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Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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Glasgow newcomer Carlos Valle introduced himself in the full dark of an early morning on Wednesday, Oct. 28, as we stood shivering in front of The Loaded Toad coffee shop downtown. We were waiting for local photographer Sean R. Heavey to take us, well, neither one of us was really sure about that part. "No idea," Valle told me with a grin when pressed about our agenda and possible destination. "I'm just along for the ride." And it was a long ride indeed. We started out by setting up for the...
In a broad field 45 miles from Billings, wind turbines churn, culling energy to be distributed throughout the region. Montana ranks 21st in the nation, according to the American Wind Energy Association, with 466 functioning wind turbines. These machines converted enough energy in 2014 to power 180,000 homes, representing 6.5 percent of all in-state electricity production. “Wind is a viable, sustainable source of power,” said Derf Johnson, Clean Water Project Director and Staff Attorney for Montana Environmental Information Center (MEIC), “an...
At 5:00 in the morning on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 16 Nashua High School Students met in the Bergie's parking lot to take part in the 30th Annual Red Ribbon Run. There, tribal members from Poplar smudged and prayed over the participants and gave them half of a sacred hoop to carry eastward, where it could be completed with sections from other participating teams. Then, the cold students began to run. The group streamed along the highway with a school bus and a police escort. Runners wore bright...
The Board of Directors of NorVal Electric Cooperative, Inc. are proud to announce the donation of $10,000 to The Connection Youth Center in Glasgow, Montana. The Connection serves as an after school meeting location for student-aged children, providing a safe place to gather and learn. The NorVal Board of Directors, together with Management and Employees raised half of the funds donated, and the remaining amount was funded through matching donations from the CoBank Share Success Program....
A 28-year-old Great Falls man was arrested the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 24 after one half-pound of suspected methamphetamine was found in a vehicle he was driving. Valley County Sheriff Glen Meier told Kltz/Mix-93 that Kody Tolliver was arrested after he was stopped by the Montana Highway Patrol Saturday morning west of Glasgow on Hwy. 2. Tolliver was arrested after the MHP Trooper became suspicious when questioning after the stop. Law Enforcement authorities got a warrant and seized the vehicle. A half-pound of suspected meth was found in...
The pro-lifers claim those unwanted children could be adopted by others. That’s also not easy to arrange, either by the mother-to-be, nor by those looking to adopt. Here in Montana, lawyers must be involved, and we all know how cheaply they work. If the birth mother is under the age of 18, she must have her own lawyer. She cannot sign a relinquishment and consent to adopt order until at least 72 hours after giving birth. She must also undergo at least three hours of counseling by the Department of Health and Human Services, or the adoption a...
Cherry Creek & Milk River Levee System is a vital piece of the city’s infrastructure system that is not only critical to the welfare and safety of our community but also bogged down in federal regulation. An array of complex issues and opinions as to the solutions necessary to keep the levee system in compliance and meeting the needs of the community keep the levee system at the forefront of the city’s attention. The southernmost portion of the city of Glasgow borders the Milk River and Cherry Creek waterways and the associated flood pla...
Recently the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) granted Montana an extension of time to conform to the “REAL ID” law passed by Congress in 2005. In a nutshell the REAL ID law demanded that state driver license and identification cards conform to federal requirements concerning information and data sharing as laid out by DHS, and that these identification documents have the approval of DHS. Only state issued identification documents that met DHS standards would be valid for entrance to Federal Buildings (I hope the Post Office was not one of...
By the time the sun set on Dec. 28, 1983, it had started to sink in that my family and I were homeless. We had found shelter with my husband’s parents. The reason we were homeless was because we’d lost our house and everything we had in it, other than the clothes on our backs, to fire. The morning after the fire my husband said, “I just realized we don’t even own a comb so we can comb our hair.” Basic needs. A comb, a toothbrush, a change of clothing, a washcloth and towel, shampoo, soap. Thanks to the generosity of our community, we soon foun...
Donna Mae (Rusher) Reinhardt, of Glasgow, Mont., passed away just one day shy of her 84th birthday on Monday, Oct. 26, 2015. She was born Oct. 27, 1931, to John C. Rusher Jr. and Aileen S. (Christinson) Rusher in Glasgow and graduated from Glasgow High School in 1949. She married David Pecora in 1952, and to this union three daughters and a son were born. The couple later divorced. She married Roger Reinhardt in 1989 and they later divorced. She was a cook at Glasgow High School and then later...
John Victor Knight, 90, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, in Perham, Minn. Funeral services will be held Friday, Nov. 6, at Calvary Lutheran Church in Perham. Military honors will be provided by the VFW Post 4020 Honor Guard. He was born June 23, 1925, in Wolf Point, Mont., to Leonard and Lucia Knight. He graduated from Glasgow High School in 1946 after returning from the U. S. Army, serving during World War II in the European Theater with the 612th Graves...
Hulda Victoria (Hinther) Grant, 90, passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, at the Renaissance Senior Care Center in Helena, Mont. She was born in Jordan, Mont., on March 27, 1925, the daughter of John Henry and Maria (Koch) Hinther. She attended school in Jordan and married Dixon Grant on Dec. 19, 1942, in Miles City. They had one son, Dennis Norval Grant, on May 13, 1944. She worked as the chief cook on the Veseth Ranch south of Malta for many years until moving into town, where she then...
On Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, Victor Weinmeister, 92, entered into the gates of heaven with his devoted son, Duane, by his side. A viewing will be held Friday, Nov. 6, at 11:30 a.m. with family receiving friends until service time at Bell Mortuary in Glasgow. Funeral services will begin at 1 p.m., followed by burial in the Nashua Cemetery. He was born on leap year, Feb. 29, 1924, at the family home in the farming community of Durham, Kan. He was the seventh child born to German immigrants Mary...
Herbert William (Brekken) Belcher died Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, in Hamilton, Mont., at age 83. No funeral services are planned. His remains will be interred at a later date in the family burial plot in Chinook. He was born on June 28, 1932, in Zurich, Mont., the oldest son of Fred and Evelyn (Henderson) Belcher. Orphaned as a young boy, he spent his early years at the Deaconess Home for Children in Helena. He was adopted at the age of 12 by Norwegian immigrants Anders and Marit (Utigard) Brekken. He graduated from Glasgow High School in 1950,...
Jim O. Storkson, 76, former Hobson, Great Falls and Glasgow resident, died Monday afternoon, Oct. 26, 2015, in a Lewistown Nursing Home of natural causes. He was born Oct. 7, 1939, the son of Clarence and Rachel (Beck) Storkson in Glasgow, Mont. He received his schooling in Glasgow, and in 1957 he entered the United States Marine Corps, serving until 1961. He then returned to Glasgow and worked as a mechanic for Newton Motors. In the early 2000s, he moved to Great Falls and later to Hobson. He...
A memorial service for Melanie Cornwell Solberg will be held Saturday, Nov. 14. Committal services will be held at the Highland Cemetery at 3 p.m., followed by a time for sharing and visiting at the Glasgow VFW Club. Supper will be served followed by music. We sincerely hope that friends and family will join us there....
Robert Elwood Esaias, age 70, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, at his home in St. Marie, Mont. Services will be Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 1 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Glasgow. Inurnment will take place in Choteau. He was born June 25, 1945, in Troy, Penn., to Hall and Mary Esaias. He graduated from Troy High School in June 1963 and joined the U.S. Air Force in November of 1963. This was his first time away from the dairy farm and led to a long career, which took...
Valley Cinemas is offering two films this week, Spectre and The Peanuts Movie. One of the interesting phenomena surrounding the James Bond movies is that viewers, or at least one viewer, have the feeling that they had just seen one a few months ago. Now the latest Bond film, Spectre, is here and it comes as something of a surprise that its predecessor, Skyfall, was released way back in 2012, during the last Olympics and when there was a Queen Jubilee, Arab Spring, a Mars rover, and Argo was the best picture ever made. Like Beatles songs,...
Hosting the District Volleyball Tournament comes with some perks: home-cooked meals, less missed school and familiar beds. But this year the biggest advantage has to be hometown support. Throughout the entire season and now into play-offs, the Glasgow fans have been loud and proud. Their efforts have carried considerable weight in the hearts of the Scottie girls who have periodically been dismissed due to their lack of size but who have fought tirelessly to prove that it's the size of the heart...
Glasgow mustered enough fight on Halloween night to avoid repeating the shutout of Sept. 11, but the red and white's six points crumpled as a paper shield under Baker's iron-toothed, 47-point onslaught. The Scotties second trip to the Spartans' turf mirrored the first in all but the 42-0 scoreline - though not by much did the two portraits differ. "We played hard," said coach Greg Liebelt, "but in the end we were overmatched, and made too many mistakes on both sides of the football to affect...
Shane Sinclair, 15, shot this beautiful antelope south of Forsyth on Oct. 26. Shane is a freshman at Glasgow High School....
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ Havre game check station was fairly active over the weekend of general deer and elk opener, with most species seeing an increase in harvest from the past few years. This is the third weekend that the check station has been open. Weather conditions over the opening weekend of general big game season were warm and dry with very little wind. There were 221 hunters in 113 parties checked, which was up 23% from 2014. Hunter numbers were lower on Saturday, but activity picked up on Sunday when the majority (71%) o...
On Thursday, Oct. 29, the Glasgow Middle School Cross Country team had a team banquet to celebrate its winning season. The boys middle school team has gone undefeated for two consecutive seasons. A plaque honoring the boys for their undefeated season will be placed at East Side Middle School. The team members are, from left to right: Coach Ashley Kemmis, Keevan Sibley, Coach Andrew McKean, Tyler Fitzsimmons, Carl Zabrocki, Taylor Fitzsimmons, Wilson Overby, Kaden Zimmerman, Trevor Johnson,...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the Bureau of Land Management would like outdoor enthusiasts to be “Bear Aware,” even in Region 6. Although bear encounters are rare in most of Region 6, there are currently some bears present in the Little Rockies and the Bears Paw Mountains. In addition, bears are occasionally found wandering far from their traditional areas, and preventative measures should always be taken to prevent wildlife encounters. FWP recently relocated a black bear that was rummaging through garbage cans at Camp Creek campground,...
joe laumeyer / for THE COURIER The Nashua Lady Porcupines had an outstanding tournament at the District Volleyball tournament in Scobey last weekend. After losing to the Spartans in the semi-finals, they fought back and made it to the championship match. They took the Lustre Lions to the fifth match, where they won 16-14. In the championship, they won the first match against Scobey 25-23, but then lost the next 3 to take home the Second Place trophy. Pictured back row (L-R): Coach Cline, Nicole...
