Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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Opheim is a very small town of about 88 residents in northern Montana, according to the 2016 count, give or take. Once a year, however, the population increases by about ten times that for the rodeo, which was held June 24. The Opheim rodeo begins with a parade, as all rodeos do, and people line up on both sides of the street. Riders on horseback carry the American flag, the Canadian flag and the Montana State flag as the riders go past up one side and down the other while everyone stands and...
Quite a few of our residents had noticed St. Marie had a visitor most recently from Boeing Aircraft Co. The dark gray plane that was here for a few days was a Boeing KC-46 Tanker and was recently completing aerial refueling initial airworthiness tests, the latest step on the road to full air refueling capability. Series of flight tests were validating the plane's initial airworthiness to conduct aerial refueling operations according to Boeing spokesman Charles Ramey as he told Defense News. The...
St. Marie Fire Chief Rob Esaias had his firefighters begin patrolling St. Marie over the holiday weekend in the hopes of preventing the shooting of fireworks that might cause a structural fire. On a nightly basis, our volunteer firefighters gave up family time to assist him in patrols. In spite of such efforts, the radio sounded at around 3:30 p.m. on July 4 and Esaias's voice came across with a sharp hint of concern, "I see black smoke billowing behind the old bowling alley. Alert all...
The firefighting training by the Valley Event Center and fairgrounds parking lot last Saturday was put on by Safe-Fire LLC out of Wyoming. Glasgow Fire Chief Brandon Brunelle told The Courier that the training was designed to teach firefighters how to deal with liquid- or gas-caused fires. It covered everything from residential propane BBQ fires, rail cars that travel through local communities every day, and large infrastructures that are already in placelocally – such as loading stations, g...