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  • Allen Lee Bunk

    Jan 19, 2022

    On January 10th at 1:37 PM, our good Lord escorted Allen Lee Bunk to his new heavenly home. Allen spent 36 days at Mountain View Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada valiantly fighting to recover from a heart attack he suffered on December 9th. While Allen's desire to recover and return to Montana with his family was evident, the injuries he sustained were too great. Allen Lee Bunk was born in Glasgow, Montana to Henry and Lydia Bunk on May 29, 1950. He was the youngest of six children. He is preceded... Full story

  • Ethel Maxine (Seely) Ost

    Jan 19, 2022

    Ethel Maxine (Seely) Ost, 88, lost her long battle with Alzheimer's disease January 11, 2022 at the Hi-Line Retirement Center in Malta, MT. Ethel was born on January 20, 1933 to Guy and Eleanor Seely in Hinsdale, MT. Ethel graduated from Hinsdale High School in 1951. After graduating, she moved to Santa Maria, CA where she met the love of her life, Harvey. They were married in 1952, moving back to Montana where they would eventually raise their seven children: Rodney, Ronnie, Suzanne, Rickie,... Full story

  • Stephen Simon

    Jan 19, 2022

    Sometimes.... Sometimes you meet and share a part of your life with a person larger than life itself, it is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Steve Simon, of Billings, Montana, on December 3rd, 2021, at the age of 67 years. His spirit is carried on by his wife, children, grandchildren, siblings, extended family and a worldwide family of friends. Steve was born in Glasgow, MT and raised in Tampico attending school there at a young age and graduated in 1973 from Glasgow High... Full story

  • 911 Calls for Jan. 10 to Jan. 12, 2022

    Jan 19, 2022

    Monday, Jan. 10 • 16:34:42 - Caller advised she has a vehicle parked at the listed location. The drive Shaft broke on her way to work this morning. She had help pushing the vehicle off to a side road out of the way. She wanted to let us know she is working at getting it moved from its current location. • 8:07:54 -Caller requested a officer because he just hit the LRFD building at Lasar and Kolstad. No injuries. There is damage to his vehicle and the building. Notified Po9 who requested that I dispatch a deputy and also notify hwy patrol. • 1...

  • Expensive Fuel

    Frank and Lin Vargo, Special to The Courier|Jan 19, 2022

    In the very useful miscellaneous information department, my opinion, here is a Saint Marie factoid. We are about 20 miles from Glasgow, Montana. If your vehicle gets 18 miles to the gallon of gas, as ours does, you use, about two gallons of gas getting to and from Glasgow. You say, “so what”! Let me digress for a moment. You get the advertisements from lets say, Reynold’s or Albertson’s, and there is a “SALE” going on. So you depart Saint Marie and go to town to purchase something “ON SALE”. Well, with the price of gasoline being $3.19 and...

  • Home Again

    Mary Honrud, Special to The Courier|Jan 19, 2022

    We arrived back into Montana from sunny, warm Florida Thursday night, and we were back at home by Friday evening. It just kept getting cooler (I don't dare say colder after you all endured the way-below-zero temps we avoided) and whiter the farther north we went. There's plenty of snow on the ground up here by Opheim. And while we aren't too excited about these conditions, at least there's some much needed moisture in that white layer of yuck. As Dennis said, it's "more than we had last...

  • Spilling The NFT.

    Richard Noble, Special to The Courier|Jan 19, 2022

    Blockchain, which faithful readers will recall is the use of a decentralized public ledger to store data, has enabled some interesting developments in the world of technology. Cryptocurrency being the most famous example of this, of course. Seeing a continued gain in popularity however is something called NFTs, with some examples of such trading for tens of millions of dollars. But what even is an NFT, and how would you sound well-informed about one when the subject came up at a party? Never fear, party animals. I’ve got your back. NFT s...

  • CARE Coalition Champions Behavioral Health

    CARE Coalition, Special to The Courier|Jan 19, 2022

    Data gathered from our state and nation continues to show that 1 in 5 persons deal with behavior health problems that interfere with a normal functioning life. This data means that about 1,500 citizens in Valley County have or are dealing with the presence of such problems, either directly or with a family member. The 2021 Montana School Risk Survey results show that nearly 42% of high school students reported having had times of depression in the last year – i.e., two weeks of noticeable i...