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Friday, February 10 basketball at home vs. Turner. It is Parent’s night. Games at 6 and 7:30 pm. Saturday, February 11 basketball at North Star. Tuesday, February 14 American Red Cross has a presentation in the high school auditorium. Wednesday, Febr...

Contact the Senior Citizens Cooks at 378-2405. All lunches include an entrée, salad, vegetable, potato, dessert and drink and all cost $5.00 unless otherwise noted. Lunches for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, January 25 mock fillet...

Vic’s Pics This week Vicki chose a novel by Nicholas Sparks called “TWO BY TWO”. We will all make it through, two by two. At thirty-two Russell Green has it all, a stunning wife, a lovable six year old daughter, a successful career as an adver...

It has been a long, long cold spell starting long before Christmas and lasting into January. Finally, though it is the middle of January and a January thaw seems to be taking place. It is fine with me. By Friday I could tell it was close to the end...

Wednesday, January 25 ASVAB testing at 9am at the high school Thursday, January 26 grades 9 and 11 students have a field day in Havre leaving at 9:30 am. Friday, January 27 basketball hosts DGS with games starting at 3pm. Saturday, January 28...

Bee Lucke was the son of Havre pioneer Lou Lucke. He loved Clear Creek almost as much as his father had. He was blessed for his father-in-law C. L. Stuart shared that love for the area. The two of them spent years moving into old homestead cabins up...

I have been giggling every since. I was talking to a friend on the telephone last night. The boiler was churning out heat madly but with the temperature around twenty below, this was indeed what we would have called in Glacier National Park a Three D...

A note about next week’s menu. The menu for January 25, which includes a tater tot casserole, rolls, salad and dessert will be served January 27. What shows on the menu for January 27 and including mock filet mignon, mashed potatoes, gravy, salad and...

Vic’s Pics This week Vicki has chosen a huge thriller by Harlan Coben called “HOME” if I read the literature right in describing this book. A decade ago kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No tr...

January 18 and 19 which is a Wednesday and Thursday semester tests January 19, Thursday is the end of the second quarter and the first semester. Friday, January 20 basketball at Fort Benton. Games start at 3pm. Saturday, January 21 Basketball at...

This time of year the State of Montana puts out an interesting book about agricultural statistics in Montana. Let’s start with the basics. There are 27,500 farms and ranches in Montana. The average acreage is 2,171 acres. The average value of a Monta...

This week Vicki chose a James Patterson large print novel called “BULLSEYE”. It is a detective Michael Bennett thriller. Snow blankets the avenues of Manhattan’s exclusive upper west side. The storm is the perfect cover for a fashionable, highly trai...

Friday, January 13 basketball is playing at Turner. Games start at 6pm. Saturday, January 14 Big Sandy hosts North Star with games beginning at noon. Wednesday, January 18 and Thursday, January 19 Semester tests. January 19 is the end of the first...

Contact Senior Citizen cooks at 378-2305 Birthdays for January include Amy Sibra, Glenn Skaalure, Erica Chauvet, Debra Louvar, Dave Berg, Barbara Dixon, Lois Gay, Crystal Geyer, Colby Baumgarn, Robert Finke, Leroy Graff, Linda Ophus, Fred Bitz,...

The weather bureau was wrong. They predicted a nice January. We printed their prediction in “The Mountaineer” and ended up looking like we knew not much of anything to trust them in the first place. Just as we were recovering from that mistake, I w...

The neatest scene I ever saw regarding Christmas Trees in the Bear Paw Mountains would have meant little or nothing if I hadn’t been an English teacher and loved to teach Macbeth. During those days a friend or two and I would go up to the tops of m...