Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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Jake Hentges, in second place on podium, and Cody King, in third place on podium, are two of five Scottie wrestlers who will represent Glasgow at the Metra in Billings during the state wrestling tournament on Feb. 8-9, 2013.
10 Years Ago
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The Glasgow City Council is trying not to fall off the leaky fire hall roof. There is a crowd of engineers out there trying to fix it and nobody knows who has the job.
Electrical Fruit? Reducing Friction? Homemade Batteries? The projects were ingenious at the 18th annual Kiwanis Science Fair held last weekend. Fifty-four students in grade four, five and six presented 35 projects for judging.
The Glasgow Squirt Ice Dawgs skated to two non-league victories this past weekend while facing the Richland Rangers from Sidney. In game one on Saturday, the Ice Dawgs dumped three goals past Richland goaltender in each of the three periods en route to a 9-4 victory.
As five Scottie wrestlers welcome new opportunities at state, three seniors left the mat for the final time as Scotties. The Scotties traveled to Wolf Point on Saturday for the Eastern B/C Divisional and five Scotties left with their tickets punched to go to the state tournament. Mick Reyling, 105, Jake Shawver, 119, Cody King, 125, Jake Hentges, 125, and Ben Kountz, 140, all were able to place in the top four in Wolf Point and advance to the Metra in Billings.
25 Years Ago
Thursday, February 5, 1998
Secretary of the Army Togo West has named 2LT Barry Gilman as the Army National Guard Recruiting and Retention Non-commissioned Officer of the Year for 1997, the highest distinction among all 3,300 recruiting and retention NCOs in the United States.
On Wednesday, Jan. 14, two Nashua teachers, Roger Rock and Ruth Mehl, went to the Montana Region One Projectneat training in Scobey. During this training, a television internet device , keyboard, and a 27- Inch television was distributed to the Nashua School from the Projectneat program. Seventeen other schools also received distribution of these devices and training in their use.
The Soroptimist Club of Glasgow is helping with the joint project of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Soroptimist International of the Americas. It is one of the recent Soroptimist Foundation funded initiatives to prevent domestic violence and to assist victims.
Frazer proved again that they are hard to beat on their home floor when they defeated the visiting Lustre Lions, 70-52, on Thursday night.
50 Years Ago
Thursday, February 8, 1973
The Montana High School Association postponed a decision on reclassification of schools for sports activities at the annual meeting in Helena early last week, according to local educators attending the session. The uncertain future of Great Falls Central and Anaconda Central forced a delay of a few weeks in the final decision. It was reported that the membership voted to allow the board to implement the reclassification as soon as they find out about the two schools.
The six top vote getters in the annual Valentine baby contest sponsored by the Jayceens were announced this week by Mrs. Donna Garsjo, Chairman. Capturing the spotlight by chalking up the most votes thus far in the contest are Corina Renee Grandchamp, James Kyle Johnson, Andrea Kirkorian, Dustin Hallock, Christopher Tolzien and Christian Miles Oberquell.
More than 1.7 million disabled people can now get Medicare health insurance under a change in the social security law - - the first people under 65 to become eligible for this protection since the Medicare program began in 1966.
Cup-can hot lunches, a new approach to school lunches in the local school district, were served for the first time at North Star school at GAFB, Feb. 5. Each main course is heated in its own container, which is plastic lined and remains cool enough for students to handle. The cans vary in size from seven to eight fluid ounces and have pop tops.
75 Years Ago
Thursday, February 5, 1948
The Glasgow Scotties, dominating play, defeated their traditional rivals, the Wolf Point Wolves, and hung up their ninth straight win with a convincing 51-23, verdict at Wolf Point Monday night.
Eight men were enlisted in the Navy through the Glasgow recruiting substation during January, it was reported this week by Chief Petty Officer M. A. Capone, recruiter in charge, and Chief Petty Officer R. D. Youngs. Enlisted here by the two Navy Recruiters were Frank Melvin Anderson of Glasgow, Edwin James Estenson and Forrest Grant Lacock of Hinsdale. Marvin Nicholas Doornek of Wolf Point, James William Hartry of Culbertson and Charles Howard Johnson of Opheim. James Claude Roberts of Wibaux and Paule Eugene Pippenger of Trenton, N.D., were enlisted by Chief Petty Officer W.E. Warriner, recruiter at Glasgow's temporary substation in Sidney.
New fixtures and a complete rearrangement this week at Jondahl's grocery have transformed it into a self-service type store, according to S. Jondahl, owner. The work in the store was begun Monday and was completed today. Plywood was used for the new fixtures, which include a large fruit and vegetable department, "gondolas" for aisle service, open sidewall shelving, new checkout stands for customers and department booths. The new arrangement provides much greater space for display of stock and makes it accessible to customers. Also being installed is a new open type deep freeze cooler for quick frozen products.
About 350 pounds more of food and clothing were wrapped and shipped Monday night to Whitehaven, England, under a project, sponsored by local Boy Scout troops, it was reported by Dr. K. R. Steffensen and Maurice Graham, Scoutmasters.
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