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John LeRoy Downhour, 85, passed away due to natural causes on Thursday, February 28, 2019, at Northern Montana Care Center. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 5, 2019, viewing will commence an hour prior to the service, at Holland and Bonine Funeral Home. John's family has suggested memorial donations be made in his name to Friends of Beaver Creek Park, Havre, Montana. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements.... Full story
Havre Police Department Officers were called to a vehicle crash on 12th Avenue Friday at 9:50 a.m. -- Officers were called to Second Street at 10:11 a.m. Friday for a vehicle crash. -- Friday at 12:11 p.m., officers were called to a Fifth Avenue vehicle crash. -- Officers were called at 3:29 p.m. Friday to a vehicle crash on First Street. -- A Second Street caller reported Friday at 3:36 p.m. that tires were slashed on a vehicle. -- Friday at 5:10 p.m., a 12th Avenue caller...
Larry Lease, 30, has joined the Havre Daily News staff as a new reporter. "I like the news and I like writing, so I kind of just put them together," Lease said. Lease grew up and spent most of his life in Wasilla, Alaska, population of more than 10,000 people, he said, and while he lived there he became interested in politics. He added that the area he grew up in was political and was something people just got involved in. He said that he enjoys discussing politics. He said...
The Hi-Line is abuzz right now with high school basketball. State tournaments wrap up this weekend, and plenty of area teams will be taking their shot at glory. However, the Box Elder girls basketball team is already reveling in glory of their own. Saturday night in Great Falls, Box Elder edged Roy-Winifred to win its second consecutive Class C girls state championship. The Bears hoisted the championship trophy with a 48-42 victory over the Outlaws inside the Four Seasons...
Havre Job Service Manager Carol Lamey said Friday that even though several businesses closed in 2018, such as the Herberger's, Sears and Kmart, there was no drastic spike in unemployment. Lamey addressed the North Central Pachyderm Club during its monthly meeting at the Duck Inn Vineyard Room. She said the impact of the closures was handled by the local economy. "That worked out really well," she said. She said that, according to the numbers calculated by the Montana...
Press release Judy Loendorf or Steve Mulonet, service officers for the Montana Veterans Affairs will be visiting the following locations and times to meet with veterans interested in applying for benefits. Interested veterans need to bring a copy of their discharge paperwork, DD214, with them. Friday, March 8: Rocky Boy, at Rocky Boy Health Center Conference Rooms A and B, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This is a one-time change of location. Thursday, March 14: Fort Belknap, IHS CHR Conference Room, 1:30–3 p.m....
Press release District 4 Human Resources Development Council is inviting people to visit its booth at the 70th Annual Montana Seed Show in Harlem at the Harlem High School. Doors will open Thursday, March 14, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, March 15-16, people can come visit District 4 HRDC’s booth starting at 6:30 a.m. and running to 7 p.m. People can ask how to register to win a door prize when visiting HRDC’s Seed Show booth....
Internationally renowned Big Sandy organic farmer Bob Quinn will be launching his book, “Grain by Grain,” at the Big Sandy Library Tuesday. Co-authored by Liz Carlisle, who wrote “Lentil Underground” about organic farmers in north-central Montana, Quinn said, the book is a culmination of his ideas, experience and research he has developed over the years. Quinn came back to his hometown to spend the official release date speaking to his community members and signing books....
Longtime Havre resident Robert "Bob" Markwardt, 79, passed peacefully on February 21, 2019. Bob was born in 1939 in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, to Roy and Hattie Markwardt. After graduating from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, he married Nancy Thysell and began a journey selling farm equipment that would take him through many stops in Minnesota and Illinois. In 1976, the family traveled to Havre, a place Bob would call home for the rest of his life. He continued... Full story
A caption for a photograph with a front-page about Amtrak agents story in Friday’s edition of the Havre Daily News misreported that the budget passed in February requires all Amtrak stations to have agents. The requirement is that Amtrak put customer service agents back in stations that had their ticket agents cut in 2018.... Full story
Our first 45 days of the 66th legislative session have ended. We are in the transmittal break and catching up on emails and U.S. mail. I am going to change up my weekly report a bit. As legislators, we are scored on all of our votes. Some scores come from the parties and others come from unions, groups, PACs, or whomever wants to give us a grade, A to F. In the past, I have not looked at that and still do not. Historically, I have not voted straight line party on all votes. I see polarized partisan debates that attract media...
By Kimberley Fowler, a contributing writer for A Place for Mom Providing care for a parent or senior loved one can be all-consuming. The average family caregiver spends 24.4 hours per week providing care for loved ones and “nearly 1 in 4 caregivers spend 41 hours or more per week providing care,” according to the Family Caregiver Alliance. With all of this time spent tending to the needs of others, how do caregivers possibly carve out the critically important time for themselves that is necessary for them to remain happy and...
By Kimberley Fowler, a contributing writer for A Place for Mom For many adults on the cusp of retirement, providing care for a child as well as a parent or senior loved one is a very real scenario. The average age of a family caregiver is 49.2 years old and more often than not, they are providing on average 24.4 hours per week of care for a family member, according to the Family Caregiver Alliance. In addition to these “Sandwich Generation” caregiver responsibilities, most caregivers are also married or in committed rel...
The Havre Ice Hawks put together a solid campaign which put them into the MAHA State tournament which was held inside the Havre Ice Dome over the weekend. And starting last Thursday, the Ice Hawks battled some of the best high school hockey teams in the state and, unfortunately, Havre was unable to get out of group play as the Ice Hawks dropped all three games in order. The first game came Thursday night in pool play against Kalispell, a team that Havre split with during the...
The Rocky Boy Stars have been red-hot in the postseason. Unfortunately, the Stars ran into a team that got hotter at the Northern B boys tournament in Shelby. Saturday night, Rocky Boy fell to the Poplar Indians 68-58 in the Northern B championship game, but the Stars are still heading back to the Class B state tournament, which starts Wednesday in Belgrade. Rocky Boy, which had to win a Northern B challenge game just to get to state a year ago, didn’t have any problems this t...
The Montana State University-Northern Lights were just one hurdle away from playing for a Frontier Conference championship. That hurdle, however, proved to be much too tall. Saturday night in the Frontier Conference semifinals, the Lights were blitzed by the 13th-ranked Lewis-Clark State Warriors in a 95-53 loss that brought Northern’s season to an end with an 18-14 record. Meanwhile, the Warriors advanced to Tuesday night’s championship game where they’ll take on Carro...
GREAT FALLS - Winning back-to-back state championships isn't something that happens all the time and that's something we should remember when it comes to the Box Elder girls basketball team. With a 48-42 win over Roy-Winifred Saturday night at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls, the Bears played their way into the history books as a legendary team, not only in the Class C record books as a repeat champion but as one of the great teams in the history of the state. Over the...
In 2018, a pair of Montana State University-Northern wrestlers stood on the threshold of winning an individual national championship, only to come up short in heartbreaking matches. Saturday night in Des Moines, Iowa, the Lights found themselves in the same situation. In what was an up-and-down 2019 NAIA national tournament for Northern, the Lights of head coach Tyson Thivierge crowned three NAIA All-Americans, had a second straight year with two runner-up finishes, and...
GREAT FALLS - The Box Elder Bears may not have finished with a perfect season. But after knocking off upstart Roy-Winifred Saturday night in Great Falls at the Four Seasons Arena, the Bears capped their season with a perfect ending - winning their second straight Class C state championship. While it wasn't always pretty and at times, the Bears had to overcome some adversity, when the clock struck zero in the Class C girls state championship game, Box Elder came away with the...
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