April 8-14, 2021
Last Saturday’s Easter egg hunt at the Philipsburg City Park brought out crowds of kiddos to search for goodies. For more photos from the hunt, see pages 8 & 9.
Not a prank
When she discovered her car missing on the afternoon of April Fool’s day, Clerk of District Court Carol Bohrnsen thought it was a prank, accusing her friend of moving the vehicle.
Unfortunately, it was not and April Fool’s day joke.
One employee at the courthouse reported seeing a woman sitting next to the car, asking her for a cigarette, when she was coming back from her lunch break.
While the keys had been inside the car, the gas tank was nearly empty and the car was found later that afternoon, abandoned at the Sunshine Station.
According to witnesses at the Station, a woman came in asking for money for gas for her car, which was out of gas.
COVID bonus for county employees voted down
With some $500,000 in COVID relief funds still waiting to be spent in Granite County, the County Commissioners have been considering whether to offer that money to county employees for their work through the pandemic.
Then issue was tabled when it was initially discussed at the end of 2020 in order to allow incoming Commissioner Blanche McLure to weigh in on the matter. When the subject was brought up again in January it was tabled in order to obtain more information on how the funds could be distributed.
“When it came up the first go-round, my feelings were that we should not be giving our employees who are already paid, and they have their vacation and sick (pay), COVID money when the rest of the community was without a job. Government employees do not receive a bonus,” said Commissioner Blanche McLure.
Johnson and Johnson vaccine now available in county
One hundred doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine arrived at the Granite County Medical Center in Philipsburg last Monday, providing county residents with a second vaccination option now, in addition to the Moderna vaccine, for combating the virus.
Public Health Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Dustin Muhly told the Granite County Commissioners last week that the shipment of Johnson and Johnson vaccine would be shared with Granite Pharmacy in order to make the vaccine more accessible to people throughout the county.
Both the Moderna vaccine and the Johnson and Johnson vaccine are available to anyone who is 18 years of age, or older. The Pfizer vaccine, which is not available in Granite County, can be administered to people ages 16 and older. Muhly said that Butte is viewed as the hub for distribution of the Pfizer vaccine, and anyone who is interested in being vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine can get it there.
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Not a prank
When she discovered her car missing on the afternoon of April Fool’s day, Clerk of District Court Carol Bohrnsen thought it was a prank, accusing her friend of moving the vehicle.
Unfortunately, it was not and April Fool’s day joke.
One employee at the courthouse reported seeing a woman sitting next to the car, asking her for a cigarette, when she was coming back from her lunch break.
While the keys had been inside the car, the gas tank was nearly empty and the car was found later that afternoon, abandoned at the Sunshine Station.
According to witnesses at the Station, a woman came in asking for money for gas for her car, which was out of gas.
COVID bonus for county employees voted down
With some $500,000 in COVID relief funds still waiting to be spent in Granite County, the County Commissioners have been considering whether to offer that money to county employees for their work through the pandemic.
Then issue was tabled when it was initially discussed at the end of 2020 in order to allow incoming Commissioner Blanche McLure to weigh in on the matter. When the subject was brought up again in January it was tabled in order to obtain more information on how the funds could be distributed.
“When it came up the first go-round, my feelings were that we should not be giving our employees who are already paid, and they have their vacation and sick (pay), COVID money when the rest of the community was without a job. Government employees do not receive a bonus,” said Commissioner Blanche McLure.
Johnson and Johnson vaccine now available in county
One hundred doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine arrived at the Granite County Medical Center in Philipsburg last Monday, providing county residents with a second vaccination option now, in addition to the Moderna vaccine, for combating the virus.
Public Health Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Dustin Muhly told the Granite County Commissioners last week that the shipment of Johnson and Johnson vaccine would be shared with Granite Pharmacy in order to make the vaccine more accessible to people throughout the county.
Both the Moderna vaccine and the Johnson and Johnson vaccine are available to anyone who is 18 years of age, or older. The Pfizer vaccine, which is not available in Granite County, can be administered to people ages 16 and older. Muhly said that Butte is viewed as the hub for distribution of the Pfizer vaccine, and anyone who is interested in being vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine can get it there.
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