Fifth Avenue hill plans take a turn

A plan to landscape the hill across Fifth Avenue from the Sixth Avenue Memorial Field will be altered but the project will still happen, Havre Mayor Bob Rice said today.

The changes came this week after the Montana Department of Transportation voiced concerns about the size of the state right-of-way on the hill and the erosion the original plans would create.

"In my enthusiasm to get the thing done I neglected to get all the details on it," Rice said Wednesday.

Notably absent will be the 20-foot-tall Havre Blue Pony H on the hillside because of concerns that the painted white rocks composing t...