Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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Wild bison were the topic of a Sept. 26 and 27 meeting hosted in Lewistown by the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. FWP Director Jeff Hagener invited people representing the interests of rural communities, government agencies and bison introduction advocates to “explore some common values,” asking, “Is there anywhere we can go as far as middle ground?” The meeting was open to the public, but the discussion was held “at the table,” moderated by Ginny Tribe, an out-of-department facilitator, who introduced herself by saying, “I...
The Nashua Civic Center was the site for a Sept. 24 meeting between Nashua area residents, representatives from HDR Engineering of Billings and the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) concerning the proposed construction of a railroad overpass in Nashua. Paul Grant, the public involvement and meetings representative of MDT, introduced project engineer Tim Erickson of HDR Engineering, who gave a presentation of four options for the overpass. Jeremy Miles, Lisa Fischer and Chris Kelley of HDR Engineering were also at the meeting....
There will be a medical benefit BBQ beef supper and pie auction for Jennifer Dull Kilzer on Friday, Oct. 4, at the Hinsdale School. The supper will be from 4:30 to 7 p.m. in the multipurpose room and the pie auction will follow the volleyball match featuring the Hinsdale/Saco Wildfire vs. Richey/Lambert. The JV volleyball match will begin at 3 p.m. and varsity at 4 p.m., so the pie auction may begin as early as 5 p.m. Pies and any other baked goods are welcomed. Supplemental funding through Thrivent Valley County Chapter #31...
Longtime employees in the law enforcement dispatch center will be getting a raise as a reward for their long service, effective Oct. 7. The Valley County commissioners voted Tuesday to pay an extra 25 cents an hour to employees with 10 years’ service and 50 cents after 20 years. Also, those on the 11 to 7 night shift will receive a 25 cents boost. The raise will apply to part time as well as full time dispatchers. Three people will received the raises, for an annual cost of about $2,000. The commissioners committed $36,000 to the Long Run Fire...
Nashua residents had a chance to ask questions and voice concerns about the building of an overpass to alleviate the problem of the village's railroad crossing being blocked by trains. Approximately 40 people were at the meeting held Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 6 p.m. in the Nashua Civic Center. A presentation of four options for construction of the overpass was presented by Tim Erickson of HDR Engineering in Billings. Also present at the meeting to field questions were MDT officials. No representative from BNSF was present. Although several people... Full story
The annual meeting of the Valley County Farm Bureau was held at the Cottonwood Inn last Tuesday with about 20 folks in attendance. After a nice buffet style meal, bureau president Scott Cassel called the meeting to order. The first speaker of the evening was Scott Kulbeck, Montana Farm Bureau Federation director of membership development. He stressed the bureau's desire of attracting more young farmers and ranchers to join and get involved. “The stock growers take care of livestock issues while the farm bureau concerns itself with the land usag...
Meet Duane Johnson. Of course, anyone camping at Fort Peck Lake in the last 10 years probably knows him. He has been the volunteer campground host at the Downstream and West End campgrounds at Fort Peck since 2003. Every year, for the last 10 years, April through October, he has been a mainstay. “He is here from opening day until the gates close for the season, and is available to guests to answer questions, fill the brochure racks, report issues and provide entertainment,” said natural res...
Surrounded by students and staff, members of the Glasgow School District officially broke ground at the front of East Side School and celebrated the beginning of the much anticipated building project. "This brings opportunities for the kids – that's what it's all about!", said school board Chairperson Alison Molvig. Sletten Construction plans to start mobilizing equipment this week and complete the concrete foundation before winter sets in. Digging in at the ceremony were, from left to right, G... Full story
Valley County’s unemployment rate remained below 4% at 3.9% in August, rising a slim 0.1 percentage points over July’s rate. The county’s August labor force stood at 4,002, with 3,847 people employed and 155 unemployed. Across Montana, the unemployment rate held steady at 5.3% in August. The national rate declined by 0.1 percentage points to 7.3%. Unemployment rates stayed quite stable in much of Valley County’s regional neighborhood, with Phillips and Garfield faring best. Phillips improved to 5.0% in August from 5.3% in July and Garfiel...
Crown bearers Bode Barnett and Madeleine Golob look ready to present the traditional royal attire to Glasgow's new queen and king, Sage Sukut and Lane Herbert, during the coronation last Friday in the GHS auditorium. Want more homecoming weekend pictures? You got 'em. See Page 7A.... Full story
Students and teachers alike suffered in the heat during the first two weeks of school, according to reports by the principals at the regular meeting of the Glasgow School Board on Sept. 11. The temperature in a high school hallway was 100 degrees one afternoon. With fans and lots of attention to hydration (at Irle School they got Popsicles), everyone carried on and they expect true fall weather soon. Superintendent Bob Connors said air conditioning is not normally used in Montana schools. It is an expensive item, and usually only needed during... Full story
Garrett Godwin’s Eagle Scout project has brightened up the south side of Glasgow. He recruited volunteers to spread out Saturday and repaint fire hydrants. He heard at a City Council meeting that some faded hydrants were difficult for the Glasgow Fire Department to find, so it seemed like a worthy public service project to make them shine again. Godwin got a good response when he approached Glasgow Director of Public Works Bob Kompel with the idea. Kompel had the city donate the special paint ...
The 2013 homecoming king and queen candidates at GHS are into Spirit Week and its daily themes. On Monday, as you see here, they were sporting colorful attire for Hippie Day. The candidates are, from left, JoLynn Reyling, Dillon Pankratz, Sage Sukut, Lane Herbert, Rachael Zeiger and Tyler Wesen. Tonight is the traditional car parade and bonfire. Participants should meet at El Cor Del Lanes at 6:45 p.m. and then parade into town at 7 p.m. The homecoming dance at the Scottie Boosters tailgate... Full story
After a public hearing on Sept. 16, the Glasgow City Council proceeded with its proposed water rate increase of $5 per month, effective in November, with another $5 increase planned in six months. Two residents questioned the reasons for the rate increase, and called it a sudden move, especially for people on a fixed income. Council members said the rate has not been raised since 1999 and costs have gone up. Also, the water rate has to meet a minimum to be high enough to cover costs or else the city cannot qualify for state loans for major...
DTM Enterprises LLC filed what was titled a “brief and memorandum in support” in District Court on Tuesday against the board of the St. Marie Village Association and others. It outlines the complaint that DTM was disenfranchised at the annual membership meeting of the Village Association, at which DTM partner Terry Lee was not allowed to exercise 365 proxy votes because the units had unpaid fees. The brief claims to represent the property owners in the village of St. Marie and says the defendants were ousted by a majority vote of property own...
At their regular meeting on Tuesday, the Valley County commissioners passed a resolution that set the all school district levies as follows: • Glasgow, 256.69 mills. • Frazer, 353.98 mills. • Hinsdale, 145.73 mills. • Opheim, 149.49 mills. • Nashua, 220.74 mills. • Lustre, 242.09 mills. • District 5, 59.75 mills. • Total Valley County elementary, 40.41 mills. • Total Valley County high school, 62.78 mills. • Total Valley County transportation. 5.56 mills. Heavy spring rains hit Valley County roads and other infrastructure hard again this yea...
Sen. Max Baucus took the stage with Canadian Ambassador Gary Doer on Monday at the Montana Economic Development Summit in Butte to announce big news for the Bakken. Baucus and Doer unveiled a trade mission from Manitoba this November that will bring Canadian companies to the booming oil region in eastern Montana on Nov. 6 and 7. The Bakken oil boom has brought a wealth of jobs and opportunity to Eastern Montana. At the same time, rapid population growth has put a strain on local communities, infrastructure, law enforcement and more. The...
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...
