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  • A Maple Leaf Falls in Fairest Fort Peck

    Beth Simeniuk, Flagging Respect|Jul 22, 2015

    Sometime after 12:30 a.m. last Sunday, July 12, on Millionaire Mile at the Fort Peck cabins, a person decided that a Canadian flag flown on private property was somehow offensive – even though it was being flown along with an American flag. That person snapped the Maple Leaf off its flag pole and took it. My husband, Don, and I, who were flying these flags, regard this as a hate crime, and he has reported it to the police. I don’t need to explain why we were flying this flag, but I will. I am American, raised right here near Glasgow. My husband...

  • Thank You For Sharing Your Grass

    Beth Simeniuk, Letter To The Editor|May 7, 2014

    Dear Editor: Thank you to all the residents of this country. Because of you, I was endowed with an incredible gift: I was born into grazing rights, and I married into grazing rights. My people were so lucky to have been around when they were handing out idle grasslands for us locals to graze. We never had to make land payments or pay property taxes. Like many of our neighbors, we just rented that grass for a ridiculous price and thanked our lucky stars that grandma had such charmed timing as to be around at the right time. Today, many who...