No primaries for Havre elections this year

Rick Dow, left, and Bob Kaul, right.

September's primaries will be fairly quiet for any fans of local politics. And the actual election won't be much more active.

Filings for this November's Havre City Council elections ended Thursday evening with only one contested race, in Ward 3.

That race will be between Republican Rick Dow, who filed early on Thursday morning, and incumbent Democrat Bob Kaul, who filed 15 minutes before the deadline.

Dow, who has been an occasional columnist for the Havre Daily News for the past two years, said he wanted to run after receiving "a lot of encouragement over...