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The Glasgow Kiwanis Thunder traveled to Lewistown this past weekend for the 2021 Eastern Divisional swim meet. After two days of intense competition, the Thunder will be sending 28 swimmers on to the state swim meet in Columbia Falls this Saturday and Sunday, July 31 and Aug. 1. The Thunder boys team finished the divisional meet with 96.5 points and ninth place while the girls team earned 325.5 points and a fifth place finish. Highlights from Lewistown included 12-year-old Kaylly Turner's...
Crazy motocross stunts, wild horses, fair food and a demolition derby are many of the main attractions sure to thrill attendees of the 2021 Northeast Montana Fair starting Saturday. The fair was largely canceled in 2020, due to COVID-19, but is returning this year, sans a carnival. Last year, "we canceled all the big events, the night shows," said Paul McColly, Chairman of the Valley County Fair Commission. "All we did was the 4H and the Open Class entries. Livestock. They put a lot of work...
GWENDOLYNE HONRUD THE COURIER The Glasgow Reds served up thrills at the 2021 Class A East District Tournament held in Glasgow this past weekend. At bat and in the field, Glasgow thrilled their fans over four games, in which they went 2-2. Their losses came at the hands of the Glendive Blue Devils on Thursday and the Laurel Dodgers on Saturday. Both of those teams faced off in the championship game with Blue Devils coming out on top by a score of 14-2. The Reds' tourney journey began with a...
Glasgow graduate Alexys Mann has signed with Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Mont., to play basketball. The 2021 graduate will be playing point guard and shooting guard as a Battlin Bear. Mann told the Courier she will be bringing lots of energy and leadership skills to her new team. She chose Rocky because, "I like the location of campus and the coach is super nice and seems quite knowledgeable." She is most looking forward to playing with a new group of girls at the next level as she...
Students attending Glasgow Public Schools during 2021-2022 School Year need not worry about wearing masks to classes or receiving vaccinations, at least for now. "When we looked at easing the restrictions of masks, we looked at the vulnerability of people, including our staff," Glasgow Public Schools Superintendent Wade Sundby told The Courier. "All of our staff have been given the opportunity to get the vaccine. Once that was in place, we were to the point where we could start to lift the mask...
Lisa Koski has been appointed as Glasgow City Councilmember for Ward 1. She was sworn in during the regular city council meeting July 19. She succeeds Todd Young, former Ward 1 Councilmember, who resigned from his position in early June. Young had served as Coucilmember since January 2020. He previously said he felt legally obliged to resign from his post because he had recently sold his home in the ward and has had difficulty purchasing a new one. Koski currently is the Executive Director for...
The Glasgow Police Department is investigating several incidents of vandalism which have occurred across the city since May. In late May there was eggings reported, said GPD Interim Chief Tyler Edwards. The youths responsible were apprehended. "There was a wring of them but we caught three," Edwards said. Vandalism continued in June in the downtown area involving ornament trees being knocked over and uprooted from their pots. Suspects for those incidents remain at large, Edwards said. "It's...
Please run the following obituary and photo for Ken Bondy in the July 28th issue of the Courier. Thank you and please let me know if you have any questions or need additional information. Thank you – Jeff Bondy Long-time Fort Peck resident Ken Bondy died unexpectedly in Butte, MT on March 8th while recovering from a recent hospital stay. He was born May 8th, 1942, to Orville and Thelma Bondy in Glasgow, Montana who remained in Fort Peck after working on the construction of the Fort Peck Dam. A... Full story
Shirley J. Putz passed away July 19, 2021 at Francis Mahon Deaconess Hospital. Services will be held at a later date. Bell Mortuary is assisting the family. Condolences can be left at bellmortuarymontana.com.... Full story
Wow. We really are living in George Orwell's "1984." Or, at least, such a possibility is in sight. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is seeking to work with cell phone companies to prevent text messages including "misinformation" about COVID-19 vaccines from being delivered to recipients. According to an article published by Politico, "Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are ... planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to... Full story
Montana agricultural operations have been significantly impacted by the ongoing, severe drought. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has technical and financial assistance available to help farmers and livestock producers recover. As agricultural producers move into recovery mode and assess damages, they should contact their local USDA Service Center to report losses and learn more about program options available to assist in their recovery from crop, land, infrastructure and livestock...
There were 25 motor vehicle stops, seven assist citizens/public assists, six traffic controls, six animal controls, five hazards, three inspections requests, two dog/cat control calls and two reports for record. MONDAY, JULY 12 • 0940 – Caller advised she has a package that was left at her residence on Friday for someone that doesn't live there with her address on it. She thinks they meant to put Place and not Lane. She has tried to call FedEx but they aren't answering. She called someone and...
It's 3 a.m. on an unusually dark night, when you receive an alert from dispatch. It's a description of a vehicle involved in a recent shooting close two towns away. You don't think much of it, but it's in the back of your mind the vehicle could be coming this way as the driver makes their escape. A short time later as you're driving around and doing routine business checks, off in the distance you see a pair of headlights coming toward you. It appears the vehicle is going much faster than the...
Missoula's new downtown library was teeming with people who might typically spend a Saturday afternoon hiking, biking or otherwise making the most of Montana's abundant outdoor recreation. One look at the soupy haze blanketing the city and it was clear why. "We're definitely trying to stay out of the smoke," Charlie Booher said as his kids picked out books from the stacks. Smoke from the wildfires burning through bone-dry forests and grasslands in the West has damaged air quality this week from...
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Montana, and the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) has filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of five Indian nations and 18 individual plaintiffs challenging the state of Montana's failure to fulfill its constitutional mandate to teach public school students the history and culture of the first peoples of Montana in consultation with local tribes. "The Montana Legislature passed the Indian Education for All Act in 1999 to ensure every state citize...
EDITOR'S NOTE: 5 p.m. Friday before publication is the deadline for calendar additions, which must be emailed to [email protected] or submitted in person at The Courier office, 531 2nd Ave. S., in Glasgow. WEDNESDAY, JULY 28 • 4 to 5:45 p.m. - COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic - Valley County Health Dept., 500 4th Avenue South, Glasgow. THURSDAY, JULY 29 • 7:30 p.m. - "Godspell" - Fort Peck Summer Theatre. FRIDAY, JULY 30 • 10 a.m to 2 p.m. - BBQ Fundraiser - Reynolds Parking Lot. • 7:30 p.m. - "Godspe... Full story
Pet ownership. Of all the things which have come a long way in the last few decades, this might be my favorite. As people, we're able to enjoy all of the wonderful advances which ameliorate our days and make our lives more convenient. What's interesting to me, though, is how we can now employ devices to make owning animals even more delightful, even enriching their lives while we're at it. I have a cat. She's a 15-month-old rescue, and I thoroughly enjoy her company. What's different between her...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This column was slated to run in the July 21 edition, but was held due to lack of space. In case anyone who isn’t advertising in or writing columns for the Glasgow Courier hasn’t noticed yet, the deadline for each week’s issue has been moved up from noon on Monday to 5 p.m. the previous Friday. That means, for those of who live outside Glasgow and depend on the U.S. mail service, our weekly Courier arrives on Thursday, not Wednesday, so that what we submit is almost a week old before we see it in print. Dawdling (or procr...
You've heard it before, "So there I was, just minding my own business, when all of a sudden..." Well, just when you thought that it might be reaching the finality of things happening in St. Marie, it happened again! The residents on the Western leg of Ash street were without water due to a main break for 15 days. Then, on July 18, Water District manager Rob Esaia told us he had to locate and repair another water main break, this time on Country Club. As of July 23, Rob stated everything is...
As we are suffering through this heat it may help to remember the other extremes. Do you remember the winter of 1949 & 50? I do not know the months, and no, I did not call the weather service, but some remember having two nights in a row of -55 degrees on a home thermometer. Many rural folks heated their homes with stove fuel oil at that time. Due to the extreme cold the stove fuel gelled up causing the stove to go out. This might be compared to our current situation and no air-conditioning. Fortunately, many had electricity by then and were...
