2019 A year in photos

The sun begins to set behind Havre Eagles Manor Jan. 10. After having problems with heating and air conditioning in the Manor that was resolved in 2018, and a proposal by a company to buy the Manor and do substantial upgrades falling through last year, as well, the Manor announced in January that it was back to local management, with Eagles Aerie 166 of Havre once again taking over operations.

Ice clings to the face of U.S. Postal Service mail carrier Tim Kinsella Feb. 7 as he braves temperatures lower than minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit to deliver mail along his route in Havre. After a rather mild start to winter with temperatures creeping into the 30s and even 40s in January, frigid weather set in the next month, making it the second-coldest February in Havre on record.

The Box Elder Lady Bears celebrate their second-straight Class C championship March 2 in Missoula after defeating the Roy-Winifred Outlaws. It was a good season for this part of the Golden Triangle, which, along with the Box Elder girls' repeat win, included a second-straight state championship for the Havre Blue Ponies girls basketball team, a state championship for the Havre boys swim team, the Chinook Sugarbeeters boys basketball team winning its division and going on a 25-game run to its first semifinals in 33 years before losing to defending state champs Arlee, and the Harlem Wildcats girls basketball team winning their division and going to state before losing in the quarterfinals to Forsyth.

A room underneath the Second Avenue sidewalk remains unused April 22 at Havre Beneath the Streets. Water leaked through one of the last remaining sidewalks in Havre that has glass blocks to direct light into the underground. The water damaged rooms and displays and shutting down part of Beneath the Streets, one of the top tourist attractions in Havre. Beneath the Streets has held fundraisers throughout the year to try to make the match requirement for a state grant to repair the damage. Fundraising efforts are expected to continue into 2020.

Rep. Jacob Bachmeier, D-Havre, left, Paul Tuss, second from right, and Keeley Wilson, right, look on as Stewart Wilson, second from left, presents Gov. Steve Bullock with two bags of Keeley Wilson's Ladybug Bites dog treats. Stewart Wilson made the presentation after Bullock signed into law a bill sponsored by Bachmeier reducing licensing and registration expenses for small pet treat businesses like Keeley Wilson's. Bullock also signed another Havre-started bill into law, requested by Andrea Melle, sponsored by Rep. Mary Caferro, D-Helena, and co-sponsored by Bachmeier, extending the period of child support obligations for children with disabilities when the custodial parent is the caregiver.

Kaden Pratt, 5, takes aim with an arrow while attempting to shoot a golden apple off of Mike Woronik's head during Spring into the Past June 8 at Montana State University-Northern. Montana Actors' Theatre started what it wants to make into an annual tradition, a Rennaissance-style fair, in conjunction with a play. MAT produced "Cyrano de Bergerac" with the fair this year.

New piping is laid out July 17 during construction of the Bullhook Drainage Project. Work to rehabilitate the drainage that runs underneath much of Havre was delayed while the city worked with an Arizona company that had failed to complete work on the drainage by deadline. After arbitration came back in favor of the city, it awarded the contract to finish the project to Havre's Lakeside Excavation, which completed work this month.

Fort Belknap President Andy Werk speaks Aug. 12 during a ceremonial CHAP bill signing at Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. The bill introduced by Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, and signed into law by Gov. Steve Bullock will help increase health care availability in Indian Country including allowing people working in certain health care services - such as general health, behavioral health and dental health - to use federal certification standards in Indian Health Service or tribal health facilities. It will also provide Indian reservations the ability to train health aides to those standards.

The North 40 location at the former Kmart location stands nearly ready to open Sept. 25. North 40's moving out of the Holiday Village Mall marked the loss of the shopping center's last anchor store. A new owner has purchased the mall with the hopes of bringing in new businesses.