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Hopstad, Shumway win at All-Star event
February 24th, 2010

Two Glasgow wrestlers put a cap on the wrestling season by winning their weight classes at the 2nd Annual Tournament of Champions sponsored by the law firm of Hoyt and Blewett PLLC in Great Falls.<...



Saco/Whitewater blitzes competition on the way to 3C championship
February 24th, 2010

The Saco-Whitewater Panthers completed their undefeated conference run by sweeping through the District 3C Tournament with ease last weekend in Malta.

The Panthers trounced Opheim in the ch...



Glasgow girls stun Wolf Point in semis, finish second to Malta
February 24th, 2010

At the beginning of the season, girls' basketball coach Willie Thibault said his team wouldn't be able to surprise anybody this season.

Yet, on Friday night, the Scotty ladies stunned Wol...



Ranchers: Proposed brucellosis vaccination plan seems unworkable
February 24th, 2010

It looked like sale day at the Glasgow Stockyards last Wednesday, but it wasn't. The seats were filled with ranchers and others interested in the Department of Livestock's preliminary proposal on...



School superintendent's contract is extended to 2012
February 24th, 2010

The Glasgow School Board at its regular meeting this month voted to add one year to the contract of Superintendent Glenn Hageman. The contract now extends until July of 2012.

Hageman's con...



Area's 'top cops' to be honored in nation's capital, meet Obama, B...
February 24th, 2010

Eight law enforcement officers from this area will receive national recognition in May when they travel to Washington, D.C., to receive the TOP COP award. They will meet President Barack Obama in t...



Buzzer beaters rule District 3C Tournament
February 24th, 2010

With three teams huddled at the top of the bracket, the District 2B boys title was up for grabs last weekend.

After a long exciting weekend of basketball, Malta and Wolf Point met up in the...



UN-FOUR-GETTABLE!
February 17th, 2010

BILLINGS – It was a tight race, but for the fourth-straight season the Glasgow wrestling team came home with the Class B-C championship at the All-Class State Wrestling Tournament.
Glasg...



The Cornwell Collection: All the news thats fit to share
February 17th, 2010

News from Opheim – particularly news that can be recognized as the Cornwell Collection – gets around.
Even if it is 80 years old.
Long in the protective hands of Gwen Cornwell...



Competition appears for county offices
February 17th, 2010

On the opening day of filing for the 2010 elections, Jan. 14, eight Valley County officials declared their intent to run for re-election. Within the past week, three of these incumbents have picked...



Saco/Whitewater dominates on way to District 3C championship
February 17th, 2010

If anyone would have told me back in, say, early December, that the Saco/Whitewater Panthers (10-8 overall) would be in the Championship game of the 2010 Boys' 3C Basketball Tournament, I would ha...



UPDATE: Scotties win fourth straight title
February 13th, 2010

Final - Glasgow completed its title defense on Saturday capitalizing on its championship matches to stretch their point total to a comfortable 185-151 win over second-place Townsend. Forsyth finish...



With streak looming, heat will be on wrestlers in Billings
February 10th, 2010

There's just a little bit of pressure on this year's wrestling team to take home the state title this weekend in Billings.

After all, the 2010  seniors have a chance to do something...



Girls could slip in standings after three tough losses
February 10th, 2010

Trying to stay amongst the top two teams in conference to set themselves up for a favorable bracket in next week's district tournament, the Glasgow girls' basketball team nearly slipped to the bo...



Scotty boys struggle to close games, lose two of four
February 10th, 2010

The Glasgow boys' basketball team struggled to finish in the fourth quarter this weekend losing two out of four games this weekend.
The Scotties thought they had learned a lesson about slipp...



Nashua champs have 'Lego' up on rest of Montana
February 10th, 2010

Northeast Montana scored a major honor Saturday when the Nashua Por-Q-Bots won the First Place Champions Award at the Montana FIRST Lego League Championship in Bozeman. This is such a significant a...



Preparing '4' Glory
February 10th, 2010

After coming in second for the first time in four years last week, the Glasgow wrestling team found itself back on top after the Eastern B-C Divisionals in Baker, placing first and claiming the fou...



ORRDINARY PEOPLE&nbsp;THE ARTIST
February 10th, 2010

Dennis Cole gets the picture.

The Courier's new editorial cartoonist always has since, well, the early 1940s. He was a boy in Glasgow. It was during the war.

“Oh, I've alway...



Wrestling loses in Class B-C for first time in four years
February 3rd, 2010

For the first time in four years, the Glasgow wrestling team lost a tournament to another Class B-C school.
The Scotties, wrestling without a 112- or 145- pounder, fell to Huntley Project at t...



Scotty girls fall to Selvig-less Glendive
February 3rd, 2010

The Glasgow girls' basketball team dodged its biggest bullet of Friday's game against Glendive before the game even started.
Glendive's 6-foot-3 star senior Carly Selvig was sitting in stre...



Orrdinary People
February 3rd, 2010

For those involved with "In the Land of the Assiniboine" – the Valley County Historical Society's admirable and strikingly professional new documentary – the wait is over.
Good...



Property owners skeptical od ag land tax reappraisals
February 3rd, 2010

A Montana Department of Revenue official met with Valley County landowners last Thursday to explain the 2009 tax reappraisals, but those whose taxes jumped still question the process. More than 70...



Nearly 100 poles downed in sever storm
February 3rd, 2010

Craig Herbert had what he called a trial by fire during the severe winter weather two weeks ago. He had been the manager of NorVal Electric Cooperative for just three and a half months when the sto...



Scotties trounce Glendive, 69-59
February 3rd, 2010

Through three quarters the Glasgow boys' basketball team played almost flawless defense in their 69-59 victory against Glendive on Friday.
The Scotties, who led 45-27 after the third quarter...



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