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Over the past week, two more cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the county. On July 23, the Valley County Health Department and Frances Mahon Deaconess hospital confirmed the seventh positive case, a male in his 60s, who is not hospitalized and is isolating at home. This individual was a named contact to a previous positive case and did not show signs of symptoms. The eighth positive case was released on July 25, a female in her 70s who is also not hospitalized and is isolating at home. This individual is symptomatic and it’s unknown h...
The Mayor’s Yard of The Week goes to Paul Koski for his beautiful hanging flower baskets in front of Scottie Car Wash. “It’s an extra colorful welcome to all traveling on Highway 2,” stated Mayor Erickson....
A jury of 12 found ex-Valley County undersheriff Luke Strommen guilty of sexual intercourse without consent in the afternoon hours of July 17 at Valley County District Court in Glasgow. The State proved that Strommen began raping a 14-year-old girl while she stayed in a hotel room with the family in Great Falls in September of 2009. In the night, Strommen initiated intercourse with the girl, who was too young to consent, and continued to repeatedly meet the girl to rape her throughout the course...
The Valley County Sheriff's Office has confirmed to the Glasgow Courier that a train collided with a pickup truck at the rail crossing in Hinsdale at around 11:40 a.m. on July 18. No serious injuries resulted from the collision and the single occupant of the pickup had been examined by emergency medical technicians on scene. Asked if the driver was harmed, VCSO Chief Deputy Joe Tihlarik said emphatically, "Not a scratch." The circumstances of the crash are still under investigation, but the...
The Valley County Health Department and Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital confirmed the county’s fifth case of COVID-19 on July 19, and a sixth case on July 21, resulting in the county having two active cases as the previous four cases have all recovered. The fifth case is a female in her 60s who is symptomatic and is currently isolated at home. According to a release issued by the Health Department and FMDH, how the patient obtained the virus is unknown however the female is suspected to have been exposed while traveling outside of the c...
The 4-H fair is going to happen this year, July 29-31. It will probably look a little different than previous years but the one thing that stays the same is 4-H kids learning life skills, exhibiting their project work and families and the community coming together to support their learning endeavors. 4-H youth have been working hard and are excited to show off their projects. The schedule will be different; condensed to reduce the amount of time families spend at the fair, but the shows will be essentially the same. The top priority of 4-H...
City Wages: The Glasgow City Council overhauled the way they pay employees at the meeting on July 20. The vote to change the city from the traditional pay scale to a “wage matrix” was split four to two with Rod Karst and Dan Carr voting against the measure and Butch Heitman, Stan Ozark, Doug Nistler and Todd Young voting in favor. Months of preparation were needed to hash out details and set employee wages. The new matrix will establish periodic wage increases for employees and add the ability to provide an incentive bump based on per...
Releases from Fort Peck Dam will be reduced from 11,000 cubic feet per second to 8,500 cfs on July 28 and then increase slightly to 9,000 cfs on July 29. A Power Plant maintenance project originally scheduled for June was rescheduled for late July. The project will require outages on Units 1, 2, and 3 to support testing on Unit 2. “The lowered releases should not impact reservoir elevations at Fort Peck as inflows from mountain snowpack are also forecast to decline,” said John Remus, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Missouri River...
Early mornings. Long days. Short nights. Those are just a small part of what goes into putting on the annual Montana Governor's Cup Walleye Tournament. But the results are more than worth it, particularly when records are shattered. The first record fell Nov. 1, 2019 when the tournament's 200 slots were filled in one hour, one minute, the fastest that has ever happened. Fast forward to July 10 and 11 when the anglers hit the water. Last year, Adam Morehouse and Matt Poole set a new two-day...
The Glasgow School Board met in the district board room on July 8 to approve the district clerk and superintendent wage agreement, which were both negotiated on June 25, as well as discuss the bus driver and substitute teacher wage increase, student attendance agreements, handbooks and bus routes for the 2020-2021 school year in addition to the review of the 2018-2019 financial audit. The meeting started off with a call for public comment and after determining there was none, the board comment period started with board member Angie Page...
The Glasgow City Council is in the process of passing a new city ordinance to increase penalties associated with weedy lots. Ordinance No. 968 will amend the city’s already existing weed ordinance to increase fees for non-compliance in an effort to increase compliance with the lot standards. Currently, nuisance weeds are deemed any weed, grass, wild vegetation and any uncared for vegetation that grows to a height in excess of eight inches and any vegetation that poses a fire hazard inside the city limits. Under the current system, a notice i...
“We did not take it lightly.” The decision by the Glasgow Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture, in conjunction with their partners from the Rodeo Committee and Milk River Motorsports, to cancel this year’s fair concert was a tough one said Executive Director Lisa Koski. Milk River Motorsports and the Rodeo Committee had already canceled their evening events scheduled for this year’s Northeast Montana Fair. With no demolition derby or rodeo planned, the Chamber decided to also cancel the Diamond Rio concert, scheduled to conclude the fai...
Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital reported in a press release on July 9, that zero of the 256 participants in the county’s surveillance testing on June 25 tested positive for the coronavirus. “Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital and the Valley County Health Department are happy to report that 100 percent of the asymptomatic COVID-19 tests run at the Community Snapshot testing event at the NE MT Fairgrounds on 06/25/20 are NEGATIVE,” read the press release. At the time of the tests, there were no reported cases of COVID-19 in Valley County and healt... Full story
When children are removed from their home and placed into a foster home, they generally only come with what they are wearing and adults who are bringing these children in don't always have the items needed to care for these children, leaving a void of toiletries, clothing and other necessary items for these children. To fill this need, Glasgow resident and photographer Jenn Calkin created Izzy's Closet in 2018, which provides a week's worth of clothing (if available) and any other necessities th...
In their continued attempt to keep the Keystone XL Pipeline project moving forward after years of delays, the Trump administration did not get the ruling they expected from the United States Supreme Court. On July 6, the U.S. Supreme Court declined the request from TC Energy and the Trump administration to allow Keystone XL to proceed under Nationwide Permit (NWP) 12 however allowed other pipelines to continue using the Permit as the full appeal process moves forward. The appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court started as a result of Federal Judge...
A jury of 12 found ex-Valley County undersheriff Luke Strommen guilty of sexual intercourse without consent in the afternoon hours of July 17, 2020 at Valley County District Court. The State's case had argued that Strommen began raping a 14-year-old girl while she stayed in a hotel room with the family in Great Falls in September of 2009. In the night, Strommen initiated digital intercourse and continued to repeatedly meet the girl to rape her throughout the course of the following months to yea...
Money might make the world go round, but volunteers are what keep Valley County going. Two of those volunteers were recently recognized by Governor Steve Bullock and First Lady Lisa Bullock with 2020 ServeMontana Awards. Twyla Anderson, of Opheim, and Norm Girard, of Glasgow, were among the six Montanans honored this year. According to the Governor's press release, "Honorees represent the best in positive change through service, volunteerism, innovation, and community leadership." Anderson and...
The Valley County Health Department reported an additional case of COVID-19 infection in the county on July 1. According to a joint press release from Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital and the health department, the fourth Valley County related case is an asymptomatic “male in his 30s who is not hospitalized and is isolating at home.” The department also said the case was identified through contact tracing and the man had been quarantining prior to receiving the test result. The health department is following up with people who had close con... Full story
The Governor of Montana Steve Bullock announced in a July 2 press conference his plan for reopening schools in the fall. Citing the reliance students and parents have on schools for nutrition, socialization and education, and the health benefits of having children in schools, the governor and Lt. Governor Mike Cooney announced that reopening public schools is a top priority. Similar to the rest of Montana, the school plan will also follow a three-phased approach to reopening that aligns with the same phase as the state. So, as the state... Full story
The Fourth of July weekend brought fun and festivities for many in the area, from camping and the John Hahn Memorial Softball Tournament at Fort Peck to the revived Milk River Days in Hinsdale. In Glasgow, people gathered for the annual fireworks show at the Valley County Fairgrounds on Saturday night. But before the big show was another one. The Valley County HOPE (Helping Others Pay Expenses) Project, Inc held its second annual Celebration Fundraiser. The grill was fired up and supporters...
July 1 Update: Since the publication of this story, an additional lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 has been identified in Valley County. Case #4 is a male in his 30s who is not hospitalized and is isolating at home. The case was identified through contact tracing and had been undergoing quarantine. The individual does not have symptoms. Valley County reported two lab-confirmed cases of Covid-19 on June 28. Both cases affect Valley County residents currently in the county. According to county health officer Dr. Anne Millard, the two cases were inf... Full story
People lined up an hour early June 25, to be the first in line to be tested for coronavirus during the county's first surveillance testing event at the county fairgrounds. In total, Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital tested 256 individuals for the disease over a five-hour period in a statewide effort to detect the virus in asymptomatic people. Assisting FMDH was the Montana National Guard, who supplied 14 soldiers and airmen to help control traffic, distribute information and collect and... Full story
