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Rocky Boy 52, Malta 39 (1st round) Malta 12 7 8 12 - 39 Rocky Boy 14 12 13 13 - 52 Malta - Tanner Smith 14, Kooper Oxarart 7, Ben Costin 7, Cormac Benn 6, Kaden Bergos 2. Rocky Boy - Frankie Bacon 14, Blake Cantrell 10, Olin Arkinson 9, Joe Demontiney 6, Jordan Tyner 5, Ben Crebs 4, Sarinas Mithlo 2, Wyatt Caplette 2. Wolf Point 68, Choteau 63 (1st round) Wolf Point 12 24 5 27 - 68 Choteau 13 11 18 21 - 63 Wolf Point - Joseph Williamson 24, Lance St. Germaine 24, Logan Heser 1...
The Hill County Zoning Board approved North 40 Outfitters' request for a parking lot variance to reduce the number of parking spaces in order to fence off an area, 34,000 sq. ft., for an outdoor products display area, or bull pen, at the former Kmart building east of Havre on U.S. Highway 2 West. North 40 Outfitters co-owners, Curt and Wayne Wike, and Macek Companies President Mark Macek, representing owners of the former Kmart building Seritage Growth Properties, came before...
Barbara Jean Evans of Havre, 60, passed away Monday, February 25, 2019, at her home. Cremation has taken place. No services are pending at this time. Please visit http://www.hi-linefuneralservices.com to leave a message of condolences for her family.... Full story
The Great Northern Fair Board will be holding its second and final public forum meeting at the 4-H Chuckwagon Building Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Fair Board Chair Tyler Smith said the board is holding these meetings because the public voted to provide the fair board with a mill levy for the fairgrounds. These forums, he said, were the best way to get community input on what they would like to see the mill levy used for. The first forum went well, he said, with approximately 20 people from the community in attendance. He said that...
After a short respite in bitter weather, Old Man Winter is expected to return with a vengeance over the weekend. National Weather Service has a winter advisory in effect for much of Montana from Friday afternoon through Saturday morning, running from the northwest corner of the state through Blaine and Fergus counties and to the southeast down to Carter County. This comes after most of the state saw temperatures Wednesday rise into the single digits and teens with some reporting stations seeing highs in the 20s and West...
The Leadership High School program visited multiple businesses in the Hill County area Wednesday to experience life outside of school and see what the community has to offer. Leadership High School is a joint effort between the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce and Havre High School that enables students to get involved in community service projects. Students who are part of Leadership High do not get extra credits but will receive a $1,000 scholarship. Havre Chamber of Commerce...
Press release MISSOULA — People in north-central Montana have several upcoming opportunities to help The American Red Cross deal with a severe shortage of type O blood Red Cross is urging type O donors — as well as eligible blood donors of all blood types — to give now to ensure lifesaving patient care isn’t impacted this winter. Type O blood is the most in-demand blood type, helping patients facing life-threatening conditions and emergencies every day. Type O negative blood can be transfused to patients with any blood t...
Press release Montana Farm Bureau Foundation is holding its annual Youth Speech Contest in conjunction with the Montana FFA State Convention April 3-6 in Bozeman. One of the MFB Foundation’s most important goals is to aid in the agricultural education and the leadership development of Montana’s youth. This speech contest fits that goal well and MFBF is offering great prizes to make this an exciting opportunity. The Youth Speech Contest is open to students in the seventh, eighth and ninth grades who are not able to par...
Havre Job Service Manager Carol Lamey will be the speaker at the North-Central Pachyderm meeting Friday at noon in the Duck Inn Vineyard Room. Lamey will talk about what has happened at Job Service including in the wake of the closures of the Havre Kmart, Herberger’s and Sears stores. She also will take questions at the meeting. A no-host buffet or menu lunch is available. The meeting is open to the public....
Press release Nominations for the 21st Annual Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Award are being accepted from Feb. 1 through March 31. The award is meant to recognize and appreciate the efforts of those who have worked hard to restore, rehabilitate and preserve our precious, irreplaceable Hill County history and heritage through its buildings and historic sites. The Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Award, a registered trademark of High Line Heritage Resources, is for buildings and sites located within the borders...
From Havre Public Works Havre Public Works announced it has received several reported instances of water service lines freezing during this extremely cold weather. In an effort to prevent the costly and sometimes futile expense to the homeowner attempting to thaw the frozen service line the city of Havre Water Department has the following suggestions: Even though a small additional cost to the homeowner may be involved, it is worthwhile to leave a small stream of water from an open faucet running at all times during extreme...
From the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana GREAT FALLS — Tristen Jace Gone of Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, who admitted hitting his domestic partner, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in federal prison and two years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. Gone, 19, pleaded guilty in November to domestic abuse by a habitual offender. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. Prosecutors said evidence showed that Gone punched the victim in the face and arm and threw her down a...
A front-page story in Wednesday’s edition of the Havre Daily News about a Hill County Park Board committee meeting misreported that the committee approved a new ordinance about grazing and haying on Beaver Creek Park. The committee approved a draft of proposed changes. The story also misreported that the Grazing and Haying Committee was created in July, while the combined aspects were only proposed last year. The caption in a photograph with the article misreported that the draft would go to the Hill County Attorney next, w... Full story
Havre Police Department Child Abuse Hotline reported suspicious activity in the Havre area Wednesday at 4:59 p.m. -- A non-injury vehicle crash was reported on the Montana State University-Northern campus at 5:02 p.m. Wednesday. -- Naomi Faye Hinkle of Havre, 29, was arrested on charges of traffic crime, driving with a suspended or revoked driver's license and no vehicle insurance, during a vehicle stop at 8:21 p.m. Wednesday on Fourth Avenue. -- A caller on 16th Avenue...
Winter, we are weary. Whether she gambols like a bleating lamb or roars like a lion, we welcome March after the grim days of February. Skies may still be gray but a fleeting scent in the air says winter is over and spring is here, or nearly so. Snow may fall, temps hit the low scale but spring will burst forth, even in Montana. The calendar tells us so. I’ve no complaint, I admit, here in my mountain valley in Jalisco. But friends and family live in frozen Montana and even w...
Montana is a state with a proud history of firsts. We were the first state to elect a woman to Congress: our very own Jeannette Rankin. We were also the first state in the nation to enact sweeping anti-corruption legislation in the Copper King era, after wealthy business interests in our state used their influence to buy a Senate seat. But in some measures, Montana’s first place status is not always worthy of celebration. According to a 2018 study by the Center for Disease Control, Montana ranks first in the nation for d...
City Tournament results are in. Singles: Shawn Mariani, 1st Place; Shane Kemmer, 2nd Place; Andy Owens, 3rd Place; Chris Breum, 4th Place; Chris Owens, 5th Place; Jason McDonald, 6th Place; Pati Killebrew-Hall, 7th Place; and Jerry Bohn and Robert Moomey, 8th Place (Tie). Doubles: Robert Moomey and Shawn Burrington, 1st Place; Kelsey Klindworth and Shawn Mariani, 2nd Place; Jacob Anderson and Kyle Surber, 3rd Place; Roman Surber and Kyle Surber, 4th Place; and Ali Ward and...
Exactly one year ago, the Montana State University-Northern Lights saw a promising season come to an end in the first round of the Frontier Conference playoffs - on their one floor no less. Fast forward one year, and the Lights weren't about to let history repeat itself. Wednesday night in the Armory Gymnasium, the Lights made 10 first-half 3-pointers and rode that momentum to a 101-93 Frontier quarterfinal win over the No. 23 University of Providence Argos, which vaulted...
Over the past few seasons, the Havre Ice Hawks have been looking to prove that they can compete with the big boys of Montana high school hockey. Well, after putting together a winning season, despite facing a challenging schedule, the Ice Hawks will a get chance to show what they can do at the Montana Amateur Hockey Association state tournament, which will be held this weekend in Havre inside the Havre Ice Dome. While Havre has hosted the MAHA state tournament in previous...
Over the last four years, the Box Elder girls basketball team has created both some good memories and also some bad memories inside the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls. The Bears, who are the defending state champions, have played in the Northern C championship game there in three of the past four seasons and advanced to the state tournament from divisionals each time. They also played in the state championship game at the Four Seasons back in 2016, only to fall to Belt, a r...
Seven MSU-N grapplers take their shot at glory in Iowa Quantity has never dictated the goals for the Montana State University-Northern Lights when it comes to the NAIA national tournament. No, it's always been quality that matters. So, while the Lights may not have had the tournament they were looking for two weeks ago at the Cascade Conference Championships, that performance changed nothing. The Lights are still going to Iowa hunting for trophies and national championships....
Press release Independence Bank announced that Andy Kueffler has been promoted to the position of ag/commercial loan officer. Kueffler joined the Independence Bank team as a lender in May 2018. Kueffler is a familiar face around the Golden Triangle, as he has spent the last 18 years in the agricultural equipment business, with 10 years in Havre at Tilleman Equipment. In his new position, Kueffler said, he looks forward to the opportunity to continue working with the agricultur...
