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The Valley County commissioners adopted the recommendation of the County Compensation Board on Tuesday and voted a 5 percent pay increase for elected county officials. The commissioners also raised the salaries of all non-elected county employees who are eligible for health insurance by 86 cents an hour. According to Commissioner Dave Pippin, Valley County paid the lowest or next to the lowest salaries of similar counties in Montana. “We need to raise our salaries,” Pippin said. “We will try to pay as much as we can and not break the bank.... Full story
Valley County’s new justice of the peace, James Wixson, was appointed by the county commissioners last Wednesday and sworn into office Monday by Clerk and Recorder Lynne Nyquist. He came to Glasgow with the FBI in 1981 and was involved in investigating major crimes on the Fort Peck and Fort Belknap reservations. He retired here in 1997 after a long career as an agent. Wixson was chosen from among 10 applicants for the position. Valley County Commissioner Dave Pippin said Wixson had experienced e...
The annual College Fair held at Glasgow High School on Tuesday attracted more than 300 juniors and seniors from 10 high schools in northeastern Montana to learn about the opportunities for higher education. The yellow school buses came from Hi-Line towns from Brockton to Whitewater. Students cruised around the gym where more than 50 college and universities had displays. They represented nearly all the schools in Montana, plus ones from Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Minnesota and North Dakota,...
The Glasgow Area Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture will once again be hosting the Saskatoon Police Pipe Band during the 2013 Glasgow Scottie Homecoming Festival weekend. The band will be a part of the Scottie Homecoming Parade on Friday, Sept. 20, at 2:30 p.m., the Scottie Booster Club tailgate party at GHS at 6 p.m., and halftime of the Scottie vs. Shelby football game. On Saturday morning the band will perform at the Kiwanis Club Pancake Breakfast at 9 a.m. They will also play at the start of...
The city of Glasgow has a vacant seat on three boards, the Board of Adjustments, the Zoning Commission and the Glasgow Refuse Board. Each term is three years. The City Council will accept written applications until 5 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 30. The Council will consider all applications and appoint people to fill the vacancies at the regular meeting on Oct. 7. For more information, call City Clerk Stacey Amundson at 228-2476....
Ruth Fossen Allman joined the exclusive centenarian club on Saturday, Aug. 31. She celebrated her 100th birthday with her family at her daughter’s house on Millionaire Mile in Fort Peck. She agreed to be interviewed the day before the big event. “To get 100 – which I never, never, never expected to do!” Born on a dryland wheat farm in Fingal, N.D., Allman came to Montana in 1918 when her parents proved up their homestead. They went back to North Dakota, then moved to a farm 36 miles north o...
Deb Young loves reading The Courier. Every week she gets a cup of coffee, settles into her comfortable chair, puts her computer keyboard on her lap and “reads” the paper. Young is blind. She uses a screen reading program that speaks the written words to her. Young lost her vision in 1993, but she has learned to use technology to keep her world alive. She listens to books on tape. Her fingers dance over the keypad of her smart phone, which is equipped with voice recognition and spoken cues. She... Full story
The month of August has seen a series of meetings at St. Marie and a takeover attempt by a group whose core is four people who arrived from Washington State last summer, DTM Enterprises LLC. DTM partners have stated they want to renovate and sell units at St. Marie. They want to take a section of 120 units out of the condominium and turn them into townhouses, a different form of ownership in which people own the building and the land under it. The latest meeting was one the DTM partners held...
An estimated 250 people crowded into Saco last weekend for the 50th observance of Saco Fun Days. Lots of people came for the All-Class Reunion and the numbers were helped by fine weather. The celebration offered street dances, a parade, kids’ games, a demolition derby, a pie social, a sock hop and many dinners, barbecues and feeds. Ron Hanson was one of the 15 members of the class of 1960. He retired from the ranch to Billings until he became a snowbird and now he travels in a motor home. With h...
The Glasgow City Council at its regular meeting on Tuesday held public hearings and passed resolutions levying assessments for street lights and garbage collection. They also had a public hearing and adopted a preliminary budget for fiscal year 2013-2014. Last Friday the Council decided to bill 320 mills. Taxes will go up, Mayor Dan Carney said, but they haven’t raised for a long time. For Glasgow Lighting Districts No. 1 through 29, the total assessment is $189,244.44. The amount levied against each lot or parcel is according to the square f...
The Valley County proposed budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, has been filed and is open for inspection by the public. The county commissioners will hear any taxpayer comment on the budget beginning Sept. 4 and continuing until the final budget is approved. The estimated value of a county-wide mill is $25,891 outside the city and $22,293 in the city limits. If the certified millages are either higher or lower than estimated, the budget will be proportionally raised or lowered.... Full story
It stood on U.S. 2 for perhaps 60 years, but now it’s gone. Tommy Rodgers’ turquoise and white Sinclair station, closed for a long time, was knocked down and taken away on Monday. Then a heavy Cat went to work on the concrete and asphalt pavement. Traffic was bumped over into one lane so big side-dump trucks could be filled with the rubble. The old gas station is a contaminated site being cleaned up by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality. The leaky underground system of five tan... Full story
After being rebuffed in their attempt to vote a candidate onto the board of the St. Marie Village Association, a group of owners have declared themselves a majority of the property owners, voted to abolish covenants amended in 1992, terminated the current board and created a new temporary board pending an election. The group was denied participation rights at the annual meeting because according to the association records, they were in arrears with their fees. One of the group, Merrill Frantz, told The Courier that the association had told...
A man who escaped from the tribal jail in Poplar was apprehended in Park Grove by Valley County sheriff’s deputies on Friday night. According to Sheriff Glen Meier, Eric Bruce Fowler of Wolf Point was awaiting trial for a drug-related offense when he escaped about three weeks ago. The Valley County Sheriff’s Office received information that Fowler was in Park Grove with his girlfriend and her child. Meier said they took their time, watched him and planned. On Friday, the whole force went to the house in Park Grove. When Fowler left the hou...
A herd of Yellowstone bison from the Fort Peck Reservation was released on Fort Belknap last Thursday, finally fulfilling a plan by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks to quarantine brucellosis-free animals, prove they can remain disease-free, and transplant them to the two Indian reservations on the eastern plains. Thirty-four bison stepped out of trailers and trotted off to explore the 900-acre pasture. It was recently surrounded with a stout, new 8-foot fence. Sixty-one Yellowstone bison were moved to the Fort Peck Reservation in March 2012....
The Glasgow High School Educational Trust said this week that it is honored to announce a recent gift of $10,000 from former Glasgow resident and long-time Glasgow School District Clerk Eunice (Burrus) Moen. She made the gift in memory of her daughter Lila Moen Sanders, who died of a brain tumor in 1981, and in honor of her daughter Phyllis Moen Sanguine. Both girls graduated from GHS in 1954. In making her gift, Eunice Moen wrote, “It is satisfying to be able to help students as they pursue t...
Five thousand dollars has been added to the Valley County drug forfeiture fund as a result of a meth seizure from a Corvette in July. Valley County Sheriff Glen Meier and Undersheriff Vernon Buerkle accepted a check on Aug. 14 for the black 2011 Chevy Corvette. The story began on July 6, when deputies responded to a domestic disturbance at the second dredge in Park Grove, where a Nashua woman said her ex-husband was shouting at her. He left, but was stopped on Highway 117 for having no plates...
Silver Airlines’ Essential Air Service contract for five eastern Montana cities will expire on Sept. 27, but residents will not be grounded while the new carrier, Cape Air, gets organized. “It’s not like the airline is going to up and leave on that specific date if there’s not another airline,” said Steve Bennett, a spokesman for Silver Airlines. “We are acting in good faith. We care about the community.” Bennett contacted The Courier on Tuesday after being informed about a Courier article published July 31, which announced the choice of Cap... Full story
The vacant justice of the peace position has drawn an unusually high number of applicants. Several people filed just before the deadline last Thursday, bringing the number of applications to 10. They are Christine Gamas, David Gorton, Pam Heikens, Christina M. Hillman, David Kloker, Kara Moon, Linda Parks, Carol Ann Walton, James Wixson and Misty Womack. “We are really pleased with that much interest in that office,” said Valley County Commissioner Dave Pippin. “Many of the candidates are extremely qualified. These are definitely some tough...
With the construction season getting shorter every day, the architects and builders for the school project are eager to get started. At the Glasgow School Board meeting on Aug. 14, they decided on Monday, Sept. 23, at noon as the official ground breaking at East Side School. Eric Hulteng, the owner’s representative for the school district in its building project, said he had met with the design team of L’Heureux-Page-Werner and the Sletten Construction team the week before and gotten a good start on the communications, the budget and the sch...
A touch of yesteryear will be on display at Saco Fun Days this year when Terry Korman, who lives near the Bjornberg bridge northeast of Saco, operates a restored cross-cut saw dating back to the 1850s, powered by a team of horses. The demonstration will take place Saturday, Aug. 31, at approximately 1:30 p.m. just north of the Big Dome Hotel and will last for a half-an-hour. “I don’t want to make the horses stand out there too long in this heat,” Korman said. The saw originally belonged to Ko...
The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, in collaboration with Carroll College and Montana State University, has confirmed this season’s first signs of West Nile virus-positive mosquitoes in Phillips, Sheridan, Blaine, Cascade, Prairie and Teton counties. In addition, an American white pelican near the Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Sheridan County tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV). Karla Thompson of the Valley County Health Department told The Courier that as of Tuesday, no human cases of WNV have been r...
BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) plans to invest an estimated $115 million on maintenance and rail capacity expansion projects in Montana this year, a significant amount of it along the Hi-Line. BNSF will expand capacity in Montana by constructing three new unit train staging tracks about 3 miles east of Glasgow and will enhance safety by adding machine vision technology at Miles City to help detect damaged equipment. BNSF will also continue its robust track maintenance program in Montana, which...
“The bottom line is, do you want $200,000 in taxes a year or not?” said Valley Commissioner Dave Reinhardt on Tuesday. At their regular meeting the commissioners were discussing the tax abatement requested by Compass Wind. The proposed wind farm south of Opheim is still in the negotiation stage with several pieces hanging in the air. The commissioners asked themselves if the project needed the abatement. At a public meeting held in Glasgow on July 30 to introduce the Compass Wind project, their development director, Kyle Paulson, said they nee... Full story
As the deadline approaches, applications are coming in for Valley County justice of the peace. As of Tuesday, Job Service had six applications on file. The aspiring judges are Chris Gamas, Pam Heikens, Christina M. Hillman, Carol Ann Walton, James Wixson and Misty Womack. The position closes on Thursday, Aug. 15. The commissioners said they hope to make a rapid decision so the new judge can attend JP school in Helena in September. The appointment is temporary, until the end of the current term on Dec. 31, 2014. The position is then up for...
