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🌱 Three generations behind San Juan Pharmacy’s 60-year story

Monticello, Utah Patch AM: a 3 min read

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In today's newsletter:

  • Three generations behind San Juan Pharmacy’s 60-year story

Also on today's calendar: Workin' on the Creekend 2026.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Plenty of sun, with a high of 60 and low of 26 degrees.
  • Thursday: Sunny, temps: high: 59, low: 32.
  • Friday: Partly sunny, with a high of 55 and low of 39 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• San Juan Pharmacy Marks 60 Year Anniversary (sjrnews.com) — San Juan Pharmacy in Blanding marks 60 years with a family history that includes Monticello’s drugstore, which the Nielsons bought in 1982 and later sold to Tim Young. In Blanding, Scott Nielson now serves as the main pharmacist, continuing the work his grandfather Kirk began in 1966.
   

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  • Utah State University posted a job opening for Assistant Professor, Professional Practice Assistant Professor, or Lecturer of Criminal Justice in Blanding. Apply here.

🗞 Nearby News

Blanding

  • USU Blanding Hosts Hundreds of Grade School Students at Annual STEAM Expo (sjrnews.com)
  • Blanding Transfer Station reopens, grand opening is November 14 (sjrnews.com)
  • USU provides aid in wake of Navajo Nation floods (usustatesman.com)

Bluff

  • Drought, Fire, Flood (sjrnews.com)
  • From the Past - November 11, 2026 (sjrnews.com)
  • Cottonwood Road washes away, becomes impassable after rainfall in Southern Utah (abc4.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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