Leave pharmacy downtown

Dear Editor,

Thank you Upland Hills for helping our community. It was nice that you took over Doc Lindsey’s building.

Your new clinic is beautiful now on the edge of Mineral Point attached to Subway. It will be very convenient to go to the doctor, chiropractor, therapy and pick up your prescriptions in one trip. 

Then maybe fill up your car at Triple P Express and treat yourself with an ice cream cone seeing we have saved so much time. Although, now our main street will have more empty buildings. I have heard the old clinic will be changing to a grocery store which will be nice.

My thought of this whole thing is we are not in a big city like Madison where traffic and parking are a serious problem. Let’s say go to Uplands to see the doctor and pick up your drugs the one time convenient, but then you have to drive to the edge of town forever after that month after month.

Ivey’s Pharmacy has been in that building for a very long time. It opened in 1843 when it was owned by Radolf’s Drug Store, then Vivian’s Pharmacy, then Ivey’s Pharmacy. It was sold to Ed Sayre, then to Sara Aurit.

Sara has not owned the building long enough to have gained much equity. I‘m sure she was planning to keep it a long tme and pass it on like the others before her.

I don’t know - am I the only person that thinks this is a terrible thing?

Upland Hills, leave Sara where she is at. Do not put a pharmacy where you are at now. We are a small town and need only 1 pharmacy and that’s at 128 High Street in Mineral Point.

Dan Schmitz

Mineral Point, WI