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In a packed Glasgow City Council meeting Monday, Aug. 6, the council decided to move a proposal for a city ordinance to allow the raising of chickens in city limits to go to a first reading at the city council meeting, which will occur at 5:30 p.m., on Aug. 20. For weeks, organizers and supporters of allowing chickens in city limits have worked with the city to draft an ordinance that would change the current law and allow the birds to be raised in town. During that same period, those organizers have built support, over a dozen of whom were...
Democratic Candidate for the District 1 seat of the State Public Service Commission Doug Kaercher visited Glasgow last week during the Northeast Montana fair to meet and greet locals and educate the voting public on his background and motivation for running for the commissioner position. Kaercher sat down with the Courier to do the same. After being raised on the Hi-Line and graduating from Havre High School, Kaercher made his way into the commercial pilot trade before moving back to Havre to...
According to Dr. Chelsie McAllister, DVM of Valley Vet Clinic in Glasgow, canine parvovirus and distemper virus in Valley County are much higher in this region than in most. According to McAllister, the high rates are due to a lack of proper vaccination in puppies, which she says can lead to costly treatment or even death despite being preventable. Canine parvovirus targets the dog’s gastrointestinal tract causing bloody diarrhea, vomiting, loss of appetite and lethargy. According to Dr. McAllister, the disease can be cured with costly t...
This year 4-H leaders Chaykota Christensen, Brooke Westby, Elise Strommen, Kortney Nelson and Cordell Younkin made the commitment to learn, serve and engage in their communities by participating in the citizenship tour tracing our nation's founding and history across the East Coast while learning about civics and leadership. This year the trip involved delving into their nation's history in Boston as they walked the Freedom Trail and climbed to the top of the Bunker Hill Monument. They stood at...
"So, first question, just how tired are you of doing these pre-concert interviews?" may not be the best way to open up an interview with a musician gracing the Middle of Nowhere with a concert for the upcoming Northeast Montana Fair. But with John Michael Montgomery, it offered up the chance for the country music star to express his appreciation for the chance to perform. While admitting that he didn't always enjoy such talks, he now enthuses about touring and performing, "I enjoy it a lot more...
The Domestic Violence Awareness Kickball Tournament raised over $2,500 for victims of domestic violence in northeast Montana, according to organizers Lacie Brown, Jenny McCabe and Shelly Ramsey. The event was organized to help raise funds for the Love Shouldn't Hurt organization which supports victims' services for those affected by domestic violence in Valley, Phillips, Sheridan and Daniels counties. Proceeds raised help with crisis intervention situations faced by the victim services...
Chase Redfield, of Opheim, is looking forward to a few good rounds of bareback bronc riding this year on his home turf at the Northeast Montana Fair. Redfield has been riding pro for nine years qualifying for the Montana Pro-Rodeo circuit finals for seven of the last eight years. For Redfield, rodeo has not just been a hobby or a job, but rather a passion. Redfield's passion for rodeo is apparent as he tells the story of how he got started saying, "I always watched my hometown rodeo, my dad...
The annual Valley County 4-H & FFA Livestock Sale will be taking place on Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, at the Northeast Montana Fair Grounds. A pre-sale viewing will start at 3:30 p.m., with the sale beginning at 4 p.m. At present count, this year will see 27 market beef, 16 market lambs, 8 poultry, and 47 market swine up for auction. This year's auctioneers will be Ed Hinton, Myron Malnaa, and Virgil Nelson. Beef superintendents will be Justin Fuhrmann and Jeremy Tihista. Superintendents for sheep... Full story
Three medical students from the University of Washington, School of Medicine are training at the Glasgow Clinic as part of the school's Targeted Rural UnderServed Track or TRUST. The students, who are third-year med student Keenan Kuckler, two-year med student Alex Kurtz and one-year med student Mike Robinson, are each at different levels of their medical training and are in rural Montana to learn about the differences in providing care in rural regions. For the most part, TRUST is a program... Full story
When Wes Sibley took the job of Fire Chief in Frazer and Wiota, Mont., last January his hope was to help out the communities he has always called home. Since starting Sibley has faced challenges and has taken each one in stride while looking towards the future to improve the service and help out the community. Currently Frazer has no fire truck and technically they are served by the Valley County Long Run Fire Department, but no truck presently exists in Frazer. As a result Sibley says they... Full story
Granrud's Lefse Shack owners, Twyla Anderson and Alice Redfield have announced the sale of their business to Scott and Libi Susag, of Scobey. The business will retain the Granrud name and is expected to reopen for the season in early to mid-October at 602 Main Street in Scobey, Mont. Of the decision to sell their business, Anderson said they had been considering the move for a couple of years. Over the years it had become more and more difficult to maintain the workforce needed for production....
A boat was engulfed in flames at the Fort Peck Marina on July 15, at about 1:30 p.m. According to the Fort Peck Fire Chief Landon Holt, the only injury was minor burns. The boat, however, was completely destroyed by the ensuing fire. The vessel ignited while docked in the marina slip and was pushed out by responders to the blaze before drifting into land. According to Holt, no other structures or boats were affected by the fire. The occupants escaped the boat and were able to notify 911. A...
A two-day bout of severe weather July 9 and 10 has prompted concerns from the National Weather Service in Glasgow that many northeast Montana residents may not be aware of severe weather alerts. According to Chief Meteorologist of the NWS in Glasgow Tanja Fransen,, the only automatic alerts sent to cell phones are tornado and flash flood warnings. Fransen told the Courier that in the case of last week's storms, the macroburst thunderstorm in Plentywood was warned due to the threat of a tornado,...
Scott St. John, Opheim farmer, has selected the Outpost Cafe, of Opheim, to receive a $2,500 donation as part of the America’s Farmers Grow Communities program, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund. The Outpost Cafe will use the funds to continue serving the needs of the Opheim community by providing meals, with a focus on feeding local seniors. The Outpost Cafe also caters to local farmers and ranchers in the area. “On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to thank Scott St. John for choosing the Cafe. It is greatly appreciated,” said...
Award-winning entertainers Jack and Kitty, from Minneapolis, Minn., made at stop at the Glasgow City-County Library on July 12 to entertain grandparents, parents and children of all ages with their feel-good, rhythmic show. As part of the library's summer reading program, "Libraries Rock," the husband and wife duo played family-friendly jug band folk music and incorporated children's classics such as the Chicken Dance. Their act was accompanied with unique instruments such as a washer, a jug and...
Families, couples, individuals and children armed with bags to fill with treats, filed up and down Montana Street in downtown Hinsdale during Milk River Days on July 4. The parade kicked off with American Legion service members Jim Tollefson, Bill Thayer, Justin Strommen and Chris Strommen walking down the street carrying flags and Cody Donniaquo singing the National Anthem. Cars from the Flatland Cruisers Car Club cruised down the street, throwing treats out of windows for children to run after...
Glasgow High School student Garrett Lloyd has been accepted into the Western Aerospace Scholars Summer Residency which will allow him to participate in a six-day experience in Helena this August. Lloyd was accepted into the Western Aerospace Scholars Program during his sophmore year of high school. This program provides opportunities for Montana state high school students to explore STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) topics. Lloyd first found out about this opportunity through social media, and decided it was too great an opportun...
Milk River Inc. has told The Courier they have restarted their recycling program and have started taking corrugated cardboard. According to Michelle Eliason, the group has not started taking aluminum, plastic or paper due to the fact that the baler is not strong enough to handle those products. She hopes in the future the program can be expanded to include these items. “We are trying to do cans but the baler does not have enough oomph, and we are putting in a grant for a better one,” explained Eliason. She added, “We did take in quite a few c...
On July 5, at approximately 1:45 p.m., the Phillips County Sheriff’s Office received reports of a single vehicle accident approximately one mile east of Saco at mile marker 500 on Highway 2. Responders from Saco, Hinsdale and Malta as well as medically-trained persons arrived upon the scene. According to a statement by the Montana Highway Patrol, the vehicle was heading westbound on US Hwy. 2. The driver, who has been identified as Kimberly Wilson, of Glasgow, overcorrected, re-entered the road, then overcorrected a second time, causing the veh...
A fire destroyed two rooms and the contents in a home on the north side of Glasgow just after 10 a.m. on July 5. According to Glasgow Fire Chief Brandon Brunelle no one was injured. The volunteer fire department responded with their command vehicle, three engines and a truck. A total of 18 firefighters were on scene. Brunelle told The Courier that the crews had a really great response time and everything at the scene went relatively quickly and well. Brunelle also added, "Thanks to the Long Run...
The summer months bring time on the lake, baseball games, grill outs, bonfires and park time for families. It also brings chances for severe weather, including thunder and lightning. The National Weather Service in Glasgow recently put out a post on social media with the goal of informing partners and the public about debunking myths associated with lightning, including, how to react when caught outside in a thunderstorm, whether or not lightning strikes the same place twice and that you are...
How do you prioritize where to spend money and what to fix when it seems everything is in bad shape? That's the question Recreation Director Jory Casterline has to answer when dealing with the city pool. For the ten years he has been here, the pool has limped along, but he warns it's only a matter of time before an issue arises that can't be fixed, "a pool ender" as he says. In discussing the current state of the city pool, he asserts the pump is probably the biggest issue, but adds that it is...
For the first time in its history, the Frazer Community Council has opened a community office to provide services, guidance and resources to the residents. That effort has been led and funded in large part from a local businesswoman who found a new calling in life helping her community become "clean and sober" by providing a grass roots system of change. When Angie Toce's brother finally made the decision to get sober, she was on it. Calling the Spotted Bull Treatment Center in Poplar but...
Bruce Barstad has announced his retirement from the Glasgow Police Department after 32 years of service to the region. Barstad sat down with the Courier to reflect on his years of service and the changes the department has seen over the decades. Barstad began his law enforcement career studying criminal justice at Dawson Community College in Glendive. The year was 1986 and he had taken on an internship during the summer and weekends with GPD. Following the completion of that internship, he began working seasonally in dispatch and juvenile...
