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Oh what a night!
Spencer Marsh lit the El Cor Del Lanes 7 & 8 up in on January 7th, 2013), and once again, Juice Fischer
Tuesday City League on January 28th. His incredible 816 (still the top dog with an 849 series with a 269-280- and
series was bolstered by the PERFECT 300 in his second topped the night off with a 300 on October 29th, 2019).
game. His first game was a mere 247, followed by the Bowling for Rock’s Auto Mall, teammates congratulating
300 and finished the evening quite well with a 269 in his Spencer last night were Jeff Remus, who had a 651
final game. Yes, that is a scratch 816, folks! He joins the scratch series, Juice Fischer with a 614 scratch series,
800 series ranks of Juice Fischer (276-256-289 — 821 and Shawn Hopstad with a 577 scratch series. Yes, that
on April 5th, 2010), Seth Ingram (268-267-267 — 802 was a mighty fine evening of bowling, guys!
THURSDAY BUZZIFIEDS
SOUPS: Vegetable Beef ∙ Chili Pancake
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SPECIALS:
Reuben Breakfast MOVING SALE: ONE Day Only. Friday, Jan. 31, 10 am til everything
Chicken Nacho Saturday, February 1 is gone. Name your price. EVERYTHING MUST GO. GLASGOW
7:00 AM - 10:00 AM SENIOR CENTER
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$7 for a Great Breakfast
Dine at the “O” RANCH-RAISED HAMBURGER: One pound and two pound packs.
Glasgow Senior Citizens $5 per pound. CALL 406-762-7025
328 4th Street South BUZZ
Enjoy a start to your day plus a
228-8006 good visit with friends & neighbors
LOOKING FOR a baby kitten for an indoor pet, male or female, short
hair preferably, and somewhat tame. PLEASE CALL 406-650-0133
Scorcher
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today!
St. CALL 406-263-2585
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Today: Sunny, with a high near 40. Calm wind becoming west BUZZ
FOR RENT 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment in Glasgow. $600/mo. +
5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
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Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 16. West northwest dryer. Utilities are electric & gas. Off-street parking. CALL 406-228-
wind around 7 mph. 2114 FOR MORE INFO.
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northwest wind around 6 mph becoming east after midnight.
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Friday: A 20 percent chance of snow after 11am. Cloudy, with HOUSING AUTHORITY OF GLASGOW is looking for families of 3
a high near 33. East southeast wind 6 to 11 mph. or more to qualify for units. Applications available on our website at
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Friday Night: A slight chance of snow before 2am, then a Mon-Thurs and 8a-3p Fridays. CALL FOR DETAILS 406.228.4942
slight chance of freezing rain between 2am and 5am, then BUZZ
a slight chance of snow and freezing rain after 5am. Mostly THE HINSDALE SCHOOL is looking for the following positions: 1.
cloudy, with a low around 21. East southeast wind 6 to 10 Bus route drivers - 2 hrs minimum pay for each route. Activity routes
are also available. 2. Substitute teachers - $45 for a half day, $90
mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
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Saturday: A slight chance of rain and snow before 11am, then of these positions, please contact Adam Zopp at 406-364-2314 or
a slight chance of rain after 5pm. Partly sunny, with a high [email protected]. Hinsdale is a great place to work
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Saturday Night: A slight chance of rain before 8pm, then
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Monday-Thursday 9 to 3
as high as 24 mph. Amy Rutherford
Sunday Night: A 30 percent chance of snow, mainly before (406) 230-0380
11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around -9. North wind 10 to
14 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. A story on #21, coming soon!
Monday: A 30 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a
Was talking to Ron Garwood again, and he says
high near 4. North wind 7 to 9 mph.
another one of his favorite gals, with ear tag #21 (born
Monday Night: A chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low the same year as Dear ’Ol #22), is soon to be due.
around -8.
Hopefully we’ll catch up To Ron and see how that
Tuesday: A chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 7. goes.
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Letter to the Buzz
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Retirement Party
out over fifteen years at a 3% interest rate (the current
prime rate is 7.5%). The Water District is a public
utility, NOT a charity for Kittleson. Mismanaging the
In Honor of District’s/customers’ funds is reckless and unethical.
A more accurate stated purpose for the hearing
MIKE PETERSON would be: Modification of the payment method for the
System Development Fee for Josh Kittleson’s benefit,
FRIDAY
11 AM - 1 PM 31 JANUARY
2025
prior to Kittleson Ridge Subdivision’s acceptance into
the District.
at Glasgow CHS Elevator • Lunch Provided To help with your understanding, this is how the
current System Development Fee payment method
works: A person wanting access to public water on one
single benefitted parcel of land (never before served by
the District) is required to pay a System Development
A hillbilly was making his first visit to a Fee of $4,500. That entire amount can be paid all at
hospital where his teenage son was about to once or in a partial upfront payment of $2,933 and
have an operation.
semi-annual installments of $170 for five years.
Watching the doctor’s every move, he asked,
The System Development Fee was based on the
“What’s that?”
cost of installing and maintaining the original water
The doctor explained, “This is an anesthetic.
system infrastructure that was put in place 25 years
After he gets this he won’t know a thing.”
“Save your time, Doc,” exclaimed the man. ago, plus about $700,000 for improvements in 2015.
“He don’t know nothing now.” The fees/funds are put in the SRF R & D account,
which may only be used for the repair, replacement, subdivision, it is more than fair that he make the
maintenance and development needs of the District. required $196,511 upfront payment.
The importance of having robust R & D accounts is It is the District Board members’ job to manage
to make sure the burden of maintaining the water the R & D accounts in a way that BEST serves the
system’s infrastructure does not fall back on the interest of the District, NOT Josh Kittleson. The
District’s customers unless and until that money runs future replacement and maintenance needs of the
out. District are never on a Board meeting agenda and
Without Kittleson’s $196,511 upfront payment, are not being considered now. For example, the
the fund will run out sooner than it should. Board has made no attempt to replace its 20-year-old
The District has only had 2 or 3 individual parcel meters (there are over 300 of them) that the District’s
requests (not in subdivisions) for public water access Regulation 10.2 required them to do two years ago!
per year, which demonstrates that the modification Kittleson has stacked the odds in his favor in
is being crafted for Kittleson’s benefit. (The proposed what should be a 5-member Board. There are multiple
modification does not affect new customers purchasing conflicts of interest on the Board and Kittleson has
a property that already has access to District water.) conveniently made no attempt to fill a Board vacancy
The Board’s whole rationale for proposing this since July 31, 2024 so as to not upset that dynamic.
move is because no other developer has had to make Vice President, Parpart’s son works for Kittleson, and
an upfront payment. Therefore, they say it unfair to Treasurer Yeoman grazes cattle on Kittleson land.
Kittleson. But, if the Board had done its homework, Going forward, the District will be responsible
they would know that the current payment method for maintaining the water lines that Kittleson himself
was intentionally created in order to be fair. The built- installed and for providing the stagnant water blow-
in expiration date requires that no later than 2031 the offs on dead-end lines. The District won’t even get
Board must increase the $4,500 per parcel rate to (1) any paying customers on those lots until homes are
keep up with inflation; and (2) reflect the increased actually built.
value of the District’s assets, which appreciate over This Board should be forced to prove to its
time. customers how modifying the payment method for
Kittleson has been on the District’s Board since Kittleson is in the best interests of the District and
2017, so he knew full well what his upfront System why this is not a conflict of interest.
Development Fee would be when he chose to develop A public hearing will be held on Thursday, January
a 67-lot subdivision: 30th at 6:00 p.m. in the District Office at 15 Galpin
• 67 lots x $4,500 = $301,500 Road, Fort Peck. Please attend the hearing and make
Of that total, Kittleson must make an upfront your voice heard.
payment of $196,511. He can then make semi-annual ~ Mary Kaercher & Debra Steffani
payments on any unsold lots for five years. If Kittleson Fort Peck, MT
sells his 67 lots for $100,000+ each, he really only
needs to sell two lots to cover the cost of his upfront
payment.
The only reason that Kittleson was even able to
develop a Subdivision with access to public water is
because of the improvements, made ten years ago,
making it possible. The District installed a 6-inch
water line across Kittleson’s farm costing $117,064.
The 2014 loan invested in 4 new VFD pumps/controls
and generator for $200,000 and upgraded the office
building/pump station for $190,000. Kittleson Ridge
Subdivision’s 67 lots will have instant access to the entire
infrastructure that the District has been maintaining –
including $10,000 for air vacs on Kittleson’s waterline.
Given these investments that directly benefit Kittleson’s
Letter to the Buzz Jesus said, “Without me, you can do nothing.” Jesus
is Barry’s and my power source. So, if you’re associating
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THURSDAY
Breakfast
Scrambled Eggs • Cinnamon
Roll • M. Oranges • Milk
Lunch
Chicken Burger w/ Lettuce
& Ranch • Dill Spear
Strawberries • Scotcherooes
Ole went to a museum the other day.
The tour guide was explaining: “This sword right
here here is made of sterling silver and is over twenty-
five hundred years old.”
Ole paused for a second to think about it and then
Date &Time Location asked: “How is dat possible? We are only in da year
February 4, 2025 FMDH Nurses’ Station tventy-tventy five!”