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Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Alma Klobofski looks at her brother-in-law John Klobofski's World War II medals. Montana's U. S. Sen. Jon Tester made a special stop in Havre Tuesday to present a string of military honors to the family of a Havre soldier 68 years after he died in combat. "This nation has a long way to go to live up to the promises that we made to our men and women in uniform, " Tester said when he presented the medals earned by Staff Sgt. John Klobofski. "But we take a giant leap forward when we make sure they...
Helen F. Hanson passed away Oct. 15, 2012, at the Fallon County Medical Complex, Baker, Mont. She was born in Laurel, Mont., Aug. 14, 1926, to Fred and Elizabeth Feuerbacher. Helen married Clifford H. Hanson on Nov. 17, 1945, and together they raised three children, Cliff Jr., Janet and Steven. During her married life, Helen and her family lived in Conrad, Moccasin, Box Elder, and Outlook. When Cliff retired from his career as superintendent of schools, the couple settled in Redstone, Mont., where Helen worked for dentist Dr....
Joseph Champagne Joseph "Bob" Allen Champagne, 64, of Great Falls, a retired care giver, died at his residence on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, from cancer. Rosary services will be on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, at 7 p. m. at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Box Elder. A graveside service will be held Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, at 11 a. m., at Highland Cemetery in Havre. Cremation has taken place under the direction of O'Connor Funeral Home. Bob was born on July 26 1948, in Havre, to Catherine (Salois) and Raymond Joseph Champagne. He...
Arthur Whitaker, 78, of Lewiston, Idaho, passed away of cancer at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. I was born to Maude and Edwin Whitaker Jan. 19, 1934, on a homestead 40 miles north of Rudyard, Mont. Together my parents raised 14 children, of which I was fifth in line. I attended school in Havre, Mont. I joined the Air Force in 1952, during the Korean War. I was honorably discharged from the Air Force in 1956, the same year I married Penny Bennett, settling in Havre. From this union six...
The Frontier Conference is shaping up to be a roller coaster ride this season, and it's also looking like it might be the strongest league in all of NAIA football. Once again, there are four Frontier teams rated in the NAIA Coaches Poll, which was released on Monday afternoon. Eastern Oregon remained at No. 8 in this week's poll. The Mountaineers had a bye week after starting the season 2-0. Carroll College moved up to No. 11 this week after outlasting then No. 19 Rocky...
There were plenty of exciting plays, exciting victories and great sports action on the Hi-Line this weekend. After all, it was Festival Days in Havre, and that alone makes it a great weekend for sporting events in our area. But here are a few things we saw while out covering our great sporting area this past weekend, all of which may not have made it into the paper on Monday afternoon. The Havre Blue Ponies got their first win of the 2012 football season, and the 40-26...
The Montana State University-Northern volleyball team is on a roll. And for the second time in a month, a Skylight has been rewarded for her efforts. Northern Abby Nicholas junior Abby Nicholas was named Frontier Conference Player of the Week, becoming the second MSU-N player to earn the honor this season. Nicholas is a 6-foot junior middle hitter from Sandy, Utah. Northern stayed unbeaten in conference play with wins over Rocky (3-1) and Dickinson State (3-0) this past...
A lot of local, Hi-Line football programs have already proven they will be a force to be reckoned with this season, and for a few, the trend continued through another weekend of play. In Northern C 8-Man action, the Chester/J-I Hawks maintained their undefeated play with another big conference win. The Hawks already took down the Chinook Sugarbeeters earlier this season. And on Friday, the Hawks downed the Fort Benton Longhorns 52-12 to move to 4-0 on the season. The Longhorns are now 1-3. After a tight first quarter, the...
If this past week's matches are any indication, the District 6C East volleyball team is going to be a wild ride over the next two months. The North Star Knights opened volleyball action on the Hi-LIne on Thursday night with a three-game sweep of rival Chester/J-I. The Knights defeated the Hawks by scores of 25-22, 25-23 and 25-20 in what was a tightly contested three sets. Lisa Carlon garnered eight kills and four digs for the Knights, while Bettie Carlon totaled seven...
Montana State University-Northern's Charlie Mack rides in the bull riding at Saturday's Northern College Rodeo at the Great Northern Fairgrounds in Havre. The annual Northern Rodeo is the only time the Lights and Skylights compete in Havre each season. MSU-N's Kassy Brough, a former Havre Blue Pony, competes in the barrel racing Saturday night in Havre. The Montana State University-Northern rodeo team spends a lot of time competing on the road, but over the weekend, the Lights and Skylights got to show off at home. Friday,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney told donors in a newly released video clip that Palestinians "have no interest" in peace with Israel and suggested that efforts at Mideast peace under his administration would languish. Romney says that Palestinians are "committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel" and that the prospects for a two-state solution to Mideast peace were dim. "You hope for some degree of stability, but you recognize that this is going to remain an unsolved problem.and we kick t...
HELENA — Democrat Steve Bullock and Republican Rick Hill square off Tuesday in the first of seven scheduled debates, giving voters a chance to see what the campaigns call sharp differences between the two candidates vying to be Montana's next governor. The Helena meeting will be the first between Hill, a former congressman, and Bullock, the state's attorney general, 50 days before the Nov. 6 election. Gov. Brian Schweitzer, a popular Democrat, can't run again due to term limits. "It's been a long time since we've had two c...
The majority of Monday night's Chinook City Council meeting was spent rolling around a perennial Chinook debate — how to manage the sewer and water charges. The Chinook Eagles Club asked to have several of their new downtown building's accounts shut down. The building, which used to hold numerous offices, apartments and the old Pizza Pro, is now entirely occupied by the Eagles, with renovations adding a bowling alley, upgraded kitchen and walk-in cooler. These changes also prompted the request to remove the water and sewer l...
Havre residents' freedom to purchase 16-ounce sugary drinks will apparently remain unimpeded. City Councilman Rick Dow, at the conclusion of Monday's City Council meeting, asked his colleagues if any had considered introducing legislation to prohibit the sale of oversized sugary drinks. Last week, New York City imposed a ban on sale of such drinks at restaurants in the Big Apple. Dow, a frequent critic of what he sees as unnecessary government regulation, called it "a dubious week. " "How big is that one, " asked...
Havre City Council gave preliminary approval Monday to a proposal to annex 26 properties into the city. The property is residential, small business, Havre School District-owned and Montana Department of Transportation-owned land. A public hearing on the proposal will be held at 6:30 p. m., prior to the Oct. 15 council meeting. Mayor Tim Solomon said he didn't anticipate any controversy in the annexation proposal. All of the land owners petitioned the city for annexation. The annexation does not include any of the large...
Havre Daily News/Tim Leeds John Walsh, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, talks Friday during the Democratic Pasma-Peck Dinner in the Havre Eagles Club. A retired military leader made a push in Havre for his Democratic ticket running for Montana governor, saying the current state attorney general has shown, by his actions in the state's top legal office, that he will help everyone . "The things that (Steve Bullock) has done he hasn't done for just Democrats or he hasn't done them for just Republicans, but he's...
About 400 people packed the Havre Ice Dome Saturday night for the Ag Appreciation Dinner sponsored by the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce's Ag Committee. The annual celebration of Agriculture and its way of life is a reminder of what the industry means to Hill County and the Hi-Line. There are significantly fewer people in agriculture than there were a few decades ago. There is as much land in production as ever, but the farms are bigger. This means that some of the Hi-Line towns that have depended on agricultural producers...
Blaine County Commissioner Vic Miller died at Benefis Hospital in Great Falls Friday night. Saddened Blaine County residents are planning a formal caravan to escort his body from the county line at Lohman Saturday afternoon to Edwards Funeral Home in Chinook. Fellow Commissioner Frank DePriest said everyone was welcome to join in the caravan. People should just show up at Lohman, he said. A former Harlem mayor, Miller was elected a commissioner several years ago, but lost his seat in redistricting after a federal civil...
GLEN ALLEN, Va. (AP) — Mitt Romney wants running mate Paul Ryan to play it safe. Ryan, the nation's most controversial budget architect, is often described as the intellectual leader of the House Republican caucus. But Romney's presidential campaign headquarters in Boston seems, for now, to prefer that the 42-year-old father of three talks about camping and milking cows instead of the fiscal proposals that made him a conservative hero. AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack Republican vice-presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R...
HELENA — Denny Rehberg often wears cowboy boots while campaigning for the U.S. Senate, telling stories about his ranching background and bashing the "death tax" and "Obamacare," characterizations popular with Montana's rural residents. To Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, the Republican congressman who wants to take his place is all hat and no cattle. AP Photo/Matt Gouras U.S. Sen. John McCain, left, reacts to U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg on Friday, Aug. 17, 2012, while campaigning for Rehberg in Great Falls, Mont. Rehberg is e...
A 23-year-old Box Elder man died in an auto accident at 8:30 p.m. Friday. His name is being withheld. Montana Highway patrol said the man was driving a 1998 Chevy Blazer. The driver was alone in the vehicle when driving his Blazer west on Lower Box Elder Road. Troopers said he was driving too fast for conditions. The Blazer overturned and landed on its top. The driver was not wearing a seat belt, Highway Patrol said....
Friends from Blaine County and around Montana are honoring Blaine County Commissioner Vic Miller, who died at Benefis Hospital in Great Falls Friday night. Saddened Blaine County residents and law enforcement officials escorted Miller's body in a caravan from Lohman to Edwards Funeral Home in Chinook Saturday afternoon, as tributes mounted from friends in the Hi-Line and far away. Miller was a musician as well as a politician, and one of his former bandmates was one of the first to honor him. U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Big...
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (all times EDT): 1. SUICIDE BLAST KILLS DEFENSE MINISTER DURING MEETING IN DAMASCUS A suicide bomber strikes the National Security building in Syria, killing the defense minister and wounding the interior minister in a brazen attack. 2. WEIGHT LOSS DRUG'S APPROVAL OFFERS NEW HOPE FOR OBESE PATIENTS The innovation of Qsymia lies in targeting more than one of the brain signals that drive people to overeat. 3. HOW OBAMA PLANS...
GLASGOW (AP) — A BNSF Railway official says a freight train headed from Chicago to Portland, Ore., has derailed in a remote part of northeast Montana. Spokesman Gus Melonas says about a dozen cars derailed Tuesday afternoon about 20 miles east of Glasgow. He says the train had four locomotives and 57 loads of containers carrying general merchandise ranging from batteries to paper products to canoes. Melonas says several containers spilled their contents but there was no environmental threat, and no injuries were reported. A...
GLASGOW (AP) — A BNSF Railway official says a freight train headed from Chicago to Portland, Ore., has derailed in a remote part of northeast Montana. Spokesman Gus Melonas says about a dozen cars derailed Tuesday afternoon about 20 miles east of Glasgow. He says the train had four locomotives and 57 loads of containers carrying general merchandise ranging from batteries to paper products to canoes. Melonas says several containers spilled their contents but there was no environmental threat, and no injuries were reported. A...
