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Glasgow Elks Lodge #1922 recently made a $2,000 donation to our local Valley Community Emergency Food Bank. The Glasgow Lodge applied for the funds for the donation from the Elks National Foundation (ENF) through their Gratitude Grant Program. Gratitude Grants are the ENF's way of saying thank you to every Lodge that meets the Elks National President's per-member-giving goal for giving to the ENF. Glasgow met that goal for the 2022-2023 year to be eligible for this grant and hopes to meet that...
The Glasgow Mite Jamboree was held at the Valley Event Center this past weekend with 11 teams, 21 games and more than 120 Mites/Termites players hitting the rink for hockey action throughout the two day event....
The Montana Department of Revenue would like to remind owners of real and personal property about several important deadlines approaching soon: March 1 Due Date Business and industrial equipment owners need to report their personal property online with the department’s TransAction Portal (TAP) at https://tap.dor.mt.gov. Businesses have a statutory reporting requirement if their total statewide market value of equipment is over $1 million. Businesses whose statewide market value is $1 million or less are exempt from the business equipment tax. T...
The Montana Department of Justice’s Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) is warning non-profit organizations of scammers who are targeting them with fake donations and then asking for a portion of the money back, Attorney General Austin Knudsen has announced. OCP has received reports that individual(s) under fake pseudonyms including, ‘Barrington Blythe,’ are making donations to non-profit organizations on behalf of a recently deceased family member for $191,250 with fraudulent cashier’s checks. The checks appear to be legitimate as they co...
The Glasgow City Council met in regular session on Feb. 5, which included agenda items such as consent agenda, bid opening, Resolution No. 3155, approval to pay annual dues to Great Northern Development Corporation (GNDC), approval of wage comp committee recommendation for union negotiations, approval of the collective bargaining agreement between the City of Glasgow and Teamsters Local Union No. 2, as well as committee reports, department head reports, and mayor’s report. The Council approved the consent agenda items which included approving t...
Dr. Robert Whipple is the newest addition to the Glasgow Clinic Primary Care staff as an internal medicine physician and has started seeing adult patients as a primary physician. He comes to Glasgow after serving patients in the Las Vegas, Nev., area for the last 20 years in a private practice with partners. After growing up in Las Vegas, raising a family there, and serving the patients of the area, he and his wife, Stephany, decided Vegas wasn't for them any longer and wanted to move to a...
The annual Glasgow Learn to Skate program held their annual showcase on Feb. 11 at the Valley Event Center to allow students in the program the opportunity to show off all they have learned this session and throughout the skating year. According to instructor Kim Girard, this year's event is a celebration of 20 years of Glasgow Learn to Skate and the skaters of the program. With an Olympic Theme opening, there were a total of 12 performances with the song "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang...
Crazy Woman Quilts needs your support as they compete in ByAnnie.com’s Local Quilt Shop Contest. This annual contest is dedicated to support local economies and the timeless tradition of sewing. Each year sewists around the world vote for their favorite local quilt shops and share what makes them special. Crazy Woman Quilts is proud to be a member of the “Middle of Nowhere” gang, offering quality quilting fabric, long arm services and lots of advice and inspiration. CWQ staff is currently gearing up for the spring class schedule and ventu...
St. Raphael's held their annual Mardi Gras Carnival on Feb. 11, where families of all ages came out to have fun and enjoy games, good food and prizes. The community and St. Raphael's parishioners volunteered their time in helping put on the event, from making cakes for the cake walk, setting up, managing and taking down the various games, gathering and managing the raffle basket table as well as provided and cooked food to complete the experience of those in attendance....
Though Speech and Drama held their State competition a few weeks ago, the season hasn’t ended for Glasgow’s Gabe Proctor and Connor Whitmer. As a result of their placing during the B/C State Meet in Choteau at the end of January, both students had the opportunity to travel to Billings this past weekend to compete in the National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA), where students from all over the state convened to compete for a spot in the top third and to become eligible to advance to the National Competition this summer. Proctor placed fou...
Though it felt more like early spring than winter on Feb. 3, a total of 71 participants came out to the Glasgow Area Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture's 26th Annual Ice Fishing Derby on Feb. 3. A total of 134 holes were sold at the Fishing Access Site – Dredge Cuts Trout Pond, where the Derby was held, with a total of 68 fish brought to the weight master during noon and 3 p.m., though many more were caught throughout the event. A guaranteed $2,000 first place was awarded to Trevor Adams, of N...
A coroner’s inquest related to the 2022 death of Dennis Wing was held Jan. 31, at the Valley County Courthouse. According to law, the inquest is a formal inquiry into the causes and circumstances surrounding the death of a person and is conducted by the coroner before a jury. In the inquest, the jury consisted of seven individuals, Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton, who oversaw the proceedings, which included four testimonies, and Valley County Attorney Dylan Jensen, who asked the witnesses questions regarding the situation leading u...
Though the Ice Dawgs had a break this past weekend, there was still plenty of hockey action at the Valley Event Center for the second annual Devon Thompson Memorial Slash the Stigma tournament, Feb. 2-4. A total of 11 teams, divided into three divisions, were sponsored by local businesses and with teams comprised of a variety of age brackets. The team 2 Diggers, sponsored by 2 Diggers, comprised of Dillon Hughes, Peyton Smith, Colter Barnett, Bode Barnett, Kent Hubbard, Jake Engstrom and Elizabe...
This winter, Stone Tihista and Levi Capdeville (pictured at left), of the Valley County Weed and Mosquito District nominated Norm Braaten, of Fort Peck, for Government Weed Fighter of the Year. Braaten was recognized for his efforts at the Montana Weed Control Association's Annual Conference on Jan. 31, in Billings, where he was awarded Overall Weed Fighter Of the Year for the MWCA. "I would like to thank Norm for everything he has done for our county and myself over the last year. I would not...
Last week, the Valley County Commissioners passed a resolution amending the county mill levy for state equalization, county high school equalization and the county elementary equalization mill levy authority for this fiscal year. The Montana Supreme Court sided with the Gianforte administration in December when it ruled that counties must calculate 95 mills for the states school equalization fund. Most counties including Valley County levied 77.9 mills, as opposed to the full 95 mills, as part of a local solution to help homeowners with...
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The Montana Department of Revenue is holding approximately $128 million dollars that has yet to be claimed by citizens. Montanans can search for abandoned money or other types of property. The fastest and easiest way to search is online at MissingMoney.com, a national database listing abandoned money in Montana and other states. “We want to get this money back to the rightful owners,” said Montana Department of Revenue Director Brendan Beatty. “I encourage everyone to take a few minutes to search MissingMoney.com.” Nearly 33 million people...
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte is defending the state health department’s actions in an active child protective case against a wave of online criticism from conservative groups, including some far-right, anti-LGBTQ social media accounts, an unusually public commentary from the state’s highest elected official about confidential child welfare proceedings. In a series of Monday afternoon, Jan. 29, posts on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Gianforte responded to direct call-outs from prominent anti-transgender commenters who alleged tha...
The Valley County Health Department would like to remind the community they are still offering COVID vaccines and influenza vaccines. To obtain these vaccines, walk-in appointments are available every Tuesday, 4 to 5:30 p.m. If that time does not work for you, an appointment can be made by calling 406-228-6261....
Luke Zeiger was honored Jan. 27 during the annual Glasgow Wrestling Club Invitational in Scottie Gymnasium as Kip Ryan of the Montana High School Association was on hand to present the 2012 Glasgow High School graduate with a plaque commemorating his induction into the MHSA/Wendy's Athletes' Hall of Fame. Zeiger earned the distinction of becoming only the fourth wrestler in Montana history to be so honored, joining the ranks of Olympian Gene Davis, World Champion Bill Zadick and World Silver Med...
On Jan. 23, at approximately 2337 hours, Phillips County Sheriff’s Office dispatch received a mutual aid request from Blaine County for a vehicle pursuit headed towards Phillips County on US 2. The request stated the suspect vehicle was traveling at speeds over 100 miles per hour. The occupants of the vehicle were suspected of transporting drugs. Phillips County deputies prepared to deploy spike strips at Dodson but the pursuit did not make it to that location and the vehicle was lost by the pursuing deputies. Law enforcement officers from Blai...
The Frazer and Glasgow teams had an exciting time this past weekend in Choteau, competing in the State Speech and Drama Competition. The first day of competition, Jan. 26, saw the students completing the first three rounds of the competition. The next day, Jan. 27, saw the students finish the fourth round, determine if they break into semi-finals and then the finals round were that evening. Under the direction of coach Mary Zuchowski, two Frazer students competed in the State meet, Marick Old Pe...
The Montana Department of Commerce announced on Jan. 25, that 20 Montana towns, cities and counties will share $947,000 of grant funding to help develop and plan infrastructure projects to increase area health and safety. The funding is through Commerce’s Montana Coal Endowment Program (MCEP). “For over 30 years, Commerce’s MCEP program has made it more affordable for Montana communities to develop local infrastructure projects by providing grant funding that lowers the cost of public facility construction,” said Commerce’s Community MT Divisi...
The Glasgow Elks Lodge was a happening place this past weekend as they hosted the Montana State Elks association's 2024 Mid-Winter Convention, bringing over 130 Elks members and guests from all over the state, and even some from Idaho and Oregon. The convention started unofficially on Thursday night with a Past State Presidents' and Officers' meetings as well as bingo at the Lodge, and things officially kicked off Friday morning with "Welcome to Glasgow" speeches given by Glasgow Elks Lodge #192...
