Donna Seekell and Shelby Struna played on the rope swing during recess on the first day of school at Drummond. There were many different reactions from students to returning to school after the summer break.
August 25, 2010 - August 31, 2010
Philipsburg will soon have a retail pharmacy. According to Hospital Administrator Amy Edwards Webb and the pharmacist coordinating the effort, Eric Beyer of Frenchtown Drug, a retail pharmacy will supply the pharmaceutical needs of those in the area as well as those of the Granite County Medical Center.
Where do your tax dollars go? According to the Granite County Treasurer’s Office, there are county and state imposed mils which delineate a percentage of each tax bill to specific funds or departments. In addition, based upon where a property is located there are district levies (mils which refer to the percentage of the assessed amount) for the different school districts, towns and cemeteries.
It’s been years since the old Courtney Hotel (later renamed the Pintler Hotel) has been in operation, yet the rooms on the second and third floor of the Granite County Museum, empty or used for storage, harkens back to its days as the place to stay while in Philipsburg. “At that time we didn’t have a motel and it was really the only lodging that was there,” said former owner and operator of the hotel Rita Finch.
Obituaries
Evelyn Strahan
May 31, 1917 - August 20, 2010
Evelyn Manley Strahan began life on May 31, 1917. One of her earliest memories was traveling by train with her father from the ancestral farm in central Michigan to Salt Creek, Wyoming. Evelyn was 3 years old; she and her father traveled ahead of her siblings and mother to find a home for the family.
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