Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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It was a bittersweet ceremony as the Northeast Montana Relay for Life began on Friday, July 25. The young, the old, the healthy and the sick gathered with one mission in common, to raise funds to fight cancer and to take a stand against something that impacts almost everyone. "It's dangerous and it can touch you, I don't care who you are," Ken Kautz said after lighting the torch of hope on Friday. Kautz explained to the crowd he was a colon cancer survivor, who spent 90 days in a hospital. He...
It's an unusual talent. Some may call him a "freak," and others have used him to perform party tricks. Many of the kids who have grown up poolside will remember him as a big supporter of the Glasgow swim team, and some might also have noticed his uncanny talent to remember people by their birthdays. Dennis Garsjo might not remember your first name, but he will most likely remember your birthday after the first time meeting him. Garsjo said that he usually only uses his talents for entertainment...
The National Weather Service in Glasgow had a busy day last week as warnings were issued for a storm that ended up moving rapidly through Valley County. The weather service reported that it was a widespread storm that moved along the Hi-Line from Malta toward the northern parts of the county. Large trees were reported down in Glasgow, St. Marie and Opheim. Reports of hail were reported in Fort Peck and in the northern parts of Valley County. The highest official gust was recorded at 62 mph, and...
A hearing was set for Thursday, July 31, but District Judge Blair Jones signed off on a motion for summary judgement, dismissing the plaintiff's claims without prejudice and awarding attorney's fees and costs to Jeffrey Robertson. While the battle might not be fully over, to this point it seems no one really won in this case that has lingered in Fort Peck for years. The case started in 2009, when Fort Peck Town Council began working on a lot development project for storage of campers, boats and other vehicles that were clogging up the streets....
The Drug Task Force and Valley County Sheriff's Office produced a search warrant for two local residents in Glasgow on Friday, July 25. That searched turned up several charges and arrests. Sheriff Glen Meier said he couldn't elaborate on details that led officers to the residence, but he said that the investigation would continue. While theft charges originally were listed, they were eventually dropped. A juvenile arrest was made after the search and he was charged with criminal distribution of drugs – felony; criminal mischief – felony; tam...
Hinsdale, like many other small villages and towns throughout Montana, is in a pickle. The infamous Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warranted that the water being dumped into the Milk River from Hinsdale's sewage treatment facility is unfit to be dumped into the sanitary and sterile Milk River. The wastewater from sewage plants like Hinsdale's has been proven to be 10 times cleaner than the river it is being infused into. A person could drink the wastewater (if you didn't know from whence it came) without suffering any ill effects....
I read a quote last week that said "Heroes are remembered, legends never die." Last Friday night I saw a lot of heroes. Some of them were bald, some had very short hair, some walked with canes but they were all heroes. They were the people who wore purple T-shirts with "I am Strength, I am hope, I am a survivor" printed on the back. They were cancer survivors walking the first two laps for Relay for Life. They walked with heads held high and grateful hearts and a quiet courage. An inner strength and strong determination to win their fight...
As the summer is slowly creeping up to a close, I say goodbye to my three step-children as they prepare for a new school year. It's one of the hardest things to be separated by time and distance. It seems that every time they leave I reflect on all the lessons we were able to teach them while they were here. I'm not talking about school lessons, although we did work on reading and vocabulary this summer. I'm talking about the important life lessons. As our oldest is coming up on his teen years I tried to spend a lot of time with him,...
Do you remember the Listo pen? I had to think to remember the name of these pens, but they were the forerunner to our current permanent marker pens, such as Sharpies. All of your canned goods on the grocery shelf had the price marked on the top with a Listo pen, or maybe they were just called “marking pencils.” This price marking method was not just used for groceries. I assume that one of the drawbacks to this method of price marking would have been the fact that the mark could be easily removed. Just rub it energetically and it was gone! The...
Rose Alice (Cox) Grandchamp went peacefully and gracefully home to the Lord at 9:40 a.m. on Saturday, July 26, 2014. Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 31, at 10 a.m. at the Frazer Community Hall, with Pastors John Grandchamp and James Oguin officiating, followed by interment in the St. Joseph Cemetery in Frazer. She was born on a cold day in 1919, about 2 miles north of Nashua on the now Willy Lauckner place, to Issac Cox and Cora Running Woman, both of the Assiniboine tribe. She met...
June H. (Dunn) Kern, 93 years young, passed away at Sunrise on Thursday, July 24, 2014, in Wolf Point, Mont., and went home to be with her Lord. A Celebration of her life will be held at 1 p.m. at Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel in Wolf Point on Wednesday, July 30. Interment will be in the Greenwood Cemetery in Wolf Point. She was born June 12, 1921, to Amzey and Lydia Dunn in a farmhouse south of Whitetail, Mont. She attended school in Whitetail in the early years by riding a horse-drawn...
Ira Wesley "Wes" Rimel, 93, died in Junction City, Ore., on July 13, 2014, following a brief illness, after having spent a year near his family in Eugene. A Wibaux native, he had been living in St. Marie until June 2013. The memorial service will be held in Armitage Park in Eugene at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9. Ashes will be buried in Wibaux in the future. He was born on Jan. 10, 1921, to Ira "Dice" Rimel and Hazel "Barbara" Rimel née Webber in Wibaux. He graduated from Wibaux County High School...
Sunset services are planned for Victor Forslund. There will be a cowboy funeral at sunset for Forslund at the Jack Nickels Ranch in Fort Peck on Thursday, July 31, at 6 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Victor Forslund, 61, passed away on Friday, June 20, 2014, at the Jack and Pearl Nickel’s ranch in McCone County south of the Fort Peck Dam....
The Glasgow Reds had been virtually unbeatable the entire season. That trend continued in the first two games of the District Tournament in Sidney after securing the tournament's top spot. After a 23-4 victory over Miles City coupled with an 8-0 win against the Billings Cardinals, it appeared as if the Reds were preparing for an inevitable State Tournament berth in Lewistown. It was at that moment that the wheels came off of the vaunted Reds offense and the hopes to extend their season even...
Experience reigned supreme for the Glasgow Kiwanis Thunder swim team at the Divisional swim meet in Chinook this past weekend. The Thunder took 28 swimmers with them to the meet and 22 of those advanced to the finals of the meet and qualified for the State swim meet that will be held in Conrad this weekend. Dalton Sand and Jordan Kulczyk highlighted the performances of Glasgow swimmers. Sand took first place in the boys 50 free, 100 free and 50 fly for the 9-10 age group. Kulczyk continued her...
They did not win the state championship, but the Hi-Line 13U baseball team certainly was the best of the east this season. Taking third place behind Glacier (the eventual champion) and Kalispell, the Hi-Line 13U team's season came to an end, while the top two finishers advance onto the Regionals in Helena this weekend. The Hi-Line 13U was composed of 10 players from Glasgow and three from Nashua, Wolf Point and Scobey. They competed with teams from Havre, Lewistown, Miles City, Belgrade,...
JoLynn Reyling of Glasgow, the 18-year-old daughter of Joseph and Gina Reyling and a 2014 GHS graduate, has won the Angela Bauer Youth Scholarship Cutting and $450 in scholarships. JoLynn's grandparents are Floyd and Deanna Nelson, of Glasgow, who ranch with Donald and Sheila Nelson. JoLynn had the opportunity to help on the ranch during her childhood – that's what sparked her interest in horses. Her great-grandma, Bertha, was the Tampico Boys 4-H leader, and as a result, JoLynn participated i...
The Glasgow 12U baseball team played in the Pacific Northwest Regionals in Kalispell late last week and although the outcome wasn’t one fans had hoped for, the team left the community proud nonetheless. Glasgow won its lone game against Kalispell by a score of 5-3, but even their three losses, head coach Mike Nieskens felt that his team continued to play hard and refused to back down to their opponents regardless of the final scores. “I’m really proud of the kids,” Nieskens said. “I never saw them give up in these games. Just being in that a...
