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Articles from the September 2, 2016 edition


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  • Friday Night Lights: Havre has seasoned coaching staff

    Chris Peterson|Updated Sep 3, 2016

    From the beginning, Havre High head football coach Ryan Gatch said that building a good staff around him was essential. And thanks to a group of coaches who have a wealth of experience, both on and off the field, Gatch has achieved what he set out to do. “I think we have a really great coaching staff here,” Gatch said. “We have a lot of years of experience and a lot of great football minds. But these guys are also fun to be around. We have fun around each other.” Gatch c...

  • MAT throws pirate-themed dinner theater

    Paul Dragu|Updated Sep 2, 2016

    Montana Actors' Theatre will be hosting a pirate-themed eighth annual Death by Chocolate dinner theater Sept. 10 in the St. Jude Thaddeus School's Havre Central Gymnasium. The show, "Pirates of Havzance," will start at 5:30 p.m. and the main goal, MAT artistic director Jay Pyette said, is to entertain people. Food will be served and four 10-to15-minute-long scenes of a murder mystery will be acted out throughout the night. The characters, Pyette said, will be based on...

  • Annexation again on City Council agenda

    Tim Leeds|Updated Sep 2, 2016

    The Havre City Council at its meeting Tuesday will once again visit the topic of annexing property west of the city limits into Havre. The first item on the agenda for the 7 p.m. meeting is the first reading of a resolution to annex property into the city of Havre. The description of the properties proposed to be annexed into the city limits include the Holiday Village Mall, Triangle Communications and Hill County Electric, Havre Ford, The NorthWestern Corp., G&B Toyota, and other properties along U.S. Highway 2 Northwest...

  • Obituary - Betty Mae (Springer) Anderson

    Updated Sep 2, 2016

    Betty Mae (Springer) Anderson, 79, a resident of Harlem, went to her room in heaven Monday, Aug. 29, 2016. Vigil will be held Monday, Sept. 5, 2016, at 7 p.m. and a funeral Mass will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016, at 11 a.m., all at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church. Memorials may be sent to Blaine Co. 4-H Council or the Blaine Co. 4-H Foundation, P.O. Box 519, Chinook, MT 59523. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit...

  • Man sentenced for selling drugs on work break

    Paul Dragu|Updated Sep 2, 2016

    Shannon J. Walston, born in 1992, received a three-year suspended sentence under the supervision of the Department of Corrections for selling illegal drugs during his break while working at a Havre restaurant. Walston’s felony conviction of criminal possession with intent to distribute was pursuant to a plea deal struck earlier in the year. He was also ordered to pay a $473.75 drug storage fine. The investigation began in February 2015, when a probation and parole officer contacted the Tri-Agency Safe Trails Task Force to t...

  • Agenda: Havre City Council

    Updated Sep 2, 2016

    Budget Hearing For Wednesday, Sept. 7 Call to order at 6 p.m. Pledge of Allegiance Roll call Public comment on Agenda Items: 9 through 14 only. For items not on this agenda, public comment will be taken at the end of the agenda. Comments offered here are limited to one minute. Regular agenda: 9. Resolution No. 3740 (Final Reading) — A Resolution Levying and Assessing a Tax to Defray the Cost of Maintaining Street Lights for the City Of Havre, Montana for the Fiscal Year 2016-2017. 10. Resolution No. 3741 (Final Reading) ...

  • For the Record - September 2, 2016

    Updated Sep 2, 2016

    Havre Police Department Officers investigated a drug offense report after a Smithville Road caller reported Thursday at 8:57 a.m. that paraphernalia was found in a makeup box. —— Officers investigated a vandalism report after a Second Street caller reported Thursday at 9:46 a.m. that someone shot the business' glass with a BB gun. —— Officers investigated an auto theft after a Second Street caller reported Thursday at 2:59 p.m. that his vehicle was missing. —— Officers investigated a fraud report after a Grant Avenue call...

  • Agenda: Hill County Commissioners

    Updated Sep 2, 2016

    Monday County Offices are closed in observance of Labor Day Tuesday 8:30 a.m. — DNRC Fire Restriction CC 10:30 a.m. — Road Supervisor — Hanson Wednesday Office hours Thursday 10 a.m. — Business meeting Manual claims Employment review Resolutions Tax adjustments County permit approval Subdivision/survey approval Contracts Time for comments from the public Friday 8 a.m. — WPCAC meeting...

  • Agenda: Havre City Council

    Updated Sep 2, 2016

    Havre City Council Agenda For Tuesday, Sept. 6 is: Call to order 7 p.m. Pledge of allegiance Roll Call Minutes Committee reports Public comment on agenda items: 1 through 6 only. For items not on this agenda, public comment will be taken at the end of the agenda. Comments offered here are limited to one minute. Regular agenda: 1. Resolution No. 3746 — A Resolution of Intention to Annex Certain Real Property to the City of Havre, to Fix the Date of Public Hearing and to Provide for Publication of Notice of Said Hearing. 2. R...

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    Updated Sep 2, 2016

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  • Accused child sex offender gets bail reduced

    Paul Dragu|Updated Sep 2, 2016

    A man accused of having sex with underage girls he met on Facebook had his bail reduced Thursday on the condition that he not access any social media internet sites when he gets out. District Court Judge Daniel Boucher said Emmett L. Windyboy, upon his release, is not allowed to visit social media websites or have any digital device that can do so, and he cannot ask someone else to contact anyone on social media for him either. Before reducing his bail from $25,000 to $1,000, Boucher asked Windyboy’s public defender, T...

  • Cattle go back on park after Labor Day

    Alex Ross|Updated Sep 2, 2016

    Drivers traveling through Beaver Creek Park will have to be a little more careful starting Tuesday, when cattle will be released to graze on the park. Matt Ladenburg of the Montana Department of Transportation said Thursday that a reader board warning of the presence of cattle will be stationed at the south end of 5th Avenue. Beaver Creek Park allows ranchers to graze cattle on the park for a fee between the day after Labor Day and Jan. 1. The reader board will be present until cattle are taken off the park, Ladenburg said....

  • Celebrating History: Labor Day preparations

    Emily Mayer|Updated Sep 2, 2016

    By Emily Mayer Havre’s many labor unions were busy preparing for the upcoming Labor Day Celebration this week 100 years ago, and it was no small affair. The Sept. 2, 1916 issue of The Hill County Democrat outlined the many events plus prizes donated by various Havre businesses to the winners. The events included a grand parade with cash prizes for the best float for “best uniformed float” and “Most appropriate decorated float.” Speaking from the band stand followed, and next was a baseball game between the Machinist...

  • View from the North 40: One plus one is not three

    Pam Burke, Humor columnist|Updated Sep 2, 2016

    One of my horses is kind of loaned out to a ranch right now, and it’s like having a disturbance in the Force to be missing one of the living beings in my life. The two horses I have left are rocking the adjustment like, well, horses. This means, they ran around frantically for 15 minutes, whinnied loudly and regularly for maybe three hours, whinnied occasionally for another 10 hours and then they moved on to jockeying for position in the discussion over who would be in c...

  • Hi-Line Living: Shooting Under the Stars

    Paul Dragu|Updated Sep 2, 2016

    For the ninth year in a row, shotgun shooters, most of them from Havre, came together to fire into the night in the Moonlight Shoot at the Havre Trap Club. Club President Jim Bachini wasn't sure how many shooters had signed up for last Friday evening's shootout, but he guessed about 30. Bachini also guessed the origins of the Havre Trap Club may go back to sometime in the 1950s. "It's been around for as long as I can remember," he said. What he did know for sure is that the...

  • Senior Center News

    Updated Sep 2, 2016

    North Central Senior Center, Sept. 5-9 There are a variety of quilts available for sale in the Senior Center Gift Shop along with a variety of other items. Stop in and check it out. We have information on protecting yourself from tax fraud phone calls available at the Center. Please come in and check it out. If you’ve received one of these calls, hang up and jot down all the information you can remember. Monday — Closed for Labor Day Tuesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; bingo at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday — Transpo...

  • HHS students participate in Healthcare Summer Camp

    Updated Sep 2, 2016

    Press release HELENA — Alexandra McDermott, Maysie Smith and Michelle Rainey of Havre High School were selected to join a group of Montana high school students to participate in a five-day summer program aimed at developing the next generation of health care providers. Hosted by the Montana AHEC — Area Health Education Centers — each MedStart camp immersed students in campus life while providing opportunities to explore a variety of health care careers through simulation activities and job shadows at local facilities. Stude...

  • Hello God...It's me Mara: Dawn

    Updated Sep 2, 2016

    You know, Lord, it was one of those summer nights when drapes are left wide and windows are thrown open. It was one of those summer dawns when the sun peeps over the distant hills about 6 a.m. One can become so accustomed to what seems normal, that the actual happening of it all is missed. At this dawning, birds were softly sounding alarms, their melody growing ever stronger until this sleepy head was awake enough to go look out the window. Ah! A wide grey shadow appeared to stretch across the eastern sky. It isn’t really nig...

  • Grief Poem: The Widow at the Auction

    Updated Sep 2, 2016

    The widow at the auction held her head up high, A heart so full of memories but she didn’t dare to cry. Looking out the window at the faces in the sun Folks were milling toward the garage, the auction had begun. At home now no children, as they’d long since grown and gone. She had been so all alone since the funeral of her John. Her reverie was broken as the gavel pounded “SOLD!” Things that once had meant so much now just left her cold. There: the writing desk and chair, floor lamps, beds and such, Then bowls and plates,...

  • Pastor's Corner: Finding a Godly wife

    Kevin Barsotti, Ark Church|Updated Sep 2, 2016

    Proverbs 18:22 He who finds a (true) wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. My wife and I will soon celebrate our 31st anniversary. The last 30 years of our life together has flown by quickly. We raised three children and now have the opportunity to enjoy three grandchildren. We have experienced the loss of loved ones and the birth of babies. As we age, we sometimes reflect on our legacy. The Bible teaches us that a Godly man leaves an inheritance to his children and grandchildren. That inheritance may be...

  • Out Our Way: The Gospel according to Goliath: 'I see YOU!'

    John Bruington|Updated Sep 2, 2016

    Mark 7:3-37 Raised in the Bear Paws until I bought him, Goliath had a few encounters with the unknown that spooked him. One that nearly led to him setting off his launch codes was the first time he came across one of those plastic bags folks use to bring home their groceries. My friend Rick calls them, "prarire jelly fish," for they float across the grass in the wind just as a Portugese Man-O-War floats on the waves in the ocean. The prairie variety have no stinging...

  • Northern sets Fall 2016 Chancellor's Lecture Series

    Updated Sep 2, 2016

    Press release The Chancellor’s Lecture Series committee members have announced the Fall 2016 events. Designed to create campus and communitywide conversation, the Fall 2016 Montana State University-Northern Chancellor’s Lecture Series will consist of three presentations by distinguished guests. All presentations are free and open to the public. All presentations begin at 7:30 p.m. in Hensler Auditorium in the Applied Technology Center. Walt Whitman and the Civil War with Dave Caserio and Parker Brown Tuesday, Sept. 20, Caseri...

  • MSU-N VB goes to Nebraska

    Chris Peterson|Updated Sep 2, 2016

    The beginning of the season is always a hectic time for the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team and a big reason why is the Skylights’ schedule. Last weekend, Northern opened its season at the Big Sky Tournament in Butte and lost three of four matches. But, this week, the Skylights will have a chance to rebound and to get that chance, they traveled all the way to Bellevue, Nebraska, to take part in the prestigious Bellevue College Tournament this weekend. The S...

  • Havre High football faces another road test

    Chris Peterson|Updated Sep 2, 2016

    It takes a good football team to win on the road. The Havre High football team was able to do it last week against the defending state champs and, if the Blue Ponies can do it for the second straight week, it could be a good sign of things to come. But to win Havre will need to beat Hardin, a scrappy team from the Eastern A, which despite winning just one game a season ago, has its eye on the making the Class A state playoffs. The Bulldogs beat Browning 40-6 in last week’s sea...

  • Pony volleyball back at it

    Chris Peterson|Updated Sep 2, 2016

    The Havre High volleyball team already got its season underway, but tonight will be another first for the Blue Ponies, who will take part in their first Central A conference match of the season. Havre, which won twice at the Eastern A Tip-Off tournament last weekend in Lewistown, will play back-to-back matches within the Central A today, starting at 4 p.m. against Belgrade. Following that match, Havre will take on Livingston, which will also be played in Belgrade....

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