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A painful but important reminder was placed at Sullivan Park this week. The National Weather Service in Glasgow worked with the Glasgow Reds baseball team to place a high water mark on the concessions stand. Valley County and the city of Glasgow will never forget a flash flood that took everyone by surprise on June 8, 2011. Tanja Fransen, a local meteorologist at the National Weather Service, said they placed the water line mark in a place where more people would see it. "The marker is for... Full story
The Glasgow Scotties super fall sports season – for volleyball and cross country, too –ended Saturday when the football team lost in the state Class B semifinals to Baker. Above, Keil Krumwiede takes off on a 23-yard gain. Krumweide is among five Scotties named All-State this past week. Catch up on it all, and more, in Courierland Sports.... Full story
At least half a dozen burglaries have taken place in Valley County and Glasgow over the last few weeks. At Monday’s City Council meeting ,Lt. Trint Gamas said that investigators had one possible suspect in custody – but there may be another. “We just need to remind people to lock their doors on their car doors and their houses,” Gamas said during the council meeting. Later Gamas said in an interview that a female suspect was taken into custody at the county jail last week. She was not identified. One burglary still remains unsolved in Glasgow...
A third man has been arrested in connection with a recent Valley County drug investigation. Steven Harvey Morlock, 29, of St. Marie, was arrested in Dunn County North Dakota by the Dunn County Sheriff’s Office on Nov. 13, according to the Valley County Sheriff's Ofiice. Morlock was arrested on a felony arrest warrant out of Valley County District Court stemming from the same Valley County Sheriff’s Office investigation that led to the arrests of Mark Alan Wagoner and Douglas Michael Turner. Morlock faces a felony charge of conspiracy to com...
Giving thanks is part of the season. Sharing a meal on Thanksgiving day is a tradition for families all across the nation. Sharing a meal with the community has been a tradition in Glasgow for 22 years and going onto its 23 year. Ruth Ann Hutcheson said that the local tradition actually started just a few years prior to the community Thanksgiving. She said at the time there was discussion about bringing in the food bank, and she invited others from her church to come share a meal. A few years went by and she said that it expanded into the...
A memorandum of understanding between Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation allows about 3,700 acres of federal land near Wagner in Phillips County to be specifically designated as being open to the public, FWP announced. According to Acting FWP Region 6 Hunting Access Coordinator Tim Potter Jr., the new 20-year agreement covers federal lands associated with Reclamation’s Milk River Project. The Milk River Project was authorized by Congress for the primary purpose of irrigation, but the...
We made an attempt at understanding the need for sports co-ops in some high schools in last week's column. The diminishing numbers of students and the loss of population in our smaller communities have made it necessary for towns to get together and discuss mergers or co-ops. Just a few of the questions people from both communities would ask are: Who pays for travel to and from practices? How will insurance coverage be obtained? How will gate receipts be divided? Where will home games be played. Are the training rules for both schools comparabl... Full story
Frazer Superintendent Corrina L. Guardipee-Hall recently released this statement after a situation at the school involving text message threats. On Nov. 5, Frazer School District went into lockdown at 12 p.m. after a few of our high school students received some serious threats through text messages. Due to the nature of the threats, we contacted law enforcement, the parents of the students involved who received the threats and the school board. Once law enforcement came on the scene, we were able to obtain information that the threat came...
The Courier recently received the following letter from the National Wildlife Federation. Dear Phillips/Valley County Resident: Last year, through a similar letter, National Wildlife Federation (NWF) heard from hundreds of residents in northeast Montana regarding concerns over a wild bison restoration. We have listened and responded to those concerns and are hopeful we can continue to find solutions where both livestock and wildlife can thrive on Montana's prairies. As many of you know, the 2013 Legislature considered a number of bison bills, s...
Some more on the little groceries. It is always such a pleasant surprise to get phone calls and letters on subjects and certainly want to share them at some time or another. Received a letter the other day that helped me remember a couple of other small grocers in Glasgow. Do you remember our first “warehouse grocery,” which was located in the present Gallery Gifts building? The reader remembers the various chocolate bars that were stocked near the door. Then there was Eddie's Quick Stop, right close to the railroad track crossing and pri...
Dear Editor: As ranchers, we have read about and heard about the devastation the ranchers in South Dakota have endured. I am writing about two young ranchers that lost the majority of their cattle to the storm. They are nephews of my sister, Kathleen, in South Dakota. They are hard-working young men with families trying to build herds of their own. Frank and Toni and their three young cowboys lost 40 head of cattle with 17 of them being replacement heifer calves. Colter and Abby and their very young cowgirls lost 18 of their 19 pairs in the...
Walter James Thorn, 77, from Glasgow, Mont., died Tuesday, November 12, 2013, in Billings after a year-long battle with a rare form of leukemia. He was born on Aug. 30, 1936, in Great Falls, Mont., to James and Helen Thorn. He married Sondra Gallagher of Glasgow on Aug. 15, 1959, and spent the next 54 years with his best friend. They had four children. He graduated from Havre High School in 1955 and joined the Navy, where he participated in Operation Redwing, which was the testing of the H-Bomb...
Cindy Lu (Sutherlin) Spencer, 57, of Glasgow, Mont., died from respirator and renal failure on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, at the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow. She was born April 20, 1956, in Omaha, Neb., the daughter of Lowell and Dolores (Candee) Sutherlin. She lived there for the first eight years of her life. Her family moved to the Seattle area in 1964. She attended Bellevue Christian School and Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, Wash. She and her youngest daughter,...
Esther Mae (Kleppelid) Jernigan, 88, died Nov. 13, 2013, at Carolinas Hospital in Florence, S.C. Born in Circle, Mont., on March 25, 1925, to Albert and Rosemond (Palmerton) Kleppelid, she grew up in McCone County, Mont. She graduated from high school in Circle, and attended nursing school in Great Falls. While on a layover in Great Falls, as he hopped aircraft on his way to his hometown of Louisville, Miss., World War II Navy seaman Edwin Jernigan met and fell in love with Esther. When the war...
Gordon R. Larson, 87, died Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, of natural causes at the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow. He was born on Dec. 11, 1925, in Opheim, Mont., to Olaf and Delia (Skarsten) Larson. He was one of six children, including one sister and four brothers. They lived on a farm/ranch 2 miles east of Opheim, where he resided his entire life. He was a true blue farmer, through and through, and he loved spending his days under Montana's famous Big Sky. He married Arlene Arneson on...
Joseph "Joe" Marshall Halvorsen, 94, died Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013, at Sidney Health Center in Sidney, Mont. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 23, at Pella Lutheran Church in Sidney with Pastor Charlane Lines officiating. Interment of cremains will be in Sidney Cemetery. He was the youngest of seven children born to Hans J. Halvorsen, a Norwegian immigrant, and Anna Margrethe Walla Halvorsen. He grew up on Deer Creek near Glendive. Before World War II, having attended Montana...
Longtime Flaxville resident, Dale M. Fishell Jr., 88, died Nov 10, 2013, at the Sheridan Memorial Nursing Home in Plentywood. He had been a resident at the nursing home for the past several months. There will be a memorial service at a future date. He was born May 29, 1925, in Outlook, Mont., to Dale and Elizabeth (Crossen) Fishell. He grew up with an older sister, Mercedene, and brothers Victor and Harry in Redstone. He attended school in Redstone, graduating from high school in 1943. After high school, he started farming with his father in...
Carole Ann (Oderman) Whipple, 71, died Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, in Helena. She battled breast cancer a few years ago and last spring she discovered that she had metastatic bone cancer. She was a wonderful mother, grandmother, sister and friend. We will hold her in our heart with great love. She was born Feb. 5, 1942, in Great Falls, Mont. Her parents were George and Palladia Oderman. They moved to Glasgow, and that is where she was raised. She graduated from Glasgow High School. She married Frank...
The Scotties football team's dream of bringing a state championship game back to the home field will have to wait another year. Glasgow lost to the Baker Spartans, 22-7, in the Class B semifinals on Saturday, Nov. 16, in Baker. Scotties fans, the band and cheerleaders packed the Spartans stands. In the end, the Spartans were simply a better and stronger team. The Spartans controlled both the ball and the clock for most of the game, while crippling Glasgow's offense. It was also the Spartans who... Full story
Football All-State 2013 District 2B Football All-State Seth Adams, Harlem Luke Gunderson, Glasgow Kelin King, Malta Johnathan Koessl, Glasgow Keil Krumwiede, Glasgow Jackson Marsh, Plentywood Nathan Veit, Malta District 2B All-Conference 1st Team Defense DE Keil Krumwiede, Glasgow, 11 DE Nathan Veit, Malta, 12 DT Luke Gunderson, Glasgow, 12 DT Kelin King, Malta, 12 LB Quintan Boos, Malta, 11 LB Caleb Harms, Malta, 12 LB Jackson Marsh, Plentywood, 12 LB Tanner Roness, Glasgow, 11 DB Tyson Carney, Malta, 10 DB Trey Howard, Plentywood, 12 DB Johna...
A BIG THANKS TO SCOTTIE NATION!!! I wanted to take the opportunity to use this forum and let everyone out there who has supported and followed us along the way, know how grateful I am once again and what an honor it is to coach the Glasgow Scotties! I still have to pinch myself to think after growing up and idolizing the Scottie football teams, players and coaches as a kid, that I would someday be leading them. We wanted so bad to bring the championship game back home to Glasgow, but it just wasn’t in the cards this year. Although the game w...
The Glasgow High School Speech & Drama Team competed Saturday at the Circle Invitational Meet. Sixteen schools competed at this meet; eight of them were Class B schools, three Class A and five Class C. The Glasgow team again came home with the Class B Drama trophy, earning 50 points while their closest rival, Plentywood, earned 25 and Huntley Project had 24 points. The Speech team came home with 52 points and a third-place trophy behind Shepherd with 66 and Huntley Project with 60. The experience that the seniors bring to the team is translatin...
