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The rape trial of disgraced ex-Valley County Undersheriff Luke Strommen has been delayed after the judge in the case granted the defense a continuance for an unknown period of time. The trial had been set to start on March 9, but was canceled at the last minute leaving the dozens called out for jury duty reeling to reschedule their days and, in some cases, get back to work. It was unclear at press time what justified the last minute continuance. The trial had been set after a November trial was vacated as Strommen pleaded guilty to one of two...
March weather conditions started off with warm above freezing temperatures, leading to snow and ice in the region to melt off, which caused minor flooding in low lying areas in Valley County. With cool temps forecast for the coming weekend, the National Weather Service in Glasgow is anticipating a slowing of that current melting and subsequent flooding. In the first nine days of March, the daily temperatures in Glasgow were consistently above freezing. In fact, with the exception of March 8...
Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate, Tim Fox, on Feb. 27 met with local health care administrators to tour the state-of-the-art Stat Air Ambulance hangar and discuss health care policy, insurance and Medicaid funding. Fox met with Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital CEO Randy Holom and Northeast Montana Stat Air Co-op Executive Director Clay Berger. The group started by touring the facility, which features a series of twin-prop ambulances, a large classroom, lodgings for on-call staff and it even houses a flight simulator that can...
The Lady Scotties took on the best of the Northern B Division in Shelby on March 5, 6 and 7. The ballers advanced to take fourth after falling to the Harlem Wildcats. The Scotties ended their season after winning two and losing two in the tournament. The Scotties kicked off the tournament against the Shelby Coyotes-who would go on to take second in the tournament-on March 5. They got off to a slow start in the first quarter falling behind by 10 and only putting up five points to the Coyotes'...
A northeast Montana man was sentenced Feb. 28 in District Court to 100 years in prison with 60 suspended for the crime of incest. He will also be required to register as a level two sex offender, complete sex offender treatment and will not be eligible for parole for 10 years. At the time of the crime he lived in Glasgow but had resided in Daniels County before being sentenced. (Editor’s Note: For the privacy of the child involved, the Glasgow Courier has decided not to report the child’s name or the perpetrator). According to court records, th...
The Scottie boys basketball team had a disappointing end to their 2020 season at the Northern B Divisional Tournament in Malta on Feb. 27 and 28. Opening the tournament taking on the number one seed, Fairfield, the Scotties managed to hold their own until the end of the third quarter when Fairfield would pull away and maintain their momentum until the close of the fourth. In the end, the Scotties would go onto lose, 42 to 59. In the first quarter of play, the Scotties came out on top, with...
Fighting for Montana’s most vulnerable would just be another bullet in a series of political priorities for almost any other candidate, but for Attorney General Candidate John Bennion, the talking point hits a little closer to home. Bennion’s son, Jack, was born four-months premature and now lives with Cerebral Palsy and is a non-verbal fourth grader. Advocating for his son has been a priority for the MT DOJ Attorney that has made him a self-published author of a children’s book (The Adventures of Jack Pant—Amazon) to educate his son’s p...
Raph Graybill has never held public office but that has not stopped him from seeking the Democratic nomination for Montana’s Attorney General seat and to be the “independent watch dog” for Montana. Most recently, Graybill has worked as Governor Bullock’s Chief Legal Counsel in Helena effectively championing issues for the governor’s office in both state and federal court. One such case Graybill cited as pivotal in his decision to run for AG, was a case he took to the Supreme Court in Montana involving a ranching family that was using the Habit...
The Glasgow City Public Work’s water improvement project entered its second phase on time and on budget in January, as crews completed the installation and testing of the new filtration tanks installed in phase one and diverted the entire plant’s operations from the old system after a successful testing period. According to Director of Public Works Rob Kompel, the decision to switch full-time came after a few week testing period that afforded the plant the opportunity to revert back to the tried and true filters that had run direct fil...
The Glasgow Scotties boys basketball team will advance to the divisional tournament in Malta on Feb. 27, 28 and 29. The Scotties beat out Poplar on Feb. 20 in the play-in game before falling to Harlem on Feb. 21 and Malta on Feb. 22, to claim fourth overall. The boys beat Poplar 42 to 36. The first quarter came off with a horse race and ended after a single lead change with a tie of nine to nine. In the second the Scotties claimed the lead and continued advancing to end the half ahead by six...
The Glasgow Lady Scotties will advance to the Northern B Divisional Tournament the first week in March. The advancement follows a loss and a win this past week in Malta. In the first round of play, the Lady Scotties met the Malta M-Ettes in the early afternoon of Feb. 21. The Scotties had just come off a win against the same team the week prior and were looking to repeat the effort on Friday. That would not be the outcome the Scotties received though, and Malta would arise victorious by six...
For Marj Markle, basketball started at a young age among her competitive siblings. She remembered playing ball in the driveway of their home on the Glasgow Air Force Base almost every night. As the middle child of six-stuck smack in between four brothers and the youngest of only two girls-Markle remembered learning to play tough early on. That grit and competitiveness would lead to a lifetime of athletic achievements, putting her name in the Montana High School Association Hall of Fame this...
The Montana Human Rights Commission has ruled in favor of Shalaine Lawson following an appeal on the decision of an administrative hearing officer who decided that NorVal Electric Cooperative and NorVal’s General Manager Craig Herbert were guilty of sexual harassment and retaliation against her. According to the HRC decision, NorVal had argued that Herbert’s conduct had not met the level of “actionable sexual harassment” because it had not included, “assaults, physical contact, uninvited sexual solicitations, intimidating words or acts, obscene...
You would have been forgiven if you had worried about the Scotties' chances at the State Tournament in Billings on Feb. 14 and 15. A tough season with a number of challenges, illnesses, injuries, a second-place finish to Huntley Project at Divisionals and a series of peaks and valleys at State had set the tone at the close of business Friday at Metra Park. That tone was short-lived however, and on Saturday morning the Scotties rallied to go undefeated in their first seven matches of the second...
It was the last night on the Scottie gymnasium floor for four Scottie seniors-Keely Fossum, Anika Peters, Laura Ross and Taylor Pederson-and they made it count. Facing off against the Wolf Point Wolves on Feb. 13, the Lady Scotties launched an all out assault on the hoop, scoring 18 in the first quarter, 14 in the second, 12 in the third and 27 in the final round. The Scotties managed to hold the Wolves as well and they ended the game ahead by 31 points-71 to 40. Unwilling to make their last...
The Glasgow Scottie boys basketball team stepped out in front of their home crowd for the last time this season on Feb. 13. The starting line-up for the game included all five Scottie seniors-Kobe Sibley, Alec Boland, Tim Wageman, Saul Hansen and Jayson Turner. Unfortunately, the festivities of senior night were short-lived after the Wolves finished out the first quarter ahead by three-13 to 16. That lead would have been more than manageable, but in the second half the Scottie boys slipped even...
For Tracy Schuster, running for House District 34 is about getting involved as a citizen and doing her part towards better governance. She says that she feels called to serve, citing the direction of the country and her view that what is happening in America is not what is best for this country. "I think a lot of the political scene has become so vitriolic that people kind of pull away from it, they tune it out," said Schuster discussing the political environment in the country. "That just...
A statewide initiative to increase the State’s effectiveness at investigating and prosecuting sexual assaults held its first outside of Helena training session in Glasgow last week at the STAT Air hangar. The program training is the next phase in a program dubbed SAKI, or Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, and it is the culmination of years of developed research and established best practices put into a single course aimed at helping law enforcement better understand sexual assault investigations, survivors and the legal process/evidence that goes...
He died alone and was buried, with everything he owned, in a plywood box at a small cemetery in Hinsdale, Mont. That is the end to the story of Marine Bruce Powers, age of 79, after dying in the dementia unit of Valley View Home. As a widower and estranged from his remaining family, Powers was left in the hands of the county to be buried. For those reasons, he was buried in a funeral plot owned by the county on Feb. 6. The only attendees were the mortuary staff, Sheriff Tom Boyer, director of...
It was not the outcome the team wanted, but its not over either. That was the sentiment put off by Scottie head wrestling coach Jory Casterline after his team finished in the runner-up slot at the Eastern B/C Divisional Wrestling Tournament in Huntley Project on Feb. 8. Regardless of expectations, the Scotties still pulled off a second-place finish and punched 10 tickets to State-which included two freshmen but not a top-ranked senior. They fell in the point count behind Huntley Project by a...
The Scottie boys basketball team met up with the Harlem Wildcats on the floor of the Scottie gymnasium on Feb. 6, but the outcome was nowhere close to what the team expected walking out on the court that evening. In the beginning, the game seemed to be unfolding like many others. By the end of the first quarter, the Scottie boys trailed by a single point against the Wildcats (17-18). Then in the second they fell slightly but maintained a manageable point spread of five points going into the half...
The only thing the Lady Scotties basketball team ran out of at their Feb. 6 game against the Harlem Wildcats was time. They certainly did not run out of motivation as they fought with all their might to the last second to score every basket possible against Harlem. In the end though the only thing they needed was a longer quarter. In the first three quarters the Scotties fell behind by nearly 30 points but battled back to close the gap in the fourth quarter and bring it down to a single-digit...
The Glasgow middle and high school art classes will be putting their work on display for the people of Glasgow starting Friday, Feb. 7 at the Wheatgrass Arts & Gallery in downtown Glasgow. The exhibit will feature nearly 180 pieces from artists ranging from sixth grade to seniors and will encompass art media as varied as pencil sketches and impressionist oil paintings to sculptures and textured art as taught by Glasgow art teachers Libby Weber and Cat McIntyre. According to McIntyre and Weber,...
A car accident in the morning hours of Feb. 1 was likely caused by an intoxicated driver, according to the Glasgow Police Department. The crash, which occurred at about 6:30 a.m., involved a mid-2000s model sedan being driven by Jacoby Collins, of Glasgow. He was heading westbound on Highway 2 when he attempted to turn left onto Cherry Creek Rd in western Glasgow. An oncoming mid-size SUV in the eastbound lane, driven by a Glasgow woman, accompanied by her 13-year-old son, struck the right rear side of the sedan. GPD said that the call for the...
The Glasgow Scottie Wrestling Team claimed the top slot at the 2020 Mustang Invitational on Feb. 3, in Malta. The Malta Invitational marks the last tournament of the regular season as wrestling heads into the post season Divisional tournament in Huntley Project on Feb. 7 and 8. The Scotties' success on the mat in Malta maintained the team's top ranked Class B status heading into the Divisional meet before taking on State in Billings the week after. "We wrestled really well in Malta," said...
