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The Glasgow City Council met at their normal meeting on Nov. 5, in the council chambers. The meeting discussed a number of agenda items ranging from closing the city office the day after Thanksgiving to deciding whether to loan over $380,000 from First Community Bank to purchase equipment for the city. It was the latter issue of the loan that saw the most discussion. Particularly, the portion of the loan to buy 18 self-contained breathing apparatuses (SCBA) for the Glasgow Fire Department, each with an extra bottle. The grand-total price would...
The Valley County Pioneer Museum will be open Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m to 4 p.m. They will be closed for the month of January. For further information or special arrangements call 406-263-7344. The Fort Peck Interpretive Center is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. WEDNESDAY – NOV. 7 5:30 – 6:45 p.m. - Adult Only Skating the first Wednesday of each month at the Valley Event Center. No registration is necessary. THURSDAY – NOV. 8 3 p.m. - Valley County Transit Board meeting at the Valley County Transit office. Please use the b...
Award-winning Native American dancer and hip hop artist Supaman will be performing in Glasgow next week as part of the 2018-2019 Big Sky Series presented by the Northeastern Arts Network. The concert will be in the Glasgow High School Auditorium at 7 p.m., on Tuesday, Nov. 6. Supaman, the stage name of Christian Takes Gun Parrish, is a member of the Apsaalooke tribe who uses hip hop music to empower his audiences and spread a message of hope and faith. His art combines Native American culture, comedy and urban hip hop. He motivates, encourages...
"I was in those exact same seats, watching these very same performances." Though those same seats she referred to were in Malta, not Glasgow, the sentiment expressed by Kristen Estelle rang through. Her hard work and pursuit of her musical dreams brought her back to northeastern Montana to perform and answer questions from local music students. The Northeastern Arts Network's (NAN) Big Sky Series brings in a diverse array of musical performers each fall and winter for public performances and...
Dear Reader, This week is National Newspaper Week, and, in honor of that, I wanted to editorialize a little about why we are so passionate about Glasgow, the news and telling peoples’ stories. If you go through the archives of the Courier, you can find stories that go back as far as the 1890s, and I would wager that there is no organization in the world that has cataloged the specific stories in our community as long and as consistently as the Courier. We are truly writing our history every week of the year and have been every year for more t...
The Valley County Pioneer Museum is open for visitors Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For special appointments or events, call 406-228-8692. THURSDAY – OCT. 4 9 – 11 a.m. - Social hour at the Nashua Senior Center. 5 – 8 p.m. - Rummage Sale at St. Raphael’s. 7 – 8 p.m. - Grief Support Group at Glasgow Evangelical Church, 152 Aberdeen St. FRIDAY – OCT. 5 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. - Rummage Sale at St. Raphael’s. 11 a.m.- 2 p.m. - Town and Country 35th Anniversary Sale. Free polish dogs and soda will be served. 5 – 8 p.m. - Tom Boyer Meet and...
The Glasgow City Council voted in two separate meetings to increase tax assessments for city residents. At the Sept. 4 meeting, the council approved an increase in the number of mills to be assessed by the city in fiscal year (FY) 2018 to 2019. At the Sept. 17, meeting the council voted to increase the city street assessment which funds the road department, street repair and maintenance. According to City Clerk and Treasurer Stacey Amundson, the reason for the increase in mills from the previous year is due to a complex tax system. First, the...
Dear Editor, I attended the city council meeting Aug. 20. Ordinance No. 959 was the topic for discourse. It stated, in part, to allow up to six Gallus gallus domesticus on a single family premise subject to the following requirements. The complete ordinance is at the city office. The hen house would be 10 feet from the public right-of-way, sidewalk or neighbors’ property line. It would be unlawful for hens to be a nuisance with odors or noise to any neighbor. Any hen running at large would be impounded. The house could not exceed 12 feet at i...
The Valley County Pioneer Museum is open for visitors Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For special appointments or events, call 406-228-8692. THURSDAY – SEPT. 6 7:30 – 9:30 a.m. - Free Breakfast Exchange presented by the SCORE Organization at the Cottonwood Inn conference room. All small business-minds are invited to attend. 9 – 11 a.m. - Social hour at the Nashua Senior Center. 9 a.m. – 3:15 p.m. - Red Cross Blood Drive at FMDH. FRIDAY – SEPT. 7 7:30 – 9:30 a.m. - Free Breakfast Exchange presented by the SCORE Organizatio...
Brien Gault was sworn in as chief of the Glasgow Police Department on Aug. 20, at the regular city council meeting. Gault received the post after being unanimously confirmed by the city council and sworn in by Mayor Becky Erickson. Gault sat down with the Glasgow Courier to discuss his background in law enforcement, firefighting and community service as well as his goal for the department. Born in Devil's Lake, N.D., to a railroading family, Gault moved to Hinsdale with his family in 1981,...
Dear Editor, The city council meeting was well attended for referendum 959-chickens in city limits. As you have read in the Courier and heard on KLTZ, the referendum failed 4-1 with one council member not in attendance. From what I’ve read and heard, I perceived some things differently. As per the Glasgow Courier, at one point, when Miss House was answering questions about the ordinance “with the crowd at one point erupting with shouts and assertions.” “This drew rebuke from Stan Ozark and seemed to sway him in favor of the ordinance.” What I h...
In a heavily attended city council meeting the night of Monday, Aug. 20, the City Council rejected a measure to allow the keeping of backyard chickens in city limits by a vote of four to one, with Stan Ozark casting the only vote in favor. The meeting was attended by dozens of Glasgow and surrounding area residents who provided comments for the better part of an hour followed by questions and then comment by the council members who then cast their vote.The architect and momentum behind the initiative, Madelyn House, spoke first offering up her...
With the city of Glasgow's ordinance to allow chickens set for the first reading next Monday, Aug. 20, the Courier sat down with the person behind the push to end the prohibition on the birds in backyards. Madelyn House says that when she moved into her new house she was overly excited to continue on her tradition of keeping backyard chickens. Needless to say she was shocked that city ordinances prevented chickens from being kept within city limits. House said that a couple weeks after learning...
Why You Should Say No to Chickens Dear Editor, On Monday, Aug. 20, 5:30 p.m., the Glasgow City Council will have a first reading of referendum 959, Chickens in Glasgow City Limits. At that time, there will be open forum for comments, pro and con. At that point, the council will take whatever next step is needed. On the surface, those that presented the pro chicken voice didn’t sound too bad. Cities that allow chicken coups in backyards and don’t seem to have trouble include Billings, Bozeman, Butte and Portland, Ore. However, these cities hav...
The Valley County Pioneer Museum is open for visitors Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For special appointments or events, call 406-228-8692. WEDNESDAY – AUG. 15 4 – 7 p.m. - Beginning Band Display in the middle school music room for any students interested in doing sixth-grade beginning band. 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. - FWP Bowhunter Education Adult Online “Field Day” Course. For more info., call 228-3704. THURSDAY – AUG. 16 8 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Glasgow Middle School Orientation Day for all incoming sixth-graders and new seventh- and eight...
The Montana Warriors on the Water wrapped up their flagship week on July 28 with a feast, an auction and a concert by the Southern Drawl Band. But not before helping 18 veterans get out on the beautiful waters of Fort Peck Lake and snag some amazing fish, build camaraderie and help them reach out for support from the dozens of programs that offer them help. According to one of the groups many organizers and volunteers, Jace Ball the emergency department physician's assistant at FMDH and a...
In a packed Glasgow City Council meeting Monday, Aug. 6, the council decided to move a proposal for a city ordinance to allow the raising of chickens in city limits to go to a first reading at the city council meeting, which will occur at 5:30 p.m., on Aug. 20. For weeks, organizers and supporters of allowing chickens in city limits have worked with the city to draft an ordinance that would change the current law and allow the birds to be raised in town. During that same period, those organizers have built support, over a dozen of whom were...
The Valley County Pioneer Museum is open for visitors Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For special appointments or events, call 406-228-8692. THURSDAY – JUNE 14 Red Bottom Celebration in Frazer. 9 – 11 a.m. - Social hour at the Nashua Senior Center. 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. - Veteran Affairs Officers will be in Malta at the Malta City Hall. If bad weather exists on days of travel, stay tuned to the local radio stations for updated information. FRIDAY – JUNE 15 Red Bottom Celebration in Frazer. Aaron Chatten Memorial Softball Tournam...
WEDNESDAY- MAY 2 7 – 9:30 p.m. - Senior Citizens’ Prom at the Glasgow Senior Citizens’ Center. Cost is $3 per person or $5 for couples. Students from GHS Student Council will be there as dancing partners. THURSDAY – MAY 3 7:30 a.m. - Valley County Free Tree Day at the east side of the courthouse. 9:30 a.m. - The Nashua Community is invited to the Ladies’ Coffee Hour every Thursday at the Nashua Senior Center. 2 p.m. - Valley County Transportation Advisory Committee Meeting at the Valley County Senior Citizen Center, 328 4th Ave. S, Glasgow. FRI...
The Pioneer Museum will be open every Tuesday from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. through April 30. For special appointments or more information call 406-228-4926. THURSDAY – APRIL 12 9 a.m. - Noon – ServSafe Class in the Community Room of the Valley County Courthouse. Call the Valley County Extension Office at 228-6241 for more info., and to pre-register. 9:30 a.m. - The Nashua Community is invited to the Ladies’ Coffee Hour every Thursday at the Nashua Senior Center. 1:30 – 5 p.m. - BLM Scoping Meeting at the Cottonwood Inn in Glasgow. FRIDAY – APRIL 1...
I would like to share with you some of the City of Glasgow’s accomplishments that took place in 2017 and what our goals are for 2018. I will be updating you on different subjects and projects, and our progress via Glasgow Courier, City of Glasgow website and KLTZ/KLAN. Today I would like to address our levee system. 2017 was a pivotal year for the City of Glasgow as we worked on numerous issues. Some of those issues were resolved, some were taken to the next level, and some evolved into other issues. We also took on a number of projects, s...
To remind everyone to put down their cell phone while driving, the Valley County Health Department will be hosting the 3rd Annual Red Thumb Reminder Day Walk on Tuesday, Apr. 10, starting at 3:30 p.m. Come join the Valley County Health Department, Glasgow High School, Glasgow Middle School, JMG students, Glasgow High School Student Council members, and community members to experience hands-on learning about how distractive sending or reading a simple text can be. Community members are invited to start the walk at either the City-County Library...
The City Council would like to ensure the community that we have a snow removal plan in place that tries to encompass all scenarios and flexibility as possible while addressing the needs of the public. In dealing with the recent 15-inch snow event, our Snow Removal Plan states the highest priority is to address all emergency routes first and then move to the designated snow routes. You may view the designated routes by going to the City of Glasgow website. After the designated snow routes are made passable, we move into the other areas. Once...
WEDNESDAY – MARCH 14 1 p.m. - Valley County Conservation Dist. monthly Board Meeting at USDA Service Center. Meeting is open to the public. 1 p.m. - Foot care the second Wednesday of the month at Nashua Senior Center. Sign up by calling the center, 746-3370, or Shirley Ersland, 746-3384. 1-4 p.m. - Veteran Service Officers at Glasgow VA Clinic. The officers will visit nursing homes and assisted living centers by appointment only at 406-265-4225. They will also be at the Malta City Hall in Malta March 15 from 9:30-11:30 a.m. 5 p.m. - The regular...
