HHS aims program at suspended students

Havre High School students who are suspended from school may soon have the option to participate in a new community service program and get credit for the missed work they make up. The program that received preliminary OK from the Havre School Board Tuesday.

"This program is kind of unique in the approach it takes to dealing with out-of-school suspension," HHS principal Jim Donovan told the school board before it unanimously approved the first reading of the program. Donovan said he and assistant principal Jerry Vandersloot tried to do research on similar programs other schools have done, but...