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Two fires in the area were reported Tuesday, with one small prairie blaze extinguished and no current information available on another in the Bear Paw Mountains in southern Blaine County. Blaine County Sheriff Glenn Huestis said this morning that Blaine County rural firefighters and Bureau of Land Management firefighters had responded to a fire in Blaine County mostly on the Cowan Ranch in the Bear Paws Tuesday. Huestis said the last information he had received was that, as of 3 p. m. Tuesday, the fire was about 100 acres....
The Hill County Park Board heard an update on activities and improvements at Beaver Creek County Park during its monthly meeting Monday, including that people have been using the park nonstop this summer. "I honestly feel that this might be the busiest the park has ever been in the time I have been here, " said Beaver Creek Park Superintendent Chad Edgar. Edgar said the campsites have been used nonstop, as have the facilities at Camp Kiwanis, which, he added, he can document has had its busiest summer so far. He said the...
Pam Renaker was up bright and early Saturday morning, delivering e-waste, cardboard and paper collected at a Rudyard school to the Recycle Hi-Line collection center at 1st Street and 5th Avenue Saturday. She was ecstatic that Recycle Hi-Line had started its monthly program to encourage people to bring stuff that would otherwise be headed toward the landfill. Renaker is a science teacher at North Star High School in Rudyard. She didn't know what to expect when she started a recycle program at the school. Students and teachers...
Big changes are occurring to St. Jude Thaddeus, from the demolition of the old rectory building to the city of Havre's possible upcoming relinquishment of the alley that bisects the campus, but one of the big personal changes facing the students and faculty returning this month is one of leadership. Carol Ortman, a 21-year St. Jude veteran, has ended her six-year tenure as the principal of St. Jude Thaddeus School. Ortman said she was considering taking a sabbatical when the decision to retire came as a surprise. "I like to...
About 400 people were on hand for the first Night Out program at Montana State University-Northern Tuesday night. A festive atmosphere prevailed. - Young people gathered around the Blackhawk helicopter brought to the Student Union Building lawn by the U. S. Border Patrol's Havre sector. - Lines formed to get barbecued pork and cake. Local busiensses donated the money for the food, and free-will offerings went to the Boys & Girls club of the Hi-Line. - McGruff the Crime Dog entertained young people. - Kids were enthralled by...
HELENA — Leaders of a Hutterite colony are demanding an apology from the National Geographic Society and a pledge that it never again broadcast a television show they say misrepresented their way of life and damaged their reputation. National Geographic Channel CEO David Lyle said Wednesday an apology is unwarranted because the show gave a fair and accurate depiction of colony life. AP Photo/National Georgraphic, Ben Shank This undated image released by National Geographic Channels shows Hutterite Judy Hofer picking c...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ernest Borgnine, the beefy screen star known for blustery, often villainous roles, but who won the best-actor Oscar for playing against type as a lovesick butcher in "Marty" in 1955, died Sunday. He was 95. His longtime spokesman, Harry Flynn, told The Associated Press that Borgnine died of renal failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his wife and children at his side. AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File Ernest Borgnine poses backstage after receiving the life achievement award at the 17th Annual Screen A...
HELENA — The public response to the plans for this year's wolf hunt in Montana has been staggering: A whopping 6,500 comments have been received on the proposal set for approval Thursday by the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission. That far outnumbers the 1,500 comments received on the 2011 wolf hunt plan and just about doubles the comments FWP took on last year's hotly debated proposal to relocate Yellowstone National Park bison, agency officials said. AP photo/Eliza Wiley, Independent Record Randy Newberg, with Headwaters S...
Skylight Volleyball Camps Kids Camp will be July 23 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and July 24 and 25 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. It will be held at Havre Middle School, located at 1441 11th Street West. The cost is $55 per camper. The Skylights Kids Camp is for girls entering fifth-eighth grade. We will teach basic skills highlighting the fun you can have with volleyball and promoting all the positive aspects of sports. Team Camp will be July 27 and 28 and will be held at Havre Middle School, located at 1441 11th Street West. The cost is...
I might only be 37 years old, but in some ways, I'm old fashioned, and I'm also set in my ways. Needless to say, I'm not always big on change, especially when it comes to sports. But change in sports is inevitable and in the world of college athletics, it's even more likely. This day and age, it's seems like changes are happening in college sports almost daily. And those changes don't exclude the Frontier Conference, which directly effects athletics at Montana State...
It's early July and that means it's the dogs days of American Legion baseball. For the Havre North Stars, that means one final push before the Northern District Tournament later this month in Medicine Hat, Alberta. The North Stars have six district games left on their slate, including four straight at home this week. That home stand starts tonight with a pair of critical conference games against the Lethbridge Miners. The doubleheader gets underway today at 4 at Legion Field....
Editor: The ugly, horned specter of a general sales tax for Montana recently haunted a meeting of the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce. According to a Havre Daily News report ("Tourism raises voice for support at Chamber," April 25, page 1), one of our Republican legislators from a Havre House of Representatives district made an impassioned plea for such a regressive tax. No one is documented as speaking up against it, although — if recognized and given a chance to speak — Sen. Greg Jergeson, who was present at the mee...
Editor: I'm very disappointed that a Havre Daily News reporter would include this personal observation in a story: "The Hill County Democratic Party seems to have carried over their lack of energy from recent elections, not holding any Democratic event last night." It's true that our local Democratic Party did not hold an event to watch the outcome of the primary election. The county party does not take a position in primary races that pit Democrats against Democrats. I can guarantee you that Democrats will have a huge event...
NEW YORK — I'll Have Another's bid for the first Triple Crown in 34 years ended shockingly in the barn and not on the racetrack Friday when the colt was scratched the day before the Belmont Stakes and retired with a swollen tendon. "It's been an incredible ride, an incredible run," trainer Doug O'Neill said. "It's a bummer. It's not tragic, but it's a huge disappointment." AP Photo/Mike Groll Trainer Doug O'Neill brings out I'll Have Another, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, for a news conference at Belmont Park in E...
HELENA (AP) — Montana Lottery officials say a Havre man has claimed the $110,000 Montana Cash jackpot from last Wednesday's drawing. Charles Loudermilk bought his ticket at the Holiday Stationstore in Havre. He said he stopped at Holiday on Thursday to pick up a newspaper and saw a sign in the store that said the jackpot winner was from Havre. He says he checked his ticket against the winning numbers in the newspaper and then went to tell his wife. The couple checked the Montana Lottery website and saw the jackpot was $...
Former Montana State University-Northern football standout Nick Arnold has been enjoying the game of football for a long, long time. Once his playing days with the Lights were over, he stuck with the game by playing quarterback the last several years for the Missoula Phoenix of the Rocky Mountain Football League. However, Arnold's playing days came to a scary and crashing end when he was seriously injured while diving into the endzone five weeks ago in a game at the Billings...
A busy weekend of baseball didn't start out as planned for the Havre North Stars American Legion baseball team. On Thursday afternoon, the North Stars began a four-game stretch at the Aarons Tournament in Billings with a 18-2 loss to the Havre's Jace Kato swings at a pitch during an American Legion baseball game earlier this month between Havre and the Medicine Hat Knights. The North Stars are in Billings for a tournament which has them playing four games through Saturday and...
CHINOOK — After more than a year of the Chinook city government having no official oversight on building issues, the City Council began talking at its Thursday night meeting about restoring some municipal control. In April 2011, the council voted to decertify their building inspection. Council member Heath Richman said at the time that state officials he talked to didn't know why a city of Chinook's size needed to be certified or have their own building inspector. A local contractor, Barry Murnion, told the council then t...
7 Dems head to Helena to back Obama Hill County Democrats kicked off what they predicted would be a good year Thursday night by tapping seven people to attend the state Democratic caucus in Helena on Saturday. The state caucus will select delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., this summer. All of Montana's delegates will be pledged to the renomination of President Barack Obama, who handily won the Democratic primary Tuesday. Attending the Helena meeting will be: - Brenda Skornogoski, the party's...
Lillian Olson, 78, of Harlem, passed away June 7, 2012, due to a natural causes. Funeral services will be held Monday, June 11, 2012, at 11 a. m., at American Lutheran Church in Harlem. Arrangements are made by Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook....
A woman walking out in the country sees a rattlesnake close to both her barn and her house. A quick glance tells her no sticks or tools to use as an instrument of reptile death are near enough to fetch without giving the creature ample opportunity to escape. She reaches out to a wooden post buried shallowly in soft, wet ground and discovers that the post is loose. She wiggles the post around to loosen it further, then yanks it from the earth and bludgeons the snake to death...
Editor: I want to thank all the voters for coming out to vote in the primary election in Senate District 16. I want to thank the Chippewa Cree Tribal Business Committee, the Fort Belknap Community Council, the Fort Peck Tribal Executive Board, their tribal enrolled members, the county commissioners, the farmers and ranchers, and if I forgot anybody, this includes you also. I want to thank my opponent Frank Smith for running a clean campaign. I will work hard and make sure your voice is heard in the Legislature. Please don't...
Prudence Draeger Prudence "Prudy" L. (Lien) Draeger passed away early Saturday morning, April 21, 2012, from medical complications following a fall earlier in the week while attending a baseball game. She was 88 years young. A memorial service will be held at Albany First United Methodist Church, 1115 28th Ave. SW, Saturday, May 12, at 2 p. m. Prudy was the oldest child of Halvor and Clara (Martinsen) Lien of Wolf Point, Mont. After being born on Aug. 29, 1923, in Tioga, N.D., she was raised on a dry-land farm south of Wolf...
Editor: Since U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., vacated his seat to run against Sen. Jon Tester of Big Sandy, that leaves a vacant seat in Rehberg's district. A primary to choose candidates for this office from both parties is June 5. Voters in the general election, Nov. 6, decide a winner, as with Obama vs. Romney and Sen. Tester vs. Rehberg. The vote for Rehberg's congressional seat has attracted lots of interest as a hotly contested race across the state. Since Gov. Brian Schweitzer, the odds-on favorite for the...
Editor: The leadership of Montana State University-Northern's faculty union is committed to more class offerings for students and more programs. We are tired of hearing that Northern has to cut opportunities for students. Chancellor James Limbaugh's decision to cancel summer classes is having a negative impact on the hard-working students and their families of Montana. In Thursday's Havre Daily News Page 1 article, "Union upset after some summer classes canceled," our chancellor claims that only 68 students were affected by...
