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With drought conditions spreading farther across the state and intensifying in the nation, the U. S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday it is adding 27 more Montana counties, including Blaine and Chouteau, to the list where emergency haying and grazing of land in the Conservation Reserve Program. "This change allows CRP lands that are not yet classified 'under severe drought' but that are 'abnormally dry' to be used for haying and grazing, " said state Farm Service Agency Director Bruce Nelson, who has returned to...
A former New Jersey man lost his probation, just weeks after being sentenced, for having sex with an underaged Havre girl, and will spend much of the next four years in state custody. Joshua Nessederine, born in 1989, pleaded guilty in a plea agreement March 1 to having sex several times July 18, 2011, with a 15-year-old Havre girl he previously met at the Havre restaurant where she worked while he was in the area working at the carnival at the Blaine County Fair. The girl told law enforcement that she and some friends had...
David Maurice Dahlin, 74, of Laurel, Mont., slipped peacefully into his rest surrounded by his loving family and friends. His final accomplishment was to initiate a four-day family reunion which brought many who knew and loved him together to celebrate each other. He died on July 22, 2012, in Livingston, Mont., the final day of the reunion. David was born on Aug. 7, 1937, in Havre Mont., to Ed and Marie (Kohanek-Bergvall) Dahlin and was raised on a ranch 19 miles south of town near the Bear Paw Mountains. He graduated from...
Havre City Council member Rick Dow was upset by last week's editorial criticizing all Republican council members for voting against joining Vibrant Futures. After a guest column and a meeting with our editor and publisher, he wants an apology. So here goes: We're sorry for calling your themes goofy. It was vague and uninformative. What we meant to say is that the themes are misleading and irresponsible. So let's get some terms straightened out. Agenda 21, which admittedly sounds like something James Bond has to stop, is an...
BILLINGS (AP) — The FBI is investigating the embezzlement of nearly $3.7 million from First Security Bank in Malta, state banking officials said. The bank acknowledged the theft in a federal filing on June 30, The Billings Gazette reported Tuesday. The theft was discovered by a third-party processing company that handles First Security's in-house Visa and MasterCard accounts. Bank president Gary Howell reported the theft to the Phillips County sheriff's office on May 2, and the sheriff turned the case over to the FBI. M...
The Havre Girls Fastpitch Softball Association will holds its annual city A-League and B-League tournaments all this week. The action gets underway tonight and runs through Thursday night at the Sixth Avenue Memorial Field in Havre. The B-League tournament features five teams, Lions, Barkus Home Center, Shine Electric, Chinook and Northwestern Energy. There are two first-round games tonight, at 5:30 and 7 p.m. There are also B-League games slated for Tuesday at 5:30 and 7...
You've all seen the movies where an older athlete comes back for one more shot at glory — and it always seems to work out. Two football movies come to mind, Scott Backula did it in "Necessary Roughness" and Keanu Reeves did it in "The Replacements". Both characters were considered washed up, out of shape quarterbacks who came back to lead their respective teams to glory. I found out the hard way recently that real life, painfully doesn't imitate the movies. Talk about v...
Sunday afternoon at Lions Park in Havre, the Lions major league baseball team poses with their first place plaques after defeating Subway 15-3 in the championship. Back row, from left to right, coach Mark Aageson, Kollin Nystrom, Brenden Danielson, Robert Caplette, Kaiden Anez Trey Murphy and coach Dennis Murphy. Front row, from left to right, Caden Price, Lane Caplette, Hunter Lovenguth and Iver Aageson. Not pictured, Kayden Hay. Sunday afternoon at Lions Park in Havre, the Subway major league baseball team poses with their...
The Republican contender for state superintendent of public instruction was in Havre this week as she traveled the Hi-Line listening to concerns and telling people why she would be the best choice for the position. Sandy Welch of Martin City, just east of Columbia Falls and Hungry Horse, said her experience as a teacher, administrator and private consultant would help her act as an effective state superintendent. "I just bring a lot of different perspectives to this position, " she said. Welch is running unopposed in the...
Hill County residents have one more day to comment on plans drafted to help the county and communities prevent damage and injuries in case of a disaster. Friday is the deadline to comment on predisaster mitigation plans drafted by Tetra Tech Inc., which was hired for the three-county project that also included updating plans for Blaine and Phillips counties. Comments can be made online at http://blaine-hill-phillips-pdm.com or turned in to Hill County Disaster and Emergency Services Coordinator Joe Parenteau at the Hill...
Though Montana State University-Northern students will continue with a modified schedule this summer, the university's staff will have to return to the same schedule as every government employee, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Monday through Friday. Northern's Chancellor Jim Limbaugh said that new Commissioner of Higher Education Clayton Christian told all of the Montana college campuses that they have to follow laws mandating hours for executive branch offices. "We were told that our being closed violates a law, " Limbaugh said. "Is it...
HELENA (AP) — Gov. Brian Schweitzer has ordered all flags on state property to be flown at half-staff Friday in honor of James Browning, a Montana native who served for more than 50 years on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Browning served as chief judge of the San Francisco-based court from 1976 to 1988 and helped turn away pressure to split the 9th Circuit into smaller courts by persuading lawmakers to add more judges. He also is credited with modernizing the court's technology. Browning served as a clerk of the U...
The Havre High boys tennis program's success goes back a long, long way. From the days of Dan Ferguson winning the school's first individual state championship, through its run of six straight Class A state championships — with so many individual titles and great players and coaches mixed in. And it's not easy to keep that success going — but with the development of players as freshmen, that's always been the secret to the Blue Ponies' success. Havre doesn't have a teaching professional or a country club or indoor courts like...
Numbers won't be on the Havre High track and field team's side this weekend at the Class A state track and field meet, but individual talent and hard work will be. The Central A Blue Pony boys and girls teams will spend the weekend at the Class A state meet in Bozeman. Unfortunately for the Ponies team titles aren't in their sights, but if the weekend pans out how it is planned, the Ponies should be able to grab a handful of individual titles. HHS qualified a bevy of very talented athletes, four girls and nine boys in...
The Havre Daily News welcomes letters to the editor on issues and candidates in the June 5 primary. The deadline for submitting political letters is Wednesday, May 30, at 4:30 p.m. sharp. We hope to get all letters in by Friday, June 1, but cannot guarantee it. Please call 265-6795, ext. 17, with questions....
Editor: I consider myself an independent and prefer to vote for the candidate best suited for the position, regardless of party affiliation. I value the qualities of honesty and integrity but rarely do I know the candidate on a personal level. Although I do not agree with Ken Miller on many issues, one fact remains the same, that being Ken Miller's honesty and integrity. I have had the pleasure to know Ken Miller since 1997, and together we have conducted numerous business deals. Our deals were completed on a handshake basis...
Editor: The fact is Medicare benefits have not been cut by the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare as Republicans have misnamed it. Another fact is Medicare itself has been strengthened and coverage expanded with the passage of the ACA. The "cuts" to Medicare that Republicans keep yammering about are in reality and in fact, savings that improve the solvency of Medicare. These savings are achieved through a series of payment reforms, service deliver innovations and increased efforts to reduce fraud, waste and abuse. As a result...
I think it's high time we quit bad-mouthing air traffic controllers. A few weeks ago, investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration corroborated allegations by a former ATC, a Mr. Evan Seeley (pronounced "stoolie"), that some of his colleagues were low-life scum. Seems when flight traffic thinned out at a certain, gruff New York airport, ATCs watched movies on laptops, gambled online, threw stilettos at helpless rats, sharpened pencils with their teeth, and ate cucumber sandwiches laced with dill seed. The reports,...
I was half listening to my radio. The woman's voice said something like this: "I'm retired. Retirement isn't the end. Retirement is another phase. I worked hard all my life. Now I can live." "Whoa," I responded. "I've worked hard all my life too, but it would be a crying shame if I had to wait for retirement before I could live. What's that supposed to mean?" Sondra Ashton The past few days, every time I turn around, a reminder to live fully has popped up smack in my face. I...
NEW YORK — In a potential break in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, a former convenience-store employee has told police that he suffocated 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 and left the boy's body in a box in an alley, law enforcement officials said Thursday. If Pedro Hernandez's story checks out, it could solve the 33-year-old mystery of what happened to Etan, whose disappearance on his way to school helped give rise to the nation's missing-children movement and made him one of the first abducted y...
BILLINGS (AP) — Authorities have identified a man killed by Billings police after he shot at officers who were attempting to arrest him at a gas station. Billings police spokesman Lt. Kevin Iffland says the man killed Thursday is 29-year-old Michael Brandon of Billings. Brandon was wanted on a felony warrant for parole violation. Officers say they spotted Brandon and tried to arrest him at the gas station at about 3:30 a.m. But police say he ran away and fired several shots from a semi-automatic handgun. Police say the s...
BILLINGS (AP) — Authorities have identified a man killed by Billings police after he shot at officers who were attempting to arrest him at a gas station. Billings police spokesman Lt. Kevin Iffland says the man killed Thursday is 29-year-old Michael Brandon of Billings. Brandon was wanted on a felony warrant for parole violation. Officers say they spotted Brandon and tried to arrest him at the gas station at about 3:30 a.m. But police say he ran away and fired several shots from a semi-automatic handgun. Police say the s...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Bear Paw Development Corp. Executive Director and Montana Board of Regents member Paul Tuss, left, asks a question to Montana State University-Northern English professor and faculty union President John Snider in the university's Student Union Building Thursday morning. Several Montana State University-Northern faculty got to take some of their concerns about pay straight to the top of the higher education system Thursday morning, during the Board of Regents meeting in Havre. The first...
The Havre High boys tennis team had highs and lows during the first day of the Class A state tennis tournament. Rain wreaked havoc with the tourney Thursday in Great Falls, forcing matches to be moved indoors, then back outside again. Meanwhile, HHS senior Justin Jensen went 2-1 in singles on day one and is the only Blue Pony still alive heading into Friday's final day of the season. Jensen won an easy first-round match, as well as a loser-out match Thursday evening. In between, he lost a heartbreaker to Hardin's Rusty...
NEW YORK — A man has implicated himself in the death of 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose disappearance 33 years ago on his way to school helped launch a missing children's movement that put kids' faces on milk cartons, police said Thursday. Investigators were still going over details of the man's story. The development came just before the Friday anniversary of the boy's disappearance, when detectives traditionally receive a landslide of hoaxes and false leads related to the case. The man was picked up late Wednesday in Camden, N...
