Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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On Nov. 20, George Alberda and Joe Braaksma from Grace Bible Church in Bozeman, made the drive to northeast Montana to pick up boxes for Operation Christmas Child at the Glasgow Evangelical Church. Glasgow was one of three stops for Alberda and Braaksma, as they also stopped in Havre and Sidney before making their way back to Bozeman. Glasgow has been a collection site since Operation Christmas Child started in 1970. There have been many collection sites through the years, however this year was...
Cathryn Reitler is the upcoming featured Artist of the Month at Wheatgrass Arts and Gallery in downtown Glasgow. A well known local working artist, Reitler has been a staple of Northeast Montana's art scene for some years with displays at local events, the regional fairs and the recent Wild Bunch Art Show. Her work features realistic scenes of Northeast Montana landscapes and wildlife in mixed media with relics of the region, ranging from vintage maps, old glass bottles and rusted oil cans, to...
The Gateway Club in Fort Peck will be hosting an adult prom themed “Life is a Carnival” to benefit the program Toys for Tots on Saturday, Dec. 9, starting at 8 p.m. Valley County Transit will provide transportation from Glasgow to the Gateway for $11 round trip. To ensure a ride, please call Valley County Transit at 406-228-TRIP (8747). There is an admission charge of one unopened toy per guest, which will be donated to the organization. In addition to dancing to music by DJ Vernon and having fun, there will be a silent auction where att...
Valley County Sheriff Vernon Buerkle reports a quiet holiday weekend locally, at least with regard to significant accidents and arrests. County Commissioner Paul Tweten tells us that Great West Engineering made their final inspections Nov. 28 on the bridge over Beaver Creek on Milk River Road near Hinsdale. County Planner Renee Clampitt still has Valley County atlas books for sale (complete with township, range and communities), as well as wall maps and folding maps featuring the county on one side and towns on the other. Atlas books are $30....
A number of years ago, Lustre’s Jason and Stephanie Brown traveled to Haiti to adopt twins, and in the process met a young man by the name of Sandro, who was translating for the adoption agency. Recognizing his potential, the couple invited Sandro, who had self taught himself English and Spanish, back to Lustre to attend the local Lustre Christian High School as an international student. Following his graduation in 2014, Sandro began attending Liberty University, majoring in developmental psychology and counseling and minoring in biblical s...
When Dale Marshall, a Saco-area rancher, suffered a heart attack, the hour-and-fifteen-minute drive over 15 graveled miles plus 50 paved miles of U.S. Highway could have been deadly and not just because of winter conditions. For more than half of Montana residents, medical care is distant. The Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service's 2016 figures show 674,907, or 65 percent, of Montana's 1,042,520 residents live in rural settings. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine's...
The legislative leadership, especially Austin Knudsen, are bragging again that they imposed no new taxes on hard-working Montanans. That is a big lie. Please check your last year’s school tax on your property tax bill and compare it to this year’s. We send our local property taxes to Helena and get monies back through entitlements. The legislature simply did not fund the block grants to schools and passed on a tax increase to the counties. Mine went up 30 percent in one year in Daniels County and a similar amount in Valley County. And the leg...
I am wondering if any of you that enjoyed deviled eggs for your Thanksgiving holiday happened to remember the days when it was not uncommon to break open an egg and find it was a “double yolker?” This is something that we hardly ever see anymore. I am sure that chickens still lay an occasional egg or two that has two yolks (and for those that prefer yolks over the whites, it was always a nice surprise) but since the eggs that most of us eat anymore come from the shelf at the grocery store, those little surprises have been culled out. Back in th...
The special session of the Montana Legislature is behind us – yet another thing to be thankful for in this season. Taking center stage was concern for the most vulnerable populations in Montana. What avenues should be taken to address taking care of them? How can we do the most to avoid cuts to their services? The Governor seemed to suggest that the only way to avoid deeper cuts was to raise taxes, and the Republicans were having nothing to do with that. It’s an unfortunate reality that our state’s budget is such that the Governor has to make...
If you ran a multi-state business and had just over one billion dollars in sales in Montana, I bet you would expect to pay something in Montana corporate taxes. And, indeed you would; you would have to dig deep down into your corporate pocket to come up with the 50 bucks to cover your tax bill. Let me repeat those figures; one billion dollars in Montana sales and 50 bucks in taxes. Oh, and for five years in a row. We are not allowed to know its name, but this is a real company. This is a true story. In a time of record highs in the stock...
I remember being asked, “When do you stop worrying about your children?” My answer was, “Never. You start worrying about them from the time you know you are going to have a baby and the worry never stops.” I know of a seven-year-old boy who was diagnosed with cancer at the age of two. He has had multiple surgeries, chemotherapy in the form of pills and infusion, and radiation. Last week he told his mother, “Mom, the cancer is back. You better take me to the doctor.” She did. The diagnosis? The cancer has spread to his chest wall and heart. And...
I’m not entirely sure I should be the one to write on this topic. However, I am sure someone needs to say something about how they felt as they watched President Donald J. Trump during a ceremony at the White House Nov. 27. While honoring Navajo code talkers, Trump referred to Massachusetts' sitting senator Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas" - a term commonly understood to be derogatory towards Native Americans. Neither deserved nor likely wanted his comment at the ceremony. What President Trump fails to realize is that while his actions, w...
FRIDAY – DEC. 1 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. - Edward Jones Christmas Open House, 54172 US Hwy. 2, Glasgow. 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. - Nemont Open House, Stop in for refreshments and drawings. 6 – 8 p.m. - Nativity Display at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 15 Airport Road. 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. - Kid's Night Out at Children's Museum of Northeast Montana. Cost is $12 for members and $15 for non-members. RSVPs are appreciated by calling 228-4386. 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. - Cathryn Reitler's Artist of the Month reception at Wheatgrass Arts & Gallery. SATURDA...
Charles “Bill” Dolson, 85, passed away Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017, in Missoula, Mont. A family memorial will be held at a later date. He was born Dec. 6, 1931, to W. P. “Wib” and Susan Dolson at their home near Thoeny, Mont. He started school during the dam days at Wheeler, then was taught at home by his mother for three years when they moved to their ranch at Faranuf, 60 miles south of Glasgow. The rest of his schooling was at Glasgow. He would describe himself as a cowhand, laborer, seismograph worker, drifter, student, writer, landsca...
Opening the 2017-2018 Scottie basketball season, the annual Red and White Games were held at GHS Nov. 25....
