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Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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Twenty-two years ago, a retired Army doctor and his wife rolled into Glasgow, wondering if a cow town on the prairie was really a good choice to set up a new practice and a new chapter in their lives. It turned out to be a wonderful decision. Glasgow has been very good to Mike and me, and it is a real wrench to uproot ourselves from the place we have lived the longest. Only the pull of family in Colorado could be stronger than the love of good friends here and life in the beautiful Milk River...
Remember when Glasgow had businesses that did tailoring? Friedl’s Mens Wear comes to mind. It seems that the art of tailoring is rather a thing of the past, but that was a customer service at Friedl’s. You men will have to correct me if I am wrong, but I think when men of the area purchased a suit there it could be tailored to fit you. Not only were the pants shortened if needed, but sleeves could also be shortened or lengthened if excess fabric allowed. Maybe a side seam or two could be taken in or let out, darts added, any of those lit...
Karen Louise (Dokken) Jellum, 70, died from complications from Alzheimer's disease, on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013, at Sweet Nursing Home in Chinook. A celebration of life was held in Chinook at 11 a.m. on Oct. 25, at the Lloyd Sweet Auditorium, under the direction of Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook. Another service was held at 11 a.m. Oct. 26, at First Lutheran Church in Glasgow, with interment in the Highland Cemetery in Glasgow. She was born to Jorgen and Marion Dokken on Sept. 16, 1943, in Bremert...
Ines G. (Thackeray) Murch, 95, died of natural causes on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013, at the Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow, Mont. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Oct. 12, at 11 a.m. at the First Methodist Church in Glasgow, followed by interment in the Highland Cemetery in Glasgow. She was born on Jan. 9, 1918, in Havre, Mont., the daughter of William and Anna (Engeberg) Thackeray. She was born and raised west of Havre on a ranch on the Milk River. She attended the Cypress Country School...
The Nashua Civic Center was the site for a Sept. 24 meeting between Nashua area residents, representatives from HDR Engineering of Billings and the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) concerning the proposed construction of a railroad overpass in Nashua. Paul Grant, the public involvement and meetings representative of MDT, introduced project engineer Tim Erickson of HDR Engineering, who gave a presentation of four options for the overpass. Jeremy Miles, Lisa Fischer and Chris Kelley of HDR Engineering were also at the meeting....
Dear Editor: We have recently gone through a bitter conflict and unpleasant reactions to efforts to preserve native, beautifully pristine lands along the upper Milk River in north Montana. A century ago, our most famous historic figure in Montana made a statement that still holds remarkably true for such preserved and remarkable regions. Artist Charlie Russell observed the following: “Guard, protect and cherish your land, for there is no afterlife for a place that started out as Heaven.” That observation applies to the badlands area along the...
A half-dozen experienced hunters attended the hunter scoping session in Glasgow on Aug. 13 to give their comments on the proposed hunting seasons for 2014-2015. Comments will go to the Fish, Wildlife and Parks commission meeting on Oct. 10. FWP will present its proposal on Dec. 12, hold more public meetings and issue the final rule in February. Hunters and FWP wildlife managers discussed the slow recovery of deer and antelope from the devastating winter of 2011 and the EHD that came along that summer. They agreed that eagles and coyotes are...
Shawn Wersal of Glasgow drove his competition into the ground to win the 2013 Northeast Montana Fair Demolition Derby at the Glasgow Fair Grounds on Tuesday, Aug. 6. Engines roared, metal crunched and mud flew as winners advanced from three heats and a consolation round to the final, leaving behind those who raised white flags of defeat as their cars were beaten into submission or pushed out of the ring. “It was one of the fastest, hardest hitting derbies we’ve had in a long time,” said Judge...
Glasgow’s most expensive public works project doesn’t get the respect it deserves. It cost nearly $6 million and took a decade to go from planning to performance. The system is unique in Montana, packed with energy-saving features and it harnesses biological processes to keep the Milk River water pure. But it gets no respect. It slinks around under a pseudonym: WWTF. Waste water treatment facility. It’s a sewage plant, one of the fundamental services required of civilization. The full, doubl...
Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1926, his family moved to the Glasgow area when he was 3 and he grew up there on farms. He graduated from high school in 1943, enlisting in 1944 on his 18th birthday, attended infantry training and was sent to the Philippines and Japan. He married Nadine Scott in 1949. He worked 22 years as a sheet metal worker, 7 with his own shop. The family also farmed 7 years near the Milk River. A lifelong interest in repairing and customizing firearms led to his next career as...
Virginia Irene (Anderson) Sunford, 84, died of natural causes Thursday, July 25, 2013, at the Phillips County Hi-Line Retirement Center in Malta, Mont. She was born on Feb. 27, 1929, in Glasgow, the daughter of Virgil Howard and Blanche (Johnson) Anderson. She was raised on the Milk River near Saco and graduated from Saco High School in 1946. She attended Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, St. Olaf in Northfield, Minn., and Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., graduating in July of 1985. She...
You flush the toilet and then what? Some would reply, “I don’t care as long as it works!” Seriously though, then what? Where does the poo end up? In the ground? Does it float away in the Milk River? Or does it just plain old disappear? Here is the public’s opportunity to learn about the city of Glasgow’s state of the art waste water treatment process. On Friday, Aug. 2, the city and representatives from Morrison-Maierle Engineers will host an open house from 4 to 7 p.m. at Glasgow’s new treatment facility located behind the Sullivan Pa...
Ken Jansa, chairman of the Missouri/Milk River Chapter of Ducks Unlimited, welcomed more than 100 people to the Montana DU annual state convention last weekend at the Cottonwood Inn. Although the local chapter has been active for 28 years, this is the first time its has hosted the state convention. On Friday and Saturday, speakers from across the United States and from Canada celebrated the group’s successes over the past year and described the new conservation and fundraising programs coming up in the future. Montana DU president Nora T...
Ducks Unlimited members from across the Big Sky State – America and Canada, too – are expected in Glasgow this weekend for the 2013 Montana DU State Convention. The award-winning Missouri/Milk River DU chapter will host, and a block of rooms is reserved for attendees at The Cottonwood Inn & Suites. Convention organizers have promoted world class fishing at Fort Peck Lake, suggesting that visitors wrap a few days around the convention go after some of the big walleye and northern pike. Activities begin Friday afternoon. The agenda: Friday 1 to...
Yippee Haw! Polish up your boots, strap on your spurs, dust off your cowboy hat and come to Hinsdale for the annual Milk River Days celebration and 34th annual Milk River Cowboy Association Rodeo. Action starts Wednesday, July 3, at 10 a.m. with the fast draw competition. Call Brian at 364-2227 or Steve at 527-3398 for info. Then the MRCA Rodeo begins with barrel racing slack at 3 p.m., followed by team roping slack. The performance starts at 6:30 p.m. There will be added money in all adult events. Contact Dick Marshall for entry information....
A couple of dry days prevented flash flooding in Valley County Monday night, even though Glasgow received .83 inches of rain. The National Weather Service in Glasgow warned of thunderstorms and heavy rain for most of northeast Montana on Monday afternoon and flash flood warnings were issued Monday night. The Zortman Mine did get dumped on – 1.72 inches fell there. The thunder was loud and the lightning was bright in Glasgow, but the creeks did not rise. The Milk River at Glasgow is down more than 10 feet from its highest stage of 27.8 feet o...
After two weeks above flood stage, the Milk River at Glasgow dropped below the 25-foot flood stage on Tuesday and is expected to fall quickly, to around 16 feet on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service office in Glasgow. The river crested at 27.8 feet on June 11. Tampico saw moderate flooding above 24 feet for several days, cresting at 24.7 feet, but it fell below the flood stage on June 13 and early on Wednesday it was at 16.9 feet. Nashua reached 18.8 feet but never cracked the 20-foot flood stage. It is dropping too, to 16.3...
There were close to 10,000 collisions in Glasgow on Saturday. All of them were with malicious purpose as 17 drivers and cars participated in the 80s & Up Demolition Derby at the Glasgow Fairgrounds. With a calcutta immediately preceding the wreckage, and thousands in prize money on the line, the drivers weren’t holding back any steel-crunching punches. Coming out of the twisted ball of metal was Fred Potter, who took the top spot in the finals over second-place finisher and defending champion W...
Tanja Fransen at the Glasgow office of the National Weather Service is sending out e-blasts again, as she did during the record flooding of 2011. The latest, sent on Tuesday at noon, begins with a cheery “Hello Milk River Flood Group.” Fransen said the Milk River had crested at Saco and was cresting at Tampico, having topped out at 24.7 feet. Water is over the North Tampico Road and it is closed. At Glasgow, things were steadying around 27.8 feet, in the minor flood stage. According to Fransen,...
The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) is seeking comments on a proposal to realign and reconstruct about 1.8 miles of Highway 117, west of Nashua. The project begins at the north end of the Milk River Bridge and proposes reconstructing Hwy. 117 north for 1.8 miles, intersecting with U.S. 2. The project would create a second access to U.S. 2 for the community of Nashua through construction of a “grade separated crossing” of the BNSF railroad. Community meetings were held last year in Nashua for a solution to the problem of trains blo...
The Milk River at Glasgow jumped ahead of predictions and rose to 25.6 feet late Tuesday night. Flood stage is 25 feet, so there is minor flooding in low-lying areas. The latest forecast from the National Weather Service office in Glasgow (1:30 a.m. on Wednesday) is that the river will hold near 26 feet from Wednesday through Friday, and be at 27.5 feet early on Sunday. The situation changed quickly from the middle of the afternoon on Tuesday, when the river was at 23.15 feet and a height of 27...
That rumbling you heard on Saturday and Sunday was not an earthquake. It was the ear-shredding grumble of 400-horsepower engines running down a dirt drag strip and through four-foot deep mud. Milk River Motorsports put on a two-day event showcasing some of the most powerful and meanest trucks, cars and other in Montana. On Saturday, dozens competed in five classes of dirt drag racing. Glasgow’s Matt Wilfong took first with a time of 6.6 seconds in the stock class. Roy Stroppe was second and Joan...
Champions reigned in the Milk River Catfish Classic on Saturday. The top five teams were all former winners of the title, including the top duo of Nate and Jerry Molstad, who reeled in 37.29 pounds of catfish for their fourth Classic title. The Molstad mates exacted ‘a little bit’ of vengeance in the win, edging out young newcomers Gage Gordon and MacKenzie Reid, who won last year’s title just ahead of the Molstads, who finished in second. “It was nice to take them (Gordon and Reid) out this ye...
John Ihnot (formerly of Nashua, Montana) died of natural causes on Friday, May 24, 2013 at Northern Montana Care Center in Havre, Montana, just a few weeks short of his 99th birthday. Both the vigil and funeral Mass will be held at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church, 440 7th Avenue, Havre, Montana. The vigil will be held at 7:00 PM, Friday, May 31, 2013, and the funeral Mass will be held at 11:00 AM, Saturday June 1, 2013, with Father Daniel Wathen officiating. Burial, next to his wife Phyllis,...
