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The Havre High girls basketball team is off to a perfect 6-0 start this season, and after a few weeks off for the holidays, the Blue Ponies are ready to get back to the court and back to their winning ways. Yet, after not playing since Dec. 21 against Great Falls High, Havre won't have time to be rusty, as the Ponies start the second part of their schedule tonight in Fairfield, against the defending Class B state champions. The Ponies and Eagles will meet tonight at 7. Havre w...
It’s a brand New Year, Lord! Don’t we all look forward to that clean, fresh, new page on our brand new calendars, and also in our lives? Sometimes it’s a bit scary when we look ahead, knowing that It’s up to us to fill in those blank pages. Oh, Lord, help us to choose wisely. WE need Your help, Lord, as we may stop for a minute and set a few things into perspective, then we need to take a moment to prioritize; and while we’re at it, maybe we should take a deep breath, savoring life just a little bit more. Your Word is full o...
Four friends, two couples - one of whom is getting divorced - discuss love, marriage and life, on stage. The Montana Actors' Theatre debut of Donald Margulies' Pulitzer-prize winning "Dinner with Friends" is a week from today. The play is more than fiction - it's therapy, the actors and director Rachel Dean said Wednesday. "This is truth, this is life," Dean said. "This show helps you connect and say, 'I'm not alone. There are other people who understand how this feels, who...
The FBI, in conjunction with the Fort Belknap Police Department, is investigating the death of 48-year-old Antonio Castillo Jr., who was found dead of hypothermia Dec. 29 on the reservation. “We are investigating Mr. Castillo’s death along with the Fort Belknap Police Department and an assist by the Blaine County Coroner,” Travis Burrows, supervisory senior resident agent with FBI Billings, said in an email Wednesday. Blaine County Undersheriff Frank Billmayer said in an email Thursday that Castillo died of hypothermia and e...
A local has started a foundation as a way to distribute money that had been donated in the last few months to people who’d been affected by or involved with the East Fork Fire. Arlene Rice of Havre said she started the Hill-Blaine County Fire Foundation and is waiting for 501(c)(3) nonprofit designation approval. She anticipates to have everything completed within the next few days, she said. She would not comment on how much money had been donated to the different local accounts, but she said that “not one dime” of it had b...
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North Central Senior Citizens Center, Jan. 8-12 Monday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; bingo at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m; TOPS at 8 a.m.; cards at 1 p.m.; mall or Walmart shopping from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; pinochle at 1 p.m. Friday — Medical transportation will be available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. but people must make a request at least 24 hours in advance. No cards were played this week Menu...
By Emily Mayer There was no Havre Plaindealer issue for this week 100 years ago. Why? Havre experienced yet another flood, and the Plaindealer office was flooded, as were several other businesses. The flood happened during the early hours of the last day of 1917. A lengthy article was published in The Hill County Democrat’s Jan. 5, 1918, edition, which stated that melting snow from the Bear Paws overflowed Bullhook, which at the time ran completely open through Havre. The Democrat reported “In three quarters of an hour the...
To all of you who donated toward the East Fork Fire Disaster Fund, your thoughts and hearts were of good intention and greatly appreciated, but those who were burned out, whether partially or totally, as far as I know at this time have not seen a nickel of it. I write to let you know we appreciate your thoughts, but they may all of have been in vain, to be or will be squandered, in regards to your intentions. Sincerely, David Molitor Bear Paw Mountains rancher...
Editor, The university in our town does not have a full-time professor of physics, philosophy, foreign language, women’s studies, comparative religion or music. Less than 40 percent of the budget of Montana State University-Northern is spent on instruction, and more than half of the full-time employees of the university do not teach a single class. For this coming semester, there are over 70 closed classes and lab sections. So what is the response of the university’s leadership to this crisis? Build a football stadium. Foo...
The headline will read “Woman dies shopping for refrigerator.” Readers will be expecting to find that I was crushed by a 22 cubic foot appliance, flattened like Wile E. Coyote, but no, shopping is the silent killer. It’ll be a heart attack that gets me, maybe a stroke or an aneurysm just to shake things up a bit. My last words will be “I hate shopping,” then goodnight, Irene, I’ll drop to the floor in a resounding thud of defeat. It shouldn’t be this hard. I know what I d...
Havre Police Department Officers arrested Brooke Ann Blacktongue of Havre, 29, on a partner or family member assault charge after she reported Thursday at 12:23 p.m. that she was assaulted. —— Officers arrested David Taylor Eagleman of Havre, 58, on a disorderly conduct charge after a Ninth Avenue business caller reported Thursday at 4:05 p.m. that there was an intoxicated man who could barely walk. —— Officers arrested two people during a motor vehicle stop after a caller at a First Street business reported Thursday at 6:18...
The next regular meeting of the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board will be Monday, Jan. 8, at 6 p.m. in the Board Room of Havre Inn and Suites in Havre. The meeting agenda is: 1. Roll call of members. 2. Reading and approval of minutes. 3. Museum report. 4. Wahkpa Chu’gn update 5. The Foundation report. 6. Committee reports: • Education and Programs • Budget and Finance • Displays • By-Laws • Transition Committee 7. Unfinished business • Review cleaning plan and dates • By-law revisions • Museum brochures 8. New business ...
Hill County Park Board will meet at the Timmons Room, Hill County Courthouse, Monday at 5:30 p.m. 1. Approval of minutes 2. Approval of agenda 3. Guests and public comments on agenda items only 4. Cabin business: #28 Mooney Coulee; #34 Mooney Coulee 5. Old business: Rotary Falls Trailhead discussion; cabin inspections; monitoring progress; MT Tourism Grant update; East Fork Fire update 6. New business: Lon Waid — logging interest; cabin siding bid 7. Rules and Regulation Committee 8. Finance and Planning Committee 9. Cabin O...
The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees will meet Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Havre Middle School. The agenda for the meeting is: A. Call to order 1. Pledge of Allegiance 2. Roll call 3. Welcome to visitors 4. Presentation and display 5. Agenda deletions or corrections, if any B. Unanimous consent agenda C. Old business 1. Board performance assessment and meeting evaluation tool review, Policy 1620P 2 Consideration of new and revised district policies on second and final reading. D. New business 1. MHSA annaul meeting...
Monday 1 p.m. — Building manager meeting 5:30 p.m. — Park Board meeting in Timmons Room Tuesday 10:30 a.m. — County Road Department meeting 10:30 a.m. — LEPC meeting at EOC 1:30 p.m. — 911 meeting at City Hall 3 p.m. — RSID meeting Wednesday 10 a.m. — Monthly Safety meeting 1 p.m. — Great West — meeting Thursday 10 a.m. — Weekly business meeting Manual claims Employment review Resolutions Tax adjustments County permit approval Subdivision/survey approval Contracts Time for comments from the public Friday Regular office hour...
Our sweet Mom, Grandma, Great-grandma, Wife, Sister, Aunt and Friend has gone home to be with her Savior. Wardeen Kuenzel passed away Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017, in Billings. Wardeen Westermann was born the second daughter of Walter and Arloiene Stallmacher Westermann Jan. 23, 1925, in Milbank, South Dakota. Not long after her birth, the family moved to Malta, Montana, and then a few years later to Havre. She graduated from Havre High School in 1943 and entered nursing school in...
When temperatures drop - New Year's Day saw Havre tie a record low of minus 32 also hit in 1911 and 1924 - many people want to stay inside and avoid the cold, but not everyone can do that. Some people in north-central Montana, such as law enforcement and firefighters, public works employees, utility workers, farmers and ranchers, railroad employees, truckers and others have to be out in the cold. In Montana, everything freezes in winter, including the tools local police office...
Now that Goliath and I are supposedly retired, it is fun to spend some time looking back over the trail we have traveled before we seek to ride off on the new one the Lord will show us. This week I have shut off the phone and stayed clear of most folks while I am on retreat, seeking what's next. I found this book called "Living in the Presence" by Tilden Edwards. Unfortunately, like many theologians of today he tends to use theological jargon to impress his peers, but if you...
Yee-haw! It’s another new year and already many of the New Year’s resolutions have been broken. Years ago I quit making those annual New Year’s resolutions as it didn’t seem to matter what it was, it didn’t last very long. Instead I made a resolution to keep working on living out “Three Simple Rules: A Wesleyan Way of Living.” These are: 1. Do No Harm; 2. Do Good; and, 3. Stay in Love With God. So what does this all mean? I want to take a few moments to review each of these principles and even suggest that if everyone woul...
Who would have thought that certain things could bring on such a haze? Like days of rest or ’versaries[1] and other Special Days. Another thing that’s bothersome is when the West wind howls. The house or floors, when ere they creak and when the tummy growls. You’re missed, dear one — each day you’re missed as weeks, months, years fly by. The clock ticks on, dark shadows fall, doesn’t take much to cry. Some time has passed — an improvement??? We daily wish you’re near. Seems all we see or even hear, reminds us of you, dear. Wh...
10 was memorable. That goes without saying. Whether it was on a local, or national level, the last year was a big year. But 2017 is also over. We’ve seen the retrospectives. We’ve all reminisced. We enjoyed Christmas and tried to enjoy ringing in the New Year, though that was difficult to do when it’s 32 below outside. In essence, we’ve looked back. I’m done looking back. Instead, I’m looking forward. With each year, I get older. I’ll be 43 in three months. I used to think...
Winning on the road is never easy, especially in the Frontier Conference. So even though it wasn’t pretty, the Montana State University-Northern Lights will take the 71-63 victory it got over Montana Tech Thursday night. Both the Lights and the Skylights took on Montana Tech in Butte as part of a Frontier Conference basketball doubleheader Thursday night. The Northern women dropped the first game to the Orediggers 71-55, but in the nightcap, the Lights rallied in the second h...
The last time the Havre High boys basketball team played a game, it was more than two weeks ago against Great Falls High. But even though the Blue Ponies weren't playing games, they were still focused on improving as they try to bounce back from a 2-4 start. And with two very challenging opponents waiting for them this weekend, the Ponies won't have to wait long to see how far they have come. The first test for Havre (2-4, 0-2) comes tonight, on the road against Fairfield....
The Montana State University-Northern Lights were in a big hole late in their most recent Cascade Conference home dual. And while the Lights couldn't climb all the way back against the Southern Oregon Raiders, they sure made things interesting. Thursday night inside the Armory Gymnasium, the No. 10 Lights, without star 157-pounder Brandon Weber, fell to the No. 13 Raiders 26-15. But going into the final match of the night, the Lights had a chance to win the dual, thanks to an...
