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1 Years Ago Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014 Changes are still settling in at the Valley County Health Department as back to school immunization and flu season starts. Not only are they sporting a new executive director and a new RN, they also have expanded their office and have gotten a new look. "We're encompassing the newness," Health Department Executive Director Connie Boreson said. "We're there where the people are to keep the community healthy." The new RN (registered nurse) joining the staff...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, June 4, 2014 Preserving the local history and sharing it with future generations is a big job. The Valley County Pioneer Museum has taken on that task and they welcome visitors into the museum every third Sunday in June, in hopes to draw in new visitors. Memories remain of Baker's Jewelry when it was under the ownership of LaVern John "L.J." Baker. His children will be in town to present a new display specially built for the museum. "He wanted this in the museum; it was...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, April 2, 2014 Gwynn Simeniuk gave her retiring address as 2013-2014 state FFA first vice president last weekend, March 27-30, in Great Falls at the Montana State FFA Convention. Simeniuk has spent a busy adventurous year traveling around the state, visiting many of Montana's FFA chapters, attending workshops, seminars and the State Presidents Conference in Washington, D.C., and she even traveled to South Africa to learn more about their culture and their local...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 Whether the Nashua School have a four-day or a five-day school week was first addressed two years ago. But because of the superintendent at that time leaving and a new superintendent coming in, the board voted to table the issue. At the school board meeting, a motion was made that the board have the ability to explore and adopt a four-day or modified four-day school week. Whether a four-day school week at Nashua will actually transpire remains to be seen....
1 Years Ago Wednesday, January 29, 2004 The three-year anniversary to the construction of the new jail is coming up in March. The project took months to finish and cost thousands of dollars. The newest addition to the Valley County jail comes this month as the installation to a new cooler is completed. The new cooler is about twice the size of the old cooler and is located in a safer proximity to the new facility. With the new facility in place, there's room for 30 inmates and the county sees a...
5 - Cody Kuka’s place is 6th and has scored 15.0 team points. Champ. Round 1 - Cody Kuka (Glasgow) 20-14 received a bye () (Bye) Champ. Round 2 - Cody Kuka (Glasgow) 20-14 won by fall over Nathan Botteron (East Helena) 1-11 (Fall 0:44) Quarterfinal - Riley Hasbrouck (Hettinger/Scranton) 24-12 won by decision over Cody Kuka (Glasgow) 20-14 (Dec 15-9) Cons. Round 4 - Cody Kuka (Glasgow) 20-14 won by fall over Emry Veland (Three Forks/Ennis) 8-6 (Fall 3:50) Cons. Round 5 - Cody Kuka (Glasgow) 20-14 won by fall over Tyler Hovland (Billings S...
Day One COWBOY JV 103B - Makiya Plummer’s place is 1st and has scored 17.0 team points. Round 1 - Makiya Plummer (Glasgow) won by major decision over Eli Lonski (Sidney) (Maj 11-1) Round 2 - Makiya Plummer (Glasgow) won by fall over Steel Smith (Baker) (Fall 0:57) Round 4 - Makiya Plummer (Glasgow) won by fall over Landon Orthman (Hardin) (Fall 0:11) Round 5 - Makiya Plummer (Glasgow) won by fall over Charlie Buck (Chinook) (Fall 1:22) COWBOY JV 126 - Joaquin Torres’s place is 4th and has scored 10.0 team points. Round 1 - Joaquin Torres (Glasg...
1 Years Ago Wednesday Dec. 11, 2013 Sherry Young and Katie Brandt collect donations next to the Glasgow Post Office on Friday, Dec. 6, in temperatures below zero, for the annual Block of Bucks program that helps needy kids in the area shop for winter clothes. Volunteers swapped out every hour throughout the day to help collections continue. Glasgow will say goodbye to Silver Airways, formally known as Gulfstream Air, and welcome Cape Air, which will provide cheaper flights. Fares from Glasgow...
Glasgow played host to the 28th Annual Scottie Invite Dec. 8 and 9 with 27 schools and 352 wrestlers in attendance. The Scottie boys placed seventh with 99 team points. Khye Gamas, Tyler King, Michael King, Makiya Plummer and Cody Kuka placed for Glasgow. Gamas went 4-0 on the weekend to win the 152 lb. class. M. King took second at 170, T. King fourth at 120, Kuka sixth at 114 and Plummer eighth at 113 lbs. The Scottie girls scored 46 points to take ninth place. Riley Clampitt pinned Baker's...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013 The young and young at heart lined the streets through downtown Glasgow to watch the brightly lit floats that kicked off the Christmas season on Saturday, Nov. 30. The Glasgow Optimist Club and Glasgow Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture held the annual Parade of Lights with 14 entires this year. Northwestern Energy has begun to replace 74 street light poles in Glasgow. The project is to replace old poles in poor condition statewide while Glasgow is now the...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013 Frazer Elementary School District No. 2 and Frazer High School District 2B will conduct a bond election by mail ballot on Dec. 18. The Elementary School wants to sell $445,000 in general obligation school building bonds and the High School District proposes selling $980,000 in bonds. The total of $1,425,000 is to pay a portion of the costs of repairing, restoring and replacing certain parts of the district buildings; demolition of the existing...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013 Cape Air, the nation's largest commuter airline will begin serving eastern Montana with Essential Air Service beginning Tuesday, Dec. 10. From its hub in Billings, Cape Air will operate daily, year-round flights to five regional communities, Glasgow, Wolf Point, Sidney, Havre and Glendive. Each community will have two daily round-trip flights except Sidney, which will have five daily round-trips. Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital has recently trained...
Frazer Invitational Since we were working on training thru this and using it more as a workout session, I thought it was a pretty good day. We were hoping to run a bit as a pack in Frazer but the start was so congested, the girls broke apart pretty early. I thought for the most part we ran pretty well; Kheyerah Bilger had a personal best and ran 3:40 better than last year in Frazer. Caylen [Jankowski] had a season best by 1:24 and was 33 seconds better than last year. Kimber [Dulaney] ran a...
Compiled by Michelle Bigelbach The Courier 10 Years Ago Wednesday May 15, 2013 A new study released by the Montana Department of Commerce predicts that Valley County will experience modest population growth in the decades ahead and then return to about present-day levels by 2060. From the estimated 2012 population of 7,604, the numbers will rise to a peak of 8,188 in 2028. This is almost exactly what the population of Valley County was in 1990. More than 100 fifth-graders from all the Valley Cou...
The Scottie Field Recharged committee invites the community to attend a community meeting on Thursday, April 13, 7 p.m., at the Glasgow High School Auditorium. All community members are encouraged to join the Scottie Field Recharged Committee, Glasgow Public Schools Administration, GSD Board of Trustees, and coaching staff for this important informational meeting on this project. Jared Petrino with FieldTurf – Calhoun Manufacturing and U.S. Installation out of Wyoming will also be present to d...
The Glasgow wrestlers closed out their regular season with three events last week. The Scotties won their Senior Night Dual against the Dawson County Red Devils 44-16 last Tuesday at home. They went 19-9 at the Malta Mixer Friday night with the boys posting a 15-5 record while the girls went 4-4. Glasgow was back in Malta Saturday for the Malta Invitational where the boys took second with 178.5 points and the girls took third with 54 points. Khye Gamas, Mason Donaldson and Riley Clampitt won...
The Scottie boys basketball team split their games this past weekend in non-conference play. Glasgow defeated the Class A Sidney Eagles 55-45 at home Friday before dropping a 55-38 contest to the Class A Dawson County Red Devils the following night, also in Scottie Gymnasium. Glasgow now holds a 1-3, 5-7 overall record on the season. Glasgow defeated Sidney after falling behind 14-9 at the end of the first quarter. The Scotties established control in the second with a 20-point showing to carry...
The Glasgow girls basketball team dropped their non-conference games this past week against two Class A teams. The Scotties fell 54-49 to the Sidney Eagles Jan. 20 before dropping a 40-32 contest to the Dawson County Red Devils the following night, both at home. Glasgow now holds a 1-3, 1-11 overall, record. Sidney outscored Glasgow 13-8 in the opening eight minutes but Glasgow answered with 19 in the second quarter to tie the game at 27-27 heading into the second half. The Scotties outscored...
The Glasgow boys wrestling team maintained their sixth place ranking in the Class B/C Wrestling Coaches Power Poll released Jan. 10. Glasgow sits behind defending state champions Huntley Project in first; Three Forks, second; Jefferson, third; Cut Bank, fourth, and Whitehall, fifth. Coming in behind Glasgow were Colstrip in seventh; Anaconda, eighth; Plains/Hot Springs, ninth, and Lincoln County, tenth. Earning individual were rankings were Khye Gamas, William Kirkland, Michael King, Mason...
The Glasgow boys cross country team ran away with the top slot at the Culbertson Invitational Sept. 24. The Scotties scored 36 points and were trailed by Dawson County, 54; Sidney, 75; Trinity Christian, 106; Hebron, 124; Scobey, 148, and Plentywood, 148. Glasgow's girls team placed second with 54 points behind Sidney's 43. Dawson County took third with 84, followed by Scobey, 89; Circle, 105; Frazer, 148, and Brockton, 204. Reed Larsen led the boys team with a second-place finish out of 71...
The Scottie boys basketball team started their weekend with a heartbreaker of a loss to the Mustangs in Malta Thursday when the home team drained a 30-foot buzzer beater to win 44-43. But Glasgow rebounded with strong wins over Wolf Point, 66-51, at home on Friday and over the North Country Mavericks, 45-29, in Saco on Saturday. MALTA Glasgow's game against rival Malta was a back-and-forth affair with the lead trading hands over the course of the game. Malta led 13-11 at the end of the first...
The Glasgow girls basketball team went 1-1 in conference play this past weekend, falling Thursday in Malta 38-33 and avenging an earlier season loss against the Wolf Point Wolves 46-39 in Glasgow on Friday. On Saturday the Scotties traveled to Saco to play a non-conference game against the Mavericks where the home team ran away with the game 51-21. MALTA Glasgow led after one quarter in Malta, 9-7, but the M-ettes outscored the Scotties 16-9 in the second. The Scotties cut into Malta's lead in t...
Glasgow grapplers Jake Kuka, Devon Nesbitt, Damien Nesbitt, Mason Donaldson and Kyler Hallock all earned Top Five finishes at the Cowboy Classic in Miles City the past weekend. Hallock won the 205 lb. class 3-2 over Stran Selman of Huntley Project, marking his third title of the 2021-2022 season. Damien Nesbitt also defeated a Red Devil for his title in the 170 lb. class. He pinned Wylee Lindeen in 2:38 for his title. Devon Nesbitt finished in second place, falling to Huntley Project’s Garrett Sholley by a score of 6-3 in the 160 lb. class. J...
“He had a great tournament. He pinned everybody. That’s pretty impressive for that tournament.” Coach Jory Casterline was pleased with Kyler Hallock’s big win at the Bismarck Rotary Tournament in North Dakota this past weekend. The 195 lb. wrestler became the first Scottie to win a championship at the prestigious event in the four years of Glasgow attendance. Hallock pinned Ben Nagel of Bismarck High in 4:37 to win his weight class. He defeated Jack Melvin of Dickinson, N.D., in 54 seconds in the semi-finals to earn his trip to the final round....
The 26th Annual Scottie Wrestling Invitational proved to be an historical and a record-setting weekend. Twenty-seven schools sent 275 wrestlers to the event, including 39 girls taking advantage of the second year of girls wrestling being a sanctioned sport in Montana. Glasgow put 14 grapplers on their home mats, 13 boys and one girl. The Scottie boys team claimed a third-place finish with 123 points. Senior Kyler Hallock led the boys team with a second-place finish and 23 points. Shalynn...