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The state Board of Regents is still searching for ways to trim the university system budget, but Chairman Stephen Barrett said tuition increases aren't being considered. "To no one's surprise here, it's going to be a more tight and difficult year than we expected," Barrett said Thursday, the first of two days the regents were meeting in Helena. Gov. Brian Schweitzer last week asked state agencies to find ways to cut their budgets by 5 percent in 2011, if necessary. That amounts to $7.5 million for a university system that is...
One stretch of U.S. Highway 2 near the North Dakota border is being rebuilt as a four-lane highway. Now the president of the group working to make the entire 600-plus miles of the road four lanes is hopeful that a stretch closer to home will soon see the same change. The 10-mile stretch of road runs from Havre to near the landfill in Blaine County, said Bob Sivertsen, president of the Highway 2 Association. At Tuesday's City Council meeting, the association will ask for Havre's support to revisit an environmental impact...
Four area students — two from Havre and two from Chinook — will be going to Europe this summer as part of the People to People program. The program, founded by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1955, promotes international peace and understanding. The four were chosen after a rigorous set of interviews and tests and quizzes on European politics, history, art and culture of Europe. Forty students from Montana will be among those taking part. "I was lucky enough to be one of the 40," said Mackenzy Edmonds, 14, a Havre Middle Schoo...
After an 0-2 start to the Frontier Conference season, the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team needed a win. Not only did the Skylights need a victory to erase last weekend's difficult road trip, but they needed to stay within striking distance in the early conference race. Northern accomplished those missions and then some on Saturday night by crushing the University of Great Falls Argos 63-36 at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. "I was very pleased with how we played for 30 minutes tonight," MSU-N head...
HELENA — At a time when gays have been gaining victories across the country, the Republican Party in Montana still wants to make homosexuality illegal. The party adopted an official platform in June that keeps a long-held position in support of making homosexual acts illegal, a policy adopted after the Montana Supreme Court struck down such laws in 1997. The fact that it's still the official party policy more than 12 years later, despite a tidal shift in public attitudes since then and the party's own pledge of support for i...
In a wild offensive affair, the Eastern Oregon Mountaineers scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns to earn a 50-46 come-from-behind win over the MSU-Northern Lights Saturday afternoon in LaGrande, Ore. MSU-N had built a 33-28 halftime lead, and the Lights led 46-35 at the start of the fourth quarter, before the Mounties came back in the final 15 minutes. The Lights got three touchdown passes from freshman quarterback Derek Lear, as well as two rushing touchdowns from sophomore fullback James Chandless. MSU-N also scored on a...
The winning button numbers are 511 for Grand Prize and 827 for 2nd prize. First prize winner gets a basket with $400 worth of gifts and gift cards from Havre businesses. Second-place winner gets a basket with $200 with of prizes. Winners can bring their buttons to the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce office to claim their prizes....
Bermuda braces for Hurricane Igor; Karl dissipates ELIZABETH ROBERTS,Associated Press Writer HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) — Tourists caught the last flights out of Bermuda and locals stocked up on emergency supplies Saturday preparing for Hurricane Igor, while Mexicans mourned at least seven killed by Hurricane Karl. An extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane earlier in the week, Igor was still a Category 2 storm, and officials warned that its pounding rains and driving winds could be deadly. "This storm will be a long and p...
Mark Peterson was named the 2010 Ag Advocate Recipient and brothers LeRoy and Clarence "Fritz" Keller won the Ag Leader Recipient award. The awards were presented at the 15th annual Ag Appreciation Banquet at Havre Ice Domes Saturday night. Peterson was cited for his community work, which ranges from being a founding member of the Hill County Seed Association, being a first responder, serving in the Havre Lions Club and volunteering for a variety of community projects. He has been involved in several agriculture research proj...
Protesters against Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to Britain march in central London, Saturday. The pope is on a four-day visit, the first ever state visit by a Pope to Britain. AP Photo/Akira Suemori) Pope Benedict XVI waves from behind the bullet-proof glass of his Popemobile as he arrives at Hyde Park in London Saturday. The pope is on a four-day visit to England and Scotland. AP Photo / Max Rossi, Pool Pope meets with abuse victims as thousands protest NICOLE WINFIELD, VICTOR L. SIMPSON Associated Press Writers LONDON...
First lady Michelle Obama applauds President Barack Obama on stage at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual Legislative Conference Phoenix Awards Dinner in Washington, Saturday. AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt Obama: Black lawmakers must rally voters back home MARK S. SMITH,Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama implored black voters on Saturday to rekindle the passion they felt for his groundbreaking campaign and turn out in force this fall to repel Republicans who are ready to "turn back t...
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...
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...
HELENA (AP) — An interim committee trying to close a potential $1.5 billion long-term funding gap in the Teachers Retirement System is sending the full Legislature two proposals that would change benefits for new hires. The State Administration and Veterans' Affairs Interim Committee endorsed competing plans on Tuesday. One would reduce costs to the system by creating individual retirement accounts based on new teachers' contributions. The second would base benefits on a new teacher's last five years' salary instead of his l...
CHICAGO — They were close. After three weeks of respectful but increasingly tense deliberations, 11 jurors were ready to convict Rod Blagojevich of what prosecutors called a "political corruption crime spree" that would have sent yet another former Illinois governor to prison. Not close enough. On vote after vote, the jury kept coming up one juror short — a lone holdout who wouldn't budge and would agree only that Blagojevich lied to the FBI. "The person just did not see the evidence that everyone else did," said juror Stephe...
Ormand Hilderbrand says he "now knows the real meaning of going for broke'" after spending five years working to launch Oregon's first small, independently developed wind farm. "You have to have a vision, and you have to stick to it," said Hilderbrand, 59, an entrepreneur whose family has farmed dryland wheat in the mid- Columbia region east of the town of Wasco since the 1860s. "If you have the least bit of doubt, you won't get it done." Construction started in June on the first of six wind turbines at Hilderbrand's 9 megawa...
As I began to read the article regarding the registration of businesses within the 59501 zip code, (page 1, Wednesday's Havre Daily News), somehow I knew that the subject of medical marijuana would be prominently mentioned somewhere in the article. I was not disappointed! To paraphrase a song written by Stephan Stills, ("For What It's Worth," 1966), "paranoia strikes deep," in this case perhaps, a little too deep! The Planning and Development Committee has suddenly deemed it necessary to register "All businesses with a 59501...
Linda Swinney Mack, 55 years of age, passed away June 17, 2010, in Billings, Mont., due to natural causes. Cr ema t i o n h a s t a ke n place. Memorial services will be held at Holland & Bonine Funeral Home, Saturday, June 19, at 10 a.m. Internment will follow at Highland Cemetery, Havre....
The speed limit on 9th Street West will remain 25 mph despite a request by a resident of the street that it be changed to 15 mph. Instead, members of the Havre Streets and Sidewalks Committee recommended during their meeting Thursday that the police department increase patrols of the area. "And, I mean, I feel bad because that's what we recommend a lot," commi t tee member Al len "Woody" Woodwick said. He can understand the need for 15 mph speed limits in certain areas with high numbers of children or dangerous driving...
Recent rains are again raising the level of creeks in the Bear's Paw Mountains and prompting concern that more flooding is on the way. Hill County Commission Chair Mike Wendland said 4¼ inches of rain have fallen in the mountains over the last few days, and the level of Beaver Creek is again rising with large amounts of water flowing into Beaver Creek Reservoir about eight miles south of Havre. "There really is concern," he said. Wendland said the county is warning people who live near Beaver Creek between Beaver Creek Dam...
The dean of Montana Stat e University-Northern's College of Technical Sciences announced Thursday that Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway will soon begin testing use of biodiesel — testing fuel produced on the Hi-Line in its Havre station. "They have agreed to use our fuel," Dean Greg Kegel said. Northern Chancellor Frank Trocki said in an interview that the tests could bring a significant benefit to the Hi-Line, along with other work being done in the biofuels arena in the university's laboratories. "I think there's s...
Recent rains are causing a crisis at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, with the Tribal agencies there mobilizing to deal with major flooding. The Chipppewa Cree Tribe's government reported that all drainages throughout the reservation are experiencing flooding and the Tribe has established an incident command post at its Natural Resources Department. All information will be processed at the center, which can be reached at 395-4207 or 395-4513. Curtis Monteaux, Tribal disaster and emergency services coordinator, is serving as...
