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Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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Another Glasgow area native was welcomed back to town this week. Haylie Shipp, farm broadcaster for the Northern Ag Network, was given a welcome home celebration at Farm Equipment Sales. FES general manager Sarah Swanson Partridge created the gathering to welcome Shipp, who will have an office in the building for her to work and broadcast reports. Shipp graduated from Glasgow High School in 2003 and headed to Miles City Community College, where she completed her AA and AS degrees in 2005. She...
Waiting on pipe dreams is a literal term when some groups refer to the Keystone XL Pipeline. Members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are in this category, and this week they will be traveling around 900 miles along the proposed pipeline to have what they're calling a lost opportunity tour. Energy Institute Vice President Matthew Koch explained that they've spent years working on getting the pipeline project approved, and that there would be tremendous benefits to the community. The group hitting the road this week started at the Canadian...
It was mostly good news, mixed with the reality that there was indeed contamination found at the old Magruder's Motor Co. property. The property is owned by the county after it was foreclosed on. Newfields was brought in to assess the contamination on the property and they gave their full report the the Glasgow City Council. Chris Cerquone and Reuben Vincent were present to discuss the matter. Cerquone spoke mostly on what the data showed and what steps might be next for the city and county. He explained that they placed eight boreholes and...
Valley County's unemployment rate rose slightly in July and sits at 3.1 percent – with just 133 people reported as unemployed in the county. It was a similar story statewide. Montana’s unemployment rate was at 4.6 percent in July, a slight increase of 0.1 of a percentage point from June. Still, the Big Sky State's unemployment rate has decreased by 0.7 of a percentage point since January. The U.S. unemployment rate, meanwhile, also nudged up 0.1 of a percentage point to 6.2 percent. “With more than 12,000 jobs created since the beginning of th...
Glasgow High School seniors MaKenzie Wesen and Sam Schultz smile shortly after being crowned this year's homecoming king and queen at the coronation ceremony last Friday. Looking on are royalty candidates Amanda Wolff and Jason Thibault. Not shown are Sadie Sukut and Keil Krumwiede, the other candidates....
The Scotties take to the field for the homecoming football game before taking care of Baker. See homecoming sports coverage on Page 1B....
A few weeks ago in Glasgow an incident caused some notice on street corners. A girl riding a bike came around a corner where shrubs obstructed the view, and the girl ended up running into a mail truck. While no injuries were reported ,the property owners allowed the city to cut the shrubs back after the incident. Glasgow Police Chief Bruce Barstad reminds people to cut back their shrubs and trees to be sure that they weren't obstructing the view of the street, especially with school back in...
Over the years I've found it really does help to know some basics about repairing vehicles and farm equipment. The first car my husband and I had was a Chevy four-door sedan. About a year after he purchased it, a problem developed. For some reason, the cotter key holding the clutch rod together would fall out. You never knew when it happened. Your only clue was that when you put your foot on the clutch pedal, it went straight to the floor. Consequently a package of cotter keys, a pair of pliers, and a screwdriver became standard equipment to...
The Glasgow City-County Library is constantly looking for ways to improve and expand our service. Recently, we have been evaluating expanding our interlibrary loan services to include items previously offered on a limited basis. Interlibrary loan allows us to access items in libraries across the continental United States to lend to our patrons. As always, we have to balance services with our funding and make hard decisions on how to use your monies to the best benefit of the entire community. Next week, we will be expanding the ability for...
Aloha e’ Komo mai. (Welcome.) August brought a lot of rain and with it some problems and delays. Flooding and being very wet has put the skids on many Saint Marie maintenance projects, according to the monthly newsletter. It was stated by Town Hall staff that it was so wet that siding, roofing and cement work has been delayed until it can dry out which explained why our cement work to be done was delayed too. Some basements had rain related problems and as one neighbor told me, “it was a down pour” in hers. The “tree guy” finally was able to c...
Do you think about what a luxury your shower is every time you take one? For many that is a daily routine. How many remember when showers were not in every home. I don’t know when this wonderful convenience became a common household bathroom feature, but I do remember the time before most of us had a shower in our house. The first shower, I remember, was a pretty basic shower stall. No fancy massaging shower heads or handhelds. My gosh, how did we wash our hair? Oh, that’s right, that was a once-a-week event, usually on Saturday. The most welco...
Walgreens, America’s largest drug store chain, says they are leaving the United States because our tax rate is too high. It must really be killing them, but it’s hard to know because last year they upped their CEO compensation by 13 percent, had increased 2014 third quarter earnings of 15 percent compared to a year ago, and their stock price has doubled in the last two years. Corporations are busy grousing about the high corporate tax rate in the United States. At 35 percent it sounds high, but any corporation that pays anywhere near that muc...
Bonnie Jo Wischmann, 93, passed away of natural causes on September 15, 2014, at the Teton County Nursing Home, in Choteau, Montana. Her life is celebrated by her children. Bonnie often said she lived a wonderful life; she loved her children, and enjoyed reading mysteries. She achieved her dream job later in life working for 20 years as the McCone County librarian, in Circle, Montana. When she was younger she loved music and dance. She played the piano and performed as a ballerina in Bozeman. In college, the fraternities in Bozeman hired her to...
On the afternoon of Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, Rita Mae Brown, 66, passed away at St. Vincent's Hospital in Billings, Mont., lovingly holding hands with her sons and encircled by other family members. Vigil services will be recited Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m., at the Wolf Point Community Hall and funeral services will be held Thursday, Sept. 18, at 10 a.m., at the Wolf Point Community Hall with interment at the Chelsea Cemetery west of Poplar. She was born in the community of Chelsea, Roosevelt...
The Aussie wants you to know that she did not pass away, she did not pass on and she did not pass over. She died. And, indeed, she did. On Saturday evening, Sept. 13, with every intention of polishing her fingernails and watching "Doc Martin" on PBS, Noreen Edith (Potts) Smith, 86, died from long-term complications of cancer at the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow, Mont. Noreen's wishes were to be cremated and interred with her husband, Harley, in the military cemetery at Miles City....
Diana Charlene (Ziler) Hedegaard, 57, passed away suddenly at her home in Glasgow. A visitation service will be held Thursday, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m., and a Celebration of New Life will take place Friday, Sept. 19, at 11 a.m., all at the First Lutheran Church in Glasgow on Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. She was born Dec. 12, 1956, in Hardin, Mont., the third of five children of Laurence and Dena (Moore) Ziler. She spent her early years in Hardin before moving with her family to Lingle, Wyo., and then to...
Dorothy Chamberlin (Wright) Orrey, 94, a retired sales clerk, died Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014, at a nursing home in Lewistown. Viewing was Tuesday, Sept. 16, at the Kirkwood Memorial Chapel from noon until 6 p.m. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at the Malta Cemetery. Condolences for the family may be left online at www.kirkwoodfuneralhome.com. She was born on Sept. 21, 1919, at the family ranch north of Saco, the daughter of Lewis "Rabbit" and Mary Jane (Walker)...
This photo is from the inside of Magruder's garage that was located on the corner of 2nd Street and 1st Avenue S outh.The Magruder family came to Glasgow around 1898. Harry Magruder was born in 1880 and opened up the family garage, formerly known as Magruder Motor Co., in 1917. He managed the garage until he passed away in 1944. After his death, his oldest son, Paul, and his wife Gladys, took ownership of the business. They also owned and operated a bulk gasoline distributorship, delivering...
The Glasgow Scotties hosted the Baker Spartans on Sept. 12 for the homecoming game. Glasgow got off to a great start and stayed sharp throughout the game, defeating Baker 14-0 in front of a packed hometown crowd. Now with a 3-0 record, Glasgow finally broke a losing streak against the Spartans. Glasgow shook off its habit of a sloppy first quarter and capitalized on Baker's turnovers and penalties. It was a physical and hard-hitting game, as was expected between these two rivals. Glasgow had...
The football Scotties did their part, blanking Baker. So did the volleyball Scotties, getting intense with Glendive and beating Wolf Point. But the XC Scotties, now their Homecoming Week success was double the fun. The boys won the Malta Invitational. The girls won the Malta Invitational. How far can these two teams go? "It's looking pretty promising for the boys," Walker Allen, the team's top runner at Malta, told The Courier before practice Tuesday. The outlook isn't just for this season....
This rebuilding season for Glasgow's volleyball Scotties continues with some positive payoff. The varsity this past week split its first two 2014 home matches in a competitive manner – losing to Dawson County, beating Wolf Point. Rival Malta visits this Thursday. GHS coach Lori Dailey described the home opener against Glendive last Thursday as "quite a showcase for all three Scottie teams." She said the JV team "played very well" in its win and the C squad picked up an "intense win," taking v...
Dallas Capdeville, the Hinsdale High School senior who runs, tackles and punts for the undefeated Glasgow Scotties football team, is getting some statewide airtime. Northern Sports Network's Rocky Erickson profiles the comeback kid on a recent radio piece now streaming online. Rocky's "Montana Sports Headlines" tend to stay posted for awhile, so if you haven't heard it yet, just search for "Northern Sports Network" and you'll find it pretty quickly. The headline is "Dallas Capdeville Makes It...
