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When Darrell Brenna retired from the barber business Glasgow lost a good hair cutter. Sixty years cutting hair with scissors and clippers with a shoulder massage tacked on for good measure. Strangers thought he looked like Kenny Rogers. As far as I know there are no "real" barbers left in Glasgow. I recall when Saco had two barber shops. The old-time shops with the red and white pole out front are rapidly disappearing across the Hi-Line being replaced by "styling salons" and "beauty shops."...
The Glasgow Tourism Business Improvement District is launching a "Selfie Circle Spots" social media campaign. TBID's Tami Burke explains the goal as an effort to, "showcase our assets in Glasgow and Fort Peck, increasing our social media presence by inviting people to take a selfie and share it on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter by using #glasgowmt or #ftpeckmt." You can join in at the Children's Museum, the Valley Event Center, Pioneer Museum, Wokal Field, Glasgow High School, Busted Knuckle...
The MACo Risk Management Awards Luncheon was held on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at the Midwinter Conference in Great Falls. MACo recognizes counties exhibiting a continued commitment to job site safety and whose safety performance and programs are excellent. The Awards promote awareness of workplace health and safety throughout the counties and offer the opportunity for counties to share model programs. This year, awards were presented to Daniels County, Sheridan County, Roosevelt County, and...
Gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte visited Glasgow and Malta on Feb. 10 to speak to supporters and members of the public. The stops were part of the candidate's Regulation Roundup tour, which will include 41 cities throughout the state. He pointed out that he has visited Glasgow eight times in the past six months. At Farm Equipment Sales in Glasgow, Gianforte addressed a small crowd and discussed the necessity of bringing good jobs to both the state and the region. The candidate also took...
Governor Steve Bullock, First Lady Lisa Bullock, and the Governor's Office of Community Service recognized RuthAnn Hutcheson of Glasgow on Friday, February 12 at the state capitol for her outstanding service to the community as a part of the 2016 ServeMontana Award winners. For the past 25 years, RuthAnn has planned, organized, and run the Valley County Thanksgiving Day Dinner to serve meals to 150 people each year. RuthAnn is known for always jumping in to help others by serving with the...
On Feb. 10, the Glasgow School Board met in special session to appoint a replacement for the position vacated by Nick Dirkes in December. The board, by law, is required to fill the position within 60 days. Two letters of interest were submitted, from Mike Kaiser and James Rickley. Neither candidate was present at the 8:30 meeting, where the board unanimously appointed Mike Kaiser. Kaiser was seated onto the board Feb. 15. Kaiser will serve on the board until May, the next election. Kaiser said...
Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital hosted the 12th Sara Bell Memorial Nursing Conference at the Cottonwood Feb. 11-12. The conference was organized by FMDH Director of Nursing Brenda Koessl to honor Dr. Gordon Bell's wife Sara Bell, who passed away several years ago from inflammatory breast cancer. According to Koessl, "We had extra slots open on day two of the conference so I invited the Glasgow high school science teacher and 11 of his students to attend." She added, "One high school science...
In early January, Tanja Fransen from the National Weather Service attended the 96th Annual American Meteorological Society meeting in New Orleans, La. While there, she presented a poster highlighting the public health impacts in NE Montana from our wildfire smoke events last summer. She also spoke to students about the importance of an integrated warning team between the NWS and its partners and then led two exercises with approximately 100 students who were able to learn from operational...
On Saturday, Feb 6, the Nashua Por-Q-Bots team competed in the State's First Lego League Championship in Bozeman. There the team was judged in four different categories: Robot Game, Robot Design, Core Values and Project. In the Robot Game portion, the kids have 2.5 minutes to complete as many missions as they can on a game board, and they take the best score out of 3 rounds. For the other three categories, the students go to judging all by themselves, no coaches are allowed to go with them. They...
Jim Uphaus, left, and Bob Walden, right, along with man's best friend, lead 110 head of Uphaus' cattle to the Glasgow Stockyards Tuesday morning. Keeping an eye on things from behind were (L-R) Josey Uphaus, Cal Shipp, and Bill Murch. After growing up and working cattle on his folks' ranch, Uphaus has been running his own herd for approximately 30 years....
Bushnell has recognized Andrew McKean with the 2016 Bill McRae Lifetime Achievement Award. The Bill McRae Lifetime Achievement Award was established by Bushnell to honor the legendary writer and photojournalist for the vast contributions he made to the optics and outdoor industry throughout his 50-year career. Introduced in 2011, the annual award was created to recognize McRae and the journalists who have made a profound impact in the industry. As Editor-in-Chief of Outdoor Life, and the leader...
Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) is joining forces on the Senate floor with Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) in efforts to improve the federal circuit court system as a whole and expedite the justice process for the people within the overburdened Ninth Circuit. An excerpt of Daines’ remarks from the presentation are below: “At 64.4 million people served, the current Ninth Circuit is the largest circuit by population, as well as the largest land area. It includes Montana and Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, California, and Hawaii – not...
The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services has received a gift of $3.2 million from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to implement a three-year Cardiac Ready Communities initiative in Montana. Valley County Health Department Director Connie Boreson encourages area residents to attend a preparedness meeting in Glasgow on Feb. 17 to learn more about the program and possibilities for local participation. In collaboration with stakeholders including EMS services, hospitals, community leaders and the public, this...
The Glasgow School Board held a meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 3 for a board work session, and to address an agenda item from a previous meeting held Jan. 20. The meeting began with discussion of language arts curriculums presented to Superintendent Bob Connors and the Trustees. Three different programs had been presented for consideration: ReadyGen, Journeys and Wonders. At the Jan. 20 meeting, support was overwhelmingly for the Journeys curriculum. A recommendation was not made at that time by Supt. Connors because the trustees and himself had no...
There are performances in big cities that would be tickled with the turnout enjoyed by Pack 898 at the St. Raphael's Parish Center gymnasium last Thursday night. The mood was relaxed, but attendees (the adult variety) numbered well over 100 at this year's Pinewood Derby event. Non-scout kids milled around the racecourse and cheered along with parents, other scouts, and scouting-affiliated helpers. In the bleachers, Glasgow's Ann Kulczyk and Jimmy Freuh were among those looking forward to "open c...
The Feb. 1 meeting of the Glasgow City Council was a mixture of good news and bad. In the latter category, the council announced that hoped-for resiliency grant monies from the federal government in the amount of $18.1 million were awarded to other areas of the country thought to be in greater need. Many of the recipients were cities with larger populations and areas currently suffering critical damage to key infrastructure. Following on the heels of grant disbursements totaling nearly $700,000,...
Audra Cornwell Ortega, a fourth generation Valley County ranch family, is a ranch wife and mother of two. Audra grew up on the family ranch near Glasgow and educated in Hinsdale, MT. In 2012, she married Mike Ortega and together they continue the tradition of family ranching. In 2014, Audra was gifted a digital Canon camera. Her passion for photographing the daily and seasonal chores and pleasures of ranch life was born. Today, Audra is driven to share with others the life she leads as seen...
Nashua School art and creative writing teacher Tess Fahlgren is broadening her educational scope to include Glasgow with a new private class covering the fundamentals of basic drawing. Fahlgren graduated from UM in the spring and is in her first year of teaching now. The course will take place Thursdays in February at Wheatgrass Arts and Gallery downtown. Prospective students are encouraged to sign up at the gallery or just show up Thursday night at 6 p.m. Limited drawing supplies will be...
On Monday, Feb. 1, at about 9:30 a.m., Poplar resident Robert Todd Pinkerton Jr. was fatally stabbed once in the chest by an unidentified female. The female turned herself into police shortly after the incident and was placed into tribal custody. The victim was found in a home on the 500 block of D Street East in Poplar, and transported by ambulance to the Poplar hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Ken Trottier, supervisory criminal investigator for the Fort Peck Tribes, said the woman and the victim were in a romantic relationship and it...
Helen McIntyre (center) holds great-grandaughter Everly Ann while surrounded by her son, former Glasgow resident Steve McIntyre (left), and grandson Tyler (right), Everly was born in September 2015 and was introduced to her great-grandmother in December when Helen traveled to Boise for the holidays....
In lieu of doing a Christmas gift exchange this year, the Heirloom Quilters' Guild chose to make a $210 donation to the Children's Museum. Pictured presenting the check to Museum Director Stacy Fast, center, are guild Treasurer Jean Carlson, right, and guild President Janice Lawrence, left. Donations of paper products were also collected to be given to the Valley County Food Bank....
Over 100 Phillips County residents showed up at the Malta High School Auditorium last Wednesday in Malta to hear U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., speak, before he was asked a handful of questions, most pertaining to a recent decision by the Bureau of Land Management to allow the American Prairie Reserve to graze bison on the Flat Creek Allotment in Phillips County. "Today we are here about the BLM and I'm sure about bison," Zinke told the crowd after a 10-minute introduction. "The local BLM is...
Glasgow's Kirk Boyer was added to the Glasgow Fire Department on a probationary status (6 months) at the Jan. 19 city council meeting. Also attended to were the payment of claims in the amount of $55,488.39 and the abandonment of a portion of an alley between property owned by Newton Motors, Inc., and Farm Equipment, Inc., along Hwy 2. The council also approved the city's fingerprints and criminal background investigations policy manual. Following the meeting, Public Works Director Robert H....
It's not everyday people get excited about going to court, but Friday, Jan. 22 was just a little different. It was the first day of drug court in Glasgow. The courtroom was far from packed, but there were a number of supporters in the audience, as well as many key people involved in the program. Judge Lynn Gilbert, city court judge, presided over the hearing, which boasted four participants. The inaugural session was short and more of a formality, but monumental nonetheless. Judge Gilbert could...
