Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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A trio of both current and former Glaswegians was elected to the Montana Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame on July 30 in Great Falls. Paul Barta, John LaBonty, and Rollie Sullivan were among the Hall’s five-man class of 2015; each received a commemorative plaque celebrating his long-term commitment to the state’s youth athletics. Separate picture plaques depicting each coach will be placed on permanent display in the Montana State University Fieldhouse. LaBonty served Glasgow High School for 34 years in a variety of roles. Most notably, he co...
Scotties’ head coach Greg Liebelt sees talent abounding in Glasgow. Physical size, mental durability – the pickings for potential gridiron stars are hardly slim on the Hi-Line. Yet Liebelt senses a participatory resistance. Some, he believes, have had their interest in the game artificially tempered and put off by recent, widely-publicized concerns of the potential long-term health issues stemming from a collection of seasons spent between the hash marks. Liebelt is a football lifer bent on raising his Scotties program back to the ers...
While Marc Kloker of MT Fish, Wildlife and Parks is hesitant to surf the unsteady crest of speculation concerning the future, he and barroom soothsayers alike agree that Northeast Montana is experiencing a fishing boom of unprecedented proportion. On the heels of the region’s myriad July walleye tournaments, August promises to be, zodiacally-speaking, the Month of the Salmon. “I and the FWP biologists want to keep more of a scientific look [on fishing],” says Kloker. “We’ll keep it scientific, give the public some good informati...
Twenty young boys and girls gather around two waist-high wooden tables strewn with rolls of masking tape, crayola pens, and scissored bits of clear plastic. “It’s called Newton’s Third Law of Motion,” says librarian Karen Anderson, reading from a loose sheet of paper. “To every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction.” The children, upon the constructing and decorating of their rockets, amble over to a green trash can, above which a young assistant stands armed with a garden hose and a smile. Each child waits his or her turn at the f...
Brenda Isakson Cook, 44, of Glasgow, died on Sunday night after her car flipped over near Hwy 2. “[The] vehicle was heading westbound on 1st Avenue North,” relayed Patrolman David Moon. “It struck a pothole and spun out [towards the] southwest. The driver lost control, and the vehicle left the road to the south, struck railroad ties and other metal objects, hit a loading ramp, then went airborne. It came down on its front end past the loading ramp before striking a barrel full of metal objects and rolling onto its top.” The accident was dis...
After twice staving off the Laurel Dodgers last week to win the East Legion A Tournament title, the Reds stormed into Kalispell, site of the Montana state tournament, straddling a steam engine of momentum, each hand pressed firmly to their hip holsters, ready for the imminent showdown. After a come-from-behind 5-4 victory over the South region runners up, the Helena Reps – a game which saw Keil Krumwiede scatter five hits over eight innings on the mound, surrendering just one earned run, w...
On Saturday, Aug 1, the Glasgow/Fort Peck chapter of Walleyes Unlimited hosted the fifteenth annual Ladies' Walleye Fishing Tournament. Each of the 49 pairs of fisherwomen which entered staked an $80 entry fee, all of which went into the event purse. "It was a great turnout," said event liason Jill Meiers. "We usually get in the low forties, so this year was a great showing." After a rules meeting on Friday night, the fishers retired to their beds, knowing that in mere hours they would each be e...
July 20’s city council meeting proved a kinetic affair replete with town-altering decisions and the reactionary, hot-steam discord which oft accompanies the dynamism of purpose in such high anxiety scenarios. Change sends the flustered mind into a panic if one stops to inhale the fetid scent of its rotting roses. The council’s steady conviction towards action over the course of last Monday’s hour-plus-long session spared it from disagreement’s and miscommunication’s dual debilitations; questions into the perhaps irresponsible actions of others...
A ninth-inning single by Blake Mattfeldt capped a four-run Reds comeback versus Laurel on Sunday, foiling the Dodgers' bid for a seventh consecutive East Legion A tournament title and sealing the championship for Glasgow. Mattfeldt dug into the batters box in the final frame following a leadoff hit by Ryan Padden which wicketed through the left fielder's legs and, when the dust kicked up from Padden's churning cleats had settled, left him standing on third base. Mattfeldt, who had in the past...
Flanked by an idle airboat, three ambulances, and a police cruiser, Glasgow Fire Department's blood-red truck sits unmanned on Third Street South, its hard-hued exterior baking in the sun's midday slow-burn. The driver, Rob Brunelle, stands a few yards away, clad in a milk-white GFD uniform, among a group of the other rescue vehicle's operators. At their feet a group of 20 children ages 4-and-up, crosslegged and, apart from one boy who takes it upon himself to crush a half-full plastic water bot...
The Reds wrapped up the regular season this week, sloughing through the ticker tape with a 2-4 record in their final six games versus Laurel, the Billings Cardinals, and the Billings Blue Jays. Glasgow split each of the first two-game series. In game one against Laurel, the Reds faced a brick wall in the form of the Dodgers' starter, who yielded just two hits in a complete game effort. Glasgow fell, 11-1. In game two, the Reds rebounded with a 7-4 victory, capitalizing on two hits each by Gabe...
At 6:45 Friday morning, 200 boats lowered their motors into Fort Peck Marina's placid waters, waited as their drivers cleared the bilge from their hidden underbellies, and, upon finishing the cleansing, sped out to various coves and fishing hotspots across the lake's 245,000 acre expanse. The day's nascent sunbeams danced tiptoe upon the glistening pond. Birds chirped their universal, throaty approval, albeit in different pitches up and down the tonic gamut. The 28th annual Montana Governor's...
The Reds drove to Laurel last Tuesday with their fate in their hands. Tied in the loss column with league-leading Lewistown, and holding two games in hand, Glasgow knew it could draw even at the top of the table with a spate of strong midweek performances, first versus the Dodgers, then on Wednesday in a twinbill at Lewistown. The denouement of the regular season, however, spiraled nearly out of control following three losses in four games, leaving coach Jack Sprague’s hopes for a high seed in next week’s East Legion Tournament dangling by one...
In Little League, the world is yours, plain as the undiscerning eye makes it. The basepath is a highway; the ball, your toll. Each swing is a time capsule, vacuum-sealed and stored in the mind’s boundless vault upon each successive step into the beige batter’s box dirt. The unadorned present whistles ever-tangibly on the cool, dry Montana breeze. He whose aim is unwavering – to move the bat along the selfsame downward plane regardless of chirping parents and the unknowable whims of the umpire’s tongue – is he who sees the truth of his reaso...
The Glasgow City Council approved the financing of a used fire truck for up to $500,000 on Monday night. G.F.D. holds $145,000 in its coffers which it intends to use to supplement the purchase. The proposed model for which the Department will now search is a Quint – a truck equipped with a pump, water tank, fire hose, aerial device, and ground ladders. At the meeting, Brandon Brunelle quoted the price of a new Quint as $800,000 – hence the focus on used engine options – and cites lower maintenance costs and a lower purchase price as the reaso...
For one weekend each July, the fishing world stops to cast a line into the deep-teal bliss of Fort Peck Lake. On July 10-11, the Governor's Cup Walleye Tournament will reaffirm its indelible stamp on Hi-Line summer culture, as it has for the past 46 years. "We used to call it 'Walleye Week'," says Lisa Olk, the executive director of Glasgow's Chamber of Commerce, when asked whether fireworks or fishing takes precedence as the town's preeminent July tradition. "So definitely the Gov' Cup," she be...
Buoyed by a week of hard work following their Terry Jablonski Tournament championship, the Reds took four games out of four Thursday and Friday night, two apiece from league rival Lewistown Redbirds and the Richland County Patriots. Both of the games versus the latter ended with the 10-run mercy rule's taking effect after five innings. "We knew coming in we had to get [wins]," said coach Jack Sprague. Lewistown ambled into Sullivan Park seeking to avenge last Sunday's title game loss and cushion...
The Glasgow Reds returned home from Dickinson, ND, site of the weekend's Terry Jablonski Tournament, with a quartet of victories to their name and a trophy to show for their efforts; Saturday's 15-5 drubbing at the hands of the Dickinson Roughriders, the tournament's host, was bookended by Thursday and Friday's respective wins over Spearfish, S.D., and Regina, Sask. and a sweep of Sunday's twinbill over Billings and Lewistown to seal the title. At last weekend's Lewistown tournament, the Reds fe...
The heat of Saturday's noontime sun at Glasgow's Cherry Creek Roping Arena was tempered by a wavering summer breeze, chasing from the conscious mind any stray musings of one's ability to fry an egg on a bald spot while setting the scene for a day in lassoing paradise. Each individual participant competed on three discrete teams of two ropers; one partner was selected at the entrant's discretion, while the remaining two were assigned by a name-in-the-hat drawing. In total, 118 pairs entered the...
