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The Montana Human Rights Commission has ruled in favor of Shalaine Lawson following an appeal on the decision of an administrative hearing officer who decided that NorVal Electric Cooperative and NorVal’s General Manager Craig Herbert were guilty of sexual harassment and retaliation against her. According to the HRC decision, NorVal had argued that Herbert’s conduct had not met the level of “actionable sexual harassment” because it had not included, “assaults, physical contact, uninvited sexual solicitations, intimidating words or acts, obscene...
Renowned youth wrestling coach and head coach of NXT LVL Wrestling Academy Mike Krause made a stop at the brand-new Glasgow Wrestling Club Facility Feb. 3 to 5, to help break in the mats and show area youth wrestling and training techniques in his own high-energy style. Krause is regarded as one of the best youth coaches in the country and his command of a room is unquestionable as he organized a training program with a group of elementary to middle-school aged kids he had never met-or only met...
For Tracy Schuster, running for House District 34 is about getting involved as a citizen and doing her part towards better governance. She says that she feels called to serve, citing the direction of the country and her view that what is happening in America is not what is best for this country. "I think a lot of the political scene has become so vitriolic that people kind of pull away from it, they tune it out," said Schuster discussing the political environment in the country. "That just...
A statewide initiative to increase the State’s effectiveness at investigating and prosecuting sexual assaults held its first outside of Helena training session in Glasgow last week at the STAT Air hangar. The program training is the next phase in a program dubbed SAKI, or Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, and it is the culmination of years of developed research and established best practices put into a single course aimed at helping law enforcement better understand sexual assault investigations, survivors and the legal process/evidence that goes...
Opheim students are just a small fraction of the 40,000 students in North America currently competing in Vocabulary.com’s annual Vocabulary Bowl, which runs through April 30. The goal of the competition is to master more words than the competitors, comprised of other participating schools. At the beginning of January, the Vikings were recognized by Vocabulary.com for being ranked third in the state out of 24 competitors and ranked second in the Montana Division III for high schools. “As of Jan. 28, we have mastered 4,678 words. Lincoln Cou...
The Glasgow middle and high school art classes will be putting their work on display for the people of Glasgow starting Friday, Feb. 7 at the Wheatgrass Arts & Gallery in downtown Glasgow. The exhibit will feature nearly 180 pieces from artists ranging from sixth grade to seniors and will encompass art media as varied as pencil sketches and impressionist oil paintings to sculptures and textured art as taught by Glasgow art teachers Libby Weber and Cat McIntyre. According to McIntyre and Weber,...
Glasgow residents, foster parents and advocates for children in the foster care system, Jenn and Warren Calkin recently received an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C., Jan. 15 and 16, to participate in the Adoption Call to Action Summit and provide a northeastern Montana voice to policies and procedures currently being developed for children in the foster care system who are ready for adoption. The summit included 14 training sessions, allowing representatives from each state to learn...
A car accident in the morning hours of Feb. 1 was likely caused by an intoxicated driver, according to the Glasgow Police Department. The crash, which occurred at about 6:30 a.m., involved a mid-2000s model sedan being driven by Jacoby Collins, of Glasgow. He was heading westbound on Highway 2 when he attempted to turn left onto Cherry Creek Rd in western Glasgow. An oncoming mid-size SUV in the eastbound lane, driven by a Glasgow woman, accompanied by her 13-year-old son, struck the right rear side of the sedan. GPD said that the call for the...
When the western region of the International DN Ice Yachting Association (IDNIYA) decided to hold the North American regatta-dubbed the Twenty20 DN North American Championship-at Fort Peck Lake only two things were certain, this was the first time the race has ever been held in Montana and Fort Peck was the only sailable ice in the country. So the word went out the week before Jan. 20 that the races would begin Jan. 22 in Montana and ice yacht racers from as far away as Nova Scotia, Florida and...
The Children’s Museum of Northeast Montana was recently awarded a $4,500 grant from the Montana Department of Commerce to update exterior signage. The Museum was one of 25 recipients to receive a portion of the $750,000 total that was awarded across the state through the Tourism Grant Program under the Office of Tourism and Business Development. Executive Director of the Museum Stacey Fast wrote the grant request for exterior signage on the renovated museum’s exterior. “We’ve been here since 2011 and people still come in and say ‘I didn’t kn...
Students from across the region representing music districts 12 and 13 converged in Glasgow Jan. 20 for a full day of practice and rehearsals followed by a concert that evening. The 2020 Honor Concert featured students from 13 schools and two guest conductors. The annual festival included students from Bainville, Culbertson, Frazer, Froid, Glasgow, Hinsdale, Lustre, Malta, Nashua, Plentywood, Poplar, Saco, Scobey and Wolf Point, joining forces to showcase the depth of musical talent alive and...
TC Energy (formerly TransCanada) is putting the past year’s legal battles behind them and is moving ahead with plans to construct the Keystone XL pipeline. On Jan. 21, Terry Cunha, a spokesman for TC Energy, told the Williston Herald that the project reached several key milestones and filed a status report with the U.S. District Court of Montana the week before. The status report stated TC Energy will move heavy equipment to storage yards in Montana and South Dakota in February and would also transport and install worker camp modules in both s...
Former Opheim woman Elena Salinas has sued the Valley County Sheriff’s Office and ex-Undersheriff Luke Strommen in connection to allegations that he sexually assaulted her at her home in December 2017. The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court of Montana in December of 2019 since Salinas is now a North Dakota resident, accuses Strommen of coming to her house under the pretense of conducting law enforcement business as an undersheriff for the county and proceeded to physically and sexually assult her. The lawsuit goes on to a...
The Bureau of Land Management filed a Notice of Intent (NOI) on Jan. 21 to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) with the intent of overhauling grazing regulations on public lands. The NOI filed with the federal registry established the beginning of a scoping process intended to solicit public opinion and identify issues. Four public meetings have been planned for stakeholder comment on the proposed revisions, including one in Miles City, scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 6. BLM will host the input-gathering session from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m....
Glasgow native and Nashua graduate Shaylin Barnett has received the opportunity of a lifetime to participate in the Equest PATH (Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship) International-Approved Therapeutic Riding Instructor Training Course in Dallas, Texas. The program started on Jan. 17 and will last through March 14, with the first part focusing on lectures and hands-on work with horses while the second part allows her to student teach and be mentored by Equest instructors who will...
Despite prognostications that any action on the USMCA would be delayed due to the upcoming presidential impeachment hearings in the Senate, the trade agreement has passed out of the upper chamber and is on its way to the President’s desk for his signature. USMCA was voted out of the Senate Finance Committee by a 25-3 margin on Jan. 7 and proceeded to pass the full Senate with an 89-10 vote on Jan. 16. The new trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico is set to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, which had been i...
Over the past few months, Nashua resident John Walker has been keeping busy being an advocate for farmers and ranchers of all ages. In September he was elected President of the Valley County Farm Bureau and in November was elected to be a part of the Young Farmer and Rancher (YF&R) Committee for the Montana Farm Bureau. Both roles allow him to not only recruit new members into making changes for the community of agriculture, but also provide a voice at the county, state and federal levels. "I...
Nashua sixth-grader Madison Harris, in addition to some of her classmates, participated in the Ag in Color Drawing contest, which is a part of Montana Farm Bureau Federation's Montana Youth (MT) Agriculture Literacy program. Harris' drawing of her horse, Crazy Cora, and her brother's calf, RosaVell, with a sunset in the background was chosen as the county winner in the sixth-grade category, making her eligible to move onto the State-level competition, with judging results expected to be...
A special warranty deed filed with the Valley County Clerk and Recorder’s Office states that the property formerly owned by Shopko has been transferred to Albertsons LLC. The transfer presumably sets up the possibility that the local Albertsons grocery store may be relocating to the vacant box store, although no one from Albertsons has returned phone calls for information. In addition to the deed, signed on Jan. 3 and recorded by the Clerk and Recorder on Jan. 8, the County Treasurer’s Office also confirmed that the second half of the pro...
Glasgow High School held their annual Poetry Out Loud competition Jan. 6, in the Valley County Pioneer Museum. With a last-minute addition, a total of 25 students competed in this year's recitation contest. Tyler FitzSimmons added his name to the competition shortly before it was to start, and that decision led him to a first-place finish and the right to compete at the state-level contest. He recited 'Fairy-tale Logic' by A. E. Stallings. FitzSimmons will compete in the State Finals in Helena...
Arielle Chapman, of Glasgow Flower and Gift, recently received her advanced floral design certificate from the Floral Design Institute, joining owner Peggy Aakre and coworker Jasmine Freuh who have also received their certificates. Chapman's passion for her work is evident, a smile danced across her face as she worked on an arrangement, her blouse complemented by the yellow daisy in her hair. "Whenever I'm out and about," she laughed, "I have a flower on me somewhere, it seems." The advanced...
When I met Joyce Stone for the first official time at Soma Dis Deli on Jan. 10, it was obvious that she was not like most of the political candidates I had interviewed in past and current races. She showed up at exactly the scheduled time, wearing blue jeans and a sweatshirt and carrying zero notes (not even a date book). Contrast that to one of the last interviews I did, where the cowboy persona was so crisp and fresh out of the box that the boots and jeans would have stood up on their own,...
According to organizer and STAT Air Ambulance Clinical Nurse Manager Kyle Gibson, 65 people came out to attend a bi-annual continuing education training put on by the organization. Gibson described surprise and excitement at the large crowd that was over the 40-person estimate they had initially planned for. "We were planning on 40," said Gibson, "so we had to do some major changes to what we were doing." He said that since the classrooms in the upstairs area of the STAT Air hangar can only acco...
The Glasgow Police Department has charged a 55-year-old Glasgow man with felony burglary and theft after he was discovered leaving DB’s Bar and Casino in the late evening hours of Jan. 10. According to Sgt. Robert Weber with the GPD, two officers responded to an intrusion alarm at the establishment and once on site discovered the male, who was already on felony probation, intoxicated and in possession of over $600 in cash from the establishment. Weber said that none of the bar’s contents had been consumed or stolen and that the male had bee...
