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Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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1 Years Ago Wednesday, March 13, 2013 The Valley County Conservation District is considering an ordinance that would require a permit for grazing any bison, whether wild, free-roaming or domestic, in the county. They are acting in response to Fish, Wildlife and Park's placing of bison from Yellowstone National Park on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation a year ago, an action that sparked a reaction from ranchers and farmers in the area. There was a lot of donating and a lot of falling on Sunday...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, March 6, 2013 The annual school election will be held Tuesday, May 7. There is one vacancy for the Glasgow School Board of Trustees this year, as Dr. Charles Wilson's term is set to expire. This is a three-year term. To date, no one has filed for the open position. Dr. Wilson has indicated he will not run for reelection after more than 20 years on the board. The Glasgow City Council heard a description of a proposed cooperative effort between the Glasgow and Long Run...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, February 27, 2013 The Montana Department of Transportation is searching for wetlands that have been drained and/or partially drained that could be restored as mitigation for transportation projects. The Glasgow School Board's newly hired owner's representative for the proposed building and renovation project was introduced by Superintendent Bob Connors at a public meeting at East Side School on Monday evening. Paul Bishop, who was an architect in Montana, more than 20...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, February 20, 2013 There's a new piece of equipment that rated a whole new room for itself at Valley View Home. A shiny NuStep recumbent cross trainer machine stands in a pleasant room with a window looking into the sky and a hillside of homes, thanks to a generous donation from the Theo and Alyce Beck Foundation, with assistance from the Valley View Foundation. A chapter has closed in the struggle to replace Glasgow's crumbling swimming pool, but a longtime advocate for...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Bob Hanson, the volunteer fire chief for the Long Run Fire Department, is one of the winners of the 2013 Ready Montana Awards. The City of Glasgow is now dealing with its fourth group of architects to get a new roof on the leaky south side fire hall. A new elevator at the Valley Event Center was approved by the state inspector on Wednesday, Feb. 6, just in time for the Squirt State A Hockey Tournament held here on Friday through Sunday. The elevator was...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, February 6, 2013 The Glasgow City Council is trying not to fall off the leaky fire hall roof. There is a crowd of engineers out there trying to fix it and nobody knows who has the job. Electrical Fruit? Reducing Friction? Homemade Batteries? The projects were ingenious at the 18th annual Kiwanis Science Fair held last weekend. Fifty-four students in grade four, five and six presented 35 projects for judging. The Glasgow Squirt Ice Dawgs skated to two non-league victories...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Montana's unemployment rate continued to drop in December, falling 0.1 percentage points to 5.7 percent. Montana's unemployment rate has been on a downward trend since mid- 2011. There are plenty of good things about Glasgow now and things people would like to see – or avoid- in the future. A public meeting on Jan. 23 drew about 25 people to the Glasgow High School auditorium to share in the formation of community goals for a new growth policy. The N...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, January 23, 2013 City employees will receive a raise this year, after the Glasgow City Council approved a collective bargaining agreement with Teamsters Local No. 2. The $.25 per hour increase was also extended to non-bargaining city employees. Police did not request a raise this year. The Council passed a resolution establishing the effective date of the new city salaries as July 1, 2012. A Nashua native has been named as the new administrator of Valley View Home in...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Glasgow and Valley County law enforcement officials have been awarded a $210,000 grant to begin a new program, providing drug prosecution services to 17 counties and two drug task forces in Eastern Montana. The grant from the Montana Board of Crime Control will fund a drug prosecution coordinator, an attorney specializing in drug cases, for two years. The winter storm that hit northeast Montana on Thursday night wasn't a surprise. It had been making its...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, January 9, 2013 The Glasgow School Board voted unanimously Jan. 2 to run two bond issues to finance a new elementary school plus improvements to East Side School and Glasgow High School. A Glasgow resident urged the City Council to put up a stop sign on the corner of 2nd Street and 3rd Avenue North. Kelly Fuhrman, a resident of the area for 25 years, said drivers " fly through the area." He said he has seen near-accidents and children almost hit by cars. He said he has as...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, January 2, 2013 In this season of giving, the Glasgow High School Educational Trust is honored to announce a gift of $10,000 from the James and Ailene Olk Family. The good guys were on the job again this New Year's Eve, giving people free rides home from parties so they wouldn't get behind the wheel after drinking. Nine volunteers from Valley County Search & Rescue, Thompson and Sons Towing, and Glenn's Automotive took the calls. They gave a total of 166 rides this year,...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 The Valley County Commissioners decided at their regular meeting on Dec. 18 to buy a new microfilm reader to replace one that is 15 years old. The price, $10,213, includes setup. Don't run the risk of driving home this New Year's Eve if you've had any alcohol. Do yourself and everyone else on the road a favor- call one of the volunteers waiting to help you to get home. The ride is free! Roubie Younkin, Valley County Extension agent with the Montana State Uni...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 Bourgault Industries has recognized Farm Equipment Sales as the recipient of its "Highest Customer Service Award" for the year of 2011-12 in the Western USA territory. Farm Equipment Sales represents the Bourgault Air Seeding Line out of their Glasgow, Plentywood, Culbertson, and Circle locations. The Glasgow School Board has voted to accept the recommendation of its Building Committee and put grades K through 5 in a new Irle School building. East Side...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 Glasgow Superintendent Bob Connors addressed about 20 school administrators and community members at a School Building Committee meeting Monday, explaining the splitting of the school bond issue into two questions for the voters. He said that one vote will be on $16.8 million bond for building or renovation of three school buildings: a new elementary building, additions to East Side and improvements to the high school. Valley County Commissioner Dave Pippin...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, December 5, 2012 The Glasgow City Council decided to follow the recommendation of an appointed committee and pay the fire chief $500 a quarter, beginning Jan. 1. State Sen.-elect Greg Jergeson, D-Chinook, will be out of job in two years under a legislative reapportionment plan approved by the District and Apportionment Commission on Friday. The commission voted to pair the 100 state House districts approved earlier this year to create 50 state Senate districts. In doing s...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012 After decades of putting up with blockages on the railroad crossing the middle of town, Nashua is going to have an overpass, according to a letter that Mayor Pat Hallett received from the Montana Department of Transportation and provided to The Courier. The Valley County commissioners have awarded a contract for the construction of a new concrete bridge on Canal Road west of Glasgow. The Federal Emergency Agency informed the commissioners that it would pay u...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012 Fourteen soldiers from the Montana Army National Guard's 484th Military Police Company, headquartered in Malta, were expected to return to Montana on Tuesday, Nov. 20. The soldiers were scheduled to return to the Billings International Airport on United Airlines Flight 579 at 12:42 p.m. Pat Gunderson, a 23-year veteran of the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks, is retiring from the agency on Nov. 30. Instead of kicking back and taking it easy,...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012 A new deputy joined the Valley County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday. Alex Estavez, who hails from Miles City, has a year and half of experience with the Sidney Police Department and a reserve deputy in Custer County before that. The Glasgow City Council has accepted the recommendation of a Selection Committee and awarded the city's growth policy project to DJ&A P.C., an engineering, planning, and surveying firm in Glasgow and Missoula. In just one year, drough...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 The First Lutheran Church in Opheim celebrated its 100th Anniversary on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, by celebrating the joint venture of the Lutheran and the Methodist churches in Opheim. In what was deemed one of the driest and shortest school board meetings in recent memory, the Glasgow School Board approved a three-year co-op agreement with Hinsdale in both wrestling and softball. The agreement continues Glasgow's and Hinsdale's relationship as co-ops as the two...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, October 31, 2012 The Army Corp of Engineers has awarded the final round of contracts for repairs throughout the Missouri River basin following the flood of 2011. The final repair bill for the Corps' Omaha District totaled $360 million. Levee rehabilitation work came to $160 million and repairs to damages at the six main-stem dam projects totaled $200 million. The work on 15 levee systems is expected to be complete by the spring of 2013. Completion of work on the dams...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, October 24, 2012 This winter in Eastern Montana might be just what Goldilocks ordered: not to cold, not too dry, just right. The Glasgow School Board revised its student drug testing policy at the regular meeting on Oct. 10. The original drug testing policy for students participating in any extracurricular activity, adopted in 2009, required that all students in an activity be tested at the beginning of the activity's season. The revised policy is to test 20 percent of...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, October 17, 2012 A Montana Army National Guard spokesman confirmed Tuesday that two soldiers in the 484th Military Police Co. on duty in Afghanistan were injured on Saturday. Bruce Peterson and John Fahlgren, as a write-in candidate, ran for Valley County Commissioner, both submitting an introduction to the community in this issue. State candidates also made campaign stops in Glasgow, including Denny Rehberg who was vying for the Senate seat from Democrat Jon Tester and...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 The 2012 Homecoming nominees are Alex Page, Bryan Larson, Rachel Prewitt, and Andy Gardner. The Homecoming Queen is Laurel Wageman and Homecoming King is Greg Fewer. An appreciation dinner honoring Jackie Bird was held at the Cottonwood last Friday. She has gone above and beyond with the St. Marie Women's Club sending care packages to our troops serving in the Mideast. Toiletries, jerky, power bars donated as well as postage money can always be used,...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012 The Valley County Jail accepted six prisoners from the Miles City Detention Center on Monday, the first to arrive under a contract to board here. Sheriff Glen Meier said he expects to see an average of ten Custer County inmates. Nashua residents gathered in their Civic Center last Thursday to discuss a possible solution to the chronic blockage of the train crossing: an overpass on the west end of town. Tom Klotz, the longtime Administrator of Valley View...
