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City resources and manpower are being used to continue the cleanup after last week's record-breaking snowstorm, but the effort will also depend on the community pitching in, Havre Public Works Director Dave Peterson said Wednesday. "We are not here to say 'It's your responsibility. We are not going to do anything.' We will be here by your side helping to do it. It is just going to be a community effort," Peterson said. He added that while the city is doing what it can by...
The 66-year-old Havre woman who died Oct. 6 after hitting a deer on U.S. Highway 87 Friday evening has been identified as Annette Vander Ven. Vander Ven died of blunt force trauma, Hill County coroner Jamie Ross said Wednesday. Vander Ven was driving a Toyota Rav4 northbound on U.S. 87 when she hit a deer, Montana Highway Patrol said in a statement. The deer she crashed into went through the windshield and hit her. She was transported to Northern Montana Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Highway Patrol received a call...
A candidate for City Judge in Havre quietly withdrew from the race two months ago, a withdrawal of candidacy form from the Hill County Clerk and Recorders office says. The document was signed by candidate Jodi Kueffler and dated Aug. 9. “I feel it’s an important position that I don’t feel that I have the time to devote to the campaign or devote to the position, so I chose to withdraw,” Kueffler said Wednesday. Kueffler, who has worked for the Hill County Attorney’s office since 2013, entered the race to challenge incumbent...
The Fort Belknap Indian Reservation held primary tribal elections Tuesday, a week after a record breaking snowstorm forced the tribe to postpone them. The top two vote-getters in the primaries for tribal president and vice president as well as eight tribal council seats., will advance to the general election scheduled for Nov. 7. Nikki Kirkaldie of the Fort Belknap election office said Wednesday that no problems were reported at any of the reservation’s four polling places. Incumbent Mark L. Azure and council member Alvin ...
Members of the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board’s Transition Committee told Hill County commissioners Mark Peterson and Diane McLean Wednesday that they do not envision needing additional money from the county to manage the Wahkpa Chu’gn Buffalo Jump, but would like the county to help handle payroll for the site’s tour guides. “We just want the county to write the paychecks. We will put the money in and then the county will do the payroll like they do for the museum,” said Val Hickman, a member of the board and the commi...
Havre Middle School is hosting a the first middle school concert of the year Monday. The seventh- and eighth-grade bands will be performing in the Middle School Assembly Room, beginning at 7 p.m. The public is invited to attend....
When I was in my 20s I never thought about getting old. When you are young you will never be old. It’s not that I thought my edgy, action-packed, high-risk life would lead to early death. Although I had some close calls in my youth, I knew I couldn’t be killed. When you are young you will never die. These days, my life may be a few things, but risky is not one of them. The most perilous thing I can do is trip on the cracked sidewalks of Havre when I run, or choke on one of Dottie’s maple bacon donuts. I have learned a few t...
Every day should be my best day! There I go, thinking I “should” be grateful and, truly, I am. However, “should” can take a hike into the out beyond and stay there. But my reality is that I feel shaky, in pain, and morbidly fixated on possibilities: broken bones, concussion, blood spatters. None of which happened. My day started with pleasure. I woke to the musical prayers of the procession of thousands from Etzatlan marching with the Statue of the Virgin from here to San Jau...
A front-page story in Tuesday’s edition about the H. Earl Memorial Museum Board meeting misreported the time of the H. Earl and Margaret Turner Clack Memorial Museum Foundation annual meeting. The meeting is Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Duck Inn Vineyard Room.... Full story
Havre Police Department Officers investigated after a Juniper Drive caller reported Wednesday at 10:16 a.m. that knife in a black sheath had been found by her garage in some gravel. —— William Joseph Williams Jr. of Havre, 32, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and criminal trespass to property after police received multiple complaints. The first call came in at 11:21 a.m. from a Ninth Avenue Northwest caller who said a man was outside screaming and banging on her trailer. The second call came in at 12:47 p.m. from...
Frances Mae (Kirkaldie) Horn was born May 12, 1935, at Fort Belknap to Frank and Edna Kirkaldie. She went to be with her Lord and Saviour Monday, Oct. 9, 2017. Wake services begin at 5 p.m. and a rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. today, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, with Fran’s funeral at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, at the New Fort Belknap Agency Community Center. Burial follows in the Harlem Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements. People can leave messages of condolence for her family a... Full story
Annette J. Vander Ven, 66, passed away Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, due to injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Cremation has taken place, and a memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017, at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church with Deacon Timothy Maroney officiating. Annette was born Sept. 30, 1951, in Longview, Washington, to Tom and Phyllis (Johnson) Bowers. She lived at various U.S. Air Force bases around the world where her step-father was statione... Full story
Ambrose P. Purkett, 84, passed away due to natural causes Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017, at the Northern Montana Care Center. A visitation will be held from 5 until 7 p.m. with a vigil service following at 7 p.m., all Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017, at Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel. Funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church with Father Daniel Wathen officiating. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements.... Full story
Editor’s note: The computer program provided by the Montana state government to print media reports on court actions does not always list all fines assessed. The following cases were resolved in Hill County Justice Court by Judge Audrey Barger in April. —— Roger Francisco Cruz Jr., born in 1986, was fined $600 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, 176 days suspended and four credited, for operating a vehicle with .08 percent blood alcohol concentration or greater, first offense, amended from driving under the influence, first...
From Fish, Wildlife and Parks Antelope rifle season is in full swing, archery season is still underway and the general big game season starts Oct. 21. It is important for all hunters to practice bear aware behavior. In Montana, bear country can be anywhere in the western half of the state and sometimes beyond. Recently grizzly bears have shown up in places they haven’t been for decades, maybe even in more than a century – the Big Belt Mountains west of White Sulphur Springs for instance. This is also the time of year whe...
From Fish, Wildlife and Parks Montana’s outdoor crime-stopper help line, TIP-MONT, has an online option to report poachers and other hunting-season violators. Now alert citizens can report poaching and violations of hunting regulations by going to the FWP website at http://fwp.mt.gov. Click “TIP-MONT” to use the online report form. “TIP-MONT online is best used to report observations that might help solve a violation that has already occurred,” said Brian Shinn, FWP’s TIP-MONT coordinator. “The TIP-MONT toll-free num...
From Fish, Wildlife and Parks Chronic wasting disease has not yet been discovered in Montana’s wild populations of deer, elk and moose, but as the disease continues to expand to the north, south and east of the state, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Park officials say they believe it is only a matter of time before it is in Montana. This fall, FWP is ramping up its CWD surveillance program again with financial help from the Mule Deer Foundation and The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. FWP’s surveillance plan calls for rotating sur...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks aquatic invasive species inspection stations will close for the season on Oct. 15. Boaters that are still in need of an inspection can receive one at a regional FWP office. “We had a busy and successful year at our inspection stations,” said FWP’s AIS bureau chief Thomas Woolf. “The clean, drain, dry message is hitting home with watercraft owners and people around the state are embracing their responsibility to help ensure our waters are protected.” Water temperatures in both Tiber and Canyo...
With the Havre High volleyball team getting close to the stretch run of its regular season, the Blue Ponies will play just one match this week, as they head to Browning tonight before getting a much-deserved weekend off. The Ponies, who are in the midst of a two-match win streak, following wins over Cut Bank and Conrad, will look for its second three-match streak of the season with a win tonight in Browning over the Indians. "We played pretty well (last weekend)," HHS head...
During his career as a Blue Pony football player, Brady Ophus has inched his way up the depth chart, starting on special teams and finally earning his way into the starting lineup. Now in his senior season, Ophus, a starting cornerback for the Ponies is getting set to play his final home game Friday night, at Blue Pony Stadium, when the Havre High football team hosts Livingston. And as far as the senior is concerned, he is hoping to go out in style. "It's a really important...
Prep Football Standings Eastern A Conf. Overall Sidney 7-0 7-0 Billings Central 6-1 6-1 Laurel 6-1 6-1 Miles City 5-2 5-2 Lewistown 4-3 4-3 Glendive 3-4 3-4 Belgrade 2-5 2-5 Hardin 2-5 2-5 Havre 0-7 0-7 Livingston 0-7 0-7 Northwest A Conf. Overall Columbia Falls 3-0 4-1 Browning 2-1 3-4 Polson 2-1 2-4 Ronan 1-2 1-5 Whitefish 1-2 1-5 Libby 0-3 1-6 Southwest A Conf. Overall Dillon 3-0 6-0 Hamilton 3-0 6-1 Frenchtown 2-1 6-1 Stevensville 1-2 2-3 Butte Central 0-3 3-3 Corvallis 0-3 3-3 Class B North Conf. Overall Fairfield 4-0 6-...
