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  • HHS Key Club cleans up Milk River

    Paul Dragu|Updated Dec 12, 2017

    Thanks to a concerned Havre citizen, Havre High School Key Club members organized and took to cleaning trash Sunday afternoon from under the viaduct and Milk River Bridge. The north side Havre citizen, Key Club advisor John Ita said, had contacted several other groups about cleaning the mess from under the bridges and nobody had done so until the Key Club agreed to do so. Key Club International is the oldest and one of the largest service programs for high school students. Key...

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  • Billings murder victim a former Fort Belknap resident

    Paul Dragu|Updated Dec 11, 2017

    The Fort Belknap tribal council has condemned the November death in Billings of former Fort Belknap Indian Reservation resident Myron Wesley Knight, saying it will continue to do all that it can to protect the safety of members of its community on and off the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. “We as a council condemn the recent actions that led up to the November 15 discovery of the brutal homicide in Billings, MT,” a letter from Fort Belknap Indian Communtity Council President Andrew Werk Jr. says. The letter says the tri...

  • Fort Belknap opens new call center

    Alex Ross|Updated Dec 11, 2017

    Island Mountain Development Group, the economic development arm of the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine tribes on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, opened a second call center Tuesday. The new facility in Hays will mean the creation of 270 jobs that will be used for a variety of e-commerce activities, Terry Brockie, chief of staff for Island Mountain, said this morning. “We just want to grow strategically,” Brockie said. The additional jobs have a starting hourly salary of $13 with opportunities for advancement, Brockie said. A...

  • Quick Pics: Signs of the Season

    Updated Dec 11, 2017

  • Think outside the gift box: Donate blood and give more life

    Updated Dec 11, 2017

    From American Red Cross The best gifts can not be bought in a store. The American Red Cross urges eligible donors to give more life by giving blood this December,with an opportunity in Havre Monday, Dec. 18, at Havre High School from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Alison Wissen knows the power of blood donations. She received 22 units of blood products after experiencing complications during childbirth. “I truly owe my life to blood donors,” she said. “Even the skilled hands of my surgeons could not have saved me without the blood...

  • Hunter Education Class

    Updated Dec 11, 2017

    Hunter Education Class, required for hunters born after Jan. 1, 1985, to obtain a Montana hunting licenses, will be held at Stone Child College’s Kennawash Hall Monday through Wednesday, Dec. 18, 19 and 20. The free class, open to everyone 11 years and older, will be 5 to 9 p.m. each night, and participants must attend all three evenings for Montana certification. Pre-registration is not required. A parent or guardian must be on hand with minors the first night. For more information call Mike Ley at 395-4795, e...

  • Havre speech wins in Cut Bank

    Updated Dec 11, 2017

    Press release Havre High School speech and debate took its biggest tournament of the season so far to an invitational tournament in Cut Bank Saturday, and saw great success. Havre won the Class A sweepstakes competition with 102 points to Browning’s 16. “This was a great weekend for us,” head coach Tim Leeds said. “We are getting everyone on the bus as conflicting events have finished and the kids are doing very well.” Leading the charge for the Blue Ponies was third-year Lincoln-Douglas debater Kaleb Gardner. He went 3-0...

  • GOP Congress: Faith Over Facts; Politics Over Policy

    Updated Dec 11, 2017

    The Republican Party is in the D.C. driver’s seat, having majorities in both House and Senate, along with having the presidency, with all of its institutional strength, and the vice president to break tie votes in the Senate. Such singular dominance over procedure provides the opportunity for excess. We’ve seen it time and again at the federal and the state level. Extreme political positions become the norm when there are no checks within the system. When one side of the political spectrum can make things happen with imp...

  • Eliminating Private Activity Bonds will hurt Montana communities

    Updated Dec 11, 2017

    Congress has the unenviable job of deciding who wins big and who will be hurt by tax reform. One decision that should be easy for lawmakers is to retain the tax tool that has resulted in the development of more than 7,000 affordable homes, access to homeownership for 42,000 Montana families, and $2.87 billion in financing of critical projects for rural Montana hospitals. Private Activity Bonds are responsible for the public-private partnerships that have allowed us to invest in Montana communities over the last 40 years....

  • Wardens seek information on elk shot and wasted near Slippery Ann Elk Viewing Area

    Updated Dec 11, 2017

    From Fish, Wildlife and Parks Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 6 game wardens and federal wildlife officers are seeking any information regarding two cow elk that were shot and left near the CMR's Slippery Ann Elk Viewing Area, about 20 miles south of Zortman in southern Phillips Co., sometime on or around Nov. 23. The two elk were found at the junction of CMR route 854 and 101, on the east side of the Slippery Ann Elk Viewing Area. A third elk was apparently shot, as...

  • Licenses for Bridgert CWD hunt on sale today

    Updated Dec 11, 2017

    From Fish, Wildlife and Parks The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission approved the Bridger Special Chronic Wasting Disease Hunt at its regular monthly meeting Thursday. The hunt will begin Dec. 15 and go through Feb. 15. Licenses will go on sale today. The goal of the hunt is to determine prevalence and distribution of chronic wasting disease within the hunt area. This is critical information for FWP as it plans for long-term disease management in the area. “For the hunt to be successful in obtaining enough samples to a...

  • For the Record, Dec. 11, 2017

    Updated Dec 11, 2017

    Havre Police Department Officers investigated after two callers near Seventh Avenue and Second Street reported Friday at 10:05 a.m. that a motor vehicle crash had taken place. —— Officers issued a summons to Robin Rae Myers of Havre, 54, on a theft charge after a First Street West business caller reported Friday at 10:36 a.m. that a theft had taken place. —— Officers investigated a motor vehicle crash after a First Street caller reported Friday at 1:58 p.m. that a Ford F-150 backed into his girlfriend’s Ford Explorer....

  • Havre High boys split road openers at Sidney, Glendive

    Chris Peterson|Updated Dec 11, 2017

    The Havre High boys basketball team was faced with the daunting task of back-to-back road games after a lengthy bus trip to the Eastern side of the state. However, by the time the Blue Ponies were heading home, the trip proved to be well worth it after splitting games between Sidney and Glendive. Havre dropped its opening game of the weekend to Sidney Friday 46-32, but rebounded to knock off the Red Devils 52-40 Saturday. “Overall, I thought it was a good weekend,” HHS hea...

  • Ponies are kings of the Mining City, again

    Chris Peterson|Updated Dec 11, 2017

    The Havre High wrestling team is used to having success in Butte, so when the Blue Ponies wound up winning a fifth straight team championship at the Mining City Duals this past weekend, it shouldn’t have come as a surprise. Yet, unlike many of Havre’s previous titles at the prestigious tournament, this one didn’t come easy. In fact, the Ponies had to rally from a 16-point deficit in the final dual to knock off Flathead in the championship 31-28 Saturday night. The victo...

  • Fast Start: Pony girls dominate in the Corral

    Chris Peterson|Updated Dec 11, 2017

    Leading up to the two season-opening games against Sidney and Glendive this past weekend, Havre High girls basketball coach Dustin Kraske said his team was ready to play someone besides itself in practice each day. With the way the Blue Ponies came out and jumped all over Sidney Friday night at the HHS gymnasium, it appears that he was right. Havre opened its season with a 71-15 win over the Eagles and followed that up with a 55-38 triumph over Glendive, another...

  • A SPECIAL DAY IN THE WATER

    George Ferguson|Updated Dec 11, 2017

    For the Havre High swim teams getting to compete inside the Havre Community Pool is always special. It's special because the Blue Ponies don't get to do it often during a season, and this winter, they only get to one time. That one time came Saturday when the Ponies hosted the Havre Invitational. Before they started, they honored their seniors, and then put on a strong display of swimming. In the triangular meet, which also featured CMR and Great Falls High, the Havre girls...