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News of the recent termination of Jon Kolstad's contract as Glasgow High School's head girls basketball coach left unanswered questions. Efforts by interested parties to clarify the termination with school board trustees were initially unsuccessful. Some answers eventually came to light with a letter sent to GHS from the Montana High School Association (MHSA) on April 27, 2016. At the regular school board meeting held May 11, Superintendent Bob Connors shared the content of said letter with the trustees and attendees present. Connors explained... Full story
The Pioneer Museum of Valley County recently launched a sizable expansion adding over 5000 square feet to the museum in brand new exhibit space. The new annex seeks to recreate Glasgow's Main Street, circa 1915; a "hot time" in Glasgow's history according to Dave Pippin, former Valley County commissioner and current chair of the Valley County Museum Board. Pippin stated, "We chose 1915 because this was a time when Glasgow really took off in terms of expansion and settlement." The exhibit is... Full story
The Glasgow School Board held both their organizational meeting and their regular meeting May 11 at the central office, with 13 people in attendance. The organizational meeting was held first with Mona Amundson elected as chairperson and Alison Molvig elected as vice-chair. During the meeting, trustee Suzanne Billingsley recommended the school district get more information out to the public closer to the distribution of absentee ballots since that is where the higher number of votes came from in the most recent school election. Moving on to the...
The race for Montana House of Representatives District 33 has been heating up in recent weeks. As the primary voting deadline approaches, Courier readers have been asking questions about a bulk mailer sent out district-wide by candidate Michael Burns on May 4. The mailer, which is split into two sections, makes contentious claims about Burns' Republican opponent, Malta's Casey Knudsen, and his stances on various issues. To clear the air of rumor and speculation, we've taken your concerns straight to the source for further clarification. The...
The show must go on. Despite a day-long rain and an hour-and-a-half weather intermission, the Northern B Divisional Track Meet slowly, but surely, moved forward and the participants forged ahead. Early Saturday afternoon, everything came to a screeching halt with a flash of lightning, a crack of thunder and a torrent of rain. Spectators and competitors quickly made their way to safety indoors or took refuge in nearby school cruisers. Facing at least a 30-minute wait before the meet could...
Another spring sport fell victim to the weather when the Eastern B/C softball tournament was cut short on Saturday. The Scottie girls were playing their fifth game of the tournament against Columbus when a spring storm hit with wind, rain and hail. The game was called in the fourth inning, and the tournament was cancelled. The Scotties faced Colstrip in their first game of the weekend and came away with the win after Tiana Johnson hit an RBI double in the eighth inning. Glasgow gained an early lead with seven runs in the first two innings, but...
Glasgow's lady golfers were in Shepherd to compete in the State B golf meet on May 17 and 18. With 33 schools competing, the Scotties had some work to do. They did not shy away from the challenge, however, and placed tenth overall. Amy Nelson placed 20th overall individually and shot a personal best of 97 during the first day of competition. Her final score after two days was 202. Heidi Moon also shot a personal best on the first day of the tournament with a score of 120, and she beat that the...
THURSDAY – MAY 26 2-4 p.m. - A retirement party for Terry Risa at Opheim School Library. SUNDAY – MAY 29 3 p.m. - Glasgow High School graduation. MEMORIAL DAY MONDAY – MAY 30 10:30 a.m. - Memorial Day program at the Glasgow Civic Center with Glasgow Scottie Band and EQ Singers, and Jim Buer as guest speaker It will be followed by a potluck dinner at the VFW. 11 a.m. - Opheim Memorial Day program at the OHS Gym. Guest speaker will be Dave Pippin. The American Legion Auxiliary will serve a roast beef dinner following the program. A freew... Full story
Jean (Hill) Hansen, age 87, passed away peacefully on Monday, May 16, 2016, at Prairie Ridge Village in Glasgow, Mont., surrounded by her loving family. She was the fourth child of Finnish immigrant parents from Hamilton, Mont., and was born on May 10, 1929, to Herman and Mary (Noponen) Hill in their home 3.5 miles west of Hamilton. She attended school in Hamilton, graduating in 1947 as valedictorian of her class. She received a scholarship to Cottey College in Nevada, Mo., and graduated in... Full story
Donald "Smokey" LeRoy Stover, 81, of Nashua, Mont., passed away Thursday, May 19, 2016, at Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow, Mont., after having been recently diagnosed with cancer. He was born June 29, 1934, in Nashua, the son of Raymond and Muriel (Keil) Stover. He was just 18 months old when his mother died, and his father died when he was 10. He was then raised by his grandparents, Jim and Alice Keil. He attended Nashua schools, graduating in 1952. At age 16, he began working in... Full story
Bonnie June Rosseland, age 61, departed this earthly world on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016, in the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow, Mont. She spent the last 18 months at the Valley View Home recuperating from both knee replacements and rehab. Her passing was sudden and unexpected. Inurnment will be held on Sunday, May 29, at 2 p.m. at the Riverview Cemetery in Circle, followed by a reception at 3 p.m. at the Circle Country Market Banquet Room with a full lunch. She was born on March 20,... Full story
Evelyn (Wisecarver) Scott, 81, of Bedford, Va., passed quietly on Saturday, April 30, 2016, while on vacation in her beloved Montana. She was born Jan. 22, 1935, in Penniman, Va., to Carlisle and Mina (Elliott) Wisecarver. She graduated from Rustburg High School, earned her bachelors and masters from Lynchburg College and received her doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1986. She was married to Neil Scott, also of Bedford, for 25 years. She taught in Bedford County Schools from the 1950s to the 1970s. She moved to Montana in 1978 and... Full story
Diane Helen (Lawrey) Thomas-Carey, 76, of Saint Marie, Mont., passed away Sunday, May 15, 2016. She was born Aug. 15, 1939, to William Charles and Evelyn Lucille (Jones) Lawrey in Chicago, Ill. At the age of 12, she moved with her family to California. She was an avid reader and loved animals. She enjoyed playing Dominoes with her friends in Saint Marie. Survivors include four children, Carl Reed Thomas, Lauri Ann Corn, William David Thomas and Kathleen Lynn Thomas; six grandchildren, Tammy Thomas, Daniel Sanders, Steven Thomas, Joshua... Full story
I guess some of my liberal opposers will be saying “you’re a fine one to talk about attacking someone in print” and I suppose you’d be a little bit right but this kind of politikkin’ is something more better suited to Texas or Colorado. What I’m yakkin’ about is the mailer young Michael Burns sent out asking for support as he attempts to become our HD33 representative in Helena. The very first thing that struck me as odd was the picture on the flyer of Casey Knudsen. The original shows Casey with long hair, baseball cap on backwards and...
Graduation, a time of joy, laughter, tears. An exciting time yet a bittersweet one. Graduates are seeing the culmination of 13 years of their lives. They’ve sat in classrooms, done homework, participated in activities such as band and sports. And throughout those 13 years have made friends -- perhaps lost a few -- and increased their knowledge. They’ve been congratulated, hugged, told how proud their families and friends are of them. Now it’s time for them to move forward. To follow their own path. They’ve most likely all decided where they ar... Full story
At this point most people have heard of the so-called “bathroom bill” passed in North Carolina. This is a law decreeing all people must use restrooms in accordance to the gender they were born into. What the public doesn’t seem to realize is that the North Carolina General Assembly spent $42,000 to hold an emergency, closed meeting to rush through this bill that not only rules that trans people have to use the restroom assigned to their original anatomy, it also prohibited any laws passed that would illegalize discrimination of any sort again... Full story
I had been trying to come up with a “Remember” for several days now, but had drawn a blank. Then I remembered reading Parker’s article, "Grumbling About Millennials." I would like all of the millennials out there, who just might read this section, to know that grumbling about the young generation is nothing new. You all have instant communication and the Baby Boomers had only a “party” line to do their venting on. Remember when all the young girls wore their pants so tight that you thought they were a second skin? Or the fact that women wor...
