February 21 - 27, 2019
For the birders
Our birdman Gary Swant recently visited Tanzania where he photographed this Southern Ground Hornbill. See more on page 19.
Consensus struck from its by-laws
After months of back and forth amendments between the Granite County Board of Commissioners and their Forest Management Advisory Committee (FMAC), it appears that the two bodies have finally come to an agreement on a set of bylaws to define FMAC and how it is to operate. In addition, the Commissioners approved an annual budget for FMAC of $2,500, and also approved two new members for the Committee. The membership additions come in the wake of a re-organization of officers on the Committee due to the resignation of former Committee Chair Chuck Hinkle in January when he assumed his position as a newly elected Granite County Commissioner. He continues to attend FMAC meetings as the representative of the Commissioners, but is now a non-voting participant. Existing committee member Patti Kanduch replaced Hinkle as Chair of the Committee.
Chamber surpasses fundraising goal, hears traffic circle proposal
The Philipsburg Chamber of Commerce blew past its silent auction fundraising goal during the Philipsburg Brewfest (see photos pages 10 - 11) according to Dennis Cox, owner of Friday Night Pizza. “Our goal was to raise $3,000 and we brought in $4,946,” Cox said during the chamber’s February budget meeting Tuesday morning at Camp Creek Homefire Grill.
A leg-up for the best and brightest students
College tuition, whether four year or two year, can be out-of-reach for aspiring students but the Granite County Foundation has an answer to the problem. The Foundation, organized in Philipsburg by Ron Paige (who recommended this story) and Superintendent Mike Cutler in the early 2000s, and expanded to serve Drummond students in 2006, has provided money for tuition and books to hundreds of high school students over the past decades.
Unknown
to the residents of this county is the extent to which its citizens have been poisoned by mercury. What is known, thanks to the work of Heiko Langer on behalf of the University of Montana, is that the mining which took place here more than a century ago has left some of our creeks among the most mercury-contaminated in the United States.
Randy (Randolph) D. Lundgren
12/12/1953 - 2/9/2019
Irene Lois Hellman
11/25/1934 - 2/10.2019
Walter Greig Godkin
9/21/1945 - 2/1/2019
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Our birdman Gary Swant recently visited Tanzania where he photographed this Southern Ground Hornbill. See more on page 19.
Consensus struck from its by-laws
After months of back and forth amendments between the Granite County Board of Commissioners and their Forest Management Advisory Committee (FMAC), it appears that the two bodies have finally come to an agreement on a set of bylaws to define FMAC and how it is to operate. In addition, the Commissioners approved an annual budget for FMAC of $2,500, and also approved two new members for the Committee. The membership additions come in the wake of a re-organization of officers on the Committee due to the resignation of former Committee Chair Chuck Hinkle in January when he assumed his position as a newly elected Granite County Commissioner. He continues to attend FMAC meetings as the representative of the Commissioners, but is now a non-voting participant. Existing committee member Patti Kanduch replaced Hinkle as Chair of the Committee.
Chamber surpasses fundraising goal, hears traffic circle proposal
The Philipsburg Chamber of Commerce blew past its silent auction fundraising goal during the Philipsburg Brewfest (see photos pages 10 - 11) according to Dennis Cox, owner of Friday Night Pizza. “Our goal was to raise $3,000 and we brought in $4,946,” Cox said during the chamber’s February budget meeting Tuesday morning at Camp Creek Homefire Grill.
A leg-up for the best and brightest students
College tuition, whether four year or two year, can be out-of-reach for aspiring students but the Granite County Foundation has an answer to the problem. The Foundation, organized in Philipsburg by Ron Paige (who recommended this story) and Superintendent Mike Cutler in the early 2000s, and expanded to serve Drummond students in 2006, has provided money for tuition and books to hundreds of high school students over the past decades.
Unknown
to the residents of this county is the extent to which its citizens have been poisoned by mercury. What is known, thanks to the work of Heiko Langer on behalf of the University of Montana, is that the mining which took place here more than a century ago has left some of our creeks among the most mercury-contaminated in the United States.
Randy (Randolph) D. Lundgren
12/12/1953 - 2/9/2019
Irene Lois Hellman
11/25/1934 - 2/10.2019
Walter Greig Godkin
9/21/1945 - 2/1/2019
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