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  • Yesterday's Memories

    Compiled by Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Nov 1, 2023

    1 Years Ago Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013 Frazer Elementary School District No. 2 and Frazer High School District 2B will conduct a bond election by mail ballot on Dec. 18. The Elementary School wants to sell $445,000 in general obligation school building bonds and the High School District proposes selling $980,000 in bonds. The total of $1,425,000 is to pay a portion of the costs of repairing, restoring and replacing certain parts of the district buildings; demolition of the existing...

  • Glasgow School Bond Fails By Large Margin

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Oct 25, 2023

    After weeks and months of educating the public in a myriad of ways for the need of a $8,580,000 bond to pay for facility improvements in the Glasgow School District, the voters made their opinions known via a mail-in ballot from Sept. 29 through Oct. 17. The bond was to pay for improvements including replacing the Glasgow High School track and football field with synthetic surfaces and amenities, replacing or repairing sections of the Glasgow High School and Glasgow Middle School roofs, replacing a boiler at the Glasgow High School and if...

  • Glasgow City Council Meets In Regular Session

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Oct 25, 2023

    The Glasgow City Council met in regular session on Oct. 16, in the Council Chambers located inside of the Civic Center. The meeting started with approving regular business items such as payment of claims in the amount of $94,128.6; payment of Valley Court Apartment claims in the amount of $847.74; the July 2023 financials and minutes for the Oct. 2 meeting, The council also discussed shipping containers, heard a proposal from Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital (FMDH) to purchase a portion of Hoyt Park and discussed the closure of certain city...

  • Glasgow Author Makes Writing Debut With 'The Tooth Fairy's Stars'

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Oct 25, 2023

    Cara (Morehouse) Pinder launched her first children's book tour on Oct. 10 at the Loaded Toad to promote her new book "The Tooth Fairy's Stars." The tour continued throughout the week with stops at the Glasgow City-County Library during story hour, Blend 10 and the Harvest Bazaar. She completed her first sale just minutes into the first event to Sheila Doll. Pinder is a fifth-generation Montanan, born and raised in Glasgow, and graduated from Glasgow High School in 2003. She currently resides...

  • Opheim Fall Concert Wows Audience

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Oct 25, 2023

    Opheim School held their fall concert on Oct. 16 in the school's gymnasium where students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade showed family, friends and the community what they have been working on in music, choir and band class since school began. The pre-kindergarten through second grade students sang "Whacky Do Re Mi," "I'm a Little Teapot," "Baby Dinosaur," and "I Love America." Third through fifth graders sang "How Do You Tell A Veteran Thank You?," "I Like The Colors Of The Fall," and...

  • Yesterday's Memories

    Compiled by Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Oct 25, 2023

    1 Years Ago Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013 Cape Air, the nation's largest commuter airline will begin serving eastern Montana with Essential Air Service beginning Tuesday, Dec. 10. From its hub in Billings, Cape Air will operate daily, year-round flights to five regional communities, Glasgow, Wolf Point, Sidney, Havre and Glendive. Each community will have two daily round-trip flights except Sidney, which will have five daily round-trips. Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital has recently trained...

  • Community Shows Continued Support For Middle Of Nowhere Pony Club

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Oct 18, 2023

    The Middle Of Nowhere Pony Club has ended another successful season and celebrated with their members and the community on Oct. 7 during their Fall Round-Up Fundraiser at the Ridge Runners Saddle Club. This year's event saw the addition of the Pony Club Olympic Games, featuring teams from around the community, including C&B Equipment, Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital, Northwest Real Estate and even some of the Pony Club dads came together for a team. As the teams competed in events such as...

  • Nashua FFA Competes In Recycle Montana Trash Dash

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Oct 18, 2023

    Recycle Montana and Coca Cola recently sponsored the annual Recycle Montana Trash Dash Sept. 17 through the 24 awarding the participating teams cash prizes for picking up garbage and recyclables in areas across the state. The teams weighed the "stuff" they collected and submitted the weights to Recycle Montana. The weights were compared across the board and winners were selected for the Most Recyclables and Heaviest Garbage. Cash was also awarded to the Teams for the Best Use of the Trash Dash...

  • Yesterday's Memories

    Compiled by Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Oct 18, 2023

    1 Years Ago Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 More than 100 repair projects have been identified at the Missouri River mainstream projects (dams and bank stabilization and navigation project) and associated infrastructure. Projects include repairing spillway gates, outlet works, scour areas, work recreational facilities, roads and other flood control structures that were damaged during the Missouri River Flood of 2011. The estimated cost of making these repairs totals $234 million. More than 20 years...

  • Murder Mystery Scares On Friday The 13th

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Oct 18, 2023

    The community had the opportunity to get some scares in Friday the 13th while attending the Glasgow Middle School sixth- and seventh-grade production of "Midnight Murder: An Original Murder Mystery," written by Brennan Peters and overseen by Lizzie Peters and Shyanne Wallace. Over the past two weeks, 22 sixth and seventh grade Drama Camp students came to the Glasgow High School auditorium to learn the ins and outs of putting on a show, from not only learning their lines and stage presence but...

  • Glasgow City Council Met In Regular Session

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Oct 11, 2023

    The Glasgow City Council met on Oct. 4 in the Council Chambers located inside of the Glasgow Civic Center. Starting the meeting off, the Council approved the consent agenda items which included payment of claims in the amount of $259,210.83; payment of Valley Court apartment claims in the amount of $1,841.70, the minutes for the Sept. 18, regular council meeting and Resolution No. 3146, establishing budgetary authority in the City-County Library fund for the receipt and expenditure of a donation received from Nemont Telephone. With a motion...

  • Hands Of Hope Brings Light To Those Struggling

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Oct 11, 2023

    While commuting down 4th Street South in Glasgow, it's hard not to notice the serene landscape behind the Glasgow City-County Library and the mural of hands on the back of the building. Over the past month, Glasgow artist Cathryn McIntyre has been working on the Hands of Hope Mural while volunteers with the Valley CARE Coalition clean up the area to make it a place for community members to have a change of scenery and be inspired in their battle against mental health. The vision of the project...

  • Scottie Pride: GHS Drama Students Work At Updating High School Auditorium

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Oct 4, 2023

    The Glasgow High School drama students and their advisors, Shyanne Wallace and Lizzie Peters, have been hard at work this year to revamp, redesign, reorganize and update the Glasgow High School auditorium, not only for their own sakes but also for future generations of Glasgow Scotties. At the start of the 2022-2023 season, the students combined all of the props, costumes and sets from the Middle School and found new homes for them at the high school so everything was together for future product...

  • Glasgow Clinic Welcomes Two New Providers

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Oct 4, 2023

    Over the past month Tyson Cochran, MD, and Haylee Thompson, FNP, have been seeing patients at the Glasgow Clinic as the facility's two newest providers. They have seen patients with a wide variety of health ailments and enjoy serving not only the community but also being a part of rural healthcare. Thompson is a native of Glasgow, graduating from Glasgow High School in 2007 and currently resides in the town she grew up in with her husband, Rocky, and their four children. After graduating high...

  • GDA Wraps Up Another Alive At Five Season

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Sep 27, 2023

    The Glasgow Downtown Association (GDA) hosted their last Alive at Five of the year on Sept. 20, hosted by Bank of Glasgow with music provided by Pippin DJ. After preliminary rounds during the other Alive at Five events this summer, GDA hosted the Hot Dog Eating Contest Championship Calcutta with competitors Zach Moser, Trisitan Ryan, Juice Fischer and Ava Schultz. Also coming back to defend his title as Hot Dog Eating Champion last year was Marc Wethern. After four minutes, Moser came out victor...

  • Yesterday's Memories

    Compiled By Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Sep 27, 2023

    1 Years Ago Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 Wednesday evening, Sept. 25, brought in over 250 community members to celebrate Frazer School's adequate yearly progress (AYP) accomplishment for the 2012-13 school year. The school made a 20 percent gain in reading and math and also was above the AYP attendance threshold of 80 percent, with the elementary at 87 percent and the junior high and high school at 81 percent. There's no one answering the phone at the Glasgow Field Office of the Bureau of Land...

  • Bank Of Glasgow Rains Funds On Local Fire Departments

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Sep 20, 2023

    After a month of fundraising for Glasgow Fire and Long Run Fire in Valley County, Bank of Glasgow presented the funds to the two different entities on Sept. 15. Due to community support by placing money in boots located in the bank's lobby and purchasing lemonades from local children at the lemonade stand in front of the bank, a total of $2,166 was raised. "Every penny helps," stated Brunelle upon receiving the funds. "It was really cool that the kids got involved," exclaimed Bryan. Though the...

  • Yesterday's Memories

    Compiled by Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Sep 20, 2023

    1 Years Ago – Sept. 25, 2013 Nashua residents had a chance to ask questions and voice concerns about the building of an overpass to alleviate the problem of the village's railroad crossing being blocked by trains. Approximately 40 people were at the meeting held Sept. 24. A presentation of four options for construction of the overpass was presented by Tim Erickson of HDR Engineering in Billings. Also present at the meeting to field questions were MDT officials. Crown bearers Bode Barnett and M...

  • Glasgow To Vote On School Bond Election

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Sep 13, 2023

    Glasgow voters have a big decision to make before ballots start arriving at the end of the month. The Glasgow School Board approved a bond election for voters on Aug. 8, asking voters to approve a $8,580,000 bond to pay for facility improvements in the district, including replacing the Glasgow High School track and football field with synthetic surfaces and amenities, replacing or repairing sections of the Glasgow High School roof and Glasgow Middle School roof, replacing a boiler at the Glasgow High School and if monies are available,...

  • Hug Long And Hug Often

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Sep 6, 2023

    After being inspired by videos of people doing the event in bigger cities, Glasgow resident Brianna Leader stood in front of Soma Dis Deli on Aug. 29, to give and receive free hugs during the lunch hour. Wearing a blind fold for anonymity while giving and receiving, Leader stood with arms wide open for an hour while a poster hung beside her explaining the benefits of hugs. A person craves a hug 13 times throughout the day, while it takes 20 seconds for a hug to have medical healing properties....

  • Transit Employees Obtain Longevity Pay

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Sep 6, 2023

    The Valley County Commissioners met during regular session on Aug. 30, where they took action on the Transit Boards recommendation for longevity pay. The Transit Board recommended a longevity pay of $10 per pay period for one to two years of service; $15 per pay period for two+ to five years of service; $25 per pay period for five+ to 10 years of service; and $40 per pay period for anyone with over 10 years of service. During the meeting, Commissioner John Fahlgren amended the Board’s recommendation stating the employee must have worked d...

  • Glasgow's Feezell Takes Trip Of A Lifetime At Boys State

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Sep 6, 2023

    As Glasgow High School student Eli Feezell started his senior year, he has had quite the summer experiences to share. In addition to job shadowing at Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in the lab, with his mom Michelle as a flight nurse and step-dad Stan Ozark at the radio station, Feezell also had the opportunity to be one of a few northeastern Montana representatives at Boys State at the beginning of July in Fort Harrison in Helena. American Legion Boy State is among the most respected and selec...

  • Valley Community Emergency Food Bank Keeps Growing

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Aug 30, 2023

    The Valley Community Emergency Food Bank has been helping out county residents for decades, the first 50 years out of the county shop building and since 2002 at it’s current location, 1010 1st Ave. N. Over the years, the current location, which is an older house in a residential neighborhood, has been showing its age while the needs of the county continue to increase causing the nonprofit to grow out of their space. “This is a converted, old two bedroom house. You can see that it’s worked in the past. It’s served us well for 20 years, but we...

  • Sanson II Sentenced To Montana State Prison

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Aug 30, 2023

    After being convicted on two felony counts of Sexual Abuse of a Child by a jury in Glasgow on June 9, Tommy Sanson II was sentenced on Aug. 21 to 25 years in the Montana State Prison with 15 years suspended for each felony count. These sentences are to run concurrently with one another. Parole eligibility is contingent on completing at least the educational phase of the sex offender treatment program utilized by the prison. During the June 9 trial, Sanson II was convicted under MCA § 45-5-625(1)(c) and MCA § 45-5-625(1)(h). The first count a...

  • Nemont Donates To Glasgow City-County Library

    Michelle Bigelbach, The Courier|Aug 30, 2023

    Marketing Specialist and Public Relations of Nemont Gregg Hunter presented the Glasgow City-County Library a check in the amount of $5,400 on Aug. 24. During the Fair season, Nemont had a booth at each of the county fairgrounds which allowed customers to purchase new phones. For each phone sold at the event, $100 was provided to that County's library. In addition to the Glasgow City-County Library, Nemont donated $4,800 to the Daniels County Library, $5,800 to the Sheridan County Library and...

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