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Friday's Scores The Associated Press PREP FOOTBALL Absarokee 18, Park City 6 Anaconda 29, Stevensville 21 Baker 21, Plentywood 7 Bigfork 48, Thompson Falls 6 Billings Central 41, Laurel 7 Billings Skyview 29, Bozeman 28 Billings West 22, Billings Senior 14 Broadview-Lavina 50, Gardiner 12 Butte 42, Missoula Big Sky 28 Butte Central 52, Hamilton 29 Choteau 23, Cut Bank 14 Columbus 33, Huntley Project 8 Dillon 56, Corvallis 0 Ennis 50, Sheridan 8 Fairfield 41, Jefferson (Boulder) 12 Fairview 86, St. Labre 0 Florence 51, Deer...
BROWNING (AP) — A pair of rare winter wildfires fueled by 60 mph gusts burned buildings and forced hundreds from their homes overnight on Montana's Blackfeet Indian Reservation, but better weather conditions on Thursday helped firefighters get a handle on the blazes. The two blazes started around sundown Wednesday and together grew to 16,000 acres by early Thursday, said tribal spokesman Wayne Smith. At least 300 people were evacuated from homes and a boarding school, though no injuries had been reported. "It's probably t...
Havre High's Thurman Holdsclaw fights for yards during Friday night's Class A football game between HHS and Libby at Blue Pony Stadium. The Havre High football team captured its third win of the 2012 season, and the Ponies did it with defense and a strong effort by senior Thurman Holdsclaw. On Friday night at Blue Pony Stadium, HHS held on to defeat the Libby Loggers 27-21 in a Class A nonconference football game. Holdsclaw took advanatge of a big night on the ground, while freshman quarterback Dane Warp threw four touchdown...
The Montana State Bobcats and Montana Grizzlies have two different missions this weekend, but both teams will find life on the road more than difficult once again. The Grizzlies (0-2, 2-3) are now in do-or-die mode for the first time this early in a Big Sky Conference football season since anyone cares to remember. Meanwhile, the No. 2 Bobcats (2-0, 5-0) are trying to escape a brutal two-game road stretch unscathed. And neither team will have it easy on Saturday. The Griz are...
The Montana State University-Northern Rodeo teams wrapped up the fall Big Sky Rodeo schedule last weekend at the UM-Western Rodeo in Dillon. The Northern men finished in seventh place with 80 points, while the host Bulldogs took first place in the team event. Northern's Robert Wagner placed fourth I the saddle bronc competition with a score of 72 points, but Wagner finished the fall season in first place in the Big Sky Region. Meanwhile, the Lights and Skylights golf teams...
Sometimes, when you're on a roll, when that roll comes to an end, it comes in a devastating way. That's what happened to the roll the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team was on when they went into the McLaughlin Center in Great Falls and got steam rolled by the University of Great Falls Argos in three sets Thursday night. All three sets were tightly contested and the Skylights had chances to win them all, but in the end, the Argos won by scores of 25-23, 26-24 an...
It's getting colder, it's getting darker and yes, some snow has even fallen around the state of Montana. Point of fact, it's football weather finally, and the opening of the 2012 Frontier Conference season seems like a long, long time ago. Never-the-less, the league has already reached the halfway point in the season, and what a strange trip it's been so far. First, there is the surprise team of the first half and that has to be Montana Tech, although fans in Butte may...
After defeating the Conrad Cowgirls last week on the road, the Havre High volleyball team will now host the Cowgirls in should be again, a winnable match for the Blue Ponies. After defeating the Class B Cowgirls last weekend, the Central A Ponies are now 4-6 overall. HHS defeated Conrad in four games on the road, and should also be favored to win again on Saturday evening at the Havre gymnasium. The varsity match Havre High's Lacey Waid (right) goes for a kill during a high school volleyball match last month against CMR. The...
At times, the Havre High football team has not had the strongest defensive showings on the field this season. But stacked with a lot of young talent, highlighted by some talented veterans, the HHS defense is hopefully on its way to getting all of the pieces in place. Senior defensive back Zach Plum is one of those key veteran pieces for the Blue Ponies. Plum has highlighted the defensive efforts almost every week. And six games into the season, Plum currently leads the team with six interceptions, and has already earned a...
In the midst of the conference portion of their schedule, the Havre High Blue Ponies will face another non conference opponent at home tonight. But at this point, it doesn't matter who the Blue Ponies are facing, as wins of any kind are very important moving forward. Tonight at Blue Pony Stadium in Havre, the Ponies will host the Libby Loggers at 6 p.m. The Ponies are 2-3 overall through Havre High's Thomas Gruber (left) races towards the endzone during a Class A football game against Butte Central last month in Havre. The...
A woman on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation suffered a gunshot wound early today and was taken to Northern Montana Hospital. According to the Hill County Sheriff's Office call log, dispatch received a call from the hospital at 3:30 a. m. today that a woman had been brought in from Box Elder with a gunshot wound. A dispatcher at the sheriff's office said that, because the shooting occurred on the reservation, the local FBI office was notified. The FBI is handling the investigation. The location on that log entry lists the...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Republican Debi Rhines, candidate for Hill County commissioner, speaks during Thursday night's candidate forum while moderator John Ita and Democratic candidate Mark Peterson listen. The two candidates for Hill County commissioner said Thursday night that if elected they would seek job-creating businesses for the county and would work more closely with the Havre city government. Democrat Mark Peterson and Republican Debi Rhines both said they would consider creating a unified police force for...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Republican State Senate candidate Don Richman listens as Democratic candidate Greg Gergeson speaks at last night's forum. Both candidates are vying for Senate District 17. In a civil debate before well more than 100 people in the Havre High School auditorium Thursday, the two candidates in the race to fill the seat in Senate District 17 showed sharp differences — except in one area. Both Democrat Greg Jergeson and Republican Don Richman said one of their goals is to bring civility, compromise a...
?Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Karen Sloan, Democratic candidate for Montana House District 34, speaks during the Havre Daily News candidates forum while Republican Rep. Wendy Warburton listens. Havre High School teacher John Ita moderated the forum Thursday night in the Havre High School auditorium. The candidates in the race for House District 34 in eastern Havre and northern Hill and Blaine counties showed sharp differences during a forum Thursday, especially on the record of the 2011 Legislature. Democrat Karen Sloan,...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Republican Rep. Kris Hansen, from House District 33, speaks during Thursday night's candidate forum while moderator John Ita and Democratic challenger Brenda Skornogoski listen. The candidates in House District 33 showed a sharp contrast during a forum in Havre Thursday. Retired Montana State University-Northern professor Brenda Skornogoski, who is challenging first-term Rep. Kris Hansen, R-Havre, said that she wants to take her values to Helena to represent her constituents and avoid partisan...
The weather is still beautiful. I just shot my best 18-hole score of my life on Sunday and I'm sure many of you still have plenty of great golf rounds left in you this year. Never-the-less, it's time for me to bid a fond farewell to golf writing for another season. After all, it's bowling season now and the Ten Pin Chatter column will have to replace this one for the long, cold, snowy winter ahead. So this will be the last From the Fringe for 2012, but please, if there's golf...
North Star's Delainey Spicher (right) goes up high for a shot during the North Star Showcase last Saturday in Rudyard. The high school volleyball season is in full swing and this coming weekend will mark the start of conference play for many local teams. Last weekend, there were two big tournaments in the Hi-Line, with the North Star Showcase in Rudyard and Gildford and the Chinook Invitational in Chinook. On Friday at the North Star tourney, the Big Sandy Pioneers went a...
After a pretty slow opening week last weekend, Hi-Line football was finally in full swing week two. Friday, in a rare upset, the Chester/J-I Hawks defeated the Chinook Sugarbeeters 26-24 in in Northern C conference play. The Beeters didn't lose a conference game last season, and lost just one in the last two seasons. The Hawks held the lead early, but it was a late score that gave the Hawks the win. C/J-I trailed 24-20 heading in to the final frame, but Jordan Oraw reeled in an 18-yard scoring pass from Erik Kelly to give...
Organizers and concerned Hi-Line residents gathered on Town Square Friday evening to talk about the state of American or Montanan families and the rights of parents. The event brought together representatives of the Montana Family Foundation and local supporters to talk about modern assaults on family values and the solutions being proposed at several levels. Jeff Laszloffy, a former state representative from Laurel and current president of the Montana Family Foundation, came to Havre to speak at the event about the battle...
Havre City Council, in a whirlwind of approval Tuesday night, heard no complaints or comments on the $17 million preliminary city budget for next year during the first public hearing at the end of their regular council meeting. The council will reconvene tonight at 6 p.m. for one more hearing and a final reading of the budget. Tonight's hearing will also hear votes on annual renewal of local taxes to pay for municipal maintenance on streets, street lights, the sewer system and maintaining the dike that keeps Bull Hook Creek...
A few months ago, Blaine County Commissioners announced they might have to cut one of their Montana State University Extension Agents. Now it is time for the ax to fall. The county budget is drawn up and is set to face a vote Thursday. According to Commissioner Frank DePriest, the extension office is one of many areas, like the library, that is having to absorb a loss of around $600,000 in revenue, from changes in mill amounts and utility assessments from the state, that the county currently faces. The cut, which should save...
With Labor Day over, a new attraction — or distraction — is back on Beaver Creek Park south of Havre, and officials are urging people to slow down and use caution. Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Cattle roam across Beaver Creek Road on Tuesday. Cattle are grazing on the park, and signs have been posted both to warn drivers of the livestock and notify them of the seasonal night-time speed limits. In an effort to reduce the chance of car-cow crashes, during grazing season — the day after Labor Day through Dec. 31, gener...
The Hill County Commission Tuesday approved a budget with a $3 million reduction in spending, and did so without firing any employees, but also without much for new equipment and other capital outlays. "It's pretty frugal," Commissioner Kathy Bessette said Tuesday. The budget approved for fiscal year running from July 1 through June 30 next year was $20.413 million, compared to last year's budget of $23.362 million. Bessette said much of the reduction is due to grant funding that was in last year's budget which the county...
Hugo H. Schram, 87, of Lewistown, died early Tuesday morning, Sept. 4, 2012, in Central Montana Medical Center in Lewistown, following a brief illness. He was born March 10, 1925, in Parkers Prairie, Minn., the son of William and Ottilie (Brueske) Schramm. Hugo Schram He received his schooling in Parkers Prairie and then began working odd jobs in the area. On Dec. 5, 1946, he was united in marriage to Darlene Bowman in Parkers Prairie. They lived in Parkers Prairie and he worked with his dad on his dairy farm until moving to...
Editor: I am a teacher in Chicago. I ride the bus to go to work almost every day, and recently I noticed the posters displayed inside the bus promoting tourism in Montana. The pictures were so beautiful that they looked fake. Most of them displayed three sights all in one shot. The foreground was a sea of green grasssprinkled with flowers and behind this prairie I saw heart-stirring forests, like those described in fairy tales. Then, behind everything, were majestic mountains reaching toward the sky. Those images made me...
