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The city of Glasgow’s Growth Policy project team held four focus group and visioning workshop meetings at the Civic Center last week. The Housing Focus Group met Wednesday evening, and three meetings were held Thursday: Community Services and Infrastructure, Land Use and Community Visioning. Project manager Matt Ulberg said the Community Visioning group was the capstone of this effort to assemble the vision of this community. In January the team had a public meeting to launch the Growth Policy project that was well-attended. As team member J...
A new study released by the Montana Department of Commerce predicts that Valley County will experience modest population growth in the decades ahead, and then decline slightly to about present-day levels by 2060. From the estimated 2012 population of 7,604, the numbers will rise to a peak of 8,188 in 2028. This is almost exactly what the population of Valley County was in 1990. Then, just as gradually, the numbers will decline to 7,813 in 2060. The whole change is 584 people. The Census and Economic Information Center (CEIC) within the...
The Glasgow Education Association and Glasgow School Board will host a gathering 5 p..m. Monday, May 20, at the Glasgow Elks to honor some familiar faces who are retiring from the school district. The retirees are teachers John LaBonty, Carolyn Bachtold, Cindy Taylor and Linda Allie, GHS principal Margaret Markle and head cook Rita Zeller. The public is invited to attend and wish them well....
Glasgow’s Head Start is having a big birthday party this weekend and you’re invited. A 20th anniversary celebration will be held by the Head Start Parents Committee of 2012-13 with a spring fundraiser, “Hot Dog Picnic in the Park, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 18. Hoyt Park, next to the swimming pool, is the place. Over the past 20 years, the program has served almost 400 children and their families in the Glasgow, Valley County, area. This year, the Glasgow center has 19 enrolled children. The staff consists of a teacher, assis...
The Bureau of Land Management is taking comments on a draft resource management plan (RMP) for the 2.4 million acres of public land and 4.2 million acres of federal minerals it manages in the HiLine District, which stretches from the Rockies to North Dakota, and from the Canadian border to south of U.S. 2 and to the Missouri River. An updated plan was due, since the district is operating with plans that are more than 25 years old. The pressures of oil and gas development, threats to the greater sage-grouse, increased conflicts between land use...
The three-way contest for one seat on the Glasgow School Board was settled Tuesday night. Mona Amundson was elected to a three-year term with 739 votes. Sarah Swanson had 418 votes and Rod Ost had 137. Voting was running high for this election. Forty-three percent of the 3,084 registered voters requested absentee ballots. As of Monday, a large number of these 1,311 absentee ballots had been returned, so voter turnout was already near 30 percent. The 34 percent voter participation in 2011 was...
Newly released county population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show significant growth in Montana’s northeastern oil patch during the past year, according to a University of Montana researcher. Jim Sylvester, an economist at UM’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research, said that Richland County, which contains Sidney, was among the fastest growing counties in the country with estimated growth of 6.6 percent during the past year. Other nearby counties – Sheridan, Fallon, Roosevelt and Dawson – grew about 3 percent in the past year. W...
The Cottonwood was packed Tuesday for the first day of the 45th annual Governor’s Conference on Aging. It marked the first time Glasgow has hosted this conference and the first visit by Gov. Steve Bullock since his election. The theme “Aging in the Last Best Place” reflects the fact that Montana has one of the fastest growing 65 and older populations in the nation, with an average of 35 baby boomers turning 65 every day until 2030. And surprisingly, within this age group, the fastest growi...
The Glasgow City Council heard from a rural water specialist that the city’s water system is running a deficit because the rates are too low. John Weikel, a circuit rider for Montana Rural Water Systems, told the council at Monday’s regular meeting that his preliminary analysis of the system shows the annual cost is $659,000, while receipts are $634,440, putting the account in the red by nearly $40,000. “Looking at the numbers, you’re looking at an increase of probably about $10 on the base rate,” Weikel said. The base rate for a 3/4-inch...
Lee Humbert celebrated 25 years of bull sales at the Glasgow Stockyards on the 25th day of April. With auctioneer Roger Jacobs at the microphone, Humbert sold 44 Angus bulls from his Scobey area ranch for an average price of $4,119. The top 10 averaged $5,350. The high-selling bull this year was Lot 24. HAR Program 2829 is the son of HA Program 7337 out of a New Design/Rito dam. This bull sold to Larry Roberton of Opheim for $6,250. His EPDs were birthweight -2.8, weaning +51, milk +27 and...
The Road Department was kept running from one end of Valley County to the other this weekend, repairing potentially dangerous damage to two roads. A Glentana resident reported Friday night that the Glentana Road (Highway 438) just south of Glentana was rapidly washing away around a culvert. He said the road was very soft. Snow lying deep in the coulees in the north part of the county was melting in the warmer weather and pouring from the head of Spring Coulee, said road superintendent Wayne Waar...
A CBS producer and writer has come from the Big Apple to the Big Sky to ask Valley County people about the effect the Keystone XL oil pipeline might have on this area, if it receives presidential approval. Craig Wilson is a Canadian from Medicine Hat, Alberta, who has forged an award-winning career with CBS News in New York City, but he goes home with his children every summer and follows Canadian-American news stories for CBS. Wilson arrived in Glasgow Tuesday and said he plans to talk with...
A line had formed at the Clerk and Recorder’s office before it opened on Monday. Becky Erickson said she got there at 20 minutes to eight to be the first person to file for the Glasgow mayor’s race. Erickson has served on the Glasgow City Council for 18 years, as well as on the boards of many local and state organizations. She was soon joined in line by Melanie Sorensen, a city councilman who had decided not to run for re-election in Ward 3, the south side, but changed her mind when Erickson announced her candidacy for mayor. Sorensen has bee...
1. Describe your background: family, education, occupation, community service, involvement with local schools. I have been married to my wonderful and supportive husband, Jim, for over 40 years. We have two children and three grandchildren. I received my education through the Glasgow School system, and I credit my successes in my career to that education along with dedicated, hard work. I am retired from the State of Montana Department of Labor & Industry, where I was the manager of the...
1. Describe your background: family, education, occupation, community service, involvement with local schools. I have lived and raised my family here in Glasgow for more than 45 years. I graduated from GHS in 1972. We were the first class that had the opportunity to go to all three years at the “New High School.” I attended college at the University of Montana and Eastern. I served in the Navy as part of the Seabee Construction Battalion squad. After the Navy, I worked for Pacific Steel in Hav...
1. Describe your background: family, education, occupation, community service, involvement with local schools. I was born and raised in Glasgow. My parents, Marc and Debbie Swanson, made their home in Glasgow following college, and raised my sisters and me here, surrounded by extended family and friends. I attended kindergarten through 12th grade in the Glasgow schools and graduated from Glasgow High School with honors. I then attended MSU Billings, majoring in business and accounting. I chose...
The Valley County commissioners voted Tuesday to publish a notice of their intent to dissolve the defunct City-County Planning Board. It is a housekeeping measure to clear the old joint board off the books since the city of Glasgow has informed the county of their desire to form a new city planning board. Valley County has its own planning board. The old joint board has not met since around 2003, according to Commissioner Dave Pippin. The old City-County Planning Board was formed by a county resolution in January 1959, after the city notified...
