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Montana Campus Compact Montana State University-Northern athlete Makhayla Farmer is being honored this weekend during a game in a different sport for her work off of the basketball court. Farmer is one of 12 athletes Gov. Steve Bullock and Montana Campus Compact board members will honor for volunteer work during Saturday's Brawl of the Wild football game in Missoula between University of Montana and Montana State University. "Makhayla Farmer is extremely active in community...
By Emily Mayer News was decidedly mild in the newspapers 100 years ago. As today, I’m sure most were happy the elections were done and that Thanksgiving was on its way. Progress continued in Havre, and this article ran in the Nov. 18, 1916 issue of The Havre Plaindealer: EXCAVATION COMPLETED FOR WHOLESALE HOUSE Excavation for the addition to the building of the Northern Wholesale Grocaery company was completed yesterday. The area to be covered by the new building is 60x80 feet, on which a two-story structure will be built. W...
Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is one of five Montana reservations that will be participating in a federal grant to bring food raised on the reservation to the dinner tables of people living there. Billings-based Native American Development Corp. announced Thursday that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration awarded the community development organization an $800,000 three-year grant to be used on Montana reservations. The grant is part of Health and Human Services’ Health Foods Financing I...
Montana’s senior U.S. Senator has taken the second-rank position on the Senate Veteran’s Affairs Committee. The office of Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont. announced Thursday that the Big Sandy farmer had taken the position of ranking member on the committee, the top position for a Democrat in a committee during a Republican-majority Senate. “Giving a voice to Montana’s veterans is one of the most important jobs I have as a Senator,” Tester said in a press release. “This next Congress I will work with Republicans, Democrats a...
Montana State University-Northern has the second-best four-year degree program in automotive mechanics in the nation for 2016-17, according to rankings released earlier this month. Northern Chancellor Greg Kegel, a former instructor and Dean of The College of Technical Sciences who began as a teacher at Northern in the late '70s, said automotive technology has been a signature program at Northern. "So I was very proud and happy to hear that news," Kegel said. The Community...
Great Northern Fairgrounds Manager Bob Horne abruptly resigned this week, leaving the position vacant for the second time in less than a year. Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson confirmed Thursday morning that Horne had resigned and would have 72 hours to change his mind. “I really can’t say anything until that 72 hours has passed,” Peterson said. Great Northern Fair board member Missy Boucher said she learned about Horne’s resignation in an email he sent out to all board members Wednesday. She said Horne did not reveal...
Box Elder School students had reason to celebrate Thursday as they filed into the school gymnasium by grades to pick out backpacks that had been bought and made available by Plain Green, the online lender owned by the Chippewa Cree tribe. Plain Green Community Development Officer Jessica McGratty said enough backpacks had been provided for every student. "We should have about 470 ... for every single student," McGratty said. "We worked with the principals here to get the...
The liberal media has been in a frenzy all week. It thinks Donald Trump and his transition team are taking too long to announce his cabinet picks and other appointees. Let me check my calendar. Yep. It’s been less than 10 days since Trump shocked the world — and sickened the liberal media — by humiliating Hillary Clinton. And already the media are working as hard as they can to make Trump look like he doesn’t know what he’s doing — before he doesn’t even do anything. I understand the liberal media’s pain. I understand they fe...
