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Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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Dear Editor, I am a resident of Nemont Manor. Moving to Nemont Manor was a tough decision for me, personally. I have come to realize in my first year of living here it was the BEST decision. When it was first announced that the full-pay tenants had to relocate, I realized that it wasn’t the new owner’s decision but that it was necessary to meet the requirements of the HUD regulations in order to get the funding necessary to do the repairs and upgrades that this building has needed for many years. Although I did not like that decision I cou...
Dear Editor, Needless to say, I was shocked, when I entered my home and realized the other entrance door had been broken into and the safe in my office had been stolen. After assessing the situation, I went into town and reported the crime to the Sheriff. After taking my statement, he said that a deputy would be out to investigate. That was Tom Boyer. He came in, introduced himself, and took my statement. He inspected the broken door and my office. Then he dusted for fingerprints. Before leaving he left his business card and that we would be...
When I woke up Friday of last week, it was to the realization it really had been 50 years since my husband and I had gotten married. “Fifty years,” I thought. "How could it be? Wasn’t it just a few days ago we’d stood in the church my grandfather had helped build, promising to love and take care of each other for the rest of our lives?” Yet, the pictures on our living room walls of our children from the time they were small through their high school graduation and their own wedding days, along with those of the arrival of each grandchil...
I attended the Two Rivers Economic Growth’s annual meeting last week. The guest speaker was Hal Stearns, noted Montana historian, who really has encyclopedic knowledge of our state. His presentation, “Montana Towns: Then, Now, and Tomorrow,” which he delivered with passion and energy, was full of anecdotal facts about the many towns across Montana. He talked in depth about the need for our towns to “tell their story” and gave many examples of towns that do a good job and towns who need to improve. This notion of telling our story resonates...
Do you remember the days when men were always served first at the dinner table? Of course, this was at a time when you served big meals at a large kitchen or dining room table. I do remember my Grandmother telling us on many occasions to let the men eat first. Of course, in our little part of the world, most of the men of generations spent long hard hours working outside. Maybe they were served first so they could return to their outside work quicker, or maybe it was just a MAN’S world. I wonder if this carried over to holiday meals and o...
As the nation celebrates National Newspaper Week, Oct. 7 through 13, I want to thank you, the reader, for making the Glasgow Courier a part of your week. For those who pick up the Courier at any one of our dealers, who stop in the Courier to purchase the paper, who read the newspaper online, who grab the paper from their mailbox, thank you for your support. When I started at the Courier two years ago, I was never keen on being a writer. I was more than happy with my job of answering phones, helping customers with their subscriptions, answering...
Montana’s rural communities have always been the backbone of our economy, driving economic growth through a foundation of hard work and a strong tradition of agriculture. In Montana, when our rural communities are thriving, our entire state thrives. Governor Bullock and I recently visited our rural communities to hear from rural Montanans as we tackle the issues facing our state. Farmers and ranchers described what is a “perfect storm” threatening Montana’s most important industry. When we look at what is happening with trade or with the Far...
Dear Reader, This week is National Newspaper Week, and, in honor of that, I wanted to editorialize a little about why we are so passionate about Glasgow, the news and telling peoples’ stories. If you go through the archives of the Courier, you can find stories that go back as far as the 1890s, and I would wager that there is no organization in the world that has cataloged the specific stories in our community as long and as consistently as the Courier. We are truly writing our history every week of the year and have been every year for more t...
Dear Editor, As the longest serving Sheriff in the history of Valley County, I feel the need to put some input into the job of Sheriff/Coroner. The Sheriff/Coroner has many duties: the jail, dispatch, civil department, coroner, search and rescue and officer of the District Court. To be a good sheriff, you must be a good manager. Tom Boyer has had 10+ years experience in the medical field in a hospital and home-health setting, which is more experience with crisis situations than most Sheriffs get in their term of service. He also has more than...
Dear Editor, My name is Amy Jo Horn-Brown. I am the biological daughter of Joseph Horn Jr. who is running for the position of Sheriff in your county. My sister, Gail Horn-Hayes, and I will be coming to Glasgow at the end of this week and would like to invite the public to a forum to answer some questions about our opposition to Joe’s candidacy. That forum will be held on Saturday, Oct. 6, from 2-4 p.m. at the Elk’s Lodge in Glasgow. We would like to invite Joe to come to the event and answer some of our questions as well. Joe sent me a tex...
Dear Editor, I would like to thank all of the sponsors and hard-working individuals that worked to bring Heather McKay to Glasgow. I felt that her day of presentation to family, caregivers and others that have questions or concerns about Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia was very informative. It was a long day, but I think most of us attending felt it was well worth going. Thanks to all....
Dear Editor, I’m lucky enough to have many friends who are nurses. Amazing people really, who do the jobs many of us look away from. Caring for people in their worst, and sometimes most vulnerable moments. Keeping an open mind as to the situations that many patients have faced and not judging them by their pasts. Staying positive even in the darkest of times. All the while having to be the voice and advocate for their patients. Keeping the lines of communication open between families, doctors, and other healthcare workers. Organizing labs, X...
Dear Editor, A recent opinion piece by Tom Reed of Trout Unlimited urged Montanans to support I-186. Reed claims that I-186 is “pro-mining but anti-pollution” - explaining that only environmentally responsible mines will be able operate if the initiative passes. Sounds great, right? Not so fast. While it may be the intention of Montana TU and other supporters of I-186 to right the wrongs of Montana’s mining past - they’re late to the party. The very mines used as justification for I-186 were the same catalysts behind the mining regulat...
Podcasts, downloadable audio content intended to entertain, educate or both, continue to grow in popularity. True Crime podcasts, especially, and women are a huge part of the genre’s success, both from a consumer standpoint and as providers and producers of content. “Wine and Crime” is just one example, with its trio of female hosts, it boasts an audience that is 85 percent women. I go back and forth between listening to true crime shows and news and politics, generally preferring ones with a humorous take. But when one genre has depre...
It’s a little of this, a little of that week. First off, I’ll start with an update. After meeting with my oncologist, Dr. Kidd from Billings, several changes have been made. Instead of having chemotherapy by infusion, I have been put on a hormonal therapy pill -- Femara -- for at least three months. If a monthly blood test (CA27/29) continues to show a decline, I will stay on Femara. Should there be a rise shown, I will either be put on a different hormonal therapy pill or return to infusion chemo but using a medicine other than Taxol. The Tax...
Recently, a friend gifted us with a large wooden cheese box full of pens and pencils of prior years. My thoughts kinda went to the “with friends like this, who needs enemies” but I will have to admit it was fun to look at each of these items and remember. Pens from Markle Tranfer were in the box. There are still many that can recall when Markle Transfer was in business and just what the business was. Another pen that really caught my attention was from Wonder Krust Bakery. Who remembers Wonder Krust? The Pledge of Allegiance was actually wri...
Editor's Note: The following is a letter sent to the Army Corps of Engineers from Congressman Greg Gianforte. This is being reproduced here as it was alluded to in an article involving a similar letter sent by Jon Tester's office to the Corps pertaining to the same issue. This letter was provided as a courtsy from Mayor Becky Erickson. Dear Lt. General Semonite: Thank you for your service to the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (USACE). I am writing you today on behalf of the City of Glasgow, Montana, which is respectfully asking for an extension...
Dear Editor, Just west of our little ranch on North Willow Creek lies a town that once burst at the seams with mines and miners. Pony, Mont., boasted 5,000 people, banks, bars, schools, churches and a rail-line. Mines with romantic names like Boss Tweed and Clipper dotted the hills above town. Between the 1870s and the 1920s, millions of dollars of gold came out of the hills. After the 1920s, when the gold played out, so did the people. Today, our little town upstream of the ranch has one heck of a fun bar and fewer than 200 really good people...
Dear Editor, Let’s be honest. There is nothing glamourous or high-profile about the Office of Clerk of the Montana Supreme Court – nor should there ever be. While most Montanans don’t interact with the Clerk’s office, it is nevertheless an extremely important statewide elected office that has existed since statehood in 1889, and is critical to the day-to-day operations of our state’s judicial system. It is an office where experience and independence matter most. Here’s why: In Montana, the entire judicial branch is elected, and along with...
Wilbur Ross, defending new tariffs while appearing on CNBC Tuesday, 18 Sept., claimed Americans will not notice price increases because they will be “spread over thousands and thousands of products.” This may be true for many families and individuals across the country, but will that hold true for those who are facing lost income in addition to price hikes on goods? Tariffs are essentially taxes on Americans who are buying imported goods. Currently, incomes for some, like farmers, are or could be going down due to decreases in crop prices or...
Dear Editor, I am writing this letter in support of Rex Rank as candidate for Clerk of the Montana Supreme Court. The office Rex seeks plays an important role in the licensure of attorneys in the State of Montana and maintaining records attendant to pending matters before the Supreme Court, as well as ensuring those records (when allowed by law) are available to all Montana constituents. The Clerk of the Supreme Court is also an office rarely thought about by Montana electors and, as a result, votes are often cast based upon party affiliation...
Dear Editor, I would like to thank the Glasgow Volunteer Fire Department, Valley County Long Run Fire Department, Valley County Sheriff’s Office, and Glasgow Police Department for their immediate response in addressing the gas leak on Glasgow’s northside. On Monday, Sept. 3, starting at 11 p.m.,. four city blocks were evacuated due to the concern of the potential damage the gas leak could have caused to the surrounding homes and residents. This ended around 2 a.m. when the scene was cleared and they determined it was safe for residents to ret...
While watching video of Matt Rosendale’s recent rally in Billings, I couldn’t help but feel disappointed, though not for the reasons I had expected. Rosendale, who is campaigning to represent Montana, spoke only briefly, while the President took center stage for most of the event. Understanding that rallies are an attempt to drum up enthusiasm for candidates, and not a venue for policy wonks like myself, I still expected a bit more focus on issues important to Montana rather than what I perceived to be generic campaign promises from the can...
When reading a past issue of the Courier I commented on the photo on the Courier Memories page of the Northeast Montana Fair, date unknown. My comment was on the attire of the audience. Many men wearing suits and ties and all of the hats worn by the females in the group. It has been many a year since that picture was taken. I can’t picture many of our present-day fairgoers in that attire. Now my husband’s comment was a completely different nature, something like this was not the Northeast Montana Fair. We are definitely not on the same wav...
Another year, another harvest. Hopefully it was a good crop year. Watching combine operators unload wheat into trucks, I’m reminded of harvests of years ago. Now, so many farms are five and six times bigger than when we farmed. At that time it wasn’t very often you saw anyone but family working the land. Everyone pitched in to clean out the grain bins to get ready for the new crop coming in. The largest bin we had held 7,500 bushels of grain. Looking at that bin after it was built I was struck by the thought of how big it was. And hoping our...
