Hold it right there!Powell County High School basketball player Rilee Gray with Jessie Graveley in the background try to block players from Florence from shooting the basketball into the hoop during the last home game of the season on Saturday afternoon. Though the girls played hard against the Lady Falcons they came up short at the end. They are now headed to the divisional tournament. See story page 12.
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X-mas lights
by Michael Stafford
Christmas and the decorations that come with it are still a number of months out, although the cold temperatures and snow may indicate differently.
But the Christmas lights which adorn the lampposts in the City of Deer Lodge are at the forefront of projects for the Powell County Chamber of Commerce.
The process has begun to replace the Christmas lights on the light poles which decorate Main Street during the holiday season and the Chamber is hoping that businesses and individuals will help contribute to the effort.
“The whole idea is to beautify Deer Lodge,” said Chamber Director Julie Schroder.
For some time it has been suggested that the light displays on the lamp poles be replaced due to their age and deterioration and recently the chamber has decided to begin the process. A fund exists which is for the Christmas lights and each year with their chamber renewal, businesses are asked if they would like to make a contribution to that fund. Many routinely do.
Now that fund has enough money in it for the chamber to purchase 10 new decorations for the lamp poles and hopes that they will be able to raise the funds to replace more of them each year and add some new ones to the decorative lamp poles which are in the heart of downtown Deer Lodge.
The current decorations are believed to be a little over 25 years old and were the result of a fundraiser conducted by the chamber in 1993.
see New page seven
Christmas and the decorations that come with it are still a number of months out, although the cold temperatures and snow may indicate differently.
But the Christmas lights which adorn the lampposts in the City of Deer Lodge are at the forefront of projects for the Powell County Chamber of Commerce.
The process has begun to replace the Christmas lights on the light poles which decorate Main Street during the holiday season and the Chamber is hoping that businesses and individuals will help contribute to the effort.
“The whole idea is to beautify Deer Lodge,” said Chamber Director Julie Schroder.
For some time it has been suggested that the light displays on the lamp poles be replaced due to their age and deterioration and recently the chamber has decided to begin the process. A fund exists which is for the Christmas lights and each year with their chamber renewal, businesses are asked if they would like to make a contribution to that fund. Many routinely do.
Now that fund has enough money in it for the chamber to purchase 10 new decorations for the lamp poles and hopes that they will be able to raise the funds to replace more of them each year and add some new ones to the decorative lamp poles which are in the heart of downtown Deer Lodge.
The current decorations are believed to be a little over 25 years old and were the result of a fundraiser conducted by the chamber in 1993.
see New page seven
Files counter-claim against city in sidewalk caseby Michael Stafford
Following the City of Deer Lodge filing a lawsuit against the State of Montana in a civil case that involves a woman who allegedly tripped and fell on a sidewalk outside the Yesterday’s Playthings Museum in 2016, the state has filed a counter-suit against the city. In that suit they cite a 2008 agreement as per part of a project on Main Street where the city was to assume control of maintenance of the sidewalks. But that’s not how the city sees it. In their reply to the counter-suit, they claim that the agreement is unenforceable at this point for a number of reasons and ultimately the state cannot unburden itself of the duty it owed to the plaintiff. Those are the newest developments in a case which has progressed over the past year and has come to involve the plaintiff who is a woman from New Mexico, the Powell County Museum and Arts Foundation, the City of Deer Lodge and the State of Montana. The case started earlier this year when Sheila Green of Nevada filed suit against the PCMAF alleging that on September 10, 2016 she tripped on an uneven sidewalk in front of the Yesterday’s Playthings Museum and fell sustaining injuries and incurring damages as a result. see State page seven |
Engine No. 2 to be soldby Michael Stafford
If the city’s fire engine number 2 is not sold soon it’s not going to be worth much. And if the city can’t sell it, the fire department is going to have to dump more than $10,000 into it to replace the pump. And they would have to dump that money into it despite the fact they will have the same amount of pumping power without it by June and even more than currently when they get their new water tender which is being paid for through a grant. Seeing the reasoning in the argument, the city council approved a resolution to designate engine number 2 as surplus property and for it to be sold at the best price at their February 4 meeting. At the meeting Assistant Chief Brant Pierson presented the situation to the council. He told the aldermen that engine number 2 is a 1994 Freightliner which had previously been engine number 1. see Pump page 19 |
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