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Montana's sole U.S. Representative, Greg Gianforte (R), spoke to the Courier about his recent trip to China as part of the first Congressional delegation of 2019. Gianforte said he was one of only six legislators in the bipartisan group, working to secure a new trade deal with the nearly 1.4 billion person market. Gianforte explained that his reason for going to China was simple. "Trade is so important to our ranchers and farmers," said Gianforte, "and they need certainty and we were there to...
The City of Glasgow came one step closer to ending a months-long search to find and hire a criminal-focused city attorney. At their regular meeting on Monday, April 15, the council approved a conditional offer to negotiate with Anna Rose Sullivan, currently of Wolf Point, to take on the role of both civil and criminal Glasgow City attorney. Sullivan attended the meeting to advocate for herself and provide a brief background. She said that she is a Butte native, who attended Gonzaga University to study philosophy and psychology before heading...
It was just March 13 when the headline on the Glasgow Courier's front page read NWS Flood Projections Look Good for Glasgow, the article stating there was a prediction of less than a five percent chance of major flooding. Less than two weeks later however the Milk at Tampico and Glasgow was climbing slowly towards major flood stage. As of Friday, April 5, the Milk at Glasgow had receded and fallen back below flood stage, leaving a path of washed out roads, torn down fences, ruined implements...
When Josh Thompson received the call that two kayakers were in need of help on the Milk River on March 31, they were in luck. The Search and Rescue airboat was already staged and in place to serve a very different mission. The crew was supposed to go out with the boat to help a local rancher reach his stranded cattle and get them food later that day. So when the call came in that two kayakers were in need of help near Whatley Road that Sunday afternoon, they were already ready to go. According to a report from Sheriff Tom Boyer, as best he...
Nonprofit group Montana's Peer Network has launched a program in Northeast Montana in affiliation with the Eastern Montana Community Mental Health Center in Glasgow. Taking on the role of peer support specialist / recovery coach will be Glasgow resident Heather Henry. The program is funded by the Montana legislature and is entirely free to participants. Henry sat down with the Courier alongside Montana Peer Networks founder Jim Hajny to discuss the program and the impacts it hopes to have on sub...
Kathleen Williams made a campaign stop in Glasgow on April 8 at Soma Dis Deli. The former Montana legislator and prior candidate is running for Montana’s sole seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. She ran and lost by less than five percent against incumbent Republican Greg Gianforte in 2018. With a couple dozen people in attendance, the Congressional hopeful stumped on issues such as bipartisanship, her Montana roots, her priorities, which she labeled affordable health care, fostering o...
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection held a town hall on April 2 at the Glasgow Senior Citizens Center to discuss the removal of extended summer hours at the Opheim, Morgan and Scobey ports of entry and the reduction of hours at the Raymond Port. Around 20 members of the public attended the meeting from across northeastern Montana with many of them there to represent government officials and even a representative from the Saskatchewan Parliament was in attendance. CBP hosted the informational meeting to make their case for the reduction of...
In an interview with the Glasgow Courier to discuss trade negotiations in China on April 12, Congressman Greg Gianforte said he was "seriously considering" a run for Governor in 2020. This marks the first public comment made by the two-term Congressman and one-time gubernatorial hopeful on his plans for 2020. "I'm talking to people all over the state," said Gianforte. I'm being encouraged to consider a run for Governor and I am seriously considering that but have not made a final decision." If...
On Saturday March 30, the Montana House passed House Bill 658 with a vote of 61 in favor to 37 opposed. The bill, if passed in the Senate, will continue Montana’s Medicaid Expansion program that features a 9 to 1 match in funds from the Federal Government and provides health care to over 96,000 Montanans according to the Department of Health and Human Services. That number equals roughly 9.4 percent of the state’s population. Both Montana House Representatives for Valley County, Casey Knudsen (R) and Rhonda Knudsen (R), voted against advancing...
Lustre Christian High School hosted their annual fundraiser known as Schmeckfest March 22. This was the 54th year for the school's only major fundraiser. According to Susan Fast, one of the organizers, this year's totals have not been fully realized, but in the past she said they bring in around $80,000 just from the evening of food and vendor sales. As a private Christian school, Lustre Christian uses the annual fundraiser to help keep tuition fees low. Fast explained that Schmeckfest is the...
Leighton Hughes was found guilty of criminal possession of a dangerous drug (methamphetamine) March 20. The one-day trial featured testimony and body camera footage from local law enforcement that demonstrated that Hughes had been carrying methamphetamine when he was arrested by the Glasgow Police Department and Valley County Sheriff's Deputies. On June 22, 2018, a GPD officer and a VCSO deputy went to Hughes' house to serve a misdemeanor warrant for assault. According to an account of the incid...
Local law enforcement and first responders came out March 22 to raise funds for the local Relay For Life committee which has decided to initiate a "HOPE" (Help Others Pay Expenses) fund. The fund is intended to remain local and will be used to help all Valley County and neighbors with expenses resulting from accidents, emergencies and illnesses. Skate for a Cure was back for its sixth year. Started as a way for the local Relay committee to "kick off" the fundraising season, this year's event...
Shopko announced Monday, March 18, that they will be closing all remaining stores. The move comes after Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings failed to restructure the company’s debt and save the retailer’s remaining locations across the north-central midwestern United States. Staff at the Glasgow store confirmed that they had been informed of the closure Monday morning. There are currently 30 full and part-time employees at the Shopko in Glasgow, and it is unclear if there are enough vacant jobs in the community to support such a loss. Acc...
The Valley County Sheriff’s Office and the Glasgow Police Department have pooled resources to upgrade their electronic management systems. The upgrade will help the agencies go mobile, which, according to Sheriff Tom Boyer, will put the deputy offices in the streets and out among the residents of Valley County. The mobile suite will build off the current Zeurcher system which is already utilized by VCSO, GPD, dispatch and the detention center. What the new system and infrastructure will add is the ability for deputies and officers to work c...
Valley County Sheriff Tom Boyer has appointed a five-year veteran of the Valley County Sheriff's Office to serve as Undersheriff. Chris Richter assumed the position after a lengthy search that involved the screening of eight candidates from around the country. Boyer commented on why the search had taken so long to complete, saying, "For me, it was really the most important decision that would affect the next four years, so I wanted to make the right decision." Boyer stated that he had interviewe...
The National Weather Service in Glasgow is projecting a mild flood season for Spring, 2019. According to meteorologist Patrick Gilchrist, the projected flood risks for the area are minor flooding at 35 percent, moderate flooding at five percent and major flooding at less than five percent. Gilchrist told the Courier that the projections are favorable for a number of reasons. First is that the snowpack that does exist is low in water content. Gilchrist called this the “snow-water equivalent” which changes based on the temperature when the sno...
It was close to midnight Sunday, March 10, when Sheriff Tom Boyer received a call concerning two snowmobilers stranded near the Canadian border. According to the Sheriff, the father of one of the stranded men had called to tell him that they had become stranded and needed assistance. Boyer said he reached out to Josh Thompson with Valley County Search and Rescue and they put a crew together consisting of Rocky Thompson, Randy Isaakson and Bryce Lawrence to go look for the two men. The crew made their way to a ranch in northeast Phillips County...
Tempers were sparked as concerned citizens spoke during the public comment period at the Glasgow City Council on March 4. At least five participants from the public were looking to amend or express concerns about City Ordinance 1881, which relates to overtime parking on the streets of Glasgow. Ordinance 1881 applies to vehicles parked on the streets of Glasgow without being moved more than five feet over a period of five days. According to Sergeant Tyler Edwards with the Glasgow Police Department, the department had worked on a warning system...
School board elections countywide have commenced and will be held on Tuesday, May 7. The Glasgow School District will hold an election to fill one school board seat. They will also have an election to approve a general levy fund, "for the purpose of raising teacher and support staff wages for the 2019-20 school year." The Glasgow School Board authorized the annual election at their last meeting, Feb. 13. Appointed to act as judges for the election are Avis Needham, Betty Cote, Diane Peterson...
Senator Steve Daines hosted a town hall at the Glasgow VFW Post 3107 l Feb. 15 to meet with and take questions from constituents. The stop was one of many on a total tour of the Big Sky State that included a stop in all 56 counties. In front of a very friendly crowd that applauded much of what Daines discussed, he opened his speech with a recap of his recent trip to the Rio Grande Valley along the Mexico border where he met with border patrol agents and did a ride along during an evening patrol....
The Frazer community came together Feb. 8, to honor three former students. Among them was Brayden Jackson, who was killed in a car accident last year. The two inductees into the wall of fame were Raymond Fisher, a 1986 graduate of Frazer High School, and 2017 graduate Saunder St. Marks. In front of a packed gymnasium, Frazer's Culture and Nakona Language instructor Roger White Jr. emceed the ceremony and spoke on behalf of the Fisher family about his accomplishments, which included holding...
The Glasgow Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture hosted their 21st Annual Ice Fishing Derby on the ice at the Dredge Cuts Trout Pond on Saturday, Feb. 2. The yearly winter sports staple attracted 41 participants who utilized 92 pre-drilled holes to land 19 different fish. Saturday saw high temperatures reaching up into the forty degree range with a slight overcast and almost no wind, which in short made for a good day of ice fishing. It was also those fluctuating temperatures and predicted...
Record snow fell on Sunday, Feb. 3 in Glasgow while continuing to fall into Monday morning bringing in a collective ten inches of snow as of Monday afternoon with snow expected to continue through Tuesday, as of press time. That record snowfall is likely going to be followed by an “arctic blast” starting Wednesday that will bring dangerously low temperatures expected to fall well below zero and be accompanied by severe windchills according to Patrick Gilchrist with the National Weather Service. Gilchrist stressed winter safety with dan...
The Glasgow High School has brought back the Trading Card program for another year honoring 16 drug, tobacco and alcohol free high school students and looking to provide role models for Glasgow's elementary-aged youth through mentorship in the classroom. Those selected for the 2019 edition of the trading cards were Hannah Anderson, Bridger Barnett, Ali Cunningham, Tyler Fitzsimmons, Katie Kaiser, Dexter Monson, Alexus Nistler, Riley Noser, Lexie Pehlke, Koby Regalado, Natosha Sand, Keevan...
The Frazer community came together with the Frazer High School and Poplar High School to honor and raise awareness for missing and murdered indigenous women and girls last Friday, Jan. 25. The event, which occurred between the boys and girls basketball games in the Frazer gymnasium, sought to raise funds and provide support to the family of Henny Scott, a 14-year-old freshman at Lame Deer High School, who went missing for a number of weeks before being found murdered in late December. Her...
