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  • Quick Pics: Festival of Trees

    Updated Nov 23, 2018

  • Obituary - John Meredith

    Updated Nov 20, 2018

    John Meredith went home to talk to his son Dust, on the evening of November 13, 2018. John was born in Kalispell and raised in Geyser, MT. He was youngest son of seven siblings. He met his wife, Connie, and they married soon after on March 3, 1967. Despite being told, "You'll never make it," their positive outlook, and senses of humor allowed them to overcome the many obstacles that life presented. Through it all, they remained husband, and wife, and best friends more than...

  • For the Record, Nov. 19, 2018

    Updated Nov 19, 2018

    Havre Police Department An arrest was made after a caller on Second Street reported damage to a vehicle Friday at 11 a.m. No details on the charges was provided. -- A theft was reported by a First Street caller Friday at 2:01 p.m. -- A vehicle crash on Fifth Avenue was reported at 5:08 p.m. Friday. -- Friday at 7:55 p.m. a Wilson Avenue caller reported someone had slid into her parked pickup truck. -- Riley Schaeffer-Leighty of Kalispell, 19, was issued a summons on charges...

  • Sights of the 118th Brawl of the Wild

    Updated Nov 19, 2018

  • Quick Pics: King fundraises for Donaldson Hall

    Updated Nov 19, 2018

  • St. Jude's shares Halloween with U.S. troops

    Updated Nov 19, 2018

    The idea came to her the day after Halloween, Kathryn Tilleman, development director at St. Jude Thaddeus School said. She was listening to "Wake Up Montana" during her morning routine Nov. 1 when she heard a story that covered people sending candy to American troops overseas. The story struck a chord with Tilleman, so she brought the idea to St. Jude's eighth-grade teacher Carly Brunk, whose son, Sgt. Clay Nottingham, deployed to Afghanistan in May. "Plus, my brother was in...

  • United Way capital campaign underway

    Stephen Real|Updated Nov 19, 2018

    United Way is in the midst of its capital campaign season and is looking for donations to help fund its partners. Hill County United Way Director Delonna Malone said the slogan for this campaign season is “Local dollars saves local lives.” She added that their biggest fundraising event is the crab boil, which took place at the end of September, this year at Beaver Creek Golf Course. Malone said they cooked crab, shrimp, potatoes, corn and kielbasa sausage at the event. Tables were sold to event sponsors for $1,500 per tab...

  • Havre dog park fundraising begins in earnest

    Ryan Berry|Updated Nov 19, 2018

    Havre Dog Park Club hosted its first major fundraising event Friday night at Old Station Brewing Co. on First Street. The event, called Pints for Paws, was hosted in support of the club's goal to build a dog park in Havre. A dollar for each pint of beer sold Friday night was donated to the Dog Park Club's efforts. In total, 216 pints were sold - that's 27 gallons of beer. Bergren's Transmission matched the total raised by sale of pints. Another $410 dollars was raised through...

  • Quick Pics: Cat-Griz tailgate party raises funds

    Updated Nov 19, 2018

  • Washington Foundation donates to food banks, pantries and rescue missions

    Updated Nov 19, 2018

    Press release MISSOULA — Working with the Missoula-based Montana Food Bank Network, the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation has selected 75 food banks, food pantries, rescue missions and homeless shelters across Montana to receive additional grant funds to aid them in helping Montana’s most vulnerable citizens. The recipients included the Havre Food Bank, Chinook Food Pantry and Harlem Food Pantry. The Foundation’s special Holiday Giving Program is designed to give an extra boost to basic needs organizations aroun...

  • Local News - Volunteers sought for Community Thanksgiving Dinner

    Updated Nov 19, 2018

    Havre Daily News staff The organizers of the Community Thanksgiving Dinner, set for St. Jude Parish Center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday Nov. 22, are looking for volunteers. Opportunities are available for people to help Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. with preparing the meal, preparing and delivering meals to home-bound people and during and after the main meal itself. People who want to volunteer can call 265-2737 and leave a message....

  • Local News - Havre speech and debate sees success in Chester

    Updated Nov 19, 2018

    Press release While none of Havre’s students took a first-place finish in Chester at the Chester-Joplin-Inverness/North Star invitational speech tournament, they saw enough success to give the Havre speech and debate team 44 points in its first-place Class A finish. “I am pretty happy with how we did,” Havre head coach Tim Leeds said. “This was a small tournament but it had tough competition. I am looking forward to coming back after the Thanksgiving break and continuing to improve and place kids at the tournam...

  • Local News - Buses stop for Thanskgiving

    Updated Nov 19, 2018

    North Central Montana Transit buses will not run Thursday and Friday in observance of Thankskgiving weekend. Buses will resume their normal schedules next Monday....

  • Obituary - George P. Noffsinger

    Updated Nov 19, 2018

    George P. Noffsinger, 80, passed away due to natural causes at Northern Montana Hospital on Saturday, November 17, 2018. Cremation has taken place, and a memorial Mass will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, November 23, 2018, at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit George’s online memorial page and leave a message of condolence for his family at http://www.hollandbonine.com/....

  • Obituary - Roger Martens

    Updated Nov 19, 2018

    MISSOULA — Roger Martens, 70, passed away at his home surrounded by his family on November 15, 2018. Arrangements are under the care of Garden City Funeral Home and will be announced....

  • Agenda - Great Northern Fair Board

    Updated Nov 19, 2018

    The Great Northern Fair Board will meet at 5:30 p.m. in the Timmons Room of the Hill County Courthouse. The meeting agenda is: Call meeting to order Roll call of members Recognize and record public attendees Approve minutes Public cxomment — anything brought up here will be added to next month’s New Business to be discussed and voted upon Grounds activity report. Civic groups report Donated hours report Committee reports 1. Buildings and Grounds 2. Commission Policy 3. Financial Planning 4. Events Old business 1. Day spo...

  • Unchecked power is not a healthy democracy

    Updated Nov 19, 2018

    Montana appears well down the road to becoming a one party Republican, deeply conservative state, like the states that surround us. Jon Tester’s survival was an anomaly best explained by his personal popularity and his opponent’s weakness. In the late ’60s, and ’70s, when I was first cutting my teeth in politics, the Democrats were Montana’s dominant party. They controlled the statewide offices, including the entire congressional delegation, the legislature and the office of governor. At Republican state conventio...

  • Cat-Griz Notebook: New heroes in a great rivalry

    George Ferguson|Updated Nov 19, 2018

    MISSOULA - What a difference a year makes. When Montana State beat Montana in the 117th Brawl of the Wild last November in Bozeman, Troy Andersen was playing running back and linebacker, and Dalton Sneed was playing for a junior college in Kansas. Fast forward one year, and the duo of quarterbacks carried the balance of Brawl of the Wild Supremacy squarely on their shoulders. In MSU's thrilling 29-25 win over the Grizzlies inside sold-out Washington-Grizzly Stadium, Andersen,...

  • Lights throttle Bison, Skylights fall to NAIA powerhouses

    Chris Peterson|Updated Nov 19, 2018

    Both Montana State University-Northern basketball teams were in action on the road this past weekend and in the case of the Skylights in particular, they got a chance to face a pair of elite teams in the NAIA. The Skylights were taking part in the Great Falls Classic, which gave them the opportunity to play No. 22 Arizona Christian Friday night in Great Falls followed by a conest with No. 8 Westmont Saturday. Northern held its own against the two nationally ranked teams, howev...

  • The Cat Triple

    George Ferguson|Updated Nov 19, 2018

    MISSOULA - The same record, the same playoff aspirations, and two young teams with coaches who dearly love the Brawl of the Wild. So why wouldn't the 118th edition of the Cat-Griz rivalry come down the last play? And indeed it did as Montana's Adam Eastwood fumbled near the goal line as he was trying to score the game-winning touchdown for the Grizzlies with just :09 left Saturday in front of a record crowd at Washington-Grizzly Stadium. But instead of lifting the Griz to...