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Silver Airlines’ Essential Air Service contract for five eastern Montana cities will expire on Sept. 27, but residents will not be grounded while the new carrier, Cape Air, gets organized. “It’s not like the airline is going to up and leave on that specific date if there’s not another airline,” said Steve Bennett, a spokesman for Silver Airlines. “We are acting in good faith. We care about the community.” Bennett contacted The Courier on Tuesday after being informed about a Courier article published July 31, which announced the choice of Cap... Full story
The vacant justice of the peace position has drawn an unusually high number of applicants. Several people filed just before the deadline last Thursday, bringing the number of applications to 10. They are Christine Gamas, David Gorton, Pam Heikens, Christina M. Hillman, David Kloker, Kara Moon, Linda Parks, Carol Ann Walton, James Wixson and Misty Womack. “We are really pleased with that much interest in that office,” said Valley County Commissioner Dave Pippin. “Many of the candidates are extremely qualified. These are definitely some tough...
With the construction season getting shorter every day, the architects and builders for the school project are eager to get started. At the Glasgow School Board meeting on Aug. 14, they decided on Monday, Sept. 23, at noon as the official ground breaking at East Side School. Eric Hulteng, the owner’s representative for the school district in its building project, said he had met with the design team of L’Heureux-Page-Werner and the Sletten Construction team the week before and gotten a good start on the communications, the budget and the sch...
A touch of yesteryear will be on display at Saco Fun Days this year when Terry Korman, who lives near the Bjornberg bridge northeast of Saco, operates a restored cross-cut saw dating back to the 1850s, powered by a team of horses. The demonstration will take place Saturday, Aug. 31, at approximately 1:30 p.m. just north of the Big Dome Hotel and will last for a half-an-hour. “I don’t want to make the horses stand out there too long in this heat,” Korman said. The saw originally belonged to Ko...
The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, in collaboration with Carroll College and Montana State University, has confirmed this season’s first signs of West Nile virus-positive mosquitoes in Phillips, Sheridan, Blaine, Cascade, Prairie and Teton counties. In addition, an American white pelican near the Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Sheridan County tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV). Karla Thompson of the Valley County Health Department told The Courier that as of Tuesday, no human cases of WNV have been r...
BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) plans to invest an estimated $115 million on maintenance and rail capacity expansion projects in Montana this year, a significant amount of it along the Hi-Line. BNSF will expand capacity in Montana by constructing three new unit train staging tracks about 3 miles east of Glasgow and will enhance safety by adding machine vision technology at Miles City to help detect damaged equipment. BNSF will also continue its robust track maintenance program in Montana, which...
By the time this column is printed, school will have started in some of our school districts. Not long ago, one of my grandchildren told me, “Only 20 more days until school starts.” I smiled as I heard the child’s excited voice. Of course, part of that excitement is getting back together with your friends. The days in the first couple of weeks of the new school year are not near long enough for everyone to catch up with everyone else about their summer. I remember how excited I was at the new school year beginning. Not only did I get to see a... Full story
There’s some very alarming news coming out of the Socialist Republic of Confuseifornia these days … Well, I mean more confusing and alarming than usual. You more“riper”folks (like me) can remember Jerry Brown, governor of California from 1975-83, cavorting with Linda Ronstadt (who some might recall as a barefoot, folk song singing hippie) around the governor’s mansion, causing some concern amongst the more conservative of California citizenry. Seems this “disgraceful”conduct caused him to become the ex-governor of California at the next elec...
Dear Editor: I would like commend the Opheim area residents for the outstanding job they do in keeping up their cemetery. I make stops at the cemetery occasionally and while it is native grass, etc., it always looks nice even well past Memorial Day. The cemetery was specially trimmed the day of David Nelson’s funeral. Just want to tell those who went to the effort to make it that way that your efforts did not go unnoticed. Great job. Gwen Cornwell Glasgow... Full story
Dear Editor: Glasgow’s Open Class at the fair shines. I believe that Glasgow has the best open class of any place I have seen. I’ve been to larger fairs like Havre and Great Falls, and they didn’t even compare with Glasgow’s. Plus we had a fantastic work crew. Doris Ozark and the hard working girls in the office did a fabulous job this year, as always, and were a joy to work with. Karen Bender NE Montana Fair Horticulture Chairman... Full story
Earlier this year, the U.S. Senate passed a commonsense immigration reform measure in a strongly bipartisan fashion. This was an important step in the right direction – especially for producers, farm workers and rural communities. The historic legislation passed by the Senate provides a pathway to earned citizenship for the 11 million people who are in our country today without authorization. They will have to go to the back of the line, pay fines and settle taxes they owe our nation. It would modernize the system that we use to bring s...
Montana Insurance Commissioner Monica J. Lindeen is warning Montanans to be on the lookout for scams related to the Affordable Care Act – commonly called “Obamacare” – as the law’s major changes roll out this fall. “Con artists are taking advantage of the public’s confusion over the health care reform law, making quick cash off innocent people,” said Lindeen. “My staff is working to set the record straight with Montanans on how Obamacare works and our investigators are ready to crack down on scammers.” Health insurance exchanges, now known as m...
Dennis John Patterson, 68, of Sedro-Woolley, Wash., died Aug. 16, 2013, at Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon, Wash. He was born on Nov. 1, 1944, in Glasgow, Mont., the son of Wesley and Mary Ellen Patterson. He was raised and attended school in Glasgow, graduating from Glasgow High School with the class of 1963. He then served his country with the U.S. Army for several years. After the service, he served his electrician’s apprenticeship in Glasgow. On July 2, 1966, he was united in m...
Kenneth “Kenny” Odin Sonsteng, 86, died at the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow on Thursday, August 15, 2013. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Aug. 31, at 11 a.m. at the First Lutheran Church in Glasgow, followed by interment in the Highland Cemetery in Glasgow. He was born on Nov. 29, 1926, the 10th child of 15 children of homesteader parents, Arnold Odin Sonsteng and Laura Saubak Sonsteng. He was raised north of Frazer, in the Lustre community. The first eight years of his...
Nellie Baerg, 94, of Livingston, died August 16, 2013, at Livingston HealthCare with her family by her side. Family and friends are invited to celebrate Nellie’s life at a luncheon at the Glasgow First Baptist Church annex on Thursday, Aug. 22, at 11 a.m. She was born on June 15, 1919, in Lustre, Mont., the daughter of Peter H. and Eva T. (Becker) Unrau. She received her education in Frazer and was valedictorian of the Class of 1938. She earned a teaching degree at Northern Montana College in H...
Kristian Severt Bakke, 45, of Havre, Mont., died Aug. 11, 2013, in his home of a heart attack. He was born May 6, 1968, to Kristian and Edith Bakke in Livingston, Mont. He, in his younger years, was fondly known as “Fella” or “Krissie” to his sisters, family, and friends. He was a little fart. Although quiet natured, his mind was always at work and his hands busy repairing things that were already fixed, and working his snow removal and lawn mowing routes. With the help of three older sisters...
Mostly the same faces but a new name and colors have been added to the list of teams for the upcoming District 1C volleyball season. The team formerly known as the Saco/Hinsdale Panthers has now become, by virtue of a team vote, the Hinsdale/Saco Wildfire. In this writer’s opinion, this is a good move for all concerned. Much like the MonDak Thunder: two towns merging to form one team as did Westby/Grenora. Others include Froid/Medicine Lake Red Hawks, Scobey/Opheim (stayed same as the Spartans) and Richey/Lambert Fusion. I fear that the next 5... Full story
A half-dozen experienced hunters attended the hunter scoping session in Glasgow on Aug. 13 to give their comments on the proposed hunting seasons for 2014-2015. Comments will go to the Fish, Wildlife and Parks commission meeting on Oct. 10. FWP will present its proposal on Dec. 12, hold more public meetings and issue the final rule in February. Hunters and FWP wildlife managers discussed the slow recovery of deer and antelope from the devastating winter of 2011 and the EHD that came along that summer. They agreed that eagles and coyotes are...
A free youth shooting and archery skills event is scheduled for Aug. 29 at the Glasgow Trap Club. The event – which will include clay pigeon, turkey silhouette and pellet-gun shooting stations, as well as an archery range with 3-D hunting targets – is open to all youths up to 18 years old. Due to safety concerns, youths 12 and under can participate in all of the events except ones involving shotgun shooting. Shotguns, pellet guns, ammunition, targets and archery equipment will be provided at no cost, and participants between ages 12 and 18 can... Full story
Seventh and eighth grade football players in Scottie Nation will check out equipment at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25, at the Glasgow High School gymnasium. Practice will begin at 4:30 p.m. at GHS on Monday, Aug. 26. All practices this year will be held at GHS. Players must have their physicals and concussion screening complete and turned in to the high school office prior to any participation. If you have any questions, please call Mr. Thibault at GHS at 228-2485.... Full story
A dangerous chokepoint that migrating antelope encountered each year just west of Nashua now has one less hazard the animals will have to contend with. Old woven-wire and barbed wire fencing strung for about a mile along U.S. Highway 2 has long served as a potential barrier for pronghorn and other wildlife trying to cross the busy road and get over an adjacent set of Burlington Northern-Santa Fe train tracks. In fact, ground on both sides of the old fence – which was removed by a Montana F...
