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Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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Smoke from massive Canadian fires continues to affect air quality locally, according to Tanja Fransen of National Weather Service Glasgow. Despite varying weather patterns, fires in Alberta, British Columbia, NW Territories, Saskatchewan and elsewhere continue to produce smoke that is entering the local weather system. The region has had over 5 million acres burn so far this year. "When the mid- and upper- level winds are right," reports Fransen, "it gets moved across Northeast Montana." A...
Taylor Price of Huntsville, Texas, competing in the bareback riding event Thursday, July 9. Street dance festivities were interrupted Friday night, July 12, due to thunderstorms. Other events were carried off without incident. See full rodeo results, Page 2B....
The 2015 Northeast Montana Fair & Rodeo is coming up fast. This year's schedule features the Northern Prairie Auto Ram Rodeo Series, which includes the PRCA Rodeo/Wild Horse Race (August 2 at 6 p.m.), the Calf Scramble Calcutta, and the Ladies Calf Scramble. Other entertainments include country singer Cale Moon, the Prairie Pals petting zoo, Dr. Susan Rosen (aka the Mistress of Mesmerism), entertainer Freddy Prez, Steve's Fun Balloons, music from Ringling 5, and the Funtime Carnival. Themed evenings include the "tough enough to wear pink"...
Valley County Commissioners have released plans to address road conditions on the 1.6 mile stretch of Skylark Road from Hwy 2 to the Sunnyside Golf and Country Club. At a hearing held at the Valley County Courthouse on May 11, 2009, a consensus was reached among members of the public amounting to an expressed wish that the county halt any major road resurfacing that would include the removal or reclamation of paved sections of the road. Six years later, commissioners have resolved to proceed with plans to replaced the badly-damaged asphalt...
Danielle Cummings and Ted Olds, of Brooklyn, N.Y., are cycling their own version of the American Cycling Association's Northern Tier route. The couple stopped in Glasgow July 10, met some new friends and gained followers for their blog. Cummings recently completed a master's degree and Olds is set to enter law school in August. Making the most of the time between these events, they are taking their dream vacation, cycling cross-country. Unlike other travelers through the area, they are not...
People around here aren’t afraid to fight. It even seems to come highly recommended on occasion. It could be the pleasant release of a street (fight) dance in Hinsdale, as I experienced on a fine July evening a few Fridays back. Or it could be the calm but spirited discourse that seems to be unfolding between Virgil Vaupel and an anonymous reader right here on this page. Take your pick. In either instance, a counterintuitive truth about living the good life in America is on full display: Namely, the idea that mutual understanding frequently c...
Last Saturday night I went to a dance at the Nashua Senior Citizen Center. The Cap Holter family provided the music. As I listened to the songs I thought how great it was that Cap Holter, who is in his 90s, was joined by his daughter, Joyce, who played the guitar and sang, and his son, Curt, who played his fiddle. Cap played his accordion with an ease gained over the years. Although there weren’t many people there, you could tell they all enjoyed the music. Granted, it was classic country, but it’s the kind of music that still draws people to...
I decided to take a vacation to visit my granddaughters Lily (11) and Maggie (9) out in Washington and to get out of the smoke from all the fires up in Canada that have inundated Hinsdale recently. Most of my 12.783 faithful know the problems I have had with cars and pickups since I kilt the Crown Vic and I should have known better, but I did it again. I took an untested 1994 Ford Ranger 4X4 that I had just bought at a farm auction to see what it needs to make itself whole. Remember four years ago I took the Ford half ton I got from my son in...
Do you remember the hours you spent in grade school drawing circles on lined paper? Actually, I don’t think you would really call them circles, but it was an exercise we all did in preparation of learning cursive writing. I think that we can all recall the cursive writing charts, which were usually located above the black board behind the teacher’s desk. I have noticed that persons that went to the same country school often had very similar handwriting. I can’t come up with any idea of why that might be, but maybe each teacher had a disti...
A pair of contestants in the 2015 Governer's Cup Walleye Tournement tries their luck in sight of the shaft houses at the Fort Peck Dam....
Melanie Kaye (Cornwell) Solberg, 50, a resident of Cut Bank, was born Aug. 13, 1964, and passed on Friday, July 10, 2015, after a long battle with cancer. Services will be at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, July 15, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Cut Bank. A second memorial will be held in Glasgow in mid-August, time and date to be announced. She was born to Paul and Gwen (Rogers) Cornwell of Glasgow where she grew up. She graduated from Glasgow in 1982 and spent most of her adult life in the Shelby and Cu...
Albert Lane Wilson, 89, civil and chemical engineer of Glasgow, Mont., died Tuesday, June 23, 2015, of natural causes. A viewing will be held Friday, July 17, at 2 p.m., at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at 15 Airport Road, followed by a graveside service at the Highland Cemetery. He was born and raised in Austin, Texas. He served with Patton's Army in World War II, and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin under the G.I. Bill with a bachelor's and master's degree in...
Ralph Emerson Nelson, 77, passed away Sunday, April 26, 2015, at Hospice of the Valley in Glendale, Ariz. He was born on July 21, 1937, to Ralph E. and Mabel (Humphries) Nelson. Ralph's father was killed in a tragic accident when Ralph was 3-months old. Ralph grew up in Glasgow and attended schools in Glasgow, graduating with the class of 1956. He leaves a legacy of love, hard work and the ability of many friendships along the way. He was a hard worker all of his life. As a young man he worked o...
Marcella (Faraasen) Grant, 92, died in Tualatin, Ore., on Saturday, June 13, 2015. She was born in Hinsdale, Mont., to Axel and Magnhild Faraasen on April 22, 1923. She graduated from Hinsdale High School in 1940. She married Robert Wyatt Grant in 1943, and they lived in California until his death in 1991. She then moved to Oregon. She was a lifetime member of Eastern Star and Riverview Chapter #80. She was preceded in death by her husband; one sister, Sara; and two brothers, Arvid and Howard. Survivors include two children, Foncine Costarella...
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...
Clay Kittleson (left) and Sam Lawson claim this weekend's Governor's Cup crown with a total weight of 34.52 pounds, including a 20.5-pound haul on the second of the tournament's two days. The duo staved off the closest competition by nearly 2 pounds. The men both hail from Fort Peck....
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...
For every Thunder swimmer that won a race in Scobey this past weekend, a new pool record was established. That's one of the benefits of competing in a newly constructed swimming pool. The relay teams did very well, as is typical for the Thunder. Each Glasgow relay team placed at least third, with four first place finishes. Earning third place finishes for the girls were the 8 & under 100m freestyle and medley relays, the 9-10 100m freestyle relay, and the 11-12 200m medley relay. Earning second...
July 11, 2015 124 kids participated with 191 fish caught. Scheels from Billings,Mt provided a free tackle box with tackle for each kid and many other prizes were given out. 5 & under 41 kids 51 fish caught 1st Beau Belik, 5 Sawyer, ND 3.78 lbs 2nd Molly Whitmer, 5 Fort Peck 1.58 lbs 3rd Hadley Watt, 4 Glasgow 1.42 lbs 4th Leyton Miller, 4 Glasgow 1.20 lbs 5th Oliver Paulson, 3 Glasgow 1.02 lbs 6 & 7 yr olds 19 kids 20 fish caught 1st Brayden Carrick, 7 Glasgow 1.74 lbs 2nd Connor Whitmer,7 Fort...
My garden is bordered on the north and west by our shelterbelts. We have planted lilacs to the east as a living fence and to allow me to labor in the garden sheltered from view. We aren't far from the highway, and I prefer to not have everyone driving by seeing me slaving away. The house itself blocks the view from the south. Each fall, the trees will drop their leaves – lots of leaves. I will use the mower with the grass catcher to mulch and gather the leaves from the lawn. That mulch is d...
Loren John "Larry" O'Connor was born in New York City on February 12, 1911; he was later nick-named Larry and was known by that name most of his life. Records indicate that hewas baptized as "John Francis O'Connor" on February 13th, 1911, at St. Vincent Ferrer Church in Manhattan. He was orphaned at a very early age as his mother died shortly after childbirth. His father passed away a month or two later. When O'Connor was four -years-old he was sent west on what was commonly known at the time...
