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Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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1 Years Ago Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 New opportunity will come with new classes and new classrooms in the next school year. One local teacher has been spearheading the efforts to bring a program to Glasgow that will encourage students to look at future careers in engineering, technology and design. Jim Stone, who has been teaching at the Glasgow High School, is getting ready to make his move into the middle school next year. He's been chipping away at boxes and gathering equipment and s...
Valley CARE Coalition hosted their annual Mental Health Awareness Walk June 6. Community members and speakers gathered at the Valley Event Center along with law enforcement escorts to hear new perspectives on the need for awareness around and care for mental health. Taylor Hohlen of FMDH and the CARE Coalition welcomed participants with a reminder that any time is a good time to address and maintain mental health. She then turned the microphone over to Gracie Otten, Miss Glasgow Teen, who...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, March 12, 2014 Valley County is now looking at changing some of rural addresses to help avoid confusion for when emergency medical services are needed. A mapping system was implemented in 2006, and the mapping and addressing system is going into place to help enhance 911 services. The data uses a global positioning system (GPS) and the geographic information system (GIS). The county is now hoping to simplify addresses in hopes of correcting addresses that may be on the...
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 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...
1 Years Ago Wednesday June 19, 2013 The Glasgow Courier won two state wide awards for first place and three for second during the Montana Newspaper Association's 2013 convention last week in Missoula. The Courier's big winners in the MNA's Annual Better Newspaper Contest were Nashua correspondent Sandy Laumeyer for Best Column Writing and Sports Editor J. Levi Burnfin for Best Sports Column. Justiss Firemoon, the Hi-Line's representative at Saturday night's Miss Montana Pageant, won the talent...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 The 2012 Homecoming nominees are Alex Page, Bryan Larson, Rachel Prewitt, and Andy Gardner. The Homecoming Queen is Laurel Wageman and Homecoming King is Greg Fewer. An appreciation dinner honoring Jackie Bird was held at the Cottonwood last Friday. She has gone above and beyond with the St. Marie Women's Club sending care packages to our troops serving in the Mideast. Toiletries, jerky, power bars donated as well as postage money can always be used,...
CHRIS MCDANIEL THE COURIER Many little girls dream of being royalty. For four lovely ladies, that fantasy is now a reality. "I have been dreaming for it my whole life," said Lyndsey Plummer, 6, a kindergartner who earned medals for her Vintage Wear, Casual Wear and Occupational Wear during the Our Little Miss state competition. The pageant happened April 16 to 18 in Billings. Guinevere Grace Turner was awarded Montana's Sweetheart and Prettiest Smile. Samantha Combs received medals for Leather...
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Miss Montana Pageant in Glendive. Before going, I thought it would merely be formal event with contestants having little ability to express themselves. I found out otherwise. The 11 contestants all brought something different and unique to the pageant, which made it entertaining to attend. Naturally, I came to show my own personal support for Abbi Helland, of Glasgow. Not only was I covering the event, she is also a friend. Each contestant...
Citing the famous "All the world's a stage" speech from Shakespeare's As You Like It, Montana's representative to the 95th Miss America pageant stopped in Nashua Oct. 12 and spoke to students about the importance of character and her commitment to sharing an anti-bullying message among young people. 23-year-old Danielle Wineman of Cut Bank attended the famous competition in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Sept. 15 and has been making her way around the state, stopping for appearances in Opheim,...
January • The winter storm that hit northeast Montana on Thursday night, Jan. 10, wasn't a surprise. It had been making its way across the state, heralded by the forecasters. But its intensity on Friday brought on the winter grumbles. The storm deserved the term blizzard, with heavy snow that was blown by winds up to 41 mph, causing white-out conditions and drifts reported up to 9 feet deep. The low temperature of 1 degree above zero Friday night translated to about 29 below wind chill. A r...
America’s got talent. The Hi-Line’s got talent. Justiss Firemoon’s got it, too. Firemoon, the Hi-Line’s representative at Saturday night’s Miss Montana Pageant, won the talent competition with her singing of “Phantom of the Opera.” In her first pageant ever, the Fort Peck Reservation 18-year-old also survived the first two cuts of contestants that trimmed the field from 13 to seven. “I truly enjoyed the experience,” she said. Sheridan Pope of Sidney was crowned Miss Montana 2013 and will represent the state at the Miss America Pageant i...
Will she win? The Hi-Line’s candidate for Miss Montana 2013, Justiss Firemoon of Poplar, finds out Saturday night. Justiss, 18, and 12 other candidates are competing to succeed last year’s winner, Alexis Wineman of Cut Bank, who was chosen “America’s Choice” in the Miss America Pageant and became well known for her success as someone with autism. Justiss – whose father, Thomas, owns the Nakoda Trails Stop store in Frazer – plans to sing in the talent competition during this year’s Montan...
Laurel Wageman, this year’s homecoming queen at Glasgow High School, was first runner up for the title of Montana’s Homecoming Queen in the America’s Homecoming Queen Pageant held May 4 in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the event that Baylor Anderson of Thompson Falls cannot fulfill her obligations to attend the national competition in Anaheim, Calif., this July, Laurel would go in her place. Laurel is the daughter of Gary and Annette Wageman of Glasgow. Annette Wageman kept a journal of their pageant...
