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Deb Young loves reading The Courier. Every week she gets a cup of coffee, settles into her comfortable chair, puts her computer keyboard on her lap and “reads” the paper. Young is blind. She uses a screen reading program that speaks the written words to her. Young lost her vision in 1993, but she has learned to use technology to keep her world alive. She listens to books on tape. Her fingers dance over the keypad of her smart phone, which is equipped with voice recognition and spoken cues. She...
The month of August has seen a series of meetings at St. Marie and a takeover attempt by a group whose core is four people who arrived from Washington State last summer, DTM Enterprises LLC. DTM partners have stated they want to renovate and sell units at St. Marie. They want to take a section of 120 units out of the condominium and turn them into townhouses, a different form of ownership in which people own the building and the land under it. The latest meeting was one the DTM partners held...
An estimated 250 people crowded into Saco last weekend for the 50th observance of Saco Fun Days. Lots of people came for the All-Class Reunion and the numbers were helped by fine weather. The celebration offered street dances, a parade, kids’ games, a demolition derby, a pie social, a sock hop and many dinners, barbecues and feeds. Ron Hanson was one of the 15 members of the class of 1960. He retired from the ranch to Billings until he became a snowbird and now he travels in a motor home. With h...
The Glasgow City Council at its regular meeting on Tuesday held public hearings and passed resolutions levying assessments for street lights and garbage collection. They also had a public hearing and adopted a preliminary budget for fiscal year 2013-2014. Last Friday the Council decided to bill 320 mills. Taxes will go up, Mayor Dan Carney said, but they haven’t raised for a long time. For Glasgow Lighting Districts No. 1 through 29, the total assessment is $189,244.44. The amount levied against each lot or parcel is according to the square f...
The Valley County proposed budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, has been filed and is open for inspection by the public. The county commissioners will hear any taxpayer comment on the budget beginning Sept. 4 and continuing until the final budget is approved. The estimated value of a county-wide mill is $25,891 outside the city and $22,293 in the city limits. If the certified millages are either higher or lower than estimated, the budget will be proportionally raised or lowered....
Montana’s three elected federal representatives – Sen. Max Baucus, Rep. Steve Daines and Sen. Jon Tester – on Aug. 31 released statements with their still-evolving positions on whether the United States should take military action in Syria. Here are those statements. SEN. BAUCUS Bozeman – Montana’s senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus released the following statement today in response to President Obama saying the United States should take military action against Syrian targets and he will seek Cong...
I’m just sitting here thumbing through the Internet for things to write about with not much in mind. With this being a slow news week (except for Obama intending to get us into yet another foreign war and trying his very best to bankrupt the country) I decided to name off a few things that don’t make sense to me. • I noticed on my can of oven cleaner a red banner stating, “Safe for use on all self-cleaning ovens.” I’m thinking, If my oven is self-cleaning why did I buy this stuff? • I’ve heard it said that to make the “real money” one needs...
Recently I added texting to my cell phone. I’ve been resisting it for a long time. One of my sons told me being able to send text messages from a cell phone is a great tool. After sending text messages for just a few days, I have to agree that it is indeed that. Therein lie my thoughts for this week. So many things we use every day and take for granted are really nothing more than a tool. However, it seems at times that tools such as cell phones and what can be done with them have taken over our daily lives. Not long ago, as I sat in a restaura...
I thought that I didn’t have any “Remembers” to share today as I had taken a four-day weekend of R & R. However, we opted to bring our 2-year-old great-grandchildren home with us and opted not to bring a DVD along. I did remember all of the funny songs that you could make up or sing, making the miles go faster, as well as some of the other fun things our parents used to do to keep the kids occupied. Of course, car seats limit some of the activities, which included standing up in the back seat watching out the windows for semi trucks, train...
Attorney General Tim Fox announced on Aug. 29 that Montana has joined four other states protesting the U.S. Bureau of Land Managements’ re-proposed rule to regulate hydraulic fracturing operations on federal and Indian lands. In a letter to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, the attorneys general of Alabama, Alaska, Montana, Oklahoma, and West Virginia strongly assert that the BLM cannot justify a need for new federal regulations and requirements, which will duplicate existing state programs. “The BLM would be hard pre...
The announcement that BNSF Railway is dropping rate incentives for 48-car shipments has caused discussion in affected parts of the state. The Montana Farm Bureau Federation (MFBF) worked with BNSF and other interested parties in 2005 to keep the freight rate incentives for 52-car shipment from Montana (later changed to 48 cars) until the state had developed a 110-car elevator infrastructure. “That was eight years ago the railroad agreed not to decrease the incentives for smaller train shipments in Montana and western North Dakota,” notes MFB...
Joyce Marie (Flom) Fuhrmann, 72, of Great Falls, Mont., died Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, at her home. Funeral services will be held at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Nashua on Friday, Sept. 6 at 1:30 p.m. with Pastor Bonnie Novak officiating. Burial will take place at Nashua Cemetery. She was born on Jan. 8, 1941, in McCone City, Mont. She attended Nashua Public Schools and obtained a GED. She enjoyed many hobbies, including sewing, crocheting, quilting, candy making, cooking, baking and her...
Shiela Frances (LaChambre) Benson, of Bozeman, Mont., 77, died due to complications from chemotherapy at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital on Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. A Memorial Mass will be held at the Holy Rosary Parish in Bozeman in mid-October. An announcement will be placed in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. She was born in Missoula on March 11, 1936. After graduating from the University of Montana in 1958 with a degree in home economics, she taught high school home economics in Polson before marrying...
Both Glasgow cross country teams came back home from Poplar with first place after competing in the first meet of the season on Saturday, August 31. As expected, the girls dominated the meet, finishing with 22 points and placing eight runners out of 11 in the top 15. Junior Josie Braaten was the fastest girl, running the three miles in 20 minutes and 33 seconds. Senior Rachael Zeiger took third place with a time of 21 minutes and 58 seconds. Coach Rob Karst was pleased with the result. He liked...
Glasgow High School's annual Red & White football scrimmage ended up in a 7-7 tie on Friday, Aug. 30. Fans gathered in the stands at Scottie Field to have a look at this season’s team and were not disappointed. The coaching staff mixed up the varsity and junior varsity teams, offering a close and entertaining game. The game between the Reds and Whites was played in three periods: two of 15 minutes and one of five minutes, for a total of 35 minutes. The coaching staff wanted to see the kids play,...
The Glasgow volleyball team earned a seventh place at the Choteau invitational on Friday and Saturday, August 30-31. The Scotties missed the playoffs by one spot after playing six matches on Friday and seven on Saturday. Coach Lori Dailey was pleased with the result for this opening tournament of the season and described the weekend as “fairly successful.” She said she was proud of how the girls fared and competed on the court. “The girls banded together and played their hearts out,” Dailey said. “All the girls played quite a bit in a variety...
After a less than stellar performance in pool play, losing to Chinook in a close match and getting fully annihilated by Plentywood, the Wildfire went two and two and won a berth in bracket play at the Malta Invitational Volleyball Tourney last Saturday, August 30 in Malta. With every game, the ladies from Hinsdale/Saco (H/S) seemed to gather strength from each other and get stronger as the grueling day progressed. Remember friends, their first match was at 9 a.m. and the championship game wasn’t decided until about 7:30 that night. After knocki...
The Glasgow Junior High cross country team participated in the Poplar meet on Saturday, August 31. The boys finished first with 42 points, followed by Poplar (55), and Wolf Point (63). The girls only had three runners, and could not do anything against the other teams. Poplar won with 32 points. “It wasn’t a real big meet, but I thought all the kids competed real well,” coach Tim Phillips said. “For the boys, Bryce LaGare had some calf issues, but still managed to finish in the top 10.” The biggest contribution came from Merlin and Ellis McK...
Hello everyone! As your new sports editor, I am really excited to be here and can’t wait to cover such a strong and vivid sports community. If my name doesn’t sound English to you, that’s because it’s French! I was born in the south of France and arrived in the U.S. in 2010 to study journalism. I obtained my Multimedia Journalism degree from Simpson College, Iowa, in 2012 and got my first job in Southern Texas. How did I end up in Glasgow, you might ask? Well, life is full of surprises, and one such surprise hit me when I was offered the opp...
