Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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January • The winter storm that hit northeast Montana on Thursday night, Jan. 10, wasn't a surprise. It had been making its way across the state, heralded by the forecasters. But its intensity on Friday brought on the winter grumbles. The storm deserved the term blizzard, with heavy snow that was blown by winds up to 41 mph, causing white-out conditions and drifts reported up to 9 feet deep. The low temperature of 1 degree above zero Friday night translated to about 29 below wind chill. A r...
Every major news station has picked up the phrase, polar vortex. Has Glasgow really been sucked into some vortex that's dropped the temperatures below zero? The easy answer to that is no. Tanja Fransen, warning coordination meteorologist at National Weather Service Glasgow, explains that this is actually just a low pressure system that came down from the North Pole and brought the cold weather with it. The Arctic cold front pushed down farther south than usual, which brought colder than average...
A Prairie Ridge resident rang in the New Year with a birthday. Robert "Bob" Rorvig celebrated 100 years of life last week, while friends and family gathered to wish him well. Rorvig explained that he was born in Pelican Rapids, Minn., on Jan. 2, 1914. His parents homesteaded this area when he was just 2 years old and he was raised just south of Richland. Rorvig went to school in his neighborhood but went to Opheim for high school. When he graduated, he went on to college and got his degree in...
Health prevention is becoming a bigger focus in the medical industry. Many of the mandates in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have hospitals and healthcare professionals focusing on prevention strategies to keep people from becoming a diabetic or to educate on sexually transmitted diseases (STD) before it happens to a patient or client. The Valley County Health Department has had that focus for several years. One of its main focuses has been education and prevention. Discussion among county commissioners to possibly change the way the county...
Montana’s unemployment rate held steady at 5.2 percent in November, while Valley County’s unemployment rate hit a low 3.5 percent. The state’s rate has declined by half a percent over the last year. The national unemployment rate remains higher than Montana’s rate at 7 percent in November, down 0.3 percentage points from the prior month. “Montana’s economy continues to perform better than the rest of the nation, steadily adding jobs for our workers,” Gov. Steve Bullock said. Labor Commissioner Pam Bucy said, “Retailers hired more workers th...
Another hunting season is behind us. Once again, our family handed out materials detailing some of the political challenges facing citizens of Valley and Phillips counties. The ongoing threat of unfenced, state-owned bison figured prominently. Some of you will recall that one of our hunters last year took one look at our brochures and pamphlets, and then dug out his wallet to finance the next round of printing. Responses were similar this year. One set of hunters insisted that Jason and I accept a generous stipend to attend the Fish Wildlife...
A new year has arrived. 2014. Wow! I remember as a child wondering if I’d still be alive in the year 2000, and what would life be like then if I was. I think I was all of 10 at the time. To think of living to the age of 60 or 70 or 80 is hard for a child to comprehend. At the time I thought anyone who was 21 was old. But once I reached the age of 21, no age looked old. Of course there’s always talk of making New Year’s resolutions. There’s the standard ones – lose weight, becoming more physically fit, save more money, get more organized. Some m...
Gov. Bullock has taken on a tough task: developing a Greater Sage Grouse habitat policy that won’t harm Montana’s economy. His plan must be in place before the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decides in 2015 if the bird should be listed as Threatened or Endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. All parties agree that an ESA listing would be a disaster for Montana. The impacted land area is huge, mostly in central and eastern Montana where ranching, farming, oil, gas, hunting and mining activities are prevalent. A Task Force of sta...
I remember a phrase we had to type over and over in Mr. Shaw’s typing class. “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” Remember that one? If you are under 50 years old you most likely don’t, but anyway ... That line should read “come to the aid of their “country,” but it seems you folks who are hired/elected to run this country (at a paltry $174,000 per year) have deserted us in favor of overseas interests. I just received a whopping 1.5% increase in my Social Security, which puts me way up into the under $8,000...
Mary Emma (Falcon) Jackman, 100, of Glasgow, formerly of Trenton, N.D., died in her sleep Friday morning, Jan. 3, 2014, in the Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow. A vigil with a rosary will be 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8, at Everson Memorial Chapel in Williston. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday, Jan. 9, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Williston, by Father Joseph Evinger. Interment will follow in Trenton Cemetery. She was born in Trenton on Feb. 10, 1913, the...
Clifford Lee Reddick, 61, of Nashua, Mont., died of heart failure on Friday, Jan. 3, 2014, at the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Jan. 11, at 11 a.m. at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Nashua, followed by interment in the Nashua Cemetery. He was born Dec. 14, 1952, in Longview, Wash., the son of Robert and Nina (Holtrop) Reddick. He attended schools in Fort Peck, Glasgow and Nashua and graduated from Nashua High School in 1972. He worked in Aurora, Colo....
Audrey I. (Johnson) Parke, 91, died Monday, Dec. 30, 2013, at the Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah after suffering a heart attack while spending the holidays with her son in Park City, Utah. Born of Swedish immigrants, Oscar Johnson and Tekla Engstrom, on April 19, 1922, in Glasgow, she spent her early childhood on the family homestead southwest of Glasgow. The family moved to town so she could attend school and graduated as valedictorian from Glasgow High School in 1940....
Glasgow AAU wrestling is back on the mat for another year with coach Jory Casterline leading some feisty newcomers and veteran youngsters who look learn and sharpen their wrestling skills in a town rich with wrestling tradition. The program takes kids as young as 4 all the way up to high school ages although Casterline says that the high school aged kids won't usually participate until the bigger tournaments later in the season. Casterline says the turnout every year for the AAU program isn't a...
The Turner Lady Tornadoes traveled to Hinsdale last Thursday to test their skills against the Hinsdale Lady Raiders. Hinsdale put a hurtin' on the Turner, amassing 17 first quarter points while Turner could only get one point. Hinsdale head coach Ralph Ellsworth put in his JV players for the second quarter and, playing well, they kept the lead for the next eight minutes. Hinsdale went into half leading 27-8 over Turner. The varsity got to shine for the eight minutes following the intermission...
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has scheduled four public meetings along the Hi-Line in January to discuss tentative hunting regulations for the next two years. A total of 43 of the public gatherings are scheduled across the state. In FWP Region 6, the meetings will be held in Plentywood on January 9, Malta on January 14, Glasgow on January 21 and Havre on January 23. Each meeting will run from 7-9 p.m. on their prospective days. At the meetings, FWP will present proposals to aid the recovery of Montana’s declining deer populations by r...
Three players from the Glasgow Ice Dawgs high school team helped a Bozeman based U18 hockey team earn second place in a Missoula high school tournament. Glasgow High School players Harley Eliason, Ryan Padden, and Connor Simensen played key roles in a very long stretch of hockey over which the team played seven games in six days. The team went 6-1 over that stretch en route to their second place finish in the A Division of Bruin High School Holiday Classic in Missoula. The victories came over Team Wyoming (7-0), Spokane (7-2), Jackson, WY (5-3)...
Glasgow wrestling hosted a mixer last Thursday with Malta and Wolf Point. The Scotties continue to see success on the mat from each of their wrestlers. Kasey Seyfert went 1-0 in the mixer with a pin. Cody King continued his torrid pace on the season adding three more victories to his record by way of pins. Tony Kaiser and Kevin Frigon both add two wins each. Kaiser avenged an earlier loss in the year to Jesse Crawford. Overall, the Scotties finished 9-3 for the mixer while Malta and Wolf Point went 5-10 and 5-8 respectively. Glasgow prepares...
