City's commitment to Heritage Center quickly grew

Editor's note: This is the second of two stories about how the city came to buy the Heritage Center and eventually face the question of whether to help fund it.

With the city's purchase of the old post office building - now the Heritage Center - in 1996, the dream of an arts and cultural center to help revitalize Havre's downtown seemed to be coming to fruition.

But several factors prevented that dream from happening without costing the city money, as Clack Foundation members and City Council members had originally intended. While the foundation labored under unexpected repairs and fewer rente...