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Dear Editor: The Hi-Line District of the BLM is, right now, developing a management plan that will determine what happens to some of the very best intact and undeveloped public lands for decades to come. This “Resource Management Plan” will include about 2.4 million acres of publicly accessible land from the Missouri Breaks north to the Canadian border. This is a hunter’s dream country – from Ponderosa pine coulees to sagebrush plateaus. Good habitat for elk, mule deer and antelope and spectacular habitat for species in a thousand other places....
I began teaching the GED classes in Glasgow in fall 2013. It was rewarding and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I would get such a feeling of accomplishment when a student got their GED. Most of my students were able to get better jobs and some went on to college or some sort of technical training. What an accomplishment on their part. Three or four years ago Glasgow lost its funding for the GED class. I continued to hold class one day a week since that time. However, as with all of life, things change. It has become more difficult for me to get down...
We made an attempt at understanding the need for sports co-ops in some high schools in last week's column. The diminishing numbers of students and the loss of population in our smaller communities have made it necessary for towns to get together and discuss mergers or co-ops. Just a few of the questions people from both communities would ask are: Who pays for travel to and from practices? How will insurance coverage be obtained? How will gate receipts be divided? Where will home games be played. Are the training rules for both schools comparabl... Full story
Frazer Superintendent Corrina L. Guardipee-Hall recently released this statement after a situation at the school involving text message threats. On Nov. 5, Frazer School District went into lockdown at 12 p.m. after a few of our high school students received some serious threats through text messages. Due to the nature of the threats, we contacted law enforcement, the parents of the students involved who received the threats and the school board. Once law enforcement came on the scene, we were able to obtain information that the threat came...
The Courier recently received the following letter from the National Wildlife Federation. Dear Phillips/Valley County Resident: Last year, through a similar letter, National Wildlife Federation (NWF) heard from hundreds of residents in northeast Montana regarding concerns over a wild bison restoration. We have listened and responded to those concerns and are hopeful we can continue to find solutions where both livestock and wildlife can thrive on Montana's prairies. As many of you know, the 2013 Legislature considered a number of bison bills, s...
Some more on the little groceries. It is always such a pleasant surprise to get phone calls and letters on subjects and certainly want to share them at some time or another. Received a letter the other day that helped me remember a couple of other small grocers in Glasgow. Do you remember our first “warehouse grocery,” which was located in the present Gallery Gifts building? The reader remembers the various chocolate bars that were stocked near the door. Then there was Eddie's Quick Stop, right close to the railroad track crossing and pri...
Dear Editor: As ranchers, we have read about and heard about the devastation the ranchers in South Dakota have endured. I am writing about two young ranchers that lost the majority of their cattle to the storm. They are nephews of my sister, Kathleen, in South Dakota. They are hard-working young men with families trying to build herds of their own. Frank and Toni and their three young cowboys lost 40 head of cattle with 17 of them being replacement heifer calves. Colter and Abby and their very young cowgirls lost 18 of their 19 pairs in the...
Twenty-two years ago, a retired Army doctor and his wife rolled into Glasgow, wondering if a cow town on the prairie was really a good choice to set up a new practice and a new chapter in their lives. It turned out to be a wonderful decision. Glasgow has been very good to Mike and me, and it is a real wrench to uproot ourselves from the place we have lived the longest. Only the pull of family in Colorado could be stronger than the love of good friends here and life in the beautiful Milk River... Full story
As executive director of Two Rivers, I am often approached with two questions: “What does Two Rivers do?” and “Is Two Rivers part of the chamber?” It is important that community members understand our role and how it is that we serve Valley County. Two Rivers Economic Growth was created in 1991 to encourage the expansion and development of Valley County. What this means is that we provide supportive services in establishing new business ventures as well as grant writing services for community projects. We are a 401(c)(3) corporation which a...
This is an open letter to Senators Baucus and Tester and Congressman Daines. Agreeing to raise the debt ceiling yet again, in my opinion, was a terrible mistake. Not raising it would have basically put our nation in the same predicament that we citizens face daily ... trying to live within our means. Develop a budget, and stick to it. Refusing to raise the debt limit would not have put us into instant default. There is sufficient income into our treasury to pay the interest on our current debt, giving us time to decide how the remainder of...
The hunting season is in full swing. Everywhere you look you see people dressed in camoflauge clothing and quite often you spot a pickup that has one or more deer or antelope in the box. Walk into a sporting goods store, and you will see hunters purchasing what they need for hunting. Although I’ve never gone deer or antelope or elk hunting, I vividly remember hunting squirrels, rabbits and quail when I was growing up in southeast Iowa. Fishing and hunting were a necessity for my family. Dad, a coal miner, was out of work from the first of A...
Remember when Glasgow had businesses that did tailoring? Friedl’s Mens Wear comes to mind. It seems that the art of tailoring is rather a thing of the past, but that was a customer service at Friedl’s. You men will have to correct me if I am wrong, but I think when men of the area purchased a suit there it could be tailored to fit you. Not only were the pants shortened if needed, but sleeves could also be shortened or lengthened if excess fabric allowed. Maybe a side seam or two could be taken in or let out, darts added, any of those lit...
Our family has two boys playing football for the Huntley Project Red Devils. We wanted to let you know how impressed we were with the players, staff and fans of Glasgow during our playoff game Saturday. As fans, we were greeted with smiles and friendly conversation throughout the afternoon. Later we learned that your team brought snacks to our team bus for the ride home--what an unexpected treat! We were directed to the "visiting team" area of the stands and received advance notice about the student section where kids would be standing... Full story
The past few weeks, thoughts on many subjects have been swirling through my mind. So I decided I’d list a few of those thoughts. A few days ago, I saw a headline that intrigued me so I checked out the article. The headline read, “Marriage isn’t for you.” Going through the article, I felt admiration for the gentleman who wrote it. He related how after meeting his wife while in high school, and their being best friends for 10 years, led to them deciding to marry. However, as their wedding day approached, he began wondering if he’d made the right...
This "remember" was sent to me from a reader, former Glasgow resident Laura Knight Haefer of Billings, in response to my recent writings on grocery stores from years ago. Laura reminisces here about Parke's Grocery, which operated about 1½ blocks from Southside School: "I remember very well growing up just three and a half blocks from our little neighborhood grocery store. Yes, Parke's Grocery was three and a half blocks from our family home at the dike. The David Parke family lived in...
Have I got a deal for you! I have this really big cardboard box for sale. It’s 34 yards long, 15 yards deep and 62 yards wide. It’s a really big box. It’s kinda like, “What’s behind Door No. 2.” I’m not going to tell you what’s in the box until you sign up for my deal. You could lose all the money and prizes you have accumulated so far if you choose wrongly. I will tell you that it’s something you and your family really, really need to have. It will save you lots of money. If you already have a box but aren’t satisfied with the provisions in t...
Dear Editor: This is an open letter to all of the ranchers and farmers that have posted their land for no hunting or trespassing in opposition to the Fish Wildlife and Parks wanting to bring Buffalo in for a game animal. I know you have done this to prove a point, and there are hunters from outside our state and area that would like to see buffalo on your land, but in your rush to judgment you also have excluded those hunters who are your friends and also attended the stop-buffalo meetings and wrote letters to protest the buffalo. Surely you...
It is so great to have readers call. I now know, and have committed to memory, the name of the grocery on 3rd Avenue North. It was the Northside Grocery, run by Lennie Bollinger. I am going to assume that it later moved to the current Dale Plumbing location and became part of Gordon's Foods. So many of us still have special memories of the little local grocery, spending our penny or maybe a whole nickel on candy, or maybe the slicing of the lunch meat for our sandwich. One of my readers also called to say there were a couple of groceries... Full story
Sunday, following a dinner at church, one of my grandsons went over to the rotary dial phone that's in the church basement. Picking up the receiver, he asked, "How do you work this phone?" His question took me by surprise and for a moment, I couldn't quite believe he didn't know how to use the phone. Then I realized that he'd never seen anyone use such a phone. For him, picking up a phone to make a call you simply push buttons. And that you even have a phone you can carry in your pocket or purse. That led me to thinking about other changes that...
Introducing the North American Serengeti. A proposed million acres or so of Montana land, public and private, which will turn productive land that would feed hundreds of thousands of people into a reserve that produces, actually, nothing. “We want to create a place where people from all over the world can come and see the American West as it was a thousand years ago.” Those were the words of the APR (American Prairie Reserve) Marketing and Content Director, Katie Teson when I asked if creating an “American Serengeti” from the holdings of the AP...
All around us in Montana, there are hundreds of people in recovery from mental and substance use disorders. They are contributing to our businesses, connecting with their families, and giving back to the community. Every day someone begins their journey of recovery. However, too many people are still unaware that prevention works, and that mental illness and substance abuse are conditions that can be treated, just like we can treat other health disorders such as diabetes and hypertension. We need to work together to make recovery the...
One of the common refrains that I heard at the Montana Fish Wildlife and Park’s (FWP) meeting in Lewistown about releasing wild bison in counties that do not want wild bison was that we need to do this because of the hunters. It was said that FWP is responsible to the hunters that pay for the department, and that these hunters are requesting wild bison that they can hunt. This line of reasoning made me start to think about all the reasons that hunters visiting our ranch have given for not wanting wild bison released in the Missouri Breaks. I t... Full story
Remember all of the small grocery stores that used to be? In Glasgow you may remember The Green Front, located close to where Albertson’s is now, or White’s, which was close to the Catholic Church. And I believe there was a grocery on Third Avenue North. Anyone remember or know the name of it? There was Hanel’s somewhere close to the present day DQ and Gordon’s, which was located in the present Dale Plumbing building. The south side had Blankenberg’s, across from the courthouse, and the Rice,...
The Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner and I are friends. We have seldom visited since I left the Congress in 1997, but during John’s first years in the House I was the chairman of an education committee of which he was a member. John, despite our political differences, was attentive, engaged, and always considering fresh ways, as he saw it, to improve the nation’s schools. I liked him and still do – although now I am troubled by the policy and political muddle in which he has been cast. It is also disap...
Montana Insurance Commissioner Monica J. Lindeen released the following statement Tuesday: “I’m glad the president acknowledged what everyone in Montana already knows: The federally built health insurance Marketplace website isn’t working. This is unacceptable. “In 2011, I argued that Montana should make its own Marketplace website. As Montana’s insurance commissioner, I knew just how important this site would be to the smooth operation of our insurance markets. But politics prevailed – and now Montanans who need quality, affordable... Full story
