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Both the Havre High boys and girls cross country teams have made steady improvements as the season has gone on, and competing again this weekend, the Blue Ponies hope to do the same. Friday the Central A Blue Ponies will run in Lewistown where they will be tested against 15-20 teams from the Class A, B and C ranks. Conference rivals Belgrade, Butte Central, Livingston, Browning and host Lewistown are among the most noteworthy teams the Ponies will face, but Billings Central and Sidney should also prove to be worthy opponents...
It's a busy weekend for the Havre High volleyball team. The Central A Blue Ponies are coming off tough losses to both Hardin and Laurel. But tonight HHS will take to the road and face the Lewistown Golden Eagles in conference play in Lewistown. And on Saturday, the Ponies will make their home debut when they square off with the Class B Conrad Cowgirls at the Havre High gymnasium at 4:30 p.m. The Conrad matchup will also be the Ponies' homecoming match. "I know that we are all just really excited to have a home game and for...
Mont. woman fends off bear attack with zucchini FRENCHTOWN, Mont. (AP) — Police say a Montana woman used an unlikely weapon to fend off a charging bear — a zucchini. Missoula County Sheriff's Lt. Rich Maricelli says a 200-pound black bear attacked the woman's 12-year-old collie just after midnight Wednesday on the back porch of her home about 15 miles west of Missoula. When the woman, whom police did not name, screamed to draw the bear's attention, it charged her and swiped at her leg. Maricelli says the woman jumped bac...
NorthWestern Energy buys Blaine County gas field Tim Leeds NorthWestern Energy has purchased a majority interest in a natural gas production area in Blaine County, saying the move will help it guard against swings in prices. "Owning natural gas reserves is intended to provide customers with a source of rate-based energy that helps hedge against price volatility," said Bob Rowe, NorthWestern's president and chief executive officer. "We are excited that we were able to purchase this relatively small production field which...
Sugarbeet Festival 'going to be huge' Zach White With a more favorable weather forecast than Havre Festival Days, Chinook is expecting hundreds of people for this weekend's sixth Annual Sugarbeet Festival. The festival starts Friday afternoon with vendors setting up on Main Street, and ends 7 p.m. Saturday with Cold Hard Cash, a Johnny Cash tribute act in the Chinook High School gymnasium. The highlight of the festival is the parade down Indiana Avenue at 4 p.m. Saturday, according to Chinook Chamber of Commerce Secretary Hea...
12 candidates run for Rocky Boy tribal council Tim Leeds A full slate of candidates, including incumbents, have come forward to try for the four positions open in the Oct. 5 primary election for the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation Tribal council, the Chippewa Cree Tribe's Business Committee. The list of candidates includes 39 enrolled members of the Chippewa Cree Tribe. When voting is complete and votes counted, the top eight vote-getters will move on to the Nov. 2 general election. The Tribal council is composed of eight...
Malta newspaper presses forward John Kelleher Veteran Phillips County News reporter John Degel is accustomed to being awakened in the middle of the night to cover a fire, but the phone call he received at 3:45 a.m. Thursday will always stick in his mind. Curtis Starr, the owner of the weekly newspaper, called Degel, his top reporter, to tell him to get downtown as soon as possible. The newspaper's building in Malta's central business district was on fire. Starr couldn't get photos — his camera equipment was inside the burning...
Engstrom picked as University of Montana president HELENA (AP) — The Montana Board of Regents on Thursday approved University of Montana Provost Royce Engstrom as the school's next president. Engstrom will take the position Oct. 15, replacing retiring President George Dennison, said Kevin McRae, the board's associate commissioner for communications and human resources. The board voted in a meeting in Butte to allow Commissioner of Higher Education Sheila Stearns to enter into a contract with Engstrom, and the provost i...
James Henry Leeds James Henry Leeds, of Issaquah, Wash., passed away Sept. 19, 2010. Jim was born Dec. 4, 1919, in Havre, Mont., the son of Harvey and Hester Leeds. The fourth of eight brothers, he graduated from Havre High School and attended Northern Montana College for two years. He was awarded a private pilot license in June 1940. He then enlisted in the Navy and after graduating from naval aviation training in Pensacola was assigned to Corpus Christi Naval Air Station as a flight instructor, specializing in primary (Stea...
Is the hair thick on the cow's neck? Are the worms burrowing deeper? Are the birds flocking south sooner? Is winter galloping in on icy hoofs? All I know is that when I left Kalispell early Friday morning on my trip home from the balmy shores of Puget Sound, the sky was overcast and the breeze pleasant. I was barely out of the city when my phone rang. I pulled off the highway. Karen: "It's snowing heavy in Great Falls." Me: "This is the middle of September. It can't be...
Kris Hansen is well suited to be state rep. Editor: With election times drawing quickly upon us it is necessary and crucial to the outcome that all registered voters make informed decisions regarding the candidates. Regarding HD 33, I would like to encourage people to consider Kris Hansen as their next representative. I've gotten to know Kris, the professional and the person, over a period of almost a year. What has struck me most about getting to know Kris is that over the luncheon conversations and the backyard visits it...
Kris Hansen is well suited to be state rep. Editor: With election times drawing quickly upon us it is necessary and crucial to the outcome that all registered voters make informed decisions regarding the candidates. Regarding HD 33, I would like to encourage people to consider Kris Hansen as their next representative. I've gotten to know Kris, the professional and the person, over a period of almost a year. What has struck me most about getting to know Kris is that over the luncheon conversations and the backyard visits it...
Democrats delay vote on extending Bush tax cuts STEPHEN OHLEMACHER,Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leaders decided Thursday to delay a vote on preserving soon-to-expire middle class tax cuts until after congressional elections in November. President Barack Obama has made the tax cuts a priority. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided to delay any vote after a meeting with other Senate Democrats failed to produce a consensus on how to proceed. "Democrats believe we must permanently extend t...
Democrats delay vote on extending Bush tax cuts STEPHEN OHLEMACHER,Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leaders decided Thursday to delay a vote on preserving soon-to-expire middle class tax cuts until after congressional elections in November. President Barack Obama has made the tax cuts a priority. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided to delay any vote after a meeting with other Senate Democrats failed to produce a consensus on how to proceed. "Democrats believe we must permanently extend t...
US walks out on Ahmadinejad UN speech ALI AKBAR DAREINI,Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. delegation walked out of the U.N. speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday after he said some in the world have speculated that Americans were behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks, staged in an attempt to assure Israel's survival. He did not explain the logic of that statement that was made as he attacked the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ahmadinejad has called for the destruction of Israel a...
The Hill County sheriff said this morning that a death in Bear's Paw Mountains appears to be a suicide. "There was nothing criminal out there," Sheriff Don Brostrom said. "Everything initially appears to (show) a suicide." He said the body of the victim, whose name had not yet been released this morning, was found just past Bear Paw Lake at 8:20 a.m. Friday. The Montana Criminal Investigation Division helped with the investigation at Brostrom's request. The investigation found no evidence of foul play. Brostrom said evidence...
Margaret Emma Toulouse Margaret Emma Toulouse finished her journey in this life on Aug. 16, 2010. She is now with her Lord and Savior, Jesus. This day is something she looked forward to with excitement and complete peace. She lived a most remarkable life. She was born in a homestead cabin on a farm in Lewistown, Mont. Aunts raised the three sisters, Margaret, Laura and Helen, after their mother passed away from complications of childbirth. Margaret's early life took her to mining, ranch and farm towns throughout Montana. She...
Donald Barrows Donald L. "Sonny" Barrows, 71, of Lodge Pole, former Fort Belknap chief of police, passed away on Aug. 20, 2010, at the Malta Hi-Line Retirement Home, due to natural causes. A funeral Mass will be Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, at 11 a.m., in Enemy Killer Center, with burial following at Lodge Pole Cemetery with military honors. Wake services will begin on Monday, Aug. 23, at 4 p.m., at Enemy Killer Center with rosary recited at 7 p.m. Arrangements are by Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook. Donald L. "Sonny" Barrows,...
Rehearsal: Ponies compete in scrimmage Daniel Horton — [email protected] Football teams never really get an honest look at themselves when they are running limited plays against a scout team, but what the coaching staff of the Havre High football team did see, they liked. Saturday night at the Blue Pony Stadium in Havre, the Central A Ponies looked pretty good in their annual Blue/White scrimmage. "It's always kind of lopsided with your number one's going against your number two's," Havre High first-year f...
Next up for the Blue and White The Havre High football team will open its season on Saturday when the Blue Ponies take on the Whitefish Bulldogs at 2 p.m. at Blue Pony Stadium. The Ponies will try and retain the BNSF Trophy. The trophy signifies the winner of the long-standing HHS/Whitefish rivalry game. For much more on the 2010 Blue Ponies, look for the Havre Daily News' annual Fall Sports Preview in Friday's HDN, as well as the HDN's new weekly area high school football special, which will run every Friday during the...
Lights getting sharper by the day George Ferguson — [email protected] Dillon is a long ways south of Havre and the campus of Montana State University-Northern. But with how the close the season-opening game between the MSU-Northern Lights and Western Bulldogs is, it might as well be just down the street. But before the Lights travel to Western for Saturday's Frontier Conference opener, they still have work to do. And a good portion of that work came last Thursday when MSU-N went head-to-head in its second s...
Blue Ponies get ready for Maroons Daniel Horton Havre Daily News [email protected] With most of their summer practices now in the past, the Havre High volleyball team is just days away from its season opener. The Central A Blue Ponies got a good look at their squad on Saturday with the program's annual Blue/White scrimmage at the Havre High gymnasium. During the scrimmage, the Havre junior varsity defeated the freshmen squad 25-8 and 25-10 in two games. And the Pony varsity defeated the junior varsity 25-19,...
George Ferguson column: I'm ready, it's almost game time Sure it's been hot lately. But that still doesn't make up for a lousy summer in which the weather hasn't cooperated, the Cubs and Tiger Woods are both terrible, and my golf game has been even worse. Bring on the fall. I'm more than ready for it. I'm ready for football season. I'm ready for volleyballs to fly. I'm ready for the buzz of another busy fall of sports on the Hi-Line. Normally, I don't wish summer away. But did summer ever come? It must have, since I sat in...
Complaint filed over proposed sex ed program HELENA — A Helena mother has filed a complaint saying her children will suffer "irreparable harm" if a proposed sex education program that has angered many in the community is adopted. Kristi Allen-Gailushas filed the complaint Friday against the Helena School District and the state Office of Public Instruction. She is asking that a district judge intervene in the case. The complaint questions the content of the curriculum and the process used to develop it. It also says the c...
No evidence that tainted eggs go beyond 2 farms MARY CLARE JALONICK — Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Food and Drug Administration officials said Monday that there is no evidence a massive outbreak of salmonella in eggs has spread beyond two Iowa farms, though a team of investigators is still trying to figure out what caused it. FDA officials said they do not expect the number of eggs recalled — 550 million — to grow. Dr. Jeff Farrar, FDA's associate commissioner for food protection, said 20 FDA investi...
