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After rescheduling twice earlier this year due to unfavorable weather conditions, Mother Nature finally decided to cooperate on Oct. 5, providing a crisp, cool fall day, with a sky as blue as a robin's egg for the Mental Health Walk, sponsored by the Valley C.A.R.E. Coalition. Community members of all ages came out to walk in solidarity to get people talking about and be accepting of mental illness. The overall theme of the walk was that the disease can affect any one, any family, and there is a...
In the conference room of the Cottonwood on Oct. 1, an unlikely group met to test their response and capabilities against a hypothetical disaster in Valley County. Consisting of Glasgow and Long Run firefighters, sheriff deputies, elected and county officials, utility workers, nursing and assisted living professionals and hospital executives, the group was challenged by the Montana Disaster and Emergency Services’ Jeff Gates and the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Glasgow’s Patrick Gilchrist to take on a fast moving wildfire just no...
The Missoula Children's Theatre (MCT) made a stop in Glasgow last week, teaching 35 future thespians the art of performing. Auditions for the traveling production of Johnny Appleseed started on Sept. 30, and the thespians had five days of practice before putting on two live shows, one on Oct. 4 and one on Oct. 5 in the auditorium of Glasgow High School. The play told the story through the eyes of Gramma (played by MCT tour actor/director Carly Weldy) of how Johnny Appleseed (younger version...
Students from Hinsdale and Saco gathered in the Saco School multi-purpose room Oct. 1 for a unique musical presentation and lesson given by Rhythm & Ramble, a swing quartet out of Bozeman, Mont. Rhythm & Ramble is one of four musical acts that are a part of the Northeastern Arts Network's Big Sky Series. These musical performers, who are part of the winter concert lineup, take the time to conduct educational outreach. The artists both perform and elucidate students on portions of music compositi...
Two Rivers Economic Growth and its four subcommittees have continued working over the past few months to improve the community. From hosting Alive at Five events, reaching out to businesses to entice them to have a storefront in Glasgow, and seeking out assistance in installing directional signage, they are constantly seeking out ways to make Valley County the best place to live, work and play. After wrapping up their first year of Alive at Five, events that were held once a month to get people out and experience different areas of the city, we...
The Glasgow High School Leadership class held their annual homeless for a night fundraiser on Oct. 5. This year the crew collected blankets and cash donations. The blankets went to help the homeless and the cash donations are to be given to Jackie Bird to assist with deployed service member care packages. For the evening, the students built small shelters out of cardboard boxes and then tested them against the elements. They kids nested down like penguins around an egg. The class had planned to... Full story
Future Farmers of America students from across northeastern Montana gathered in Hinsdale Oct. 1 for the Big Muddy FFA District Livestock & Agronomy Career Development event. Varsity and JV students competed individually and collectively in agronomy and livestock. FFA organizations from Lambert, Richey, Bainville, Culbertson, Plentywood, Opheim and Hinsdale competed in the event. FFA members can join as early as seventh grade and middle school students make up most of the JV teams, while varsity...
In today's technological world, the Glasgow Courier is put together weekly utilizing computers and a variety of computer programs, including a file-sharing software to electronically send the pages to the printer in Havre. The technology to get the paper in your hand weekly also includes cameras, recorders and cell phone usage to get the story in order to put it on the page. In addition to changes in the production of the Glasgow Courier, the community has also seen many changes over the years....
Secretary of State Corey Stapleton has awarded HAVA Election Security Grants to counties throughout the state, including Valley County, to assist them in purchasing the new ExpressVote voting system. The system will utilize touch-screen technology to produce a paper record for tabulation. It will handle the entire marking process, which will eliminate marginal marks and the need for interpretation of the voter’s mark. The upgrade will make it easier for voters with disabilities to cast their vote and will also be easier to manage by election j...
On Sept. 25, as National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month was in its final week, Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.) introduced his new bill, the Seeding Rural Resistance Act. The proposed legislation creates three initiatives designed to combat rising suicide rates. Acknowledging multiple barriers faced by farmers and ranchers seeking assistance, Tester said, “...they face isolation, they have to travel further to receive basic health services, they are less likely to be insured, and they may not know there are mental health resources available t...
This story is an update to an earlier story. This edition adds information from the plea deal — including the exact crime Strommen pleaded guilty to — and clarifies that the second count that was dropped was an alternative charge to the first count and not a separate crime. It also provides more information about the pre-sentence investigation, the judge's ability to impose a harsher sentence if he sees fit, and Strommen’s ability to withdraw the plea and go to trial. Ex-Valley County undersheri... Full story
The month of September has been National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, a month-long endeavor to share resources and stories in an effort to shed light on a topic that is often taboo to talk about and stigmatized. According to FMDH employee Samantha Griffin, who is currently in school to become a licensed clinical social worker, in 2017 the national death by suicide rate rose by four percent while Montana saw a rise of 15 percent, which means that most Montana residents know someone who has attempted suicide or struggled with suicidal...
In a gymnasium of school-aged kids, hip hop artist, social advocate and Native American performer Christian Parish, aka Supaman, kicked off Frazer Public School's celebration of Native American Week on Sept. 23, with a performance meant to not only entertain a crowd of fidgeting children but also to engage them and inspire key themes of cultural pride, a sense of honor and to promote identity. Frazer Schools hope their students will take away those key themes in a week that will be full of...
Businessman and state legislator Scott Sales sat down with the Glasgow Courier to discuss his background, political experience and his current bid for Montana’s Secretary of State seat. Sales discussed everything from the land board and land usage, to election security and accessibility while touting his Republican record in the state legislature. Sales, a Republican from Gallatin County, has been serving in the legislature since 2003 when he entered as a representative. He served four terms including one as Speaker of the House and another a...
The FMDH Foundation recently gifted Glasgow High School a new Game Ready Machine, a device that helps student athletes with joint injuries, such as those that affect their ankle, knee or shoulder, as well as larger muscles, like hamstrings. RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation) has long been used to treat acute and chronic injury. Game Ready offers adjustable cold therapy and intermittent compression in one easy-to-use system, making it easy to apply the two most difficult-to-manage aspects...
The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce has decked the streets in Scottie Pride this year. The idea to order 100 flags from the Glasgow Student Council came up over the summer with the Chamber Board from member and Scottie Athletic Director Brenner Flaten. He said, "this was an idea that just came to me in the middle of the summer when driving down Main Street and taking note of how many flag holders are already in place. I have always loved that Glasgow and National Honor Society put up American flags...
Montana Attorney General Tim Fox sat down with the Courier last week to discuss his campaign for the Republican nomination for the Governorship next November. Currently, Fox is taking on U.S. Representative Greg Gianforte and Dr. Al Olszewski in his bid for the party’s nomination, and if he is successful he will go up against either Montana’s Lieutenant Governor Mike Cooney, Montana Representative Reilly Neill or Montana Representative Casey Schreiner on the Democratic ticket. Fox, a Montana native from Hardin, kicked off his interview by hig...
Perhaps the most ironic thing occurring during the National Weather Service’s hydrology workshop last week was that while scientists, conservation district reps, bureaucrats, meteorologists and hydrologist met on the inside, a flood advisory had been issued for a small region of Valley County only miles away on the outside. It was a small example of what the participants of the Glasgow and Billings Eastern Montana Hydrology Workshop were trying to accomplish. The workshop was held at the Fort Peck Interpretive Center from Sept. 11 through 13 a...
While driving downtown throughout the past few months, drivers and pedestrians have seen a new piece of artwork go up at the corner of 4th St. S. and 1st Ave S., on the outer side of the addition to Busted Knuckle Brewery. The mural, which was painted by Glasgow's Andy Fahlgren and Madelyn House, encompasses a reflection of the community, including imagery such as a farmhouse, the powerhouses in Fort Peck, a farmhouse and cows. "The area pays tribute to the many people that helped get us to...
The weather didn't cooperate. The power didn't cooperate. The participants, however, did cooperate. Team Kastet proved themselves to be champions in more ways than one this past weekend at the second annual Glasgow Elks' Middle of Nowhere BBQ Cook-off. When the power went off around midnight Friday, after the six teams had set up, organizers and competitors scrambled to save the competition. Team Kastet, Ross Kastet and Jeff Swanson, along with Dave and Shelley Kastet, did their part. Though the...
During the annual Montana School Nutrition Association conference in June, Nashua School was awarded a Montana Cook Fresh Award, which recognizes schools for their dedication to serving from-scratch nutritious school meals. The school scored an impressive 96 out of 100, which proves the excellence of the program as the average score of all 88 sponsors reviewed was 70 out of 100. Nashua's head cook Vicki Tolzien and assistant cook JoAnna Turner have been working together for three years, ever...
The Glasgow City Council voted in a split decision to raise tax revenues for the city by a total of roughly $49,000. The move is likely to raise taxes next year for most Glasgow residents and businesses. The vote followed a tense exchange between Councilman Stan Ozark and Mayor Becky Erickson as they debated the principle of raising taxes just because they have the ability to do so. Ozark was in favor of an increase, but felt it unnecessary to raise the tax levy to the full amount allowable by state law. He instead advocated to raise the levy...
