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Articles from the September 18, 2013 edition


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  • Local Bowling Report: Bowling is back on the Hi-Line

    Ken Brubaker|Updated Sep 18, 2013

    After several months of no league bowling, Hi-Line Lanes welcomed back bowlers in all leagues. Scores did not show that they took any time off, as the scores were as hot as the 90-degree weather. Roman Surber just missed another 300 with a 297, (his third try for the magic 300 in one year). Some keglers don’t get three chances in a lifetime. Jason McDonald had a three-game set of 765, with a 289 game. Ken Riska had a 279, plus several other high games and series. On the ladies side the scores were not as high, but very r...

  • Our View: Police Chief Fitch accomplished a lot in a short time

    Updated Sep 18, 2013

    Kirk Fitch’s time as Havre police chief was short, but its impact was great. Fitch announced Monday he was retiring at the end of the month after spending a little less than two years in office. When he assumed office, the police department was at a low ebb. Morale was low, and there was a revolving door of officers in and out of the department. There was apprehension by the public. Many suspected, with some reason, that the department played favorites. The previous chief was under investigation for his part in a barroom b...

  • Skylights gain more votes in NAIA poll

    George Ferguson|Updated Sep 18, 2013

    The goal for the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team is to take care of business at home. But opening up with rival, and NAIA power Carroll College doesn’t make that goal easy. However, the Skylights did in fact make it look easy as they defeated the Fighting Saints in four sets last Friday night at the Armory Gymnasium. With the win came an early 1-0 start to conference play, as well as Frontier Conference Player of the Week honors for senior hitter Abby N...

  • Hi-Line Athlete Profile: Kaylie Gilman

    Daniel Horton|Updated Sep 18, 2013

    Kaylie Gilman is a former Havre High Blue Pony. She was on the verge of being a Pony standout on the basketball court, volleyball court, and on the track in Havre, but wound up being a standout for the Big Sandy Pioneers instead. Gilman attended Havre High her freshman and sophomore years, but transferred to Big Sandy where’s she found a home with the Pioneers. Gilman is in her final year of an already standout career with the Pioneers. She is a post player on the b...

  • For the Record, September 18, 2013

    Updated Sep 18, 2013

    Havre Police Department A summons was issued to a 17-year-old for possession of dangerous drugs and drug paraphernalia after officers investigated a 1:35 p.m. Tuesday call from the high school. ——— Officers investigated fraud activity on a credit card after receiving a 2:07 p.m. Tuesday call from McKinley Avenue. ——— Officers investigated a 2:17 p.m. Tuesday call from a 3rd Street business about someone backing into a pole. ——— Officers investigated a 4:14 p.m. Tuesday call from 14th Street West about a jeep that had its wind...

  • James Merle (Jimmy) Pursley

    Updated Sep 18, 2013
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    The ranching community lost a well- known, loved and admired rancher on Sept. 15, 2013. Jim Pursley died due to a ranching accident on his ranch north of Chinook doing what he loved most. Funeral services will be held Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, at 11 a.m. at the St. Gabriel’s Catholic Church in Chinook. A viewing will be held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013, at the Edwards Funeral Home in Chinook. Arrangements have been made with Edwards Funeral Home of C...

  • Stand-alone photo: 100 years of Sinclair

    Lindsay Brown|Updated Sep 18, 2013

    Mike Oppegaard lowers the signature Sinclair dinosaur down to Scott Warren earlier this month at Stromberg's Sinclair. For the hundredth anniversary of Sinclair, new signage was installed by QRS Signs....

  • Stand-alone photo: A colorful welcome

    Lindsay Brown|Updated Sep 18, 2013

    Morgan Hall Resident Director Mariah Bingeman paints a step at Montana State University-Northern Tuesday afternoon. Clubs and residential floors painted steps as a Homecoming Week event on campus. For more photos and a story, see Friday's Hi-Line Living page in the Havre Daily News....

  • Fair board told it should 'think outside the box'

    Tim Leeds|Updated Sep 18, 2013

    The Great Northern Fair Board was urged at its monthly meeting Tuesday to look at some new ideas for events and ways to adjust management at the county fairgrounds to try to raise its revenue. Board member Gus Sharp said he wants the board to look closely at all of the facilities and events at the fairgrounds to see what can be done better. “If we can utilize more some of the ones that are showing positives and delete some of the things that are showing negatives and try to build some of those reserves we were talking a...

  • Northern to receive over $1.7 million from grant

    John Paul Schmidt|Updated Sep 18, 2013
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    Montana State University-Northern will receive a $1.7 million grant to help training people for full-time jobs. The Northern grant is part of a $25 million grant given to colleges around the state. The goal of this, according to a press release, is to “train more than 9,000 Montanans to fill good-paying jobs in the rapidly growing advanced manufacturing and energy industries. “The energy boom in eastern Montana is rapidly creating new job opportunities across our state, and this grant will make sure Montana workers have the...

  • Local group interested in picking up rodeo

    Tim Leeds|Updated Sep 18, 2013

    The manager of the Great Northern Fairgrounds told the fair board at its monthly meeting Tuesday that a local group is interested in picking up the rodeo at the annual Hill County fair. “They wanted to have a meeting with me first. I don’t know if they’re ready to come out yet … ,” manager Tim Solomon said. “We’ll see where they’re at. I told them it would be nice (to know) before we go to convention in November.” A representative of the local association that put on the rodeo at the Great Northern Fair for the past three ye...