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Raph Graybill has never held public office but that has not stopped him from seeking the Democratic nomination for Montana’s Attorney General seat and to be the “independent watch dog” for Montana. Most recently, Graybill has worked as Governor Bullock’s Chief Legal Counsel in Helena effectively championing issues for the governor’s office in both state and federal court. One such case Graybill cited as pivotal in his decision to run for AG, was a case he took to the Supreme Court in Montana involving a ranching family that was using the Habit...
The Glasgow City Public Work’s water improvement project entered its second phase on time and on budget in January, as crews completed the installation and testing of the new filtration tanks installed in phase one and diverted the entire plant’s operations from the old system after a successful testing period. According to Director of Public Works Rob Kompel, the decision to switch full-time came after a few week testing period that afforded the plant the opportunity to revert back to the tried and true filters that had run direct fil...
The Glasgow Scotties boys basketball team will advance to the divisional tournament in Malta on Feb. 27, 28 and 29. The Scotties beat out Poplar on Feb. 20 in the play-in game before falling to Harlem on Feb. 21 and Malta on Feb. 22, to claim fourth overall. The boys beat Poplar 42 to 36. The first quarter came off with a horse race and ended after a single lead change with a tie of nine to nine. In the second the Scotties claimed the lead and continued advancing to end the half ahead by six...
The Glasgow Lady Scotties will advance to the Northern B Divisional Tournament the first week in March. The advancement follows a loss and a win this past week in Malta. In the first round of play, the Lady Scotties met the Malta M-Ettes in the early afternoon of Feb. 21. The Scotties had just come off a win against the same team the week prior and were looking to repeat the effort on Friday. That would not be the outcome the Scotties received though, and Malta would arise victorious by six...
For Marj Markle, basketball started at a young age among her competitive siblings. She remembered playing ball in the driveway of their home on the Glasgow Air Force Base almost every night. As the middle child of six-stuck smack in between four brothers and the youngest of only two girls-Markle remembered learning to play tough early on. That grit and competitiveness would lead to a lifetime of athletic achievements, putting her name in the Montana High School Association Hall of Fame this...
The Montana Human Rights Commission has ruled in favor of Shalaine Lawson following an appeal on the decision of an administrative hearing officer who decided that NorVal Electric Cooperative and NorVal’s General Manager Craig Herbert were guilty of sexual harassment and retaliation against her. According to the HRC decision, NorVal had argued that Herbert’s conduct had not met the level of “actionable sexual harassment” because it had not included, “assaults, physical contact, uninvited sexual solicitations, intimidating words or acts, obscene...
You would have been forgiven if you had worried about the Scotties' chances at the State Tournament in Billings on Feb. 14 and 15. A tough season with a number of challenges, illnesses, injuries, a second-place finish to Huntley Project at Divisionals and a series of peaks and valleys at State had set the tone at the close of business Friday at Metra Park. That tone was short-lived however, and on Saturday morning the Scotties rallied to go undefeated in their first seven matches of the second...
It was the last night on the Scottie gymnasium floor for four Scottie seniors-Keely Fossum, Anika Peters, Laura Ross and Taylor Pederson-and they made it count. Facing off against the Wolf Point Wolves on Feb. 13, the Lady Scotties launched an all out assault on the hoop, scoring 18 in the first quarter, 14 in the second, 12 in the third and 27 in the final round. The Scotties managed to hold the Wolves as well and they ended the game ahead by 31 points-71 to 40. Unwilling to make their last...
The Glasgow Scottie boys basketball team stepped out in front of their home crowd for the last time this season on Feb. 13. The starting line-up for the game included all five Scottie seniors-Kobe Sibley, Alec Boland, Tim Wageman, Saul Hansen and Jayson Turner. Unfortunately, the festivities of senior night were short-lived after the Wolves finished out the first quarter ahead by three-13 to 16. That lead would have been more than manageable, but in the second half the Scottie boys slipped even...
For Tracy Schuster, running for House District 34 is about getting involved as a citizen and doing her part towards better governance. She says that she feels called to serve, citing the direction of the country and her view that what is happening in America is not what is best for this country. "I think a lot of the political scene has become so vitriolic that people kind of pull away from it, they tune it out," said Schuster discussing the political environment in the country. "That just...
A statewide initiative to increase the State’s effectiveness at investigating and prosecuting sexual assaults held its first outside of Helena training session in Glasgow last week at the STAT Air hangar. The program training is the next phase in a program dubbed SAKI, or Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, and it is the culmination of years of developed research and established best practices put into a single course aimed at helping law enforcement better understand sexual assault investigations, survivors and the legal process/evidence that goes...
He died alone and was buried, with everything he owned, in a plywood box at a small cemetery in Hinsdale, Mont. That is the end to the story of Marine Bruce Powers, age of 79, after dying in the dementia unit of Valley View Home. As a widower and estranged from his remaining family, Powers was left in the hands of the county to be buried. For those reasons, he was buried in a funeral plot owned by the county on Feb. 6. The only attendees were the mortuary staff, Sheriff Tom Boyer, director of...
It was not the outcome the team wanted, but its not over either. That was the sentiment put off by Scottie head wrestling coach Jory Casterline after his team finished in the runner-up slot at the Eastern B/C Divisional Wrestling Tournament in Huntley Project on Feb. 8. Regardless of expectations, the Scotties still pulled off a second-place finish and punched 10 tickets to State-which included two freshmen but not a top-ranked senior. They fell in the point count behind Huntley Project by a...
The Scottie boys basketball team met up with the Harlem Wildcats on the floor of the Scottie gymnasium on Feb. 6, but the outcome was nowhere close to what the team expected walking out on the court that evening. In the beginning, the game seemed to be unfolding like many others. By the end of the first quarter, the Scottie boys trailed by a single point against the Wildcats (17-18). Then in the second they fell slightly but maintained a manageable point spread of five points going into the half...
The only thing the Lady Scotties basketball team ran out of at their Feb. 6 game against the Harlem Wildcats was time. They certainly did not run out of motivation as they fought with all their might to the last second to score every basket possible against Harlem. In the end though the only thing they needed was a longer quarter. In the first three quarters the Scotties fell behind by nearly 30 points but battled back to close the gap in the fourth quarter and bring it down to a single-digit...
The Glasgow middle and high school art classes will be putting their work on display for the people of Glasgow starting Friday, Feb. 7 at the Wheatgrass Arts & Gallery in downtown Glasgow. The exhibit will feature nearly 180 pieces from artists ranging from sixth grade to seniors and will encompass art media as varied as pencil sketches and impressionist oil paintings to sculptures and textured art as taught by Glasgow art teachers Libby Weber and Cat McIntyre. According to McIntyre and Weber,...
A car accident in the morning hours of Feb. 1 was likely caused by an intoxicated driver, according to the Glasgow Police Department. The crash, which occurred at about 6:30 a.m., involved a mid-2000s model sedan being driven by Jacoby Collins, of Glasgow. He was heading westbound on Highway 2 when he attempted to turn left onto Cherry Creek Rd in western Glasgow. An oncoming mid-size SUV in the eastbound lane, driven by a Glasgow woman, accompanied by her 13-year-old son, struck the right rear side of the sedan. GPD said that the call for the...
The Glasgow Scottie Wrestling Team claimed the top slot at the 2020 Mustang Invitational on Feb. 3, in Malta. The Malta Invitational marks the last tournament of the regular season as wrestling heads into the post season Divisional tournament in Huntley Project on Feb. 7 and 8. The Scotties' success on the mat in Malta maintained the team's top ranked Class B status heading into the Divisional meet before taking on State in Billings the week after. "We wrestled really well in Malta," said...
Sweet Perfection! Griffin Claims State Title With Perfect Season Isabelle Griffin was not going to do speech and drama this year. After two silver medals at state her freshman and sophomore years, she was ranked fourth at state her junior year after losing a chance at a perfect season that same year in Sidney. Those losses made her think maybe pursuing a perfect season her senior year was not worth it. "This year I did not want to be in speech and drama," recounted the now state champ. That...
When the western region of the International DN Ice Yachting Association (IDNIYA) decided to hold the North American regatta-dubbed the Twenty20 DN North American Championship-at Fort Peck Lake only two things were certain, this was the first time the race has ever been held in Montana and Fort Peck was the only sailable ice in the country. So the word went out the week before Jan. 20 that the races would begin Jan. 22 in Montana and ice yacht racers from as far away as Nova Scotia, Florida and...
Former Opheim woman Elena Salinas has sued the Valley County Sheriff’s Office and ex-Undersheriff Luke Strommen in connection to allegations that he sexually assaulted her at her home in December 2017. The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court of Montana in December of 2019 since Salinas is now a North Dakota resident, accuses Strommen of coming to her house under the pretense of conducting law enforcement business as an undersheriff for the county and proceeded to physically and sexually assult her. The lawsuit goes on to a...
The Glasgow Scotties are sending seven of their Speech and Drama competitors to the State Tournament in Bigfork on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. Coming off the heels of the Class B/C divisional tournament in Roundup, the team amassed three divisional titles won by Ian Wright in Dramatic Oral Interpretation, Mason Swenson, a freshman, who claimed a title in Memorized Public Address and Isabelle Griffin continues her perfect season with a first place finish in Dramatic Solo. Along with the three first...
The Glasgow Lady Scotties beat the North Country Mavericks in front of a home crowd on Jan. 24. The final score was 51 to 33 in what was a solid performance for the Scotties. The next day they hit the road to take on Sidney, beating the Eagles, 57 to 39. "We had a couple good games this last weekend," said Lady Scotties head coach Travis Nielsen. "We played really good defense, rebounded well and turnovers were down; [I] can't be any more proud of the girls for hustling and playing great...
The Glasgow Scotties boys faced off agains the North Country Mavericks on Jan. 24 in front of a lively home crowd and ended up on top with a final score of 58 to 43. It is the second time the Mavs and Scotties have met on the court but in that match up the Mavs came out on top. The thrill of the revenge win was short lived however, as the Scotties hit the road the next day to face the Eagles losing by a 20-point margin, 52 to 32. Against North Country, Scottie head coach Paul Yoakam said, "Our g...
The Glasgow Scotties took home the top slot from Harlem on Jan. 25 after beating out every other team by over 45 points and placing seven competitors in first and two in second. The Scottie grapplers banked a total of 200.5 points beating out second-place Cut Bank who had 154 points and Malta with 113.5 points. In total, 11 teams competed in the late-season invite that sets the stage for the Malta Invitational this weekend (Jan. 31 and Feb. 1) and then the Divisional Tournament the week after...
