Hi-Line Living: Big concert for small towns

The Havre Middle School auditorium teemed with seventh- and eighth-grade choir students Monday, as students from middle school choirs throughout the area gathered to take part in the Invitational Choral Festival.

By 8:30 a.m. members of the Havre Middle School choir were in the auditorium standing in clusters engaged in conversation, while students from Chinook. Shelby and Turner arrived.

A cart with bottled water was wheeled in and students flocked over to it, each grabbing a bottle and scrawling their names on them,

For Cianna Mellinger, a seventh-grader from Shelby, this year is her first t...