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America’s got talent. The Hi-Line’s got talent. Justiss Firemoon’s got it, too. Firemoon, the Hi-Line’s representative at Saturday night’s Miss Montana Pageant, won the talent competition with her singing of “Phantom of the Opera.” In her first pageant ever, the Fort Peck Reservation 18-year-old also survived the first two cuts of contestants that trimmed the field from 13 to seven. “I truly enjoyed the experience,” she said. Sheridan Pope of Sidney was crowned Miss Montana 2013 and will represent the state at the Miss America Pageant i...
A Canadian oil exploration company has withdrawn the offer it made to lease minerals on land belonging to Valley County, citing the difficulty of conducting business under restrictions intended to protect the habitat of the threatened sage grouse. In an email to the Valley County commissioners sent on Tuesday, Don Lee, an attorney for Montex Oil Co., said, “Unfortunately because of the sage grouse habitat issues involving federal lands, it will be extremely difficult to conduct exploratory o...
After two weeks above flood stage, the Milk River at Glasgow dropped below the 25-foot flood stage on Tuesday and is expected to fall quickly, to around 16 feet on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service office in Glasgow. The river crested at 27.8 feet on June 11. Tampico saw moderate flooding above 24 feet for several days, cresting at 24.7 feet, but it fell below the flood stage on June 13 and early on Wednesday it was at 16.9 feet. Nashua reached 18.8 feet but never cracked the 20-foot flood stage. It is dropping too, to 16.3...
Everybody at Nemont Manor enjoyed the comfortable wooden bench at the end of the sidewalk, but it was getting weathered. People were afraid it would fall apart, and that was a shame, since it was a memorial to a resident, Martha Luck. Gordon Olson, a Nemont Manor resident since 2007, decided to rescue the bench. Olson disassembled the wooden slats from the iron sides. The Manor’s maintenance man, Jeff Roberton, cut oak for the new slats, which Olson sanded, stained and mounted back onto the i...
Harry Ratzky is protesting the decision to raise rates for rides on the Valley County Transit buses. He told the Valley County commissioners on Tuesday that he believes the increase is in violation of the Montana Civil Rights Act and probably the federal Civil Rights Act, because he has protected status as a senior and a person with a low income. The rate increase, announced May 29 in The Courier, is the first since 1997 and is to go into effect July 1. All rides in Glasgow will cost $1. The fare for seniors and children is currently 75 cents....
The Glasgow School Board hired two teachers at the regular meeting on June 12. Lily Himsl and Kevin Alt will teach fifth grade, replacing J Billingsley, who has resigned to move to another school district. A list of winter head coaches and fall and winter assistant coaches submitted by Willie Thibault was hired, but not named individually. The public’s interest in the board’s practice on hiring coaches was noted. The hiring procedure will be on next month’s agenda. Trustee Dave Irving reported a good negotiated settlement with the distr...
The Glasgow City Council discussed contracts with its unionized employees, police department and city attorney at the regular meeting on Monday. The counter offer from the union was a $.50 raise and an increase in health insurance for two years, but the council voted to offer a one-year contract. They voted to do the same thing with the counter offer from the police department, make the same offer as last time. The Council agreed to renew a revised six-month contract with City Attorney Dave Gorton for criminal cases only, with an added...
Tanja Fransen at the Glasgow office of the National Weather Service is sending out e-blasts again, as she did during the record flooding of 2011. The latest, sent on Tuesday at noon, begins with a cheery “Hello Milk River Flood Group.” Fransen said the Milk River had crested at Saco and was cresting at Tampico, having topped out at 24.7 feet. Water is over the North Tampico Road and it is closed. At Glasgow, things were steadying around 27.8 feet, in the minor flood stage. According to Fransen,...
Glasgow’s high school and middle school music teacher, Dr. Brad Persinger, has been honored as the VFW Montana Teacher of the Year. The award was publicly presented by the VFW’s Art Widhalm at this year’s Memorial Day ceremony. “Brad epitomizes the definition of citizenship,” then-GHS Principal Marj Markle said in her letter of nomination. “No matter what day Veterans Day or Memorial Day fall, Brad is there to volunteer his time and wonderful music ability at their functions.” After Persing...
By Samar Fay Courier Editor Whether the Yellowstone bison now living on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation are classified as livestock or wildlife was the subject of debate at the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 6 Citizens Advisory Council meeting Tuesday at the Fort Peck Fish Hatchery. “The designation of bison will be a contentious and hard-fought issue for many years to come,” said Steve Dalbey, the acting FWP Region 6 supervisor. The memorandum of understanding between FWP and the Fort Peck tribes does not make clear the present or fut...
Will she win? The Hi-Line’s candidate for Miss Montana 2013, Justiss Firemoon of Poplar, finds out Saturday night. Justiss, 18, and 12 other candidates are competing to succeed last year’s winner, Alexis Wineman of Cut Bank, who was chosen “America’s Choice” in the Miss America Pageant and became well known for her success as someone with autism. Justiss – whose father, Thomas, owns the Nakoda Trails Stop store in Frazer – plans to sing in the talent competition during this year’s Montan...
Renowned Assiniboine artist William Standing will be featured at the Pioneer Museum in Glasgow in what could be the largest assembly of his art, sponsored by the Valley County Historical Society. The showing of his paintings and drawings, along with historic photographs of the artist and his time, will hang from June 9 through Sept. 1. The museum is open seven days a week through Labor Day. The centerpiece of the show is “The Medicine Lodge,” painted in 1929 at Gus Knapp’s store in Oswego. The large oil painting features 25 Assiniboine lodge da...
The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) is seeking comments on a proposal to realign and reconstruct about 1.8 miles of Highway 117, west of Nashua. The project begins at the north end of the Milk River Bridge and proposes reconstructing Hwy. 117 north for 1.8 miles, intersecting with U.S. 2. The project would create a second access to U.S. 2 for the community of Nashua through construction of a “grade separated crossing” of the BNSF railroad. Community meetings were held last year in Nashua for a solution to the problem of trains blo...
Well, I’m not sure what all is new. However, I can tell you what is new at the Pioneer Museum in Glasgow right now. This summer a special attraction will be the William Standing Art Collection, which is on display for all of you to visit. William Standing done wonderful work – some with a great sense of humor. Also on loan at this time from Gene Etchart is the bullet that killed the Pigeon Toed Kid when he was shot by Hugh Calderwood, a deputy sheriff. This was in the days before this corner of Montana had been tamed. The Pigeon Toed Kid was...
The Milk River at Glasgow jumped ahead of predictions and rose to 25.6 feet late Tuesday night. Flood stage is 25 feet, so there is minor flooding in low-lying areas. The latest forecast from the National Weather Service office in Glasgow (1:30 a.m. on Wednesday) is that the river will hold near 26 feet from Wednesday through Friday, and be at 27.5 feet early on Sunday. The situation changed quickly from the middle of the afternoon on Tuesday, when the river was at 23.15 feet and a height of 27...
Dr. Cliff Montagne, of Montana State University’s Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, brought grad students Lora Soderquist, Rebecca Kurnick, Badamgarav (Badmaa) Dovchin and Sarina Bao (from Mongolia and Chinese-controlled Inner Mongolia) out to Horse Ranch on Timber Creek for a seminar on Eastern Montana ranch ecology and management philosophy May 10 to 13. Thanks to our generous community, we had a number of interesting seminar stops on our way to the ranch. Rose Teske o...
Derrick Simons graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., on Friday, May 24. Graduates numbering 1,047 marched through the rain to the 163rd commencement exercises that were held at the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium to be sworn in as the newest members of the Navy. President Barack Obama gave the commencement address, challenging the men and women to hold on to their values they have been taught through this difficult and trying time. The graduating class consisted of 80 percent men...
Because of repeated vandalism at its shooting range on private land south of Saco, the Saco Shootist Society has closed the range to the public. “This has been going on for several years,” said Richard Barnard, vice president of the Saco Shootist Society, “but this last round is the worst.” Barnard said the first damage occurred a couple of years ago. An empty old trailer house on the range was shot up. Now some small metal targets have been damaged and a large metal target has been shot to pieces. This target was made of old railroad tie pla...
A virus has infected several computers in this area, locked them up and demanded money to release them. Dale Bender of Glasgow was a victim recently, and said, “It’s really sick.” Bender was watching an evangelist on the computer when suddenly the screen showed a picture of a young girl. Then it showed Bender on his own screen, using the webcam mounted on his computer. The hijacked computer screen accused him of watching porn, claimed the FBI locked up the computer and demanded $300 to unlock it. Bender said he knows of at least three people in...
No bids to repair the roof of Glasgow’s south side fire hall were received by the deadline last week. Director of Public Works Bob Kompel said three contractors picked up bid packets. He was following up with two of them to ask why they chose not to bid the project. He recommended re-advertising the project with an increased length of time to complete the project to make it more desirable, saying the problem could be “nothing more than a scheduling conflict with only two potential bidders.” At Monday’s Glasgow City Council meeting, Kompel said...
A black bear captured on a ranch near the McCone County town of Brockway over the Memorial Day weekend has been moved by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks wardens to a new home in the Little Belt Mountains. FWP Region 6 Warden Todd Tryan of Glasgow received a report from McCone County Undersheriff Lonny Jensen on May 24 that a bear had just been spotted in the Brockway Cemetery. Tryan immediately headed to the area and eventually located the animal in a scrap woodpile more than three miles north...
Well, I’m not sure what all is new. However, I can tell you what is new at the Pioneer Museum in Glasgow right now. For the next month or so a special attraction will be the William Standing Art Collection which is on display for all of you to visit. William Standing done wonderful work – some with a great sense of humor. Also on loan at this time from Gene Etchart is the bullet that killed the Pigeon Toed Kid when he was shot by Hugh Calderwood, a Deputy Sheriff. This was in the days before this corner of Montana had been tamed. The Pigeon Toe...
Escorted by kilt-clad junior honor students, they walked in two by two, the Glasgow High School graduating class of 2013, the white-robed girls carrying red flowers, the boys in red wearing white boutonnieres. As Andy Gardner, the class representative, told them in his Senior Address, their class of 47 graduates is the smallest class since 1930, and the smallest from this school building. Seventeen of them started kindergarten together. Seniors are graduating all over the country but today, he...
If you were in it, like Glasgow was Saturday evening, the hail storm was bad. But only some areas were hit while most others escaped. Glasgow was subjected to a heavy downpour that turned into pea-size and larger hail after 7 p.m. It was a record rain for the date, 1.53 inches, and it didn’t take long to create flash flooding. Although not as bad as the storm of 2007, tender plants were destroyed and some tree leaves were stripped and washed into storm drains, causing jams. The underpass was c...
