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As Glasgow families start getting ready for the first day of school, Wednesday, Aug. 26, and as students have started practices for their fall sports, parents and students will notice changes as their children enter the classroom and the field for the new school year. With discussions around the country of either canceling fall sports all together or postponing the sports to spring, at the regular school board meeting on Aug. 12, during the board comment period Chair Mona Amundson expressed concern regarding what Glasgow sports will look like...
Field data collection for the 2020 Census is expected to end Sept. 30, a full month earlier than the original extension, which was established due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham, the shift in deadline is to speed up the completion of the data collection and apportionment counts while protecting the health and safety of the public and the Bureau’s workforce. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States suspended all field operations from March to early May as a way to slow the spread o...
It has been a long five months for Valley View Home. Since the governor’s directives were issued in March and the Center for Medicaid/Medicare Services issued guidance for long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, a toll has been taken on the care providers, staff, residents and loved ones associated with the facility. As a direct result of the pandemic and the restrictions meant to keep the populations most vulnerable to the coronavirus safe, many of the residents have not directly interacted or had physical contact with their l...
The Valley County Health Department and Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital confirmed 13 cases of COVID-19 over the past week, with eight cases announced on Aug. 14 and five cases announced on Aug. 16. As of Aug. 17, at 5 p.m., Valley County has 36 cases total, with 25 cases recovered and 11 active cases. Case 24 is a female in her 40s who is not hospitalized and is isolating at home. The investigation and contact tracing are complete. This individual is symptomatic with the source of her infection unknown. Case 25 is female in her 50s who is not...
The Glasgow City Council voted unanimously—with four members present—to approve the ballot language that will appear on November’s ballot asking if residents want to allow a household to own up to six female chickens inside city limits. The vote, which occurred on Aug. 12, is the final step in presenting the question to the public. The ballot language will read: Do you support allowing property owners to maintain six (6) domestic chicken hens, within the incorporated Glasgow City limits, subject to the regulation by the Official Code of the C...
The Glasgow Clinic recently added a new face to their already established repertoire of doctors and nurse practitioners, Dr. Curtis Campbell, Doctor of Osteopathy. Dr. Campbell started earlier this month after coming from the Glendive Medical Center where he had worked since 2018. Dr. Campbell is originally from Georgia and obtained his Bachelors of Chemical Engineering at Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah, in 2011. He then went on to obtain his Doctor of Osteopathy degree at the...
Montana Highway Patrol Sergeant Jeff Kent says Valley County resident Charles Dunn, 65, died in the afternoon hours of Monday, Aug. 10, when he rear-ended a farm truck on Highway 24 between Glasgow and Fort Peck while riding a motorcycle. Kent said Dunn had been traveling southbound on Highway 24 near mile marker 66 in excess of the posted 70-mph speed limit on a 2006 Buell XB-12X sport bike when he attempted to overtake a Ford F-350 pickup—which was modified to haul hay bales—and his right side struck the flatbed edge of the truck’s left-...
Valley County added 10 more COVID-19 cases over the past week, resulting in the county having 23 positive COVID-19 cases, with eight active and 15 recovered, as of Aug. 10, at 4 p.m. Case 14, which was announced on Aug. 6, is a male in his 50s, is not hospitalized and is isolating at home. The individual was a named contact to a previous identified positive case. The individual became symptomatic during his quarantine. Case 15, which was also announced on Aug. 6, is a male in his 30s, is not hospitalized and is isolating at home. Exposure is...
Glasgow Schools will be reopening this month. That was the unanimous decision of the Glasgow School Board at their meeting on Aug. 6. Board members Mona Amundson, Angie Page, Blaine White and Ryan Fast were present. Superintendent Wade Sundby attended to present the policy committee’s recommendations to the public, the board and school staff, who attended via Zoom. Board member Mike Kaiser was not present. The special board meeting was held in the district board room at 9 a.m. to declare the 2020-21 school year an emergency situation and d...
The Valley County Commissioners hosted their required first public hearing on Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Funding on Aug. 4 in the Valley County Courthouse. The hearing was to inform the public about the various programs available and how these programs can be used to serve the community, with particular attention to persons of low to moderate income. Craig Erickson, certified grant writer with Great West Engineering, led the presentation and discussion. He outlined for the gathered interested community members and commissioners...
Roughly 40 participants came out to support Warriors on the Water, run five kilometers and be painted a myriad of bright dusty colors on Aug. 8. The event, held annually by the Glasgow Scottie Student Council, raises money for the veteran-oriented charity organization which hosts a summer fishing weekend at the Fort Peck Reservoir for military veterans from across the United States and who served in various armed conflicts. Runners lined up at 9 a.m. to take the route encompassing much of...
"I put my mask on, Wash my hands, Nothing's more fun Than a camp with friends" The camp cheer from the Fort Peck Summer Theatre's Performing Arts Camp sums up how staff and campers are making the most of their experience this year in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic. Of course, this year there have been some adjustments, bringing the camp into compliance with county, state and federal health recommendations. The camp normally welcomes many more campers. Last year, about 80 kids and...
After years from Montana’s delegation advocating to fund conservation projects, outdoor recreation and maintenance of national parks as well as other public lands, the Great American Outdoors Act was signed by President Trump on Aug. 4. The bipartisan bill will spend nearly $3 billion in total, which will see about $900 million a year, currently double the current spending, on the popular Land and Water Conservation Fund while also providing another $1.9 billion per year to improve national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and rangelands. Suppo...
Valley County’s active COVID-19 cases stand at five as of press time this week. The cumulative number of cases in the county stands at 13, with eight recovered diagnoses. With the new cases, Valley County is now under the mask mandate issued by Governor Steve Bullock on July 15. Counties with four or more active cases fall under the mandate requiring face coverings in certain indoor spaces and for certain outdoor activities. The directive is an attempt to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Montana has over 1,500 active c...
“...but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.” That liberally used partial quote from poet John Lydgate has applied to countless situations over the centuries and may be in the backs of the minds of the Glasgow School board members and administration as they work towards a reopening plan for the Glasgow Schools. The Board’s Policy Committee members met on July 31 in the school administration building to discuss updating and adapting the Emergency Policy Series 1900. Approved as the state was in a stay-at-home directive issued...
At the Aug. 3 regular meeting of the Glasgow City Council, city attorney Anna Rose Sullivan informed the council that an ordinance to eliminate Wards and move the city to an at-large election system would not appear on the ballot in November. The ordinance was passed using an emergency ordinance procedure that allows the council to pass such an ordinance with only one reading at a public meeting. In order to override a second reading the ordinance must pass with a two-thirds majority of the governing body. In the case of the city council, that...
The Army Corps of Engineers surveyed irrigation sights between July 8 and 17, as part of a study into plans to alter the rate of water release from Fort Peck Dam in the coming years to test the potential for Pallid Sturgeon recovery in the river below the dam. The change in flows will test whether or not increasing flows and then decreasing them throughout the season will attract the ecologically extinct Pallid Sturgeon to spawn in the river system. Farmers along the Missouri River fear those...
Richard Winderl was a lifelong resident of Valley County and he passed away June 28, 2019. He is still looking out for the community he cared about by providing a donation to the FMDH Scholarship Fund. The ninth child of 10 sons, his family farmed south of Richland, Mont. He attended boarding school in Great Falls and had just started high school when he ended up in the hospital. From there, he headed back to the family farm and worked alongside his brother, George. Many of you may know, Richard was a private person and kept many things to...
The rodeo arena was filled with 4-H members, their horses, families and judges for the annual 4-H Horse Show July 23 and 24 at the Northeastern Montana Fairgrounds. Putting their horses through their paces, the 4-H kids went through several events such as horsemanship, English horsemanship and speed events. Club members from across the county participated before the eyes of the judges, presenting skills they have worked on for the past year. Madelynn Tatufu won the Grand Championship for...
Siblings Bridget Wright and Ian Wright, both of Glasgow, turned classic fairy tales upside down providing unexpected twists and tales last week with the Fort Peck Summer Theatre's Theatre for Young Audiences production of Fractured Fairy Tales. The sibling duo performed at the Glasgow City-County Library, The Rex Theatre, in Scobey, the Phillips County Museum, in Malta, and the Fort Peck Interpretive Center last week. "The shows went really well!," exclaimed I. Wright. "The crowd was smaller in...
