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For the small town of Nashua, quite a few (just over a dozen) showed up to the local school board meeting to not only voice their concerns, but to see if they could get an answer for a recent event that has left some parents feeling unsettled. Before the meeting got down to business, parents spoke up during the public comment segment. Bonnie Dunning Wooley brought up a letter from the school board about Individual Education Plan (IEP) not being completed in time. She said she also had concerns about the recent release of staff members (para...
While Earth Day isn’t a widely celebrated day, there has been more focus on trees in the last few years in Valley County. This year on Earth Day the health department will have a community stroll – and there has been discussion about a possible community cleanup day in the future to celebrate the day and promote keeping the community clean. Free Trees Valley County has been continuing their free tree day each year for several years. Up to today they’ve distributed 10,000 trees, and an additional 2,000 trees will be distributed this year. The f...
Unusual circumstances tied the day together. On the five-year anniversary of the passing of their father, Arlie Knodel – the Knodel family's Eugene's Pizza was named the best pizza in Montana and Arlie’s favorite basketball team, the Duke Blue Devils, took a championship. Eugene’s Pizza has been in business since 1962, with the Knodel family as owners since 1967, and a story of kids traveling hundreds miles for a slice isn’t completely uncommon. During March Madness, Montana Mint started...
First Of Two Parts A small group from Glasgow made the trip out to Williston last week to get an inside look at what the workforce camps might look like in Valley County if the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline ever gets approval. With the county commissioners and the county planning and zoning approving the two workforce camps that would be located between Nashua and Fort Peck and another just outside of Hinsdale some curious city and county employees and the chamber of commerce decided to take... Full story
Another structure fire left two families without a home on Saturday, April 11. The fire spread rapidly and Marisa Collins said that, luckily on her side of the duplex at 70 Heather Lane, everyone, including the family dog, made it out okay. Dispatch received the first call just before 3 p.m. It was a neighbor that called from a few houses down and couldn't place where the fire was exactly. Only that it was on Heather Lane. The Glasgow Fire Department was paged as a few other 911 calls came in...
Airport employees caught the sight of fuel on the blacktop located near the fuel pump at the Wokal Field Glasgow International Airport on Saturday, March 21. That sighting created quick action as the airport tore up the pavement and ground looking for a leak that turned out to be a very small leak. Airport Manager Lucas Locke said that it was a corroded pipe with a pinhole leak that surfaced through a small crack in the pavement. He said that the pipe that was placed in the ground in the 1980s might not have been sealed right. It corroded...
The Courier has moved up its weekly deadline for provided news, photos and advertising from Tuesday to 5 p.m. Monday due to a new production schedule. The Courier still will be published on Wednesdays but will now feature color photos. It will be delivered to local stores on Wednesday afternoons for single copy sales and continue to be mailed to subscribers on Wednesdays. If you have any questions, please call 228-9301.... Full story
While it's a possible secret to some, it's not a secret to anyone who has been involved in the Valley Event Center. The center is run by volunteers, and has been for over a decade. Each year the Hi-Line Hockey Youth Board, which keeps the event center functioning, honors one of its volunteers for his or her service. The year the board members named Karen Breigenzer volunteer of the year. They personally invited her to the spring banquet, but Breigenzer said she had about three other things... Full story
The annual Glasgow Kiwanis Easter egg hunt drew more than 100 kids to Hoyt Park on Saturday, April 4. They not only had a chance to find candy filled plastic eggs, but they got to meet the Easter bunny, who was hanging out.... Full story
While it might seem out of the ordinary to have a snowstorm moving in right after Easter Sunday, the National Weather Service in Glasgow said it actually wasn't very out of the ordinary. The storm system that moved in recent days came from the West Coast and over the Rockies, dropping a few inches of snow in the area. Temperatures were cooler than normal Monday and will continue that way through Wednesday. But the temperature will be above normal by Friday. In fact, temperatures have been above...
A local man recently gained nationally attention, but not in a good way. Keith Morehouse, of Glasgow, suddenly hit newspapers last week as being charged with illegally killing a golden eagle. While the Helena Independent and the Billings Gazette printed details from the affidavit, they failed to mention that the incident actually occurred Feb. 23, 2013. Morehouse said that there was no intent to kill the eagle. The accident happened after a snare was missed after removing several others. Morehouse was trapping other critters in the area. The...
It’s going to be a month of activities and education for the Valley County Health Department. The department will be focusing on a few different issues, as this is Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Awareness month and next week is National Public Health Week. The local health department staff is gearing up not only to educate the public on local issues, but they’re also finalizing details on their community stroll. The public will be invited to show up for the community stroll that is sponsored by the city of Glasgow and the health dep...
Another group of artists is showing off its talents in April at Wheatgrass Arts and Gallery. The artist reception coming up on Friday, April 10 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. will show four local artists, each with her own unique look. Janet Markle has a display of her whimsical sewing wonders. The dolls, quilts and other items have a lot of attention to small details. She'll be offering a class on how she makes her bookmarks at the art gallery coming up. Betty Stone has some pretty beautiful...
Montana’s unemployment rate continued its decline in February, down 0.1 of a percentage point from January to 4.3 percent. The U.S. unemployment rate decreased by 0.2 percentage points to 5.5 percent. Valley County's employment rate remains strong. The county's unemployment rate in February was 3.8 percent. The county had 4,275 people employed, 211 more than one year earlier. “Job creation in the state continues to be good news for Montana,” said Labor Commissioner Pam Bucy. “Two years ago, our focus was to find jobs for workers. With our str...
The Job Service Employers' Committee (JSEC) will be hosting an Employee Engagement seminar Thursday, April 16, from 8:15 a.m. until 12:30 p.m., at the Cottonwood Inn. A team of experts will present best practices in four areas: communication, customer service, motivation and retention. The round table format will improve understanding and allow for interaction with each speaker. “JSEC selected the topics after feedback from employers,” said JSEC Chair Stacey Amundson, “and we wanted topics that were useful to both employees and employers.” Havi...
This is the second of two stories on human trafficking and survivor Windie Lazenko's visit to Glasgow, where she spoke during events with high school students and then adults. As the adults gathered later in the evening, she told some of the same stories. She explained that her experience catapulted her into a life of self destruction. Around 30 law enforcement, community members and concerned citizens came to learn about not only the dangers and risks that faced our youth, but how they could... Full story
"It's like turning the Bible into a color popup book," Rev. Frank Lenihan said. Lenihan is a regional representative for Bridges for Peace. It's an organization that has a mission to build bridges toward the Jewish community in Israel. They feed thousands of Israeli children, and also participate in several community service projects in Israel. Lenihan said that this most recent trip to Israel was per request of a couple celebrating their 25th anniversary this year. The tour took place from Feb....
The firefighting training by the Valley Event Center and fairgrounds parking lot last Saturday was put on by Safe-Fire LLC out of Wyoming. Glasgow Fire Chief Brandon Brunelle told The Courier that the training was designed to teach firefighters how to deal with liquid- or gas-caused fires. It covered everything from residential propane BBQ fires, rail cars that travel through local communities every day, and large infrastructures that are already in placelocally – such as loading stations, g...
For the past year more than one organization has been looking at making a downtown revitalization a reality. Several small projects and grants have helped the city of Glasgow work on gaining funding and planning to make the downtown look a little better and help to attract more business and tourism. One of these projects has been to get hanging flower baskets, trash cans and benches placed in the downtown area. The first grant to help make that project a reality came from the Theo Beck Foundation. That first grant covered the purchase of five...
Building season has begun as warm weather has already moved in this early spring. The Valley County Commissioners approved advertising for bids and accepted a few bids in the last commissioner meeting open to the public on Wednesday, March 25. They approved accepting bids for a project on the Valley County Transit building parking lot. The project proposal will include replacing the concrete parking lot. Bidding is open to contractors with five years’ experience. Commissioners will accept bids until 5 p.m. on Friday, April 10. Bids will be o...
First Of Two Parts Advocate, speaker and survivor of human trafficker Windie Lazenko made a stop in Glasgow last week. Her topic was a difficult one that doesn't normally draw large crowds, but awareness of a growing domestic problem is starting to spread nationwide. Being so close to the Bakken, the dangers of trafficking to local youth is something that is very real. As around 80 students gathered into the Glasgow High School library at the end of the day, a few snickers were heard from... Full story
The Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Fort Peck Reservation and Dry Prairie Rural Water Authority have announced their agreement for the delivery of water from the tribes' intake and treatment facilities near Wolf Point to Dry Prairie customers throughout Montana's Northeastern corner. They'll have a ceremony to sign the agreement on Tuesday, March 31, in Poplar at the Fort Peck Tribal Headquarters, 501 Medicine Bear Road. The ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. and comments from dignitaries will begin the ceremony that will lead up to the signing of...
After many months of preparation, research, planning, meeting, designing and forecasting, the new $33 million dollar Buffalo Rivers Casino & Lodge is nearly ready to begin construction. “To finally see this wonderful casino become a reality is very good for our tribes,” said Garrett BigLeggins, Tribal Executive Board member. The Buffalo Rivers Casino & Lodge will break ground on June 15 and open its doors in May 2016, developers said. Located at Highway 2 and BIA 170, and just over 50 miles from Williston, N.D., Buffalo Rivers is designed to...
There was a theme song that a small group of fans appreciated. The FMDH Foundation brought in the host of the popular PBS Montana "Backroads of Montana" program, William Marcus. And Marcus told the group that filled the Cottonwood for dinner on Friday, March 13, that this would be a big year. He announced that he would retire at the end of June this year, but he would continue to host "Backroads of Montana" after his retirement. Marcus added that it had been a long time since he had visited...
Havre police and six other agencies were led on a high-speed chase throughout Havre to Chinook and to a field several miles south of Chinook Friday afternoon. In the end, they captured an escaped convict, Eric Bruce Fowler, born in 1980, a passenger in the vehicle, and arrested his accomplice, Ranette R. Doney, born in 1980 and from Glasgow, the vehicle's driver. The Montana Department of Corrections had issued a warrant for Fowler's arrest in January for escaping from the Watch program at the Warm Springs Addiction Treatment program. He had...
