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The head of Bear Paw Development Corp. discussed at its annual meeting Thursday the work the economic development agency did in the past year and planned a celebration of its history this year. Bear Paw Executive Director Paul Tuss said the agency, the first authorized in Montana and one of the first in the nation, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Rather than celebrating it during a meeting, Tuss said, he wants to wait until the summer to celebrate because of the warmer, nicer weather. “Also maybe being able t...
HELENA (AP) - The Latest on harassment allegations within the Montana Legislature (all times local): 12:55 p.m. Montana's former House speaker has identified a lawmaker from Box Elder as the man who sent harassing text messages to another legislator in 2017. Austin Knudsen said today that Democratic Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy voluntarily resigned as chairman of the State-Tribal Relations Interim Committee last year before he could strip Windy Boy of the position as punishment. A...
GREAT FALLS - Some might want to call the Turner Tornadoes a Cinderella. But after the way they battled the mighty Box Elder Bears Thursday night at the Four Seasons Arena, that word shouldn't be used to describe this Turner team ever again. Facing the defending Class C state champions, the Tornadoes didn't blink. However, in the end, Sarah Parisian didn't either and with time running out, the senior knocked down a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to send the Bears to the Northern C...
A Blaine County commissioner said during North Central Montana Transit Transit’s Advisory Committee Annual Meeting Thursday that although Blaine County still supports the system, they have lost hope in receiving a new stop in Harlem. “We wish we could have that stop,” Commissioner Dolores Plumage said. “We have given up on it, we have lost hope, we are not going to ask any more. You have got all your answers, all your rules, thank you, we understand.” The anti-poverty nonprofit Opportunity Link Inc. started North Central M...
Tucked away in the home economics room of Havre Middle School, a small group congregated Thursday night to practice proper knife skills. Jasmine Carbajal, Hill County family and consumer sciences extension agent for Montana State University, led a class of four in a handful of lessons on different knife skills as part of Havre Public Schools' Community Education Program. Carbajal said the two most crucial aspects of safely and effectively using kitchen knives is keeping a...
The Havre-Hill County Library has been a place for people to enjoy community, books and family-friendly events for the past 33 years. "I love libraries," Friends of the Library first-year President Denise Haugen said. "I have always loved libraries. I think books should be accessible to everyone no matter how much money they make." Former librarian and chair of the library foundation Bonnie Williamson said that she was originally hired in 1982 as the library director for the...
Havre Police Department A caller on U.S. Highway 2 East reported Thursday at 11:23 a.m. that a driver had hit a large snowbank. —— A vehicle crash was reported on 16th Avenue Thursday at 11:52 a.m. —— A caller at a First Street West business reported finding drug paraphernalia at the business Thursday at 11:55 a.m. —— A 13th Street caller at 4:06 p.m. Thursday reported slashed tires on a vehicle. —— Donald Dustin Farrar of Harlem, 33, was arrested on a Justice or City court warrant served on First Street at 4:53 p.m. Thurs...
The next meeting of the Hill County Park Board’s Grazing Committee is Monday at 5:30 p.m. in Timmons Room of the Hill County Courthouse The agenda is: Old business: • Updates to Grazing Committee Ordinance — including addition of haying duties. • Clarify procedure to allocate unused allotments to current or new grazers, i.e., when does that go to current grazers, when to new allotment? • Designating haying areas/hay allotments • Selling hay? Sent back from board. • East Fork Fire update • Reflective tags • Monitoring progre...
The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees will meet Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. in Robins School Administration Building. The agenda for the meeting is: A. Call to order 1. Pledge of Allegiance 2. Roll call 3. Welcome to visitors 4. Agenda deletions or corrections, and additions allowed per policy, if any B. New business 1. Personnel Open Agenda — An opportunity for any member of the audience to bring to the attention of the board questions or relevant comments concerning district matters not on the agenda. The board will not d...
Monday 8 a.m. — Center for Mental Health meeting in Great Falls 10 a.m. — MOU Committee meeting 5:30 p.m. — Grazing Committee meeting in the Timmons Room Tuesday 10:30 a.m. — Weekly Road meeting Noon — Council on Aging Advisory Board meeting at the Senior Center Wednesday 9 a.m. — DES-FEMA Meeting in the Timmons Room 12:30 p.m. — Meeting with Bullhook Clinic at Bullhook Clinic 2 p.m. — MT Silver Jacket Project meeting Thursday 9 a.m. — Payroll approval 10 a.m. — Weekly Business meeting Public comments on non-agenda items: P...
William Henry "Bill" Hinebauch of Havre/Dearborn, age 77, passed away peacefully with his wife, Linda by his side on February 18, 2019, at Northern Montana Care Center. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, March 2, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. at Fifth Avenue Christian Church with luncheon to follow. Memorials in Bill's name may be made to the First Lutheran Church Radio Fund, Dearborn Fire Department or the charity of the donor's choice. Holland and Bonine Funeral Home has... Full story
North Central Senior Citizens Center, Feb. 25 to March 1 Monday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; bingo at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m; TOPS at 8 a.m..; mall shopping from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m Friday — Medical transportation will be available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. but people must make a request at least 24 hours in advance. March Menu by Earlene DeWinter (Subject to Change) Monday — Chicken and dumpli...
By Emily Mayer Thrift was still being touted by the federal government as we were still paying bills and helping out hungry and desperate Europeans in the aftermath of World War I. Headlines such as “NONE TOO POOR TO HAVE A PART, Every American Citizen Should Join Movement to Help Nation Finish War Job. JOIN SAVING SOCIETY. They Furnish Definite Agency to Promote Americanism and Crystalize Habit of Thrift-Furnish Stimulant for Sale of Securities” were found in newspapers across the country. No amount was too small, acc...
Many of the ideas and scriptures used in this series on Heaven are taken from the book “Heaven” by Randy Alcorn. 1 Thessalonians 5:21 states “Test everything. Hold on to the good.” In many of my sermons I instruct the listeners to not believe a word I say. I tell them to check out what I say with the Word. The Bereans searched the Scriptures and were credited for doing so in the New Testament. Many of us have believed the lie of the enemy that heaven is a place where we float on a cloud, play a harp, and are bored to death....
Snowmen got made, crooked or straight, and two were rather wide. What fun to be outdoors that day and view the countryside. Laughter, snowballs, oh, what a day to play in fresh white snow. A game, a race, how about snowballs? You catch the one I’ll throw. You know, dear Lord, Winter’s still here, it’s time for chilly treat. It’s Snow Ice Cream like Mama made, the best you’ll ever eat! Snowman will watch while we scoop Snow, unsullied by cow tracks. So gently scoop the soft white snow; be careful how snow packs. Then to t...
Out our way, Charlie on Jet and me on Doc loved to ride the Tiger Ridge and work cows. But only in the good weather. Come February when the Alberta Clippers rage and the cows are calving, we were well content to stay inside and let other roam the back country, There is nothing fun or romantic about pulling calves in a minus 40 degree blizzard at 3 a.m. February is calving season and also one of the harshest months on the Hi-Line of Montana. But it can also be one of the most glorious — for more than a few times, after a b...
My husband doesn’t like beets. I do like beets. This is, I'll admit, inconsequential and the beet-thing obviously hasn’t been a deal breaker in this marriage or much of a “thing” at all (and you know what I mean by “thing” if you’re married). However, there’s always room for escalation, though, right? I like fresh-boiled beets, canned beets, pickled beets. John hates them all, especially pickled beets. I even like commercially canned and pickled beets. John hates those the...
Editor, To drive in Montana we need auto insurance. But insurance companies want to use complicated algorithms called “price optimization” to charge us more based on how we shop, our personal characteristics, and other online behaviors, even if our risk is the same. Price optimization isn’t based on our risk or likelihood of causing accidents; it’s a way to charge more because they can. Companies are banking on us not shopping around, and without shopping around we won’t know that we are getting charged more than other people...
Press release Nominations for the 13th annual High Plains Book Awards opened Jan. 11 and will be accepted through March 8. Information and nomination forms can be found on-line at http://highplainsbookawards.org./ The list of 2018 winners is also available on the website. The Billings Public Library Board of Directors established the High Plains Book Awards in 2006 to recognize regional authors and/or literary works that examine and reflect life on the High Plains. The High Plains region includes: Montana, North and South...
GREAT FALLS — Maybe it was because the game tipped off shortly after 11:30 a.m. or because it was their first game of the Northern C, but for whatever reason, the Chinook Sugarbeeters got off to a slow start Thursday against Winnett-Grass Range in the quarterfinals of the Northern C tournament. However, about midway through the first quarter the heavy Chinook crowd in the Four Seasons in Arena finally got something to cheer about and it was thanks to Isaac Bell, who scored o...
The Havre High boys basketball team knew what it was up against in the opening round of the 2019 Eastern A Divisional Tournament. After all, the Billings Central Rams are just one of the top teams in the state, but the Blue Ponies saw the Rams on the opening night of the season back in December. Still, Havre went into Thursday afternoon's Eastern A first-round game against the Rams ready to give them their best shot, and that's exactly what the Blue Ponies did in a 55-41 loss...
At last weekend's Cascade Conference tournament in Great Falls, the Montana State University-Northern wrestling team automatically qualified five grapplers for next week's NAIA national tournament. On Wednesday, the Lights got two more of their wrestlers into the field. The final field of 240 wrestlers was announced by the NAIA Wednesday, and as expected, Northern senior Matt Weber was in, as was sophomore 125-pounder Nick Kunz. Weber had been ranked No. 1 at 141 all season...
When you look back at the history of Box Elder girls basketball, there have been plenty of sisters who have played for the Bears, but it's hard to say if any group of sisters has played more basketball in Box Elder than the Wolf Chiefs. Thanks to a group of four sisters, the name Wolf Chief has become synonymous with Box Elder girls basketball. Even though the run of the Wolf Chief sisters will come to an end after this season with Maddie, she said she won't be the last in...
The Montana State University-Northern Skylights have played many close Frontier Conference games over the course of the last two months. And two of those games have come against the Lewis-Clark State Warriors, both of which ended up being bitter losses. Tonight, the Skylights (4-12, 12-16) can do something about that, however, when they host the No. 17 Warriors in the second-to-last game of the regular season. MSU-N then closes out Frontier play Saturday night when the...
Frontier Conference men's basketball is incredibly hard. It seems like every night is a street brawl in the Frontier, and the Montana State University-Northern Lights are gearing up for two last brawls inside the Armory Gymnasium. Northern (8-8, 16-12) is back home to close out the regular season against No. 13 Lewis-Clark State tonight and Montana Western Saturday night. And both games will be huge for the Lights, who still have a chance to finish in the top four of the Front...
