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The Glasgow Scottie boys brought home seventh and the girls claimed eighth at the Montana State Class B Cross Country Meet on Oct. 23 in Kalispell. The two-day all-class event was spread out over the course of two days and spectators were limited to accommodate the global coronavirus pandemic that has struck Montana hard over the last few weeks. But viruses were not the only natural event to put added pressure and to change things up on this year's runners. As of Friday afternoon, an October...
It has been over two weeks since coronavirus was detected at Valley View Nursing Home on Oct. 5. In that time cases have spread among staff and residents as the home implemented policies, lockdowns and isolation to combat the spread of the virus through the home’s residents. According to Wes Thompson, the home’s administrator, so far, there have been 11 residents confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus all aged between 63 and 98 years. Of those, none were showing serious symptoms and six were expected to be recovered by next week. Fou... Full story
In a digital townhall on Oct. 18, Valley County Health Officer, Dr. Anne Millard, gave an update on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in the county calling on its residents to “take this more seriously” and urging people to follow mandatory mask requirements, social distancing and hand hygiene protocols to slow the spread of the disease locally. The news of increasing hospital patients was accompanied by the tragic news that the county experienced two more COVID-19 deaths. The two individuals were a woman in her 80s and a man in his 90s. As... Full story
Glasgow Public Schools extended distance learning for elementary-aged school children this week pushing back a hopeful date of resuming in-person instruction from Oct. 19 to Oct. 26. The announcement was made in a letter to staff from Superintendent Wade Sundby. The Glasgow middle and high schools are continuing their in-person classes. In the letter Sundby wrote that after conversations with the Valley County Health Department about the stress the uptick in cases has put on department staff, he decided to delay resuming classes for another... Full story
The Scottie girls cross country team claimed a first-place spot at the Nemont Invitational on Oct. 15 in Fort Peck. The girls finished with a score of 62, over half the score of second place Poplar at 131. Iris McKean continued to shine, leading the Scotties with a first place run of 19:32. Freshman Emily See logged a fourth-place finish at 21:00. Rounding off the Scottie top five were Haylly Turner (11th), Eve Stone (19th), and Kira Beck (27th). Girls runner Shanice Laugerquist said the meet wa...
The Glasgow Scottie boys and girls cross country teams had a pretty good week overall. After dominating a small field of competitors in Frazer, the Scotties claimed a first-place boys finish and a second-place girls finish in Plentywood against a deeper and faster pool of competitors. Speaking on Frazer’s Oct. 8 meet, Scottie runner Elizabeth Nyquist said, “Not a lot of people were there. We all got medals. We all placed really good.” In fact the Scotties claimed eight of the top nine slots for the boys with only 10 total runners at the meet. T...
The Scottie Girls cross country team placed fourth in Miles City on Oct. 3 as the boys’ team claimed a fifth-place finish facing their largest and most competitive meet so far this season. For both teams, much of the competition were from Class A schools. As a result of the fast competition over half of the Scottie runners (seven of 13 to be exact) set new personal records on the course. “It went really good,” said Scottie runner Lane Thompson describing the races. “It was one of our biggest meets we’ve had this year. It’s a really fast course...
On Aug. 31, the United States Army and the Montana Army National Guard recognized the service and sacrifice of two of their own in a ceremony in Kuwait. Sgt 1st Class Elmer "Moe" Mayhew, a Nashua High School graduate and member of Delta Company, 1-189th General Aviation Support Battalion, and his colleague, Sgt Jared Fossek, were awarded the Purple Heart for injuries sustained in a rocket attack on Camp Taji, Iraq near Baghdad. On March 14, 2020, a "Katyusha" rocket-or multiple rocket...
With just over 100 total runners—after some COVID-related cancellations—the Scotties hosted a home cross country meet that left them happy and out of breath. The Scotties swept gold with both the Varsity boys’ and girls’ performances on Sept. 19. Led by Iris Mckean (first) and Emily See (third) the Scottie girls put up an impressive score of 36 (the scores are tallied by adding the first five Varsity places together making the smaller number the better number). The Scotties were followed by Class A teams Dawson County (40) and Sidney (79). C...
Both teams of Glasgow Scottie Harriers picked up the number one spot at the Poplar Invitational on Sept. 5. The wins were made possible by the fact that the top five runners for the boys all placed in the top 16 with four of the five in the top nine. For the girls the top five all placed in the top 20 with the top three among the first 10 runners to finish. That really helped the boys said junior Bergen Miller. "Having all our guys so close together and so close to the front puts a huge gap...
The Montana Highway Patrol reported that Daniel Rogenes was killed when he rolled his vehicle while traveling on Highway 24 South just outside Glasgow in the early morning hours on Aug. 30. The vehicle was discovered at 7:30 a.m. According to the investigating trooper David Moon, Rogenes was traveling south near mile marker 72 between Glasgow and Fort Peck in a 1999 Ford Ranger. Around the Milk River bridge he veered off the right side of the road. He then overcorrected and reentered the roadway crossing the center line before correcting again...
A.J. ETHERINGTON THE COURIER The Valley County Fair made its way to Valley View Home last week to bring the festivities to residents who remain largely isolated from the outside world amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Valley View's activities director Terri Wedel told the Courier that back in May she was having a discussion with a few residents as they talked about the things they looked forward to over the summer that they would likely miss this year. "We had many topics from farming, ranching,...
The Glasgow Scottie Cross Country teams opened up their regular season in Sidney on Aug. 29. The girls ended their meet in fourth place behind all Class A schools-Laurel, Custer County and Fergus. The boys came in fifth overall behind Fergus, Custer County, Laurel and Wolf Point. It was also the first COVID-adjusted meet and came with some interesting restrictions for the athletes. Junior and third-place finisher for the girls, Iris McKean, commented, "It was okay," she laughed, "it was a...
Lightning set off a wildfire on Bureau of Land Management land west of the Pines Recreation area on Fort Peck Lake the night of Aug 20 or early morning on Aug. 21, according to Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation Fire Manager Don Pyrah. Pyrah said the blaze was sparked during a lightning storm that rolled through the area last Thursday evening and early Friday morning and had grown throughout the day Friday. Glasgow's Long Run Fire Department and the Pines Fire Department...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Fisheries Biologist Tyler Haddix knows just how complicated Pallid Sturgeon recovery in the Upper-Missouri River Basin can be, he's been working on it for 15 years. In fact, according to Haddix, it's a problem nearly 70 years in the making and over the last 25 years, biologists have been trying to solve it amid environmental and economic concerns from all involved. Basically, the problem is that Pallid Sturgeon have been unable to reproduce naturally in the...
The Montana Highway Patrol has told the Courier that a train struck a pick up truck at the Montfort Rd crossing south of Vandalia at about 9:10 the morning of Aug. 27. The truck was carrying only the driver, who suffered minor injuries, according to the investigating trooper, David Moon. According to Moon, the driver was traveling northbound on Montfort Rd and failed to yield for the train. The train traveling eastbound struck the rear left side of the truck box and sent the vehicle into the northeast ditch. The driver, a 20 year old Valley... Full story
It has been a long five months for Valley View Home. Since the governor’s directives were issued in March and the Center for Medicaid/Medicare Services issued guidance for long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, a toll has been taken on the care providers, staff, residents and loved ones associated with the facility. As a direct result of the pandemic and the restrictions meant to keep the populations most vulnerable to the coronavirus safe, many of the residents have not directly interacted or had physical contact with their l...
The Glasgow City Council voted unanimously—with four members present—to approve the ballot language that will appear on November’s ballot asking if residents want to allow a household to own up to six female chickens inside city limits. The vote, which occurred on Aug. 12, is the final step in presenting the question to the public. The ballot language will read: Do you support allowing property owners to maintain six (6) domestic chicken hens, within the incorporated Glasgow City limits, subject to the regulation by the Official Code of the C...
Montana Highway Patrol Sergeant Jeff Kent says Valley County resident Charles Dunn, 65, died in the afternoon hours of Monday, Aug. 10, when he rear-ended a farm truck on Highway 24 between Glasgow and Fort Peck while riding a motorcycle. Kent said Dunn had been traveling southbound on Highway 24 near mile marker 66 in excess of the posted 70-mph speed limit on a 2006 Buell XB-12X sport bike when he attempted to overtake a Ford F-350 pickup—which was modified to haul hay bales—and his right side struck the flatbed edge of the truck’s left-...
Roughly 40 participants came out to support Warriors on the Water, run five kilometers and be painted a myriad of bright dusty colors on Aug. 8. The event, held annually by the Glasgow Scottie Student Council, raises money for the veteran-oriented charity organization which hosts a summer fishing weekend at the Fort Peck Reservoir for military veterans from across the United States and who served in various armed conflicts. Runners lined up at 9 a.m. to take the route encompassing much of...
At the Aug. 3 regular meeting of the Glasgow City Council, city attorney Anna Rose Sullivan informed the council that an ordinance to eliminate Wards and move the city to an at-large election system would not appear on the ballot in November. The ordinance was passed using an emergency ordinance procedure that allows the council to pass such an ordinance with only one reading at a public meeting. In order to override a second reading the ordinance must pass with a two-thirds majority of the governing body. In the case of the city council, that...
The Army Corps of Engineers surveyed irrigation sights between July 8 and 17, as part of a study into plans to alter the rate of water release from Fort Peck Dam in the coming years to test the potential for Pallid Sturgeon recovery in the river below the dam. The change in flows will test whether or not increasing flows and then decreasing them throughout the season will attract the ecologically extinct Pallid Sturgeon to spawn in the river system. Farmers along the Missouri River fear those...
The Glasgow Kiwanis “Thunder” Swim Team rolled into Sidney this past weekend to finish off their altered season with a bang. Competing with nine other teams—Malta, Chinook, Harlem, Lewistown, Roundup, Sidney, Scobey, Glendive and Plentywood—the Thunder brought 26 of Glasgow’s finest to the pool ending the season off with a few top spots and a few more podium finishes. Head coach Ethan Shrader had great things to say about how they ended the season. “Every swimmer swam their best races, and our team looked amazing throughout the year,” said...
A jury of 12 found ex-Valley County undersheriff Luke Strommen guilty of sexual intercourse without consent in the afternoon hours of July 17 at Valley County District Court in Glasgow. The State proved that Strommen began raping a 14-year-old girl while she stayed in a hotel room with the family in Great Falls in September of 2009. In the night, Strommen initiated intercourse with the girl, who was too young to consent, and continued to repeatedly meet the girl to rape her throughout the course...
The Valley County Sheriff's Office has confirmed to the Glasgow Courier that a train collided with a pickup truck at the rail crossing in Hinsdale at around 11:40 a.m. on July 18. No serious injuries resulted from the collision and the single occupant of the pickup had been examined by emergency medical technicians on scene. Asked if the driver was harmed, VCSO Chief Deputy Joe Tihlarik said emphatically, "Not a scratch." The circumstances of the crash are still under investigation, but the...
