primary School, talked about their options and decided he should take the early retirement offer. "...
CONCORD, N.H. — Just two days from the finish, President Barack Obama's campaign is mobilizing a massive get-out-the-vote effort aimed at carrying the Democrat to victory, as Republican Mitt Romney makes a late play for votes in Democratic-leaning Pennsylvania. Obama was closing out the campaign with an apparent edge in some key battleground states, including Ohio. But both campaigns were predicting wins in Tuesday's election. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt R...
