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Editor's note: This corrects who the Pizza Hut customers should say they are donating to A Chinook man who says he has been continually helping his stepson’s Chinook High School Class of 2020 raise money for yearly expenses continues that effort Thursday with a Pizza Hut fundraiser. Rob Kellie’s stepson, Josh, is set to graduate in 2020 with his fellow Sugarbeeters. Until then, Kellie said, he will continue to help the class raise money for ongoing expenses. Every year, his son’s class, like all the others, have expen...
If the first two weeks of girls high school basketball is any indication, the Hi-Line is loaded with high-level teams. And with just one week left before Christmas break, things have already gotten very exciting. Last week's action started Thursday, in what turned out to be a big weekend for the Rocky Boy Morning Stars. In their first District 1B game Thursday night, Rocky Boy took care of Conrad 58-41 in Rocky Boy with Sasha Coffee leading the way with 15 points. The Morning...
Havre Daily News staff After a mostly brown November and early December, some wintry weather - including a prediction of below-zero temperatures and heavy snowfall in some regions - is coming to north-central Montana just in time for Christmas. The storm is dropping heavy snow in northern Montana, much of which is under a winter storm warning through Wednesday, causing slick and hazardous driving conditions on the Rocky Mountain Front. In Havre, heavy, wet snow fell through...
Press release A $2,500 grant was recently awarded to the town of Big Sandy upon the completion of a Broadband Action Plan. The grant was made possible by Triangle Communications with their Smart Rural Connected Community Challenge. The plan was put together by a stakeholder committee representing various sectors of the local economy. The committee was appointed by the town council and worked closely with Anne Boothe, Triangle's economic development specialist, to develop a...
Havre Mayor Tim Solomon cast a tie-breaking vote Monday to ban medical marijuana storefront dispensaries in the city. The Havre City Council split 4-4 on the second reading of the ordinance. The ordinance regulates land use in general terms by prohibiting land within the city from being permitted or conditionally permitted for any use that violates federal, state or local law. Council President Andrew Brekke, along with council members Karen Swenson, Ed Matter and Denise...
Two Havre High School Spanish instructors are hosting a camp to raise money for a summer Puerto Rico trip for high school students. Spanish teachers Marie Deegan and Diana Coy will be hosting two days of Spanish learning and cultural activities Dec. 28 and 29 at Havre High School for first- through sixth-graders. The camp will cost $15 for one day and $25 for two days. No early registration is needed. Parents can bring students to camp on the day it starts. The camp runs from 1 to 4 p.m. in Room 18 of Havre High School. In...
A state district judge sentenced a Havre man to three years probation for hitting a 9-month-old hard enough to cause a hemorrhage in the infant's left eye. Judge Daniel Boucher sentenced Bruce Collins, born in 1989, to a three-year deferred imposition of sentence for felony assault on a minor. The sentence is part of a plea deal and if Collins abides by his conditions he can have the offense struck from his record. Boucher said the reason for the sentence is that, aside from...
Havre Daily News staff Santa Claus is riding the train into Havre Friday and is expected to arrive at the station at 6 p.m. Children are welcome to come see him arrive and visit with him at the Amtrak station....
Imagine this. You wake up Christmas morning and there it is — the biggest gift under the tree has your name on it. Yes, yours. You grab it, place it in front of you, and without even needing to unwrap it, you instinctually know this is going to be the greatest gift you’ve ever received. Moved by this unfamiliar, yet heartwarming feeling, you set in on the task in front of you. Side by side, you carefully peel back the wrapping paper, slowly revealing what’s inside. Vast and rugged, but beautiful and snowy, you begin to see t...
Havre Police Department Officers arrested Brandi Lee Shortman of Havre, 30, on two Justice or City court warrants and charges of driving with a suspended or revoked driver’s license and failure to produce or carry proof of insurance, during a motor vehicle stop Monday at 7:52 a.m. on Boulevard Avenue. —— Officers issued a summons on an obstructing a peace officer or other public servant charge after investigating suspicious activity near a Third Street alley Monday at 8:44 a.m. —— Officers arrested two people while investiga...
William Wayne Szudera, age 80, of Havre, Montana passed away on Nov. 25, 2017, in Springfield, Missouri. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017, at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Glendive, Montana, with Father Francis Schreiber as Celebrant. A rosarys service will be held at 9:30 a.m. prior to the funeral Mass. Following the Mass, a rite of committal will take place at Dawson County Cemetery. Silha Funeral Home of Beach, North Dakota, has been entrusted with the...
Press release The deadline for registration in a program to help people help those people dealing with mental illness is almost here. Friday is the deadline to register for the National Alliance on Mental Illness-Havre’s 12-session Family-to-Family education program to help caregivers understand and support individuals with serious mental illness while maintaining their own well-being. The program is free for family members, partners and friends of people with major depression; bipolar disorder, also known as manic d...
Dylan Miller, North Star Basketball For the second week in a row, a District 9C boy’s basketball player went on a scoring binge. This last weekend, it was North Star’s Dylan Miller. Against Turner Friday, Miller poured in 31 points and added another 28 Saturday as the Knights took down five-time defending 9C champion Box Elder. Miller is a three-year starter for the Knights and also plays with his brothers on the team. Miller was also a standout on the football field this pas...
Going as far back as anyone can remember, there has always been a rivalry between the basketball teams of Havre High school and Malta. And tonight, in Malta, both the boys and girls teams will renew it. The Havre boys will take on Malta in the first of a doubleheader between the two schools at 6 p.m. The girls game between Havre and Malta will follow right after at 7:30 p.m. Yet, there is going to be something different about this season's matchups, especially from a Malta per...
The Havre Ice Hawks high school hockey team hit the ice this past weekend, on the road in Missoula, where Havre played both Friday and Saturday. The result however, wasn’t pretty, as Missoula won both games easily. The first game went to Missoula by the score of 6-0. That was Friday. The second game was played Saturday and Havre also failed to score in that one, losing to Missoula 7-0. In the first game between the two teams Friday, it was close into the second period, when H...
It was another exciting weekend of local boys high school basketball as teams from along the Hi-Line entered into conference play for the first time this season. One team that had some serious business to take care of this past weekend was the Rocky Boy Stars, who took on Conrad, Shelby and Fairfield, last Thursday, Friday and Saturday within the District 1B. And after those three games, it's becoming clear that if there is a favorite in the always challenging 1B, it's...
In the annals of athletic accomplishments, few coaches at the NAIA level have the background John Leister has. An All-Conference quarterback at Michigan State, drafted not once, but twice in Major League Baseball, played for both the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Boston Red Sox. Leister's athletic achievements are well documented and highly-impressive. They're especially impressive considering Leister didn't grow up in New York City or Los Angeles or Seattle. He didn't play...
