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Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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The DUI Task Force has created a one-page essay contest for high school seniors living and attending school within Valley County. Your voice matters and we want to hear it. Eligibility 1. Must currently be a high school senior in Valley County. 2. Must have plans to attend a college or trade school upon the completion of high school graduation. 3. Contestants must not have a history of Minor in Possessions, Driving Under the Influence or have any drug or alcohol related infractions. Requirements Essays must be typed, double spaced, and 500-700...
Kappa Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, an international society of women educators, is offering scholarships in the amount of $500 to be applied to the 2023-2024 school year. Applicants must be: (1) a graduate of any high school within Valley County and must have a sophomore status or higher (copy of transcript) in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree in education at any accredited college or university. (2) A teacher employed by a Valley County School District (copy of pay stub) who is working on an advanced degree in education. Applications can be o... Full story
For the Courier Sixth Grade Alexa Ball Holt Huntsman Rayne Jenkins Jaxson Kemp Reece Martin Austin Nelson Leah Potter Amani Probert Kinsley Rasmusan Colten Schaefer Sadie White Seventh Grade Bailey Billingsley Amelia Gilchrist Owen Hopstad Cody Lacock Gracie Otten Willow Sugg Garrett Thompson Eighth Grade Rebekah Bailey Tayven Bietz Paityn Britzman Justis Hirsch-Kreuser Eva Hlad Hannah Holinde Halle Hunter Rowen Kloker Gina Page Mia Peterson Mylee Rasmusan Karsyn Sillerud Kinley Strommen Molly Whitmer... Full story
High Honors (3.7+ GPA) Bo Anderson Carrie Taylor Aliah Batalla Billy Still Honors (3.3 – 3.7 GPA) Latia O’Guin John Yeska... Full story
Glasgow High School students competed in the Academic Olympics on March 22 at Glasgow High School. Glasgow team 2, composed of Riley Smith, James Seekins, Quincy Walls, Myles Yoakam and Annika Smith, won the written rounds trophy with a score of 1246. Glasgow Team 1 was composed of Lane Thompson, Tanner White, Emma Whitmer, Piper Johnson and Ashlyn White. Both teams 1 and 2 made it to the semi finals and then were beat out with super close scores. Individual placers in written tests are:...
Sixth Grade Ashton Gardner - English Blaine Brandt - Health Aiden Aune - Math Paxton Bilger - Science Addison Squires - Social Studies Mary Knierim - Library Jaxson Kemp - Art Reece Martin - Band Seventh Grade Averylynn Terrel - English Aedan Weber - Health Garrett Thompson - Math Avery Red Dog - Science Owen Hopstad - Social Studies Levi Stanley - Computer Willow Sugg - Art Amelia Gilchrist - Band Amberly Williams - English Eighth Grade Liam Chapman - Health Gage Larsen - Math Paityn Britzman - Science Trey Graham - Social Studies Tayven... Full story
High Honors (3.7+ GPA) Carrie Taylor Aliah Batalla Billy Still Honors (3.3 GPA) Bo Anderson Latia O’Guin Maria Still... Full story
The Governor’s Office of Community Service (ServeMontana), Reach Higher Montana, and Montana Campus Compact (MTCC) are pleased announce 100 Montana high school seniors have been awarded Youth Serve Montana Scholarships. This scholarship is offered in two awards, $1,000 for 50-99 hours of service and $1,500 for 100+ hours of service to attend a Montana Campus Compact member institution next fall. Congratulations to these Valley County Montana student volunteers who were awarded $1,500 for serving 100 or more hours: Kaitlyn Miller, Nashua, Nashua... Full story
Nemont believes that supporting educational endeavors aids in strengthening our communities. Applications are being accepted now through Sunday, April 2, for 10 - $1,000 scholarships to students in the Nemont service areas. Nemont will offer five $1,000 scholarships to students within our service area pursuing higher education studies at an accredited college or university. Five more $1,000 scholarships will be offered to students attending an accredited community college or trade school. Applicants can be graduating seniors or already... Full story
The deadline to submit applications for Montana Farmers Union scholarships ranging from $500 to $1,000 each has been extended to April 17. The annual scholarships are offered through MFU as part of the organization’s commitment to education and include the Bud Daniels Memorial Scholarship, the John Korsbeck Memorial Scholarship, and the Cascade County-wide Farmers Union Local, Chouteau County Farmers Union Local and Flathead County-wide Farmers Union Local scholarships. The scholarships are available to students throughout their collegiate c... Full story
The Hi-Line Sportsmen awarded two Valley County students $1,500 scholarships each during their annual banquet on Feb. 25. Sportsmen member Jenn Jackson (pictured middle) presented the two seniors with their scholarships....
Jake Etchart- grew up spending summers at Fort Peck Lake, with much of his time spent around the Fort Peck Theatre where his family was actively involved as volunteers. He loved watching his sisters, Alexa and Christen, perform on the Fort Peck stage. Jake’s family and friends established a theatre scholarship fund in his memory which is invested within the Fort Peck Theatre Preservation Endowment of the Montana Community Foundation. The interest from this investment provides up to two scholarships per year for undergraduate or graduate student...
The Glasgow High School Educational Trust recently awarded financial aid for the Spring 2023 semester to 14 GHS graduates attending trade school or college. These awards are in addition to the those given last fall to 12 students, 11 of whom received aid for both semesters of the 2022-2023 academic year. The Glasgow High School Educational Trust was established in 1964 by the GHS Class of 1938 to help GHS alumni achieve their post-secondary educational goals. Since its inception, hundreds of generous donors have built the corpus of the trust...
Deadlines have been set for this year’s grants and scholarship applications from the Valley County Community Foundation. The first is March 31 for grants, April 15 for the Feda Scholarship, June 15 for the Fuhrman Scholarship, and Sept. 30 for the Markle Scholarship. Applications, along with 2023 requirements, are found at www.valleycountycf.net. Over the years, VCCF has awarded $332,587 in grants, including eight last year that ranged from $10,000 to $1,200. Projects expected to be completed by Oct. 1, 2023, are eligible to apply. O...
Tori Kaufman, of Glasgow, was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Kaufman was initiated at Montana State University. Kaufman is among approximately 25,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors are eligible for membership. Graduate students i...
Sixth Grade Alexa Ball Holt Huntsman Rayne Jenkins Reece Martin Ira Moore Jack Morehouse Austin Nelson Leah Potter Amani Probert Kinsley Rasmusan Colten Schaefer Violet Thompson Sadie White Seventh Grade Amelia Gilchrist Braylon Partridge Garrett Thompson Eighth Grade Tayven Bietz Paityn Britzman Eva Hlad Rowen Kloker Gina Page Mylee Rasmusan Karsyn Sillerud Kinley Strommen Molly Whitmer...
Sixth Grade Kylie Aho Gabriel Sigmunstad Aiden Aune Daniel Bailey Paxton Bilger Ryder Bilger Grace Cornwell Jenyr Fercho Cooper Gibson Natalee Hall Henry Holte Jett Johnson Jackson Kemp Weston Kirkland Mary Knierim Caeleb Messig Breckin Partridge Amiya Ryan Ava Schultz Daniel Seiler-White Marcus Seyfert Trusten Stringer Holden Stulc Hadley Thompson Harper Thompson6 Harper Wesen Paxton Wesen Seventh Grade Ian Anderson Bailey Billingsley Joseph Hall Abigail Henry Orion Henry Hank Hopstad Owen Hopstad Kenee Johnson Easton Kalinski Tyler King Cody...
Sledding Recess is more exciting with Mr. Zopp, the new superintendent of Hinsdale Public Schools. He arrived from Wisconsin when the weather was warm and mosquitos were biting. Now, the new administrator has experienced the bite of Montana winters. To counter the doldrums of winter recess with crunchy snow and icy blacktop, Mr. Zopp reintroduced an old recess activity: sledding. The elementary students at Hinsdale have returned to the park sledding hill. Sledding time is also an incentive for...
Millions of years before Tyrannosaurus rex roamed western North America, generations of its multi-great-great-grandparents likely dwelt and evolved in what was then a much warmer, balmy environment, according to a recent scientific paper by a Montana State University student. Elias Warshaw, a senior studying paleontology in MSU’s Department of Earth Sciences in the College of Letters and Science, is the lead author of an article published in the journal PeerJ that analyzes a fossil discovered in Montana’s Valley County in 2017 and suggests it...
Montana principals, superintendents, and fellow teachers or librarians from public and private schools are asked to nominate a fourth, fifth or sixth grade teacher who has done an exemplary job teaching Montana history during the 2022-2023 school year. The winner will receive the 34th Montana Statehood Centennial Bell Award, which honors the Montana History Teacher of the Year. On even numbered years the award is given to a teacher at the seventh through 12th grade level. On odd numbered years it is given to a teacher at the fourth through...
Second Grade Lillian Baumgartner Holly Bell MacKenzie Bigelbach Bridger Brooks Jaxon Budde Will Fuhrman Bristol Krauth Eli Love Cayson McDowall Jonah Milam Ezra Moala Jack Murphy Ava Odom Murdock Pattison Tannen Riihimaki TenLea Sundeen Kila Tatafu Third Grade Cameron Burns Kennedy Flaten Elijah Holinde Hattie Kalinski Khloe Kaufman Holden Kloker Domani Marcheselli Cora Nelson Emmalyn Schaefer Paislynn Stringer GeraLynn Wiltfong McKay Yoakam Fourth Grade Jacob Ball Lively Braaten Blakely Burleson Noah Cooper Journeigh Fercho Josie Hartwell...
When the Lustre Lions team visited Montana State University Feb. 4, five months of hard work will boil down to intense two-and-a-half-minute rounds of robotic action. Pitted against 35 other teams from around the state at the FIRST Lego League finals tournament, the five team members will unleash their energy-themed creation made of advanced, motorized Lego pieces and programmed with a basic coding language that introduces students to computer science. The robots complete preassigned missions such as unloading and moving pieces of cargo, and...
Sixth Grade Kylie Aho Gabriel Sigmunstad Aiden Aune Daniel Bailey Paxton Bilger Ryder Bilger Grace Cornwell Jenyr Fercho Cooper Gibson Natalee Hall Henry Holte Jett Johnson Jackson Kemp Weston Kirkland Mary Knierim Caeleb Messig Breckin Partridge Amiya Ryan Ava Schultz Daniel Seiler-White Marcus Seyfert Trusten Stringer Holden Stulc Hadley Thompson Harper Thompson Harper Wesen Paxton Wesen Seventh Grade Ian Anderson Bailey Billingsley Joseph Hall Abigail Henry Orion Henry Hank Hopstad Owen Hopstad Kenee Johnson Easton Kalinski Tyler King Cody...
Four of our Opheim Students traveled to Lambert on Jan. 11 for the Regional BPA competition. They all qualified for state. Here are the results: Aliah Batalla– 2nd in C# programming, 4th in Fundamental Desktop Publishing, 5th in Health Insurance & Medical Billing, 7th in Management, 8th in Device Configuration & Troubleshooting Maria Still— 1st in C++ Programming, 1st in C# Programming, 7th in Health Insurance & Medical Billing, 9th in Information Technology Concepts Billy Still— 1st in Word Processing, 1st in Speech, 1st in Business Math...
Montana State University has announced its undergraduate honor rolls for fall semester 2022. There are two MSU honor roll lists: the President’s List and the Dean’s List. To be eligible for both lists, students must be enrolled in at least 12 college-level credits. This honor roll list was current as of Jan. 17 and includes all registration corrections or grade changes processed to that date. Students with a 4.0 GPA for the semester were named to the President’s List. An asterisk follows their names. The Dean’s List includes the student...
