June 14 through 20, 201
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Much of the County was treated to a mini-blizzard on Monday during the lunch hour. Opera House Player Maisi Gospoderek stepped outside to try to catch a few snowflakes on her tongue. The actor hails from West Yellowstone and is on her third summer tour with the Opera House.
Threats lead to probation
Editor’s note: since the defendant in this disposition is 15, we will not be using his name or the name of his adoptive mother. He’s 15 years-old now and living at Normative Services in Sheridan, Wyoming where, most everyone hopes, he’ll be able to get the help he needs to return home some day.
But as the Honorable Ray Dayton told the young man in his Third U.S. District Court last Thursday, that’s up to the defendant and Normative Services.
Slaughter: state of the county is good, real good
“For small counties, compared to anywhere in Montana we are in very good shape, we’re healthy,” Granite County Commission Chair Bill Slaughter told the Philipsburg Mail recently.
There’s a lot of dam work going on at Georgetown Lake
That’s the assessment of County Commissioner Chairman Bill Slaughter who spoke at length on Granite County’s progress recently with the Philipsburg Mail. The County, he noted, is eyeing a new agreement with the United States Forest Service (USFS) on maintenance of Georgetown Lake Road, which is currently owned by the USFS.
School daze
A few months ago this newspaper’s preceding Editor published a cartoon based on a 14-year-old boy’s threat to his classmates and staff, for which he was arrested. The cartoon, from this editor’s point of view, was simply meant to be a relief valve for the community. It pictured a characterization of the boy, dressed in oversized clothes and holding a pop-gun. Its caption read, “That was fun, I just scared the crap out of the whole school.”
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Much of the County was treated to a mini-blizzard on Monday during the lunch hour. Opera House Player Maisi Gospoderek stepped outside to try to catch a few snowflakes on her tongue. The actor hails from West Yellowstone and is on her third summer tour with the Opera House.
Threats lead to probation
Editor’s note: since the defendant in this disposition is 15, we will not be using his name or the name of his adoptive mother. He’s 15 years-old now and living at Normative Services in Sheridan, Wyoming where, most everyone hopes, he’ll be able to get the help he needs to return home some day.
But as the Honorable Ray Dayton told the young man in his Third U.S. District Court last Thursday, that’s up to the defendant and Normative Services.
Slaughter: state of the county is good, real good
“For small counties, compared to anywhere in Montana we are in very good shape, we’re healthy,” Granite County Commission Chair Bill Slaughter told the Philipsburg Mail recently.
There’s a lot of dam work going on at Georgetown Lake
That’s the assessment of County Commissioner Chairman Bill Slaughter who spoke at length on Granite County’s progress recently with the Philipsburg Mail. The County, he noted, is eyeing a new agreement with the United States Forest Service (USFS) on maintenance of Georgetown Lake Road, which is currently owned by the USFS.
School daze
A few months ago this newspaper’s preceding Editor published a cartoon based on a 14-year-old boy’s threat to his classmates and staff, for which he was arrested. The cartoon, from this editor’s point of view, was simply meant to be a relief valve for the community. It pictured a characterization of the boy, dressed in oversized clothes and holding a pop-gun. Its caption read, “That was fun, I just scared the crap out of the whole school.”
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