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City workers were working to turn off water that was bubbling through the asphalt and sidewalks on 3rd Avenue. The Masonic Lodge's basement was fairly flooded by the time the workers turned off the water supply to the main the ruptured. The owners of the Havre Historic Post Office said their basement was untouched as they were moving water pumps to help empty the Masonic Lodge basement. There is significant damage to the street....
Havre city officials are attempting to calm down a dispute between the city judge and City Council members after a tense session Monday night. City Judge Virginia Seigel lit into the city administration at Monday night's council meeting over two issues. The judge secured a $30,000 grant from the Montana Board of Criminal Justice to hire a misdemeanor probation officer. The officer would work with people who had been sentenced on misdemeanor charges to ensure that they are...
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From Havre High School Havre High School will begin school Wednesday, Aug. 26. The first day of school will be the same as last year. Staff will be conducting a freshmen/new student orientation that will be held in the morning from 8:15 to 11:45 a.m. Aug. 26. Freshmen and new students are required to attend this event. All other students will be required to attend afternoon classes for the rest of the day starting at 12:35 p.m. Buses will run on regular schedules in the morning and in the afternoon, so students who ride the b...
Debbie Vandeberg Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Planning is underway for the 35th celebration of Havre Festival Days. The theme for this year's weekend is Let's Celebrate Havre. The weekend starts Friday, Sept. 18, with the 48-hour softball tournament, the Quilt Show and the second day of the Friends of the Library Book Sale. The fun continues Saturday, Sept. 19, starting with the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast and the final Saturday Market at Town Square. The parade, the big...
My friend Cheryl’s children are urging her and Dave to move right now from their long-time home in Tillamook, Oregon to the inland side of the Cascades. Why? Because they live at sea level between two rivers. We are told the Big Quake, the one where the west coast slides into the sea, with requisite tsunamis to follow, has been scheduled to creak and crack any day now. Certainly, disaster can strike. Look around us. The world seems a topsy-turvy place. But I’m irreverent. I ca...
Editor: I have just finished reading the front page article on “Sounds on the Square drinking OK’d” (Havre Daily News, page 1, Wednesday, Aug. 5). Why must the good people of this community feel that alcohol must be present at every event we have? How does this look to our youth and nonalcoholic friends. We complain that we must stop underage drinking, but yet support this kind of behavior. We have open container laws for a reason. You don’t need alcohol to have fun. I have been a Hi-Line resident my early years before...
Editor: When we talk about health care, it’s important to remember that even though more Americans have health insurance coverage these days, millions of people still struggle to find a place to go for regular preventative care. A key part of the solutions lie in our nation’s community health centers which have provided quality, affordable care for 50 years. Health centers like ours across the country save the U.S. health care system more than $24 billion every year in reduced overall costs from preventable hos...
Havre Fire Department Officers investigated an 8:35 a.m. call Wednesday from a 2nd Street West business reporting someone had broken into a Dodge pickup truck and stolen the stereo. —— Officers investigated a report at the police station at 10 a.m. Wednesday that a woman’s husband had been gone for two days. —— A caller reported Wednesday at 3:53 p.m. that his grandson had found a suspicious note on 5th Avenue. Officers investigated. —— Orin Tyler Alexander, 39, of Box Elder was arrested on a charge of open container viola...
The fall sports season is coming fast. But, before the summer ends, there is one more sports event on the summer calendar and that takes place this week as the Montana State Men's Fastpitch tournament returns to Havre and the famed Sixth Avenue Memorial Field. Havre has always had a strong tradition in fastpitch softball and that tradition will continue this week as six teams from Havre, Missoula and Plentywood will battle it out to be called state champions. "There's no...
In just its second year in existence, a pair of Havre Blue Ponies will once again play in Montana’s premier girls fastpitch softball all-star tournament. The 2nd Annual Veterans Memorial Classic will be held Friday and Saturday in Belgrade, and Havre stars Dani Wagner and Paige Henderson will be a part of the action. The tournament will feature four teams and eight total games. Players from Class AA, A and B-C are mixed throughout the four teams, and each team is named for a v...
The Montana State Bobcats and Montana Grizzlies were separated by just one spot in the Football Subdivision Championship rankings when they met last November in Missoula. Now, they’ll start the season in exactly the same place. On Wednesday, the FCS Preseason Coaches Poll was released and the Bobcats came in at No. 11 while the Grizzlies were ranked No. 12. MSU, which finished 8-5 a year ago and in third place in the Big Sky, was picked to win the conference this season by t...
British Soccer Camp gives local players a chance to keep learning Soccer is a game that is becoming more and more appealing to today's youth and that growth was shown just this week in Havre as 41 kids have been in attendance at the annual Challenger Sports British Soccer Camp. The 41 kids make up three separate age groups, with the biggest number of kids participating in the camp coming from the 5-8 age range. One young footballer that has gotten a chance to increase his...
