Dale Cochrell said he wanted the man who shot his dog to see what he did, every time he drove down the road from his house.

Taking the remains of his hunting dog which had been shot that day by James Cressler, Cochrell mounted the dead dog at the bottom of Bear Gulch Road.

“So they could see it each time when they went out,” said Cochrell.

And according to Cressler, the tactic left its mark, disturbingly.

“Did that cause you mental distress?” asked Cressler’s attorney Dan Miller.

“Yes it did,” replied the defendant.

At Thursday’s sentencing hearing for Cressler who had been convicted of criminal mischief and animal cruelty misdemeanors after he shot a hunting dog belonging to Cochrell, the subject of the dog’s remains were brought up.

“Dale, what did you do with Bob’s body?” asked Attorney for the State, Chris Miller.

According to Cochrell, after he discovered his dog shot and law enforcement had photographed the animal, he mounted his dog’s remains at the bottom of the road for Cressler to view and remind him of the shooting each time he drove out from his house.

PHILIPSBURG'S FRED BURR WATER IS TOO CLEAN TO FILTER:
The engineers from the firm TD&H told the Philipsburg Town Council the water supply for the town is too clean to effectively filter.
The engineers said that federal safe water drinking act requires logging the removal of tiny sized particles. He said when a town builds a new water treatment system, tests must be done after it is built to make sure enough of the particles are removed and with a required standard of 99 percent of particles removed, cleaner water has a tougher time than dirty water. The engineer pointed out to the council that should a water sample have 10,000 particles in it and 99 percent are removed, the water can still have 100 particles and pass the 99 percent test. However, if a water sample has only 100 particles in it to start with, to pass federal regulations, that water must have only one particle remaining in it after treatment, a hard task for a machine to accomplish.
“The equipment that we have available when you have really, really clean water coming into it, it’s really, really hard to get that 99 percent removal and to be able to document that,” said the engineer.
At the council meeting, the town leaders talked about the water project which must be done to meet upcoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) standards for an additional form of treatment to the water of Fred Burr Lake.
LOCALS PLAY TOURISTS AT PASEO III
Solstice Paseo III was one for the record books.
That’s according to barbecue man Brett Schreyer.
"It was awesome,” he said of the day he sold more than 500 dinners, “our best day prior to this was the Brew Fest and we beat that. It was our record day. You guys definitely did your job of getting people into town. We were still serving food till 11:30 p.m. - it was a non-stop steady stream."
The Solstice Paseo is the Philipsburg Mail’s annual party for local folk and just about every business in town participated. From the looks of the crowd, so did most of its residents.
Many businesses gave away free food and refreshments. Anna Provost of Opal Mountain Gems setup a cotton candy machine at the old hardware store midtown, where she and husband Gary plan to open a refreshment, shop called “Carnies” before the next Paseo. Their gem shop had “pretty steady traffic” while the cotton candy lit the faces of a lot of children - in blue.
Oh my gosh,” she reported, “a woman brought her two-year-old-daughter in, who stuck her whole face into the blue cotton candy. There were lots of blue smiles. And the business was steady here in the store during the event. A lot of times the local people have never been in before so it’s good to get them in here and let them see what we have to offer.”
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CT. 30, 1916 - June 20, 2013PHILIPSBURG'S FRED BURR WATER IS TOO CLEAN TO FILTER: