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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...
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks fisheries staff are planning to drawdown Home Run Pond in Glasgow to revive the fishery. A Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the project is currently out for public comment. Home Run Pond was constructed over 20 years ago, primarily as a kid’s fishing pond. While the City of Glasgow owns the pond and surrounding property of Sullivan Park, the fisheries resources are managed by FWP as a “put-grow-take” rainbow trout fishery with a management goal of achieving high angler catch rates. High-water events in 20...
Dear Community, Over the last year, our nonprofit, Siding 45, has raised over $112,000 to build a skatepark in Glasgow. Half of those funds came from Jeff Ament's foundation Montana Pool Service, and we aim to take advantage of more opportunities to bring outside money into our community. Our next step is to find a location for the park, and we are hoping to build it in Bundy Park. This idea has not been confirmed but last month the city council decided to look into the technicalities and...
1 Years Ago: Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013 Garret Godwin's Eagle Scout project has brightened up the south side of Glasgow. He recruited volunteers to spread out Saturday and repaint fire hydrants. He heard at a City Council meeting that some faded hydrants were difficult to find, so it seemed like a worthy public service project to make them shine again. After a public hearing on Sept. 16, the Glasgow City Council proceeded with its proposed water rate increase of $5 per month, effective in Novemb...
The Glasgow City Council met in regular session on Aug. 7 with the agenda including approval of consent agenda items, a public hearing on solid waste collection rate increase, Tess Fahlgren providing an update to the council on the skate park location as well as approvals requested for certain city business. During the public comment period of the meeting, business owner Candy Lagerquist circled back to the desire to have diagonal parking on one side of 2nd Ave S., while the other side stayed parallel parking. During the last City Council meeti...
Kae (Lythgoe) Markle, longtime resident of Glasgow, Mont., died at the age of 92 on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. A family memorial will be held at a later date. Kae was born to John and Annie Lythgoe on Nov. 4, 1930, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She spent her childhood there and later moved to Missoula to attend the University of Montana. While there she met Robert "Tag" Markle and they married in 1950. The same year they moved to Glasgow. Kae enjoyed exercise, golf, playing bridge, traveling and meeting...
The Siding 45 Skatepark committee has been hard at work in recent months in order to achieve their goal of revitalizing a skatepark in the Glasgow area. From hosting fundraisers, having other local businesses support in helping to raise funds, working with the City of Glasgow to determine the best location and becoming their own non-profit organization, the group is putting more pieces together to make their dream a reality. "We are happy to announce that as of this week, July 10, we have...
1The Montana Community Foundation, Inc. (MCF) and Nemont Manor Foundation are pleased to award $50,000 in grants to 10 organizations that benefit the Valley County community. The Valley County Masonic Endowment was established at MCF by the Nemont Manor Foundation in 2022. "We are excited to award the first grants from the Valley County Masonic Endowment to support some outstanding community projects," said Jim Rector, board chair of the Nemont Manor Foundation. Grant requests were reviewed by...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Glasgow's high school and middle school band teacher, Dr. Brad Persinger, has been named as the VFW Montana Teacher of the Year. The award was publicly presented by the VFW's Art Widhalm at this year's Memorial Day ceremony. Renowned Assiniboine artist William Standing will be featured at the Pioneer Museum in Glasgow in what could be the largest assembly of his art, sponsored by the Valley County Historical Society. The centerpiece of the show is "The...
The Hi-Line Sportsmen recently donated $20,000 to the Valley County Community Pool Campaign to help fulfill the funding goal of $3,600,000 to build a new swimming pool in Glasgow. As of May 22, the current total raised was $3,138,479. The Hi-Line Sportsmen wanted to donate to the cause because many of the core committee members were either born and raised in the area or moved here, becoming locals over time and are now raising families here. "To have the pool in the community growing up was such...
The Valley County Community Foundation is proud to announce that over $38,454 in grants will be distributed to our communities across Valley County to continue to support the VCCF mission: to fund economic, cultural, and charitable projects for generations to come. Board Chair Doris Leader of Nashua explained that these grant funds come from something like the community’s savings account and are meant to thrive for years to come. Donations to VCCF are invested and earnings from this endowment come back to Valley County in the form of grants and...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, April 17, 2013 The Keystone XL oil pipeline doesn't have its presidential permit yet, but a lot of preparation work has been done so construction can jump into action when it comes. NorVal Electric Cooperative is preparing to supply power to two pump stations that would be built in Valley County to help push crude oil from the Alberta tar sands some 1,700 miles to refineries in the Gulf Coast of Texas. Jewel Fourstar Ackerman was recently honored as the 2013 MIEA Indian...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Glasgow residents were invited to meet and question the educators who have applied for the position of principal of Glasgow High School. The three candidates, Linda Hudyma, Stephen Pinsoneault and Shawnda Zahara-Harris, rotated through sessions with teachers, administrators, the school board and community members. As Glasgow moves ahead on a city growth policy, a decision must be made about the type of planning board the City Council wants. The planning...
After hitting a roadblock earlier this year when a lone construction bid for a new pool, bathhouse and parking loop came in millions over the engineer estimate from July 2022, the Valley County Community Pool Campaign committee has been meeting, working and discussing with key stakeholders what the next steps will look like in order to get a new pool for Valley County. When the lone bid was reviewed in January, the bid came in at $4,693,422 with the breakdown of $2,288,695 for the swimming pool, $2,146,651 for the pool house structure and...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Rep. Steve Daines stopped in Glasgow early this morning on a swing through eastern Montana as part of his statewide natural resources tour. Spillway rehab is Corps’ largest repair. The flood of 2011 caused damage to every dam on the Missouri and much of the levee system in the lower reaches. The plunge pool at the bottom of the spillway is the largest single repair project on the Missouri River system. The force of the water that poured out of the lake and down the mile-long concrete chute, 55,000 cubic f...
The Glasgow City Council met for their regular council meeting on Feb. 21 in the Council Chambers. Regular business was voted on including payment of claims in the amount of $131,839.68; payment of Valley Court Apartment claims in the amount of $1,709.37 and approval of the Feb. 6 regular council meeting minutes. There was a huge crowd in the public sitting area of the council chambers as the Siding 45 Skatepark committee and supporters were in attendance to discuss working with the city in order to find a location for a future city skatepark....
The Glasgow Ice Dawgs brought home the second-place trophy from the Big Sky High School State Hockey Tournament in Bozeman this past weekend, as well as three All-State honors and a scholarship. Glasgow entered the tournament as the number three seed and made their way to the championship game against the Missoula Bruins with an undefeated record in tournament play. The Bruins, coming off a huge upset win over the previously-undefeated Miles City Generals, won the title game 4-0 Sunday. Glasgow...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, February 20, 2013 There's a new piece of equipment that rated a whole new room for itself at Valley View Home. A shiny NuStep recumbent cross trainer machine stands in a pleasant room with a window looking into the sky and a hillside of homes, thanks to a generous donation from the Theo and Alyce Beck Foundation, with assistance from the Valley View Foundation. A chapter has closed in the struggle to replace Glasgow's crumbling swimming pool, but a longtime advocate for...
The Glasgow Ice Dawgs downed the Helena Bighorns in a home double header in the last weekend of regulation play. Glasgow won 4-2 Saturday on Senior Night and skated away to an 8-1 victory Sunday morning. Ice Dawgs captain Michael Hoyer started the scoring action Saturday, hitting an even-strength goal 4:37 into the first period with help from Josh Llewellyn. Helena tied the game with 1:36 left in the opening period. The visiting Bighorns netted the only goal of the second period, scoring with 11:15 remaining before intermission. The third perio...
The Glasgow City Council’s first meeting of 2023 was held on Jan. 3, in the Council Chambers at the Glasgow Civic Center. In addition to normal council agenda items such as the Mayor, committee and department head reports as well as the approval of consent agenda items, the Council discussed Glasgow Police Chief Robert Weber’s desire to amend the recommendation from the employee incentive hiring committee for the police department; whether to approve the Glasgow City-County Library’s continuation of purchasing the land behind the building; as w...
Michael "Mike" C. Kaiser was born in Miles City, Mont., to Charles and Lorrain (Muggli) Kaiser. He spent his youth in Miles City, attending Sacred Heart School, lettering in football, basketball and track. After high school, he enlisted in the Army where he served our country for four years, completing three tours of Vietnam and was awarded the Purple Heart. He attended Northern Montana College for four years and graduated at the top of his class with degrees in welding, construction materials...
The Valley County Commissioners met for their regular Discussion and Decision meeting on Nov. 30 inside the Board of County Commissioners in the Valley County Courthouse. The agenda included the City of Glasgow’s request for an increase in funding for the Valley County Pool Campaign as well as further discussions on how to spend the Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund which Valley County has received $1.8 million this year and is set to receive another $1.8 million in 2023. The Valley County Commissioners had already pledged funds t...
In 2004, a group of teenagers started a goal of creating a skatepark in order to pursue their passions in the sport. A board was created, and with the assistance of parents and other involved community members, the park was created on the Fairgrounds property. In 2007 a concrete pad had been poured and ramps were installed. As these teenagers grew up and graduated from high school, the interest to maintain and upkeep the property weaned off, with the property becoming bygones of the past. This past summer, the skatepark was closed off from...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, October 24, 2012 This winter in Eastern Montana might be just what Goldilocks ordered: not to cold, not too dry, just right. The Glasgow School Board revised its student drug testing policy at the regular meeting on Oct. 10. The original drug testing policy for students participating in any extracurricular activity, adopted in 2009, required that all students in an activity be tested at the beginning of the activity's season. The revised policy is to test 20 percent of...
1 Years Ago Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 The 2012 Homecoming nominees are Alex Page, Bryan Larson, Rachel Prewitt, and Andy Gardner. The Homecoming Queen is Laurel Wageman and Homecoming King is Greg Fewer. An appreciation dinner honoring Jackie Bird was held at the Cottonwood last Friday. She has gone above and beyond with the St. Marie Women's Club sending care packages to our troops serving in the Mideast. Toiletries, jerky, power bars donated as well as postage money can always be used,...
