Articles from the June 4, 2007 edition

page design and photos by nikki carlson story by krista corner One veteran's tour of duty in World War II took him to many of the most famous battles of the South Pacific, and his ship was one of the first inside the harbor at Tokyo. Earl Pollington reminisced Wednesday about life in Kremlin, coming to Montana from Michigan, the U.S. Navy and a marriage of almost 60 years. Pollington, 92, served his country in World War II aboard the U.S.S. San Diego, an anti-aircraft cruiser. He has lived a colorful life, coming to Montana f...

George Ferguson Havre Daily News sports editor [email protected]@havredailynews.com With six games to play in a span of less than three days, the Havre Northstars American legion baseball team couldn't have gotten off to a better start. On Friday night at Legion Fields in Havre, the Northstars dispatched the Great Falls Sparkies twice to start a very busy week of. Havre belted out a combined 24 hits and scored 25 runs en route to victories of 12-1 and 13-1 over the Sparkies. Both games ended after the...

JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS Associated Press Writer MIAMI, Okla. The Riviera Courts motel is crumbling away and nobody seems to care. Once a stop along Route 66, the 2,400-mile neon carnival that connected hundreds of communities from Chicago to Los Angeles, this late-1930s Mission Revival is just a weather-worn building on the side of a country road in far northeast Oklahoma. Next door, soybean farmers Richard and Rosemary Woolard watch the place deteriorate from their front porch. “Been a lot of changes in this old county,” 77-...

Tensions between stockgrowers and Buffalo Field Campaign heightened after brucellosis found in herd. MATT GOURAS Associated Press Writer HELENA The National Park Service and the state of Montana agreed Friday to truck a renegade group bison into Yellowstone National Park if they resist the latest hazing efforts an effort aimed at preventing the slaughter of week-old bison calves. Gov. Brian Schweitzer announced the plan with Suzanne Lewis, superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. Schweitzer said it was hammered out with...

Club members will ride train from Havre to Shelby and back Elizabeth Doney Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line members are gearing up for the ride of their life a Burlington Northern Sante Fe vintage train with 13 passenger cars is coming their way to take them on a journey of railroad adventure on Friday, June 15. The Boys & Grils Club of Havre has been selected as one of five stops in this year's “BNSF Railway Special,” a unique railway experience for mem...

Former Havre High School great Andy Smith has been named the new HHS head boy's basketball coach Chris Peterson Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com With a bright future in mind, the Havre High boys basketball team went back to its storied past to find new head coach in Class of 1994 graduate Andy Smith. After an extensive search process, Smith was announced as the new HHS head coach Thursday night and he will take over the position vacated by John Barnhorst. “Obviously, it is a great o...

page design and photos by nikki carlson story by krista corner One veteran's tour of duty in World War II took him to many of the most famous battles of the South Pacific, and his ship was one of the first inside the harbor at Tokyo. Earl Pollington reminisced Wednesday about life in Kremlin, coming to Montana from Michigan, the U.S. Navy and a marriage of almost 60 years. Pollington, 92, served his country in World War II aboard the U.S.S. San Diego, an anti-aircraft cruiser. He has lived a colorful life, coming to Montana f...

George Ferguson Havre Daily News sports editor [email protected]@havredailynews.com With six games to play in a span of less than three days, the Havre Northstars American legion baseball team couldn't have gotten off to a better start. On Friday night at Legion Fields in Havre, the Northstars dispatched the Great Falls Sparkies twice to start a very busy week of. Havre belted out a combined 24 hits and scored 25 runs en route to victories of 12-1 and 13-1 over the Sparkies. Both games ended after the...

JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS Associated Press Writer MIAMI, Okla. The Riviera Courts motel is crumbling away and nobody seems to care. Once a stop along Route 66, the 2,400-mile neon carnival that connected hundreds of communities from Chicago to Los Angeles, this late-1930s Mission Revival is just a weather-worn building on the side of a country road in far northeast Oklahoma. Next door, soybean farmers Richard and Rosemary Woolard watch the place deteriorate from their front porch. “Been a lot of changes in this old county,” 77-...

Tensions between stockgrowers and Buffalo Field Campaign heightened after brucellosis found in herd. MATT GOURAS Associated Press Writer HELENA The National Park Service and the state of Montana agreed Friday to truck a renegade group bison into Yellowstone National Park if they resist the latest hazing efforts an effort aimed at preventing the slaughter of week-old bison calves. Gov. Brian Schweitzer announced the plan with Suzanne Lewis, superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. Schweitzer said it was hammered out with...

Club members will ride train from Havre to Shelby and back Elizabeth Doney Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line members are gearing up for the ride of their life a Burlington Northern Sante Fe vintage train with 13 passenger cars is coming their way to take them on a journey of railroad adventure on Friday, June 15. The Boys & Grils Club of Havre has been selected as one of five stops in this year's “BNSF Railway Special,” a unique railway experience for mem...

Former Havre High School great Andy Smith has been named the new HHS head boy's basketball coach Chris Peterson Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com With a bright future in mind, the Havre High boys basketball team went back to its storied past to find new head coach in Class of 1994 graduate Andy Smith. After an extensive search process, Smith was announced as the new HHS head coach Thursday night and he will take over the position vacated by John Barnhorst. “Obviously, it is a great o...

page design and photos by nikki carlson story by krista corner One veteran's tour of duty in World War II took him to many of the most famous battles of the South Pacific, and his ship was one of the first inside the harbor at Tokyo. Earl Pollington reminisced Wednesday about life in Kremlin, coming to Montana from Michigan, the U.S. Navy and a marriage of almost 60 years. Pollington, 92, served his country in World War II aboard the U.S.S. San Diego, an anti-aircraft cruiser. He has lived a colorful life, coming to Montana f...

George Ferguson Havre Daily News sports editor [email protected]@havredailynews.com With six games to play in a span of less than three days, the Havre Northstars American legion baseball team couldn't have gotten off to a better start. On Friday night at Legion Fields in Havre, the Northstars dispatched the Great Falls Sparkies twice to start a very busy week of. Havre belted out a combined 24 hits and scored 25 runs en route to victories of 12-1 and 13-1 over the Sparkies. Both games ended after the...

JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS Associated Press Writer MIAMI, Okla. The Riviera Courts motel is crumbling away and nobody seems to care. Once a stop along Route 66, the 2,400-mile neon carnival that connected hundreds of communities from Chicago to Los Angeles, this late-1930s Mission Revival is just a weather-worn building on the side of a country road in far northeast Oklahoma. Next door, soybean farmers Richard and Rosemary Woolard watch the place deteriorate from their front porch. “Been a lot of changes in this old county,” 77-...

Tensions between stockgrowers and Buffalo Field Campaign heightened after brucellosis found in herd. MATT GOURAS Associated Press Writer HELENA The National Park Service and the state of Montana agreed Friday to truck a renegade group bison into Yellowstone National Park if they resist the latest hazing efforts an effort aimed at preventing the slaughter of week-old bison calves. Gov. Brian Schweitzer announced the plan with Suzanne Lewis, superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. Schweitzer said it was hammered out with...

Club members will ride train from Havre to Shelby and back Elizabeth Doney Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line members are gearing up for the ride of their life a Burlington Northern Sante Fe vintage train with 13 passenger cars is coming their way to take them on a journey of railroad adventure on Friday, June 15. The Boys & Grils Club of Havre has been selected as one of five stops in this year's “BNSF Railway Special,” a unique railway experience for mem...

Former Havre High School great Andy Smith has been named the new HHS head boy's basketball coach Chris Peterson Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com With a bright future in mind, the Havre High boys basketball team went back to its storied past to find new head coach in Class of 1994 graduate Andy Smith. After an extensive search process, Smith was announced as the new HHS head coach Thursday night and he will take over the position vacated by John Barnhorst. “Obviously, it is a great o...