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With absentee ballots out and over 250 votes already in, that last push for candidates to get their story out there is in full swing. The Glasgow Courier hopes to educate voters on who’s on our ballot in our local county, both contested and non-contested candidates. All county contested candidates were asked two questions: • What is your platform for this election? (This question is about your philosophy.) • What experience or qualities do you think you could bring into the position? The candidates were given approximates 150 to 175 words... Full story
School board members and a few school employees took a tour of the new elementary school construction before the school board meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 8. While there was obviously a long way to go in construction, the new building is taking shape and the vision is becoming a reality. Glasgow's School District Owner's Representative Eric Hulteng told the school board that East Side School and the high school were about 99 percent complete and only the few items on the "punch list" were getting...
Sometimes a namesake can have more sentimental value and meaning, other times it's about carrying history. The Glasgow school board discussed a possible decision on naming the new elementary school building at the school board meeting that took place on Wednesday, Oct. 8. What would seem like a simple decision, turned out to be more complicated. A survey was open to the public for about a week. The survey asked if the new school would remain Irle Elementary, be named Glasgow Elementary, or become West Side Elementary. The results surprised a...
Much of rural and small town Montana depends on the economic impact of recreation and tourism. Camping, hunting, fishing, birding, hiking, guiding and other activities in 11 Western states, including Montana, brought in $623 million in direct spending and $1.06 billion in indirect spending, according to a recent Western Values Project study (http://www.cfra.org/western-values-project-study). And nearby communities also benefit economically from the nearly 68 million visitors that spent time time on land administered by the Bureau of Land... Full story
BY JIM ORR THE COURIER A turnover, bad break or penalty could end this amazing possibility in a flash, but here it is: If MaxPreps' top-ranked Montana Class B Scotties shut out visiting Plentywood on Friday, they'll have shut out all of Northern 2B for the season. First came Harlem. Then Malta and Wolf Point. None scored against the Big Dawg D. Now Plentywood, 0-5, gets its shot at 7-0 Glasgow. "I don't recall a season when this has happened," GHS coach Greg Liebelt told The Courier. At this... Full story
And the winner is ... The Glasgow Scotties girls fall sports teams. None of the girls were injured in Monday night's annual Powder Puff football game before a decent crowd at Scottie Field. "Lots of current fall athletes were on the field for both teams," GHS activities director Brenner Flaten, who walked the sidelines overseeing play, told The Courier. Doing battle with plenty of emotion and some hard hitting were two teams not on the Scottie fall sports schedule: the Booty and the Beast in...
Last Thursday, the Scottie volleyball teams came home with solid wins at all three levels vs. the Wolf Point Wolves. In fact, all three Glasgow teams won in three games straight. More success came Saturday at Poplar. Tuesday proved to be more challenging as the varsity fell in four games at Malta, but there's an opportunity to bounce back tonight – Senior Night – against visiting Plentywood. Proud GHS coach Lori Dailey told The Courier that the statistics against Wolf Point show that many Scotties had good games, but what they don't cap...
It's come down to this for hard-running Glasgow XC. The inaugural Plentywood invite debuts on Saturday. The state Class B cross country meet closes the season a week later on Oct. 25. The Scottie girls and boys continued their quest for Big Sky glory last weekend with a bunch of firsts and seconds in the invitational at Sidney Country Club. For the boys, the Scotties placed second and so did sophomore Gabe Hallock in 17:41, extending his recent string of fastest individual times for GHS. Dawson...
Montana's annual youth-only deer hunt is set for Friday and Saturday this week, Oct 16 and 17. The two-day special season is open to properly licensed youngsters ages 12 to 15 who've passed a hunter safety course. In addition, 11-year-olds who passed hunter safety may hunt if they'll be 12 by Jan. 16. The youth hunt is again scheduled during the two-day vacation for public schools in October. This puts youth rifle hunters in the field during the final days of Montana's archery season. Archers and young hunters need to be aware of the... Full story
Last week I ran away from home. I left 1,500 bales of hay in the fields waiting for Donna to pick them up. I cleaned out my fridge of all stuff that would perish in my absence. I packed eight shirts, eight pair of socks, eight pair of shorts, four pair of Wranglers, boots, shaving kit, cell phone plug-in thingie, two guitars and assorted other stuff and hit the open road. My first stop was in Sapphire Village to visit my Aunt Carol and Uncle Jim before they head south for the winter. Jim promised I wouldn't have to do any work. Sometimes the...
Do you remember the original date of Columbus Day? I did ask several of my acquaintances on Monday if they remembered the date, but ended up checking it out on the Internet. I was right, it used to be celebrated on Oct. 12 for many, many years. Now it is another three-day holiday and not recognized by some due to racial prejudice. Some of us do remember from our history lessons that Columbus was actually Italian. And thinking of school history, I remember learning a poem about Columbus, but the only lines I can come up went something like...
There seems to be so much focus on bullying these days. You see viral video posts of kids being beat up by kids, movies about kids being cyber bullied and constantly hear about bully prevention. It's seems to be some kind of new fad to stand up against bullies. So here's the question, do you stand up against bullies, or do you sit silently. It's always been my philosophy that communication is the world's biggest problem. I sometimes sit on the edge of my chair biting my tongue at meetings or in a room full of people because I so badly want to...
Dear Editor I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but in the area from Billings to Malta, there are lots of kind and thoughtful people. I am temporarily wheelchair bound. Family, friends and perfect strangers have been so helpful. People rush to open doors for me. One little boy in Billings said, “Look Mom, that lady has wheels.” I'm so pleased with all the kindness. But, myself, I have reverted to the 2-year-old whose favorite phrase is, “I can do it myself,” as she puts her shoe on the wrong foot. Haven't done that yet, but it's still e...
John Carl Neubauer, 51, was born May 17, 1963, at Minot, N.D., 20 minutes after his twin brother, Jimmy, to Dave and Carol Neubauer, weighing 3 pounds, 10 ounces at birth. He died of pneumonia Oct. 7, 2014, in Glasgow at the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital. He was baptized into the Lutheran faith by Pastor John Chambers in Minot. He spent his earliest years with his parents and siblings, Kelly, Paul and Jimmy, in Minot, Minneapolis and Billings. Then he began his life with other children with Down Syndrome and similar abilities, living in Boul...
Joe Albus, 72, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, from natural causes at the Hi-Line Retirement Center in Malta, Mont. He was born Sept. 5, 1942, in Baraboo, Wis., to Emil and Betty (Hubbard) Albus. He attended all his school years in Saco and graduated with the class of 1960. He married Joan Beadle and they lived in Helena where he was employed. They had a son, Chad, and later divorced. He married Helen "Cookie" Tafolla in Helena in 1964 (they later divorced). He was employed by Pat Strong...
Michael Lee Fassett, 61, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014, of cardiac arrest in Casper, Wyo. Funeral services will be held Monday, Oct. 20, at 11 a.m. at the First Lutheran Church in Glasgow, followed by interment in the Highland Cemetery in Glasgow. He was born on May 6, 1953, in Rolla, N.D., the son of Raymond and Mae (Olson) Fassett. He was raised in Rolla and came to Glasgow when he was 6 years old, graduating from Glasgow High School in 1972. He worked in Glasgow for Burlington Norther...
Harold R. Squires, 87, passed away on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, from an accidental fall. He was born on July 22, 1927, in Eau Claire, Wis., to Lisle and Cecile (Turnacliff) Squires. He was the oldest son of three children, along with a sister, Donna Lee, and younger brother, Leon. Harold's family moved from Wisconsin to the Wild Rose Community in Baylor, Mont., roughly 40 miles north of Glasgow, to live at the Lisle Squires farm. He spent his early childhood on the farm and went to two years of...
Barbara (Steele) Tucker, 67, of Sallisaw, Okla., passed away Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, in Sallisaw. She was born Nov. 12, 1946, in St. Ignatius, Mont., the daughter of Josephine Morigeau Steele and Matthew "Swede" Steele. She was a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes. She started schooling in California and graduated in 1964 from Arlee High School. That fall she attended the Institute of American Indian arts in Santa Fe, N.M. She studied in the arts, music and opera for two...
