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James Byron Lyons, 61, passed away Monday, Sept. 8, 2014, at Benefis Health Care Gravesides services will be Saturday, Sept. 13, at 2 p.m. at Highland Cemetery in Havre. A reception will follow at the Townhouse Inn. Jim was born Jan. 14, 1953, at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, Kansas, to Donald Wesley and Virginia Carol (Payne) Lyons. He married Phyllis “Diller” Heggen on November 7, 1987. She preceded him in death in December 2009. Jim worked as a developer and marketer of agricultural chemicals. He was a member of the Tri...
Fay Brenna Fortin, 84, of Port Angeles, Washington, passed away peacefully, Sept. 6, 2014, at her home surrounded by family. Interment will be in Highland Cemetery in Havre. Services will be held in Great Falls at a later date....
CORVALLIS - Donna Mae Whitney, 69, of Corvallis, Montana, passed away Saturday, Sept 6, 2014, due to complications arising from her recent diagnosis of an aggressive brain cancer. She was born Aug 11, 1945, in Havre, Montana, to Roy A. Berger and Clara Enola Berger. She is survived by her loving partner, Daniel Farrow; her son, Stephen Whitney III; her daughter, Hannah Whitney Lissette and her beloved grandchildren, Weston and Emerson Lissette. She is also survived by her sister Carol Karen Wavrick (maiden name Berger; and...
A Havre woman — who officers say passed a police car during a high-speed chase in Havre Aug. 29 — pleaded not guilty to multiple charges this week. Dakota Rose Greshock, who was 19 at the time of the chase, faces felony charges of criminal endangerment and assaulting a peace officer and misdemeanor charges of fleeing from a peace officer, partner or family member assault and possession of drug paraphernalia. District Judge Dan Boucher set a scheduling hearing, which usually includes setting a trial date, for Oct. 3. According...
Havre Police Department Someone was arrested after officers investigated a 7:11 a.m Wednesday complaint at the police station about someone wanting to speak to an officer about them knowing where some of their stolen stuff was. No other information was given. —— Someone was arrested after an officer served a warrant at 9:26 a.m. Wednesday at a 2nd Street business. No other information was given. —— Officers investigated a 3:30 p.m. Wednesday call from 5th Street about a juvenile boy on a bicycle being hit by a vehicle...
Montana State University-Northern Student Senate had an open forum about the smoking or tobacco ban that may be in the works for the university. The conversation was organized by Student Senate in order to gain a better understanding of what the students at the university want to happen for their campus in terms of tobacco use. “The Student Senate is the voice of the students on campus and that’s basically the main reason we’re having this forum,” said Andrew Potter, the president of Student Senate. “We’d like to find out th...
NEW YORK - With the solemn toll of a bell and a moment of silence, the nation paused this morning to mark the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attack at the hallowed site that has been transformed into a bustling plaza. Family and friends of those who died read the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in New York, at the Pentagon and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Thelma Stuart, whose husband, Walwyn Wellington Stuart Jr., 28, was a Port Authority Police Department...
With federal farm programs rewritten in a long-delayed Farm Bill, Montana ag producers can hear about how to pick the best programs for their operations in a series of meetings set throughout the state in the next two months. The USDA Farm Service Agency, USDA Risk Management Agency and Montana State University Extension Service have announced the dates and times of 28 meetings starting in Belgrade Oct. 15. The meetings primarily will cover the new Price Loss Coverage, or PLC, and Agricultural Risk Coverage, or ARC, programs...
Havre: Loving our Treasures is the theme for the 34th celebration of Havre Festival Days. Activities start Friday, Sept. 19, with the Friends of the Library Book Sale, the quilt show and the 48-Hour Softball Tournament. For the car buffs in the area, the Big Sky Auto Club is hosting a car show. If sports is a liking, the Blue Pony and Skylights volleyball teams with be at home. Saturday is full of fun things to do. Start the day with breakfast at the Kiwanis Pancake breakfast, a Havre tradition for over 50 years. The big...
Editor: To area ag producers, for 17 years, the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce's Agri-Business Committee has organized the Ag Appreciation Banquet with incredible support through business sponsorships. This has been an event the committee and community have truly enjoyed. Havre’s banquet is one of the largest Ag Appreciation Banquets in the state. The purpose of the banquet is to recognize and thank all of you in the agriculture industry for your valuable contribution to the Havre economy as well as to that of Montana. The A...
Dear Richard, Across the street the sewer main sprung a vicious leak. Nasty, smelly water is burbling up, sending a gray putrid pool down the street my way. The break is right on the corner of Calle del Pulpo and Tiberon. Actually, I don't know where the break is but that is where the icky water is gushing out. Please send the guys down to fix it. With all the flooding going on, a side effect of Hurricane Norberto, I don't know when the city crew here can get to it. I would call in the break, but I don't know who to call or...
The first really big weekend in the Frontier Conference sure was a doozy. And it's one we likely won't forget about this season because what happened in the Frontier last Saturday is going to have lasting effects on the rest of the conference, the rest of the way. Nowhere was a game bigger than in Ashland, Oregon, last Saturday, and for the second time in three years, the Southern Oregon Raiders knocked off Carroll College in a wild affair. In the NAIA Game of the Week, No. 22...
The Montana State University-Northern volleyball team has spent the last three weeks traveling all over, playing some of the best teams in all of NAIA volleyball. And while the Skylights are back on the road, tonight is different. Tonight, Northern begins defense of its 2013 Frontier Conference regular season championship as league play begins in Lewiston, Idaho. Northern (4-9) battles Lewis-Clark State (5-5) in the conference opener for both teams. The first ball goes up...
The Montana State University-Northern men's and women's rodeo teams kicked off the 2014 season last week in Wyoming. But now, for the only time all year, the Lights and Skylights get to host their own Big Sky Region Rodeo. The annual MSU-Northern Rodeo starts Friday night and runs through Sunday afternoon at the Great Northern Fairgrounds Arena, and for the Lights and Skylights it's the one time all season they don't have to travel. Northern started its fall schedule last...
It's been an up-and-down start to the 2014 high school golf season for the Havre Blue Ponies. Not so much in scores and finishes, but more so with the weather. And though it's still early in September, Havre is at the halfway point of the 2014 season, and the Ponies have already played in all types of conditions. Now, HHS will start its busiest stretch of the year when the Ponies play four tournaments over the next eight days. This weekend, Havre will travel to the Lewistown...
There is something different about playing in front of the hometown crowd. And after beginning the 2014 season on the road, the Havre High volleyball team is itching to take the floor at the HHS gymnasium for the first time. Tonight, the Blue Ponies will get their wish as they start a busy weekend with a nonconference match against Conrad. HHS (0-2) will try to get its first official victory of the season after dropping a pair of conference games last weekend. The Ponies did...
