November 15 through 21, 2018
Mighty moose
Pat Clayton took this photograph of a moose along Rock Creek before winter set-in. According to the Rangers at Glacier, a moose can weigh as much as 1,600 pounds and are incredibly near-sighted to better spot nutrient-rich vegetation on the bottom of ponds. They love to swim, and will often dive all the way under. A full-grown moose can swim six miles per hour for up to two hours. They can close their nostrils to graze under water. Moose have no upper front teeth allowing them to suck small marine plants into their mouth while grazing underwater.
Billers for GCMC sold
The company that has been providing medical billing services for Granite County Medical Center was the subject of a $5.7 billion cash buyout from Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital last week. The purchase price offered was slightly higher than the current market value for the stock. Current Hospital Board Chair John Barbara spent his career on Wall Street. He was with the wealth management firm Merrill Lynch in New York City for seventeen years, and was with the New York Mercantile Exchange for seventeen years before coming to Montana. He has been monitoring the situation with Athenahealth.
Drummond educator named New Teacher of the Year
The Montana Association of Family and Consumer Sciences Educators (MAFCSE) announced that Tina Wetsch of Drummond High School has been selected as their New Teacher of the Year for 2018. Drummond superintendent Christina Barbechano, provided high praise for Wetsch’s program. She explained how Wetsch has moved the culinary program from a single focus of home cooking to a curriculum that provides students the opportunity to explore the culinary field as a profession.
Titans look to repeat as State Champions
It was a cold, windy and icy Shelby High School football field that greeted the visiting Flint Creek Titans and Coyotes for a ticket to be punched to the Big Dance, the ‘Chipper, for All the Marbles, or what other cliché one may come up with. It was a battle of the two remaining undefeated Class C teams. But when the final horn sounded on that icy Coyotes’ field, it was the Titans who stood strong and proud with an exciting 28-20 win and a chance for a repeat. The win marked 24 in a row. However, before the game got underway, there was a convoy of approximately 15 cars that escorted the Titans’ bus from Conrad to Shelby, and they arrived with horns a blaring.
Flicker
As the volunteers for Philipsburg’s sesquicentennial prepared for last summer’s celebration, they prepared a litany of events and promotions. A hundred years is a pretty big deal and one-fifty seemed to them, just as important a marker in the lifetime of this town.
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Pat Clayton took this photograph of a moose along Rock Creek before winter set-in. According to the Rangers at Glacier, a moose can weigh as much as 1,600 pounds and are incredibly near-sighted to better spot nutrient-rich vegetation on the bottom of ponds. They love to swim, and will often dive all the way under. A full-grown moose can swim six miles per hour for up to two hours. They can close their nostrils to graze under water. Moose have no upper front teeth allowing them to suck small marine plants into their mouth while grazing underwater.
Billers for GCMC sold
The company that has been providing medical billing services for Granite County Medical Center was the subject of a $5.7 billion cash buyout from Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital last week. The purchase price offered was slightly higher than the current market value for the stock. Current Hospital Board Chair John Barbara spent his career on Wall Street. He was with the wealth management firm Merrill Lynch in New York City for seventeen years, and was with the New York Mercantile Exchange for seventeen years before coming to Montana. He has been monitoring the situation with Athenahealth.
Drummond educator named New Teacher of the Year
The Montana Association of Family and Consumer Sciences Educators (MAFCSE) announced that Tina Wetsch of Drummond High School has been selected as their New Teacher of the Year for 2018. Drummond superintendent Christina Barbechano, provided high praise for Wetsch’s program. She explained how Wetsch has moved the culinary program from a single focus of home cooking to a curriculum that provides students the opportunity to explore the culinary field as a profession.
Titans look to repeat as State Champions
It was a cold, windy and icy Shelby High School football field that greeted the visiting Flint Creek Titans and Coyotes for a ticket to be punched to the Big Dance, the ‘Chipper, for All the Marbles, or what other cliché one may come up with. It was a battle of the two remaining undefeated Class C teams. But when the final horn sounded on that icy Coyotes’ field, it was the Titans who stood strong and proud with an exciting 28-20 win and a chance for a repeat. The win marked 24 in a row. However, before the game got underway, there was a convoy of approximately 15 cars that escorted the Titans’ bus from Conrad to Shelby, and they arrived with horns a blaring.
Flicker
As the volunteers for Philipsburg’s sesquicentennial prepared for last summer’s celebration, they prepared a litany of events and promotions. A hundred years is a pretty big deal and one-fifty seemed to them, just as important a marker in the lifetime of this town.
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