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A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is even worse than believed and as the government grows concerned that the rig's operator is ill-equipped to contain it, officials are offering a military response to try to avert a massive environmental disaster along the ecologically fragile U.S. coastline. Speaking this morning on NBC's "Today" show, an executive for BP PLC, which operated the oil rig that exploded and sank last week, said the company would welcome help from the U.S. military. "We'll take help from anyone," BP...
For the third year in a row, weather may play a big role in Havre's High two-day trip to the Great Falls Invitational tennis tournament. On this week last year, the Great Falls tournament, which is two days worth of challenging duals, was called off due to a huge snowstorm which hit the area. Fast forward one year, and snow is again predicted to hit Great Falls, leaving HHS's status for this weekend up in the air. The Blue Ponies are slated to dual Bozeman and Billings Senior on Friday and Billings West and Cut Bank on...
George Ferguson Havre Daily News sports editor [email protected] There's never a shortage of talented girls basketball players in and around the Havre area. So when the votes are cast by local coaches for the annual Havre Daily News All Hi-Line Girls Team, no choice is any easy one. Girls basketball was as exciting and as successful as ever this past season, and this year's All Hi-Line Team reflects that fact. This year's team has just three repeat performers, and four players who have made the list before. It...
Montana's junior senator Friday applauded last week's passage of health care reform and looked ahead to what he believes will be the next major issue in the U.S. Senate, financial oversight reform. Jon Tester, a Democrat from Big Sandy, said during a press conference that the health care reform bill and the subsequent reconciliation bill that passed will bring many benefits. "The law is a significant step forward, in my book," he said, adding that the law will make many common- sense changes. "It is major reform. It is not ra...
Four local hotels are requesting through the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce that Havre create a tourism district to increase funding for marketing. T h e c i t y ' s P l a n n i n g a n d Development Committee will discuss the possibility of creating the district during their meeting Tuesday at 5:15 p.m. in City Hall. The creation of the district would allow a bed tax to be collected from AmericInn, Super 8, TownHouse Inn and the Great Northern Best Western Inn. The money would be used for marketing and advertising of Havre,...
The Hingham Community Center was packed Saturday night. The annual Men Who Cook for Women Who Wine attracted people from all parts of the Hi-Line. People dined on some fine barbecue, Mexican food and tasty, unique dishes. They topped it off with some of the best desserts you will find in the area. This event is a special occasion when men get a chance to show their culinary skills, and Hi-Line residents get a chance to donate to a good cause. This was the fourth year for the feast. In the past, money went toward the...
Burning a hole in Miles City's downtown history, a massive fire destroyed most of the buildings on the northside of the 700 block of Main Street one year ago. Now a future is being built from the ashes. Remodeling work on the former Burlap & Lace to make a new bar led to the accidental fire on the morning of March 23, 2009. Local firefighters, and those of nearby communities, fought for long hours over several days in the cold. The fire destroyed the locations that housed Good Things gift shop, Imagine That salon, Copper...
The victory came ugly, and it was narrow. But it was also sweet. It was historic and, politically, it was big. The question is: Will the passage of health care reform also prove a Pyrrhic victory for Democrats — one that will devastate the winners in the 2010 elections? Republicans think so, citing polls showing health care reform to be deeply unpopular. As former speaker Newt Gingrich, declared in an e-mail blast Wednesday — titled "This Will Not Stand" — "in every recent poll, the vast majority of Americans opposed this...
Glenn E. Heilman, 83, a retired teacher and resident of Havre, died of natural causes, Saturday, March 27, 2010, at Northern Montana Hospital. His memorial service will be 10:30 a.m., Saturday, April 3, 2010, at Messiah Lutheran Church, with Pastor Michael Dahle officiating. A fellowship luncheon will be held at the church immediately after the service. Memorials in Glenn's honor may be made to the Messiah Lutheran Church or to a charity of one's choice. Services and arrangements have been entrusted to Holland & Bonine...
David Wayne Seaman, 62, died March 14, 2010, at the Vancouver VA Medical Center in Vancouver, Wash. He was born Oct. 18, 1947, in Havre, Mont., to George and Esther (Runnion) Seaman, the seventh sibling of 10 in his family. He grew up in Havre, where he attended grade school. In his high school years, he was proud of his football and boxing accomplishments. David enlisted in the U.S. Army and served for two years. In 1966, he was assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division in Germany as a tank driver. In 1967 he volunteered for...
After weeks dominated by health care, President Barack Obama's secret trip to Afghanistan turned attention back to another issue whose progress this year could help define the success of his presidency. By deciding in December to order a massive buildup to the war he inherited, Obama placed a big bet. Nearly tripling the U.S. presence with 30,000 more troops, he escalated an unpopular war that has seen few gains in its eight years. Those new forces are still flowing in, and the first major campaign under Obama's new strategy...
The Havre High boys and girls tennis teams did something on Saturday that neither has done in quite some time. The Blue Ponies got the first day of competition in with no problems from the weather. On Saturday morning at the Bill Vaughey Memorial Tennis Courts in Havre, the Pony boys and girls opened the 2010 season with a full complement of singles and doubles matches against the Cut Bank Wolves. The Havre boys won nine of 10 matches, including going 6-for-7 in singles against the defending Class B-C state champion Wolves....
Dorene Rutter, born in Havre, Mont., on Feb. 14, 1931, daughter of Achsah and Fred Crites of Gildford, Mont., passed this plan on Jan. 7, 2010. She is survived by her four children, Chuck, Larry, Rodger, and Wendy; and many grandchildren; and two remaining sisters, Lorena and Jeanie. Services were held at the Yelm Cemetery in Yelm, Wash., on Jan. 21, 2010, where both Dorene's and her husband Gene's (who died many years previously) ashes were laid to rest together. "Grandma Dorene" was much loved and will be greatly...
It was a difficult night all the way around for the Havre High girls basketball team. On Thursday night at the CMR Fieldhouse in Great Falls, the Blue Ponies could never get on track offensively, while the CMR Rustlers made it look easy in a 56-18 nonconference win. HHS surrendered 20 points to CMR's Jordan Bagley, and the Ponies could never recover from scoring just six points in the first 16 minutes of the game. The Rustlers opened the game by outscoring HHS 14-4 in the first quarter. The lead grew to 27-6 at intermission...
Facing the Class AA CMR Rustlers isn't easy for anybody. But on Thursday night the Central A Havre High boys basketball team found out just how daunting of a task that really is. Hosting the Rustlers at the Havre High gymnasium, the Blue Ponies suffered a 71-17 non-onference loss. "CMR is just a good team," Havre High head coach Andy Smith said. "I don't know what we could have done to make it any closer." The game belonged to the Rustlers from the opening tip. And after the first quarter they held a prominent 23-4 lead. The...
Certainly Jay Leno would love to wake up to find that the last six months was just a nightmare. That way, he'd be preparing another "Tonight" show monologue, not going on the national shrink's sofa across from Oprah Winfrey, as he was Thursday. He wouldn't have seen a photo of himself doctored to look battered on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, symbolizing television's biggest flop ever. And he wouldn't have heard the rough jokes with the serious subtext that he had sandbagged Conan O'Brien. NBC is hoping that it all goes...
J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91. Salinger died of natural caus e s at hi s home o n Wednesday, the author's son said in a statement from Salinger's longtime literary representative, Harold Ober Agency. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, N.H. "The Catcher in the Rye," with its immortal teenage protagonist, the twisted, rebellious...
The local Catholic school will celebrate its long history of education in Havre next week during National Catholic Schools Week. The Rev. Dale Yurkovic, superintendent of St. Jude Thaddeus School, said he has appreciated the community, his parish and the school since he took over St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church last summer. The work ethic, family traditions and sense of caring apparent in the community translate into the school, he said. "I've been very impressed with the longevity of families and the tradition of...
The Montana Board of Regents put a framework in place Thursday that would allow for cuts of up to 5 percent in the university system, the first of the state agencies to publicly heed the governor's request to do so. The board decided unanimously during a conference call to honor Gov. Brian Schweitzer's request to start planning for such cuts, even though it has unique constitutional authority among executive branch agencies to establish its own budget. The board recognized the cuts are needed as Montana grapples with...
For three years, Missoula artist and carpenter Greg Millar searched in vain for anyone who could identify a Native American dancer in a photograph taken by his friend, Patrick Clark. Millar had crafted a portrait from that photograph out of intricately cut bits of tile; and as he labored over it, he vowed that if he ever sold the portrait, he would find the dancer and donate half of the proceeds from the sale to a charity of the dancer's choice. His search took him from Missoula, where that picture was taken at the Fort Misso...
I know some readers are too young to remember those long ago days, but the rest of you might recall way back when we had that nice weather just last week. Wasn't it awesome?! So now all of a sudden we have winter again, complete with multiple power outages, and I'm all, like, huh? But, but, but I thought I was totally pretty much prepared, and then I found that I'm all, like, caught with my pants down. Again. I swear, it's like no one sent me a memo that we were going to have winter this year. And who'd've thunk it'd last,...
