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  • Lorang of Havre earns honors from D.A. Davidson

    Updated Jan 17, 2019

    Press release GREAT FALLS - D.A. Davidson & Co. has named Jacob Lorang of Havre to its President's Club, one of the company's most prestigious honors organizations. Lorang qualified for the distinction based on his integrity, strong business practices and client-first focus and, by earning the honor, can become involved in the direction and philosophy of the company's Wealth Management group. Lorang serves as vice president, senior vice president and financial advisor. He...

  • OUTDOORS: Little ice, little fishing

    George Ferguson|Updated Jan 17, 2019

    Last winter probably seemed like an ice fisherman's paradise around Havre and all over Montana. Of course, few other people would have chosen to use the word paradise when describing the winter of 2018. Fast forward one year, though, and Havre has seemed like paradise so far this winter. Except for the ice fisherman that is. With well-above average temperatures and little precipitation so far this winter, there is very little ice on local fisheries, so it seems more like regul...

  • Salvation Army renovation begins

    Derek Hann|Updated Jan 17, 2019

    The Salvation Army announced it is about to start renovations on the Havre Salvation Army Thrift Store. A clearance sale is set next week and the store’s the grand re-opening is planned for the spring. Salvation Army said in a press release the renovations will start Monday. The Havre Salvation Army Thrift Store will also be open for a clearance sale Friday, Jan. 25, and Saturday, 26, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, Salvation Army Capt. Jonathan Harvey said, with everything within the store heavily discounted. “It will giv...

  • Wheat Montana founder speaks at Havre Chamber meeting

    Derek Hann|Updated Jan 17, 2019

    A man with a story about the humble beginnings of a Montana business that became a multi-million dollar company was the keynote speaker Wednesday at the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce's 110th Annual Meeting and Luncheon in the Olympic Room of the Duck Inn. Dean Folkvord, former chief executive officer of Wheat Montana, was the keynote speaker at the meeting. He talked about his family turning their small wheat farm in the Gallatin Valley into a multi-million dollar business, t...

  • Future looks bright for Havre Chamber of Commerce

    Stephen Real|Updated Jan 17, 2019

    The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce held its 110th annual Chamber luncheon in the Olympic Room of the Duck Inn Wednesday, including introducing Curtis Lineweaver as the new Chamber president. Lineweaver, who is replacing outgoing president Havre Daily News Publisher Stacy Mantle, is a financial advisor at D.A. Davidson & Co. He said he felt good about being the next president of the Chamber and was excited to get started. Lineweaver went over the various committees within the...

  • Fire devastates garage at residence on U.S. Highway 2

    Derek Hann|Updated Jan 17, 2019

    Firefighters responded to a report of a garage fire at a residence on the 8600 Block of U.S. Highway 2 West, past Beaver Creek Golf Course, at 10:56 a.m. Wednesday. Havre Fire Department issued an all-department page, with all available personnel, 15 total, responding to the call along with one fire truck and two tender vehicles to supply water. No vehicles were inside of the garage, although items were in it at the time of the fire. Fire Chief Mel Paulson said that the damage within the garage was extensive and the...

  • Pepin Park playground reopens

    Ryan Berry|Updated Jan 17, 2019

    Editor’s note: This article clarifies the amount of time the playground was closed. A photo caption published Tuesday said playground had been closed for a week. After being cordoned off with caution tape for a brief period, the playground at Havre’s Pepin Park is again open to the public. Mike Eekhoff, whose Lawntree Services company has been working on trees adjacent to the park, said the playground is available to any parents and children willing to brave the cold. This comes less than a week after his workers had to close...

  • Letter to the Editor - A new name for Sen. Sales for his wall bid

    Updated Jan 17, 2019

    From 1953 until 1966 there was a children’s television show hosted by a comedian who went by the stage name “Soupy Sales.” In 1965, upset at having to work on New Year’s Day, Sales ended his live broadcast by directing his viewers to tiptoe into their still-sleeping parents’ bedrooms and remove those “funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. presidents” from their pants and pocketbooks. “Put them in an envelope and mail them to me,” Soupy instructed the children. Soon, money began arriving and Soupy found himse...

  • Local News - NCMT buses not running for MLK Day

    Updated Jan 17, 2019

    North Central Montana Transit buses will not run Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but service will return in full Tuesday. For information on the NCMT’s services go online to https://ncmtransit.rural-transit.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/NCMTransit/ or call the office 265-4762....

  • For the Record, Jan. 17, 2019

    Updated Jan 17, 2019

    Havre Police Department A caller at Lincoln-McKinley Primary School reported a non-injury vehicle crash between a Ford Explorer and a school bus Wednesday at 7:57 a.m. -- Officers investigated the use of a fake $100 bill was reported at 4:25 this morning at a First Street West business. Hill County Sheriff's Office Tyrell Wade Nault of Box Elder, 18, was arrested on a Justice or City court warrant at Hill County Detention Center Wednesday at 9:10 a.m. -- Haley Marie Kelm of...

  • Obituary - Glen Ross Knudson

    Updated Jan 17, 2019

    Glen Ross Knudson was born June 26, 1935, in Havre, Montana, on the family farm; he passed away peacefully in Spokane, Washington, January 5, 2019. Farming and ranching were the biggest part of his life and the early years he worked eagerly alongside his father to learn the trade. His love of rodeo took him to many communities to compete in bronc riding, bull riding or roping. where he made several buddies along the way. He married Ila Springer in 1957 and they ranched on Red Rock, had five children and lived here until... Full story

  • Blue Ponies look to regain Class A Duals title in Belgrade

    Chris Peterson|Updated Jan 17, 2019

    The Havre High wrestling team has just a few weeks to go before the Class A state tournament and one of the great things about the annual Class A duals is that it will provide the Blue Ponies a chance to see a number of different competitors before the state meet. The tournament, which was won last year by Sidney, the same team that took home the Class A state championship last February, will be hosted in Belgrade once again. Things will get underway Friday and the finals...

  • The Next Chapter: A Brighter Future

    Chris Peterson|Updated Jan 17, 2019

    High school basketball in Montana means a lot of things to a lot of different people. For Kendall Windy Boy, it meant an escape, at least for a few hours each day, from a life that was fraught with challenges. Despite having an unstable family life and being forced to miss school at times to take care of things at home, Windy Boy eventually developed into a star at Rocky Boy, and last season, Windy Boy helped the Stars eventually take home third place at the Class B state tour...

  • Lights aim to stay hot on the road

    George Ferguson|Updated Jan 17, 2019

    The Montana State University-Northern Lights are on a roll. Now, to keep the roll going, they'll have to win on the road for a while. Northern (3-3, 11-7), winners of three straight Frontier Conference games, will be away from the Armory Gymnasium for the next two weeks, and that road trip starts tonight with a rematch against the Montana Western Bulldogs in Dillon. Northern then traverses west to Lewiston, Idaho, for a second meeting with the Lewis-Clark State Warriors. And...

  • Skylights hope to keep momentum going at Top 25 rivals Montana Western, LC State

    George Ferguson|Updated Jan 17, 2019

    The Montana Western Bulldogs are one of the best teams in all of NAIA women’s basketball. And the Montana State University-Northern Skylights have to play them for a second time in just 14 days. When Northern (1-5, 9-9) heads to Dillon tonight to play the third-ranked Bulldogs (5-1, 14-1), it will start a five-game road swing for the Skylights. And while MSU-N was thumped by Western back on Jan. 4 in the Armory Gymnasium, the Skylights have a lot of confidence going into tonig...

  • MSU-N grapplers get a taste of a big-time NAIA tourney atmosphere this weekend in Missouri

    George Ferguson|Updated Jan 17, 2019

    The 2019 NAIA national wrestling tournament is still seven weeks away. But the Montana State University-Northern Lights will get as close to a look at what nationals will be like as they can get when they travel to Marshall, Missouri, this weekend. The third-ranked Lights will be in Missouri for the annual Missouri Valley Invitational, a tournament which attracts most of the top NAIA programs in the country. So, as in years past, the tourney in Missouri will have a...

  • Bill would lower the cost of medication in Montana

    Updated Jan 17, 2019

    Everyone agrees that the high cost of prescription medications is a huge issue, but there hasn’t been a serious attempt to solve the problem in Montana. We’re changing that by bringing forward legislation we estimate will save Montanans about $8 million in the first year alone. Allow us to explain. Prescriptions make up about 20 percent of health care costs, and they’re one of the fastest-growing cost drivers in health care. While there are many reasons for this, a primary one is the middlemen who control the process between...

  • Looking out my Backdoor: Oh, for pity's sake!

    Sondra Ashton|Updated Jan 17, 2019

    Those words came out of my mouth with full exclamation stop. And nobody near with ears to hear. Among other things in this mysterious and strange aging process, things like talking with myself, I have an emerging propensity to use phrases I have not heard since I was a child; phrases I snubbed, vowed never to let pass my more educated, sophisticated lips. Ha. Yesterday, I returned from my week on the beach in Mazatlan. With a severe shortage of gasoline in the state of...