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The Nashua Lions hosted their 21st annual Nashua Lions Talent Show on April 29. With 20 different entries, guests in attendance enjoyed musical performances including vocal, instrumental and clogging. The sound system was provided by Pippin DJ and Karaoke. Concecssions were also served with all proceeds benefiting the Lions Club to assist them with a variety of community projects including providing roller skating at the Civic Center in the winter, maintaining the Lions park, the Chirstmas...
Another year, another summer with a great carnival at the Northest Montana Fair. The Valley County Carnival Club members held a boot drive at downtown intersections on April 27, to collect funds to bring the carnival back to this summer's event. According to carnival club member Amanda Powell, over $4,500 was raised during the event."Everyone seems to be really excited for the carnival to come back this year," stated club member Louise Lemieux. The Glasgow High School Honor Society also helped...
After a summer filled with drought followed by a heavy winter, which brought record-snowfall, the next curveball Mother Nature has in store for residents of Valley County is flooding. The flooding has been so worrisome throughout the state that Governor Bullock issued an executive order declaring a state of emergency on April 18. This executive order was issued for Valley County and other Hi-Line counties and authorizing the availability and utilization of necessary state government services, eq...
As the weather gets warmer and travel starts to increase, drivers will begin to notice a new feature along roadways throughout eastern Montana. The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) announced they will be installing centerline rumble strips along key segments in an effort to reduce fatal and serious injury crashes. According to Chris Puyear, a representative for MDT, work will begin on US Highway 2 from mile marker 667 to 540, from the North Dakota border to Hinsdale starting Monday, April 30, with mile marker 540 to 428 to follow on...
The VFW Post #3107 Auxiliary presented Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Mitch Willett a $200 donation to the Montana Hope Project on April 20. Every year the auxiliary finds causes to donate to when they have extra funds. This year, the Montana Hope Project was considered due to auxiliary member Sharon Lagerquist's previous relationship with the project. As a result of her work with the Sheridan County Sheriff's Office as well as the Valley County Sheriff's Office, she has been able to see first-h...
In order to raise funds for the upcoming PRCA rodeo this summer, the Glasgow Rodeo Committee will be hosting a Spring Fling fundraiser on Saturday, April 28, at the Ridgerunners. A free-will offering dinner will be served consisting of roast beef and mashed potatoes, starting at 5:30 p.m. There will also be a live and silent auction with items including a three-day admittance to the Montana Circuit Finals in Great Falls with two nights lodging, a gas top barbecue grill, and a caliber rifle from D&G as well as handmade quilts, among other great...
For the third year in a row, Josh Sillerud and Hi-Line Ford are asking the community to come together and buy peanut butter at their next several trips to the grocery store. In coordination with the Ford Focus on Child Hunger campaign, Sillerud has decided to hold a peanut butter drive to help our community's children not go hungry once school is out for the year. Peanut butter is a main staple and unfortunately it can be expensive to those families who have fallen on hard times. Donations of...
The Connection Youth Center, an area faith-based non-profit organization, recently purchased and is remodeling the former Congregational Church building to allow a bigger space for youth to spend time and participate in productive activities. Thanks to a $10,000 Gianforte Family Foundation award and a raffle last year that was very successful, thanks to local business support, the new space is expected to be open by August of this year. Community support and assistance is needed in order to make the opening in August happen. Since the building...
At a balmy 25 degrees, brave and eager children came out on April 7, to hunt for Easter eggs the Easter bunny had hid (or placed) around Hoyt Park. The Kiwanis Easter Egg Hunt, co-sponsored by Reynolds Market and FMDH, was originally scheduled for the Saturday before Easter, March 30, but weather conditions delayed the event to the following week. Despite the added wait time Mother Nature didn't get the memo, and still decided to keep the cold air lingering. With some warmer temps the week...
This week is National Library Week and I can not say enough about the benefits our City-County library provides to my family and me. Because of their wide variety of children books, we are able to have family story-time with our two young kids before bed. We have developed a nightly routine, where before putting them to bed, we all gather on the living room couch, and read. After a long busy day, it allows all of us to settle down, spend time together, enter a different world and learn about new environments. I find myself walking into the libr...
Based upon the latest models at press time, the National Weather Service in Glasgow is projecting that flooding is almost imminent for the Milk River in Glasgow; it's just a matter of when. Thankfully, flooding hasn't really been on anyone's radar lately due to abnormally low temperatures for this time of year. According to Warning Coordination Meteorologist Patrick Gilchrist, it is very unusual to have this much snow on the ground this time of year, stating, "The longer we hold onto the snow,...
After reviewing 2016 FBI crime report statistics and population data, SafeWise, a safety and security system reviewer company, recently identified Glasgow as the fourth safest city in Montana. In the report, Glasgow, with a population of 3,442 at the time of the study, experienced 1.74 violent crimes while 6.68 property crimes occurred per 1,000 people. When reviewing the total number of crimes, 26.09 percent were violent crimes while 73.91 percent were property crimes. Mayor Becky Erickson tells The Courier, “I believe the reason Glasgow is ra...
Anthony "A.J." Etherington started a new chapter in his life earlier this week by becoming the newest publisher at the Glasgow Courier. Etherington is not a new face at the paper or around Glasgow as many of you have seen him around town at the local coffee shop, downtown, either walking or collecting funds for Block of Bucks, and might have even seen him with his family at various events. You might have even learned a little something through his articles profiling politicians, Valley View Nurs...
Jeremy Bartel, son of Larry and Linda Bartel of Glasgow, was recently promoted to the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army on March 2 in Stuttgart, Germany. Bartel graduated from Glasgow High School in 1993 and has had an extensive military background. He enlisted in the Montana Army National Guard in 1992 and earned his commission as a U.S. Army 2nd Lieutenant from Kemper Military College in Bonneville, Mo., in 1995. As an engineer officer, he was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division in Germany be...
To remind everyone to put down their cell phone while driving, the Valley County Health Department will be hosting the 3rd Annual Red Thumb Reminder Day Walk on Tuesday, Apr. 10, starting at 3:30 p.m. Come join the Valley County Health Department, Glasgow High School, Glasgow Middle School, JMG students, Glasgow High School Student Council members, and community members to experience hands-on learning about how distractive sending or reading a simple text can be. Community members are invited to start the walk at either the City-County Library...
Ms. Denise Winchester's second grade Reading Challenge Group dressed up as American heroes and figures from American history, both past and present, on March 21. Members of the community were invited to visit the Living History Museum, where 16 second-graders dressed up as famous Americans, including Sally Ride, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, George Washington, Clara Barton, among other distinguished members of history. Not only did these students look the part, but also truly embodied their famou...
Courtesy of the Glasgow High School Student Council, Executive Director of Zoo Montana in Billings Jeff Ewelt brought special guests to Irle School and the Children's Museum on March 22. Ewelt made his first appearance in Glasgow with special guests last year, and much to the excitement of children and families, he returned with different friends. This year, a box turtle named Roxy, a tarantula, a gopher snake, a chinchilla and a screech owl were introduced to area residents of all ages. The...
Representatives from Valley County schools, Roosevelt County schools, Daniels County schools, FMDH, Glasgow Police Department, Valley County Sheriff’s Office, Youth Dynamics and the Glasgow Clinic attended the Northeast Montana Suicide Prevention presentation on Jan. 29, at the Cottonwood Inn. The presentation featured guest speaker Karl Rosston, the suicide prevention coordinator from the Montana Department of Public Health and Services and MaryAnn Benz, the student assistance coordinator for the Bozeman School District. Rosston discussed fact...
Save the date and plan to attend the second annual conservation fundraising dinner hosted by the Hi-Line Sportsmen on Saturday evening, Feb. 24, at Glasgow’s St. Raphael’s Parish Center gymnasium. Tickets for the banquet are limited in number and are available from more than a dozen members of the local chapter committee. Deadline to purchase early-bird tickets—which include a chance to win two tickets to the John Michael Montgomery concert at this summer’s NE Montana Fair—is Monday, Feb. 12. Doors open on Feb. 24 at 4:30 p.m. for drinks and ga...
Pam L. Veis and Andy Meyers are re-teaming for a reading theatre production of The Duck Variations on Friday, Feb. 9, at the Valley County Pioneer Museum and on Saturday, Feb. 10, at the Cottonwood Inn. The show will start at 7 p.m. both nights. Tickets for Friday’s show are $15 while tickets for Saturday’s show are $25, which also includes light hors d’oeuvres. Written by American playwright David Mamet, The Duck Variations examines the relationship between two elderly friends who meet on a lakeside bench to observe and discuss ducks. That...
The Glasgow City-County Library hosted their first story time of the month at Valley View Home on Feb. 1. Residents and children alike had a great time interacting with one another through songs and dances, led by children's librarian Karen Anderson, and listened to two stories by librarian Trish Collins that had a balloon theme. Special guest to story time was Dillion Godwin, who made balloon flowers, dogs, hats and swords for those in attendance. Children had a great time seeing loose...
Valley County Montana State University (MSU) Extension agent Shelly Mills was awarded the Anne Wiprud Memorial Award during the MSU annual conference in Bozeman, Oct. 23-27. The Anne Wiprud Memorial Award recognizes a MSU Extension professional with fewer than 10 years of experience for their outstanding achievement. In order to receive the award, colleagues need to nominate a peer and then all applications go through a review process. All agents in Montana from all program areas were eligible...
Missouri River Country Tourism Region of Fort Peck received grant funds in the amount of $28,000 from Governor Bullock on Jan. 19, through the Tourism Grant Program at the Department of Commerce, Office of Tourism and Business Development. Missouri River Country is Montana’s northeastern tourism region, covering Garfield, McCone, Phillips, Valley, Sheridan, Daniels, Richland and Roosevelt counties as well as the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. The funds are planned to be utilized in order to redesign their website to better promote tourism and r...
Reynolds Market in Glasgow recently awarded its first Friends of Reynolds (FOR) donations to participating non-profit groups since the program’s inception last fall. Hi-Line Sportsmen Club, the Evangelical Church, Hi-Line Youth Hockey and the Fort Peck Fine Arts Council were some of the first area non-profit groups to sign-up for the program, and over the past quarter, Reynolds has added up a percentage of the total purchases made by the members of these organizations and community members in support of these organizations. Any non-profit g...
The 20th Annual Ice Fishing Derby, hosted by the Glasgow Area Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture, will be held Saturday, Feb. 10. Registration will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with fishing starting at noon and ending at 3 p.m. The event will be held at the fishing access site at the Dredge Cuts Trout Pond on Highway 117. The entry fee is $50 per hole or three holds for $100. Currently there are over 200 holes pre-drilled for anglers wishing to participate. First place is guaranteed to win $2,000...
