September 13 through 19, 2018
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Juliette Drage leads Finn Long and Lincoln Boutry along balance beams at Rachel Parret’s Outdoor Daycare in Philipsburg.
Secession
There’s a new move for secession from the Hospital District in Granite County. Last week the Commissioners met with Drummond and Philipsburg officials at the Fisherman’s Mercantile on lower Rock Creek to discuss common interests and then finally, to hear a packed room of locals wonder aloud how their petition to secede from the hospital district, signed by 53 resident landowners, could under any circumstances be denied.
Community leaders discuss progress at their joint meeting
“Kim McCue tells me the limestone mine is going in, just outside of Drummond, they’ve put in for their operating permit and that is being finalized now, so that will go out to public meetings shortly. Their next permit is for an air quality permit and they say that can take anywhere from six months up to a year. They are concerned about (proposed ballot initiative) I-186. He felt like it wasn’t the intention to hurt all of the mines but potentially that could be the death of the limestone mine. They’re also subject to litigation even if permitted,” Mayor Leeper told the County Commissioners at a joint powers meeting last Wednesday at the Fisherman’s Mercantile on Rock Creek.
A 3rd candidate for County Commissioner
Wayne Hale is a world traveler. His career has taken him around the globe but when he finally settled into retirement a few months ago, he decided to make a run for County Commissioner. So he went down the road to seek the counsel of Granite County’s most famous politico, former Governor Brian Schweitzer. “He said, ‘have you lost your mind?”
Pity
your Granite County Commissioners. Some time in the near future they get to tell the residents of Lower Rock Creek that they can secede from the County-wide Hospital District, meaning that the rest of us in the county will pick up the costs that Rock Creek residents want to abandon, and then they’ll have to explain that decision to the rest of the Valley. In 2014 your Commissioners denied a similar petition in the Lower Valley for a more substantial portion of the county’s population. On the other hand, they could just say, “no.”
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Juliette Drage leads Finn Long and Lincoln Boutry along balance beams at Rachel Parret’s Outdoor Daycare in Philipsburg.
Secession
There’s a new move for secession from the Hospital District in Granite County. Last week the Commissioners met with Drummond and Philipsburg officials at the Fisherman’s Mercantile on lower Rock Creek to discuss common interests and then finally, to hear a packed room of locals wonder aloud how their petition to secede from the hospital district, signed by 53 resident landowners, could under any circumstances be denied.
Community leaders discuss progress at their joint meeting
“Kim McCue tells me the limestone mine is going in, just outside of Drummond, they’ve put in for their operating permit and that is being finalized now, so that will go out to public meetings shortly. Their next permit is for an air quality permit and they say that can take anywhere from six months up to a year. They are concerned about (proposed ballot initiative) I-186. He felt like it wasn’t the intention to hurt all of the mines but potentially that could be the death of the limestone mine. They’re also subject to litigation even if permitted,” Mayor Leeper told the County Commissioners at a joint powers meeting last Wednesday at the Fisherman’s Mercantile on Rock Creek.
A 3rd candidate for County Commissioner
Wayne Hale is a world traveler. His career has taken him around the globe but when he finally settled into retirement a few months ago, he decided to make a run for County Commissioner. So he went down the road to seek the counsel of Granite County’s most famous politico, former Governor Brian Schweitzer. “He said, ‘have you lost your mind?”
Pity
your Granite County Commissioners. Some time in the near future they get to tell the residents of Lower Rock Creek that they can secede from the County-wide Hospital District, meaning that the rest of us in the county will pick up the costs that Rock Creek residents want to abandon, and then they’ll have to explain that decision to the rest of the Valley. In 2014 your Commissioners denied a similar petition in the Lower Valley for a more substantial portion of the county’s population. On the other hand, they could just say, “no.”
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