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Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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As I enjoy my morning coffee I remember days before any of our new automatic coffee conveniences. Do you remember when you made your coffee using the stove? Okay, I am remembering filling the old enamel coffee pot with water and adding the coffee grounds. I have to admit I am not remembering just how we did it. Were the coffee grounds added and then brought to a boil, or did we add grounds after the water boiled? I am thinking the former, however, I do not remember that the finished product tasted better or worse than that made using any of the...
Dear Editor, Congratulations on another successful year in covering the news and activities of my hometown through the Glasgow Courier! I have been a faithful reader of the Courier for decades. My father, Ivy Leonard Knight, was a faithful employee of the Courier for about six decades! My father and mother were known as the "world's fussiest proofreaders." In their later years, they continued to do some of the proofing for the weekly Courier. I have inherited that "proofing gene." It was a...
Dear Valley County, With your donations to Energy Share last year, you helped 2,885 Montana families who were facing energy emergencies. Causes of these emergencies included unexpected expenses, deaths in the family, non-working or unsafe heating systems, illnesses or injuries, domestic abuse situations, and loss of employment or reduced wages. None of us are immune to these roadblocks in life. According to a GOBankingRates 2019 survey, 57 percent of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings....
Dear Editor, As the folks responsible for promoting the vibrant, charming towns and stunning landscapes across our state, we know that Montana's strong economy is driven in part by a thriving tourism and outdoor recreation economy. We also know that eastern Montana's unique landscapes, historical and cultural sites, and opportunities for hunting and outdoor recreation are a treasure with untapped potential to support diversification and growth in regional economies. Over the last year, the...
Dear Editor, Glasgow was recognized as "The City in the Middle of Nowhere". (The Washington Post Feb. 21 2018). Thanks to a special couple, it should have been titled "The City in the Middle of Somewhere Special." In 1960, a young couple, Sid and Elaine Sulser, moved to Glasgow and started their careers in education. Sid was a teacher and a vice principal at the high school and Elaine started a preschool program in their home and later taught kindergarten in a Glasgow School. I had the...
Dear Editor, Happy 25th Anniversary AmeriCorps! Each year, over 75,000 people serve in AmeriCorps across the US. Since 1994, national service has improved lives and landscapes, while transforming those who commit to serve. Service to others is an American tradition and, for over 25 years, AmeriCorps has unified diverse people through service to others. AmeriCorps grew from a renewed focus on civic engagement in America during the 1990s. President George H.W. Bush signed the 1990 National...
This is a topic that many of us have little knowledge of, however I am remembering days of brick streets. I do not know [if] I have seen brick streets in Montana, however I do have bricks that were made in Havre, so bricks were available. I did spend several of my young years living in Mo., and there were a lot of brick streets. There are still brick streets in that area. My question, how often are bricks replaced or do they last longer than pavement? Following up on that question might go on my “to do list.” What is the cost compared to pav...
The Honorable Sonny Perdue U.S. Department of Agriculture 1400 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, D.C., 20250 Oct. 16, 2019 Dear Secretary Perdue: As you know, many farmers in the Northern Tier states are currenty suffering serious crop damage caused by an unusual wave of harsh, adverse weather, heavy rains, flooding and high humidity, coming directly in the middle of this year’s 2019 harvest season. Major locations in the Northern Plains have shattered records for September rainfall, have faced historically early and significant snowfall, a...
Montana's Congressman and both Senators wrote to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to push for Ag. relief for losses due to the eradic weather patterns during harvest this year. For the context and story see page 5A. The Honorable Sonny Perdue Secretary of Agriculture US Department of Agriculture 1280 Maryland Ave SW Washington, DC 20250 October 17, 2019 Dear Secretary Perdue: On October 16, 2019 multiple producer organizations, including the National Association of Wheat Growers, National Barley Growers Association, USA Dry Pea and Lentil...
Dear Editor, One of the most important civic duties Montanans will participate in next year is filling out and responding to the 2020 U.S. Census. At just nine questions long, the questionnaire might not seem like a big deal, but it is. It's the Census, done every 10 years, that's responsible for deciding how much federal money comes into Montana. And in a small state like ours, every dollar matters. It's estimated that Montana receives more than $2 billion each year as a result of the Census....
Dear Editor, I know firsthand that farming and ranching has never been easy. My wife Sharla and I still run our family farm outside of Big Sandy on the same land my grandparents homesteaded more than 100 years ago. For our family and producers across Montana, working the land that's been passed down for generations has never been about just making a buck-it's a way of life in rural America. But the reality is that this business comes with real, sometimes overwhelming, uncertainty. This...
Dear Editor, I watched and listened in awe during my first year of hunting elk as a large bull screamed, nose flared, while he herded his cows from his bugling challenger. That was in 1979 and a lot has changed over the past 40 years. Today, elk are plentiful in places where they were absent back then and on some forested public lands they are no longer as common. Predator populations are doing well, major fires are common place as our climate changes and hunting technology continues to...
Dear Editor, Two and a half years ago, Attorney General Tim Fox and I stood on the steps of the state capitol with other lawmakers announcing a major long-term initiative to address the impacts of drugs (Aid Montana). Since then, our successes outnumber our defeats, and we are ready for the next phase to combat the addiction crisis in Big Sky Country. On the success front, we can point to several victories in the areas of prevention, treatment, and enforcement. We led the charge on passing...
Dear Editor, As I travel around Montana I often speak with teachers, professors, and students concerned about the cost and ability to access quality education. Rural communities know that a public school in their town is a tent-pole for the community. Once a rural area loses a school in their town, the community really starts to struggle. It is also difficult to recruit teachers to Montana's schools because by some measures Montana has the lowest starting pay for a new teacher. As a teacher...
Dear Editor, As United States Senator from Montana, and as a rancher from Miles City serving as the president of the Montana Stockgrowers Association, we took a major step forward last week for Montana ag. Together, we worked to accomplish a historic trade deal between the U.S. and Japan - one that will benefit Montana's farmers and ranchers for generations to come. Farming and ranching is tough enough as it is. This industry isn't for the faint of heart and making a profit only gets harder if...
Many of you will remember saving bread sacks. Oh, not only the sacks, but if the family didn’t eat the crusts, you dried them to use at a later date for dressing, or maybe bread pudding, just to mention a few. I remember many that washed and saved the plastic bread sack also. That was before baggies and Ziplocks. Once these bags were washed and dried they had to be stored someplace for the next use. The favorite storage method in my family was to roll these recycled bags on the core tube of wax paper. Worked great to keep these bags in some o...
Dear Editor, It's no coincidence Montana's two largest industries are agriculture and outdoor recreation. These two economies are the lifeblood of many small towns. The Montana way of life is as much about exploring natural wonders and hunting and fishing as it is our rural roots. Montana is big enough for all these things. That's especially true in the vast grasslands of north-central Montana where American Prairie Reserve has been conserving land and wildlife and welcoming visitors from all ba...
Dear Editor, The American Prairie Reserve (APR) is probably the most abhorrent organization to ever hit the scene in central Montana. They stormed into Montana with a stated goal to create a wildlife reserve larger than Yellowstone Park and came with millionaire donors and environmental crusaders but found little enthusiasm for their plan amongst regional landowners and their elected officials. Since their initial foray into Montana, APR has been cratering and has come to realize that it's...
Dear Editor, As a state senator from a small Montana border town, I understand the need for strong economies both north and south of the international border. Approval of the new trilateral trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico will help stabilize our lives. Total value of trade across the border amounted to $673 billion in 2017. Canada is the largest export market for the U.S. USMCA sets higher standards for Canada and Mexico, and it benefits U.S. growers and consumers....
Dear Editor, I never expected to be amongst those who write the rah-rah letters to the editor extolling the benefits of living where there are such caring people as we have here in the Middle of Nowhere, but here I am. Last week, after it snowed and we knew we couldn't attempt any farm work, we went to Billings just to get away. On our return Tuesday afternoon, we suffered a flat tire (it was a run flat, so no spare should have been required). We were about 40 miles south of Glasgow, past Fort P...
Dear Editor, As we recognize Fire Prevention Week from Oct 6-12, I wanted to acknowledge our local volunteers. "Not Every Hero Wears a Cape" is one of the themes on the NFPA.org website and I have to say the Glasgow and Long Run Fire Departments should be seen as our heroes. Disasters happen every day, and while we can hope there is never a disaster, hope is not a plan. Our firefighters are volunteers. They are called away from their paying jobs, and their families to respond to structural and...
Do you remember your history? In reading an old history book I found this quote. Since history has a habit of repeating itself I decided to share. “In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an Ame...
The following is an essay about the first All-School Reunion held in Glasgow. I did not graduate from Glasgow High, leaving my senior year for Havre. My gracious classmates, Rhonda Ronass and Karen Koski have kept me on the contact list and I have attended several of my class reunions, always a good time, "Class of '65." At our 50th reunion, Terry Newton stopped to see ME. Surprise, because he graduated with my brother, who was the East/West Shrine football delegate in '64, Robert Dobrovolny. I...
Dear Editor, In the late 19th century, bird populations in the United States declined drastically. That was obvious. William T. Hornaday, director of the New York Zoological Park, tried to quantify the bird losses. He published his numbers in 1899. The numbers varied state by state, from a low of 10 percent for Nebraska to a high of 77 percent for Florida. Hornaday estimated that Montana had lost 75 percent of its birds in the previous 15 years. The average of Hornaday's state estimates yielded...
Dear Editor, With small Montana communities, especially in the eastern part of the state, struggling to sustain themselves, we don't need the state government to make their struggle harder. Unfortunately, that is exactly what the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks did in 2007 when it limited archery elk permits in hunting districts within the Missouri River Breaks. In February 2008, the FWP Commission voted to adopt this motion and set the archery draw quota to 65 percent of the...
