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Ubly Pharmacy is open for business ROBERT CREENAN robert.creenan@hearst.com UBLY — The chain of Harbor Drug pharmacies has opened a new location in Ubly, but not under the Harbor Drug name. The new Ubly Pharmacy opened July 27, located at 2031 East Main Street in Ubly, next to the Veteran’s Memorial Park. It is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. “I felt like I wanted to have a different name for the pharmacy in Ubly,” said Mike Delpiere, the owner of Harbor Drug. “It is basic and is representative of the town.” The pharmacy has a retail area and a small over the counter section. It will provide immunizations, have a pharmacist and two technicians working there, and is accepting all insurances at the moment. Delpiere bought the building, the location of many former businesses and restaurants, in February and had a contractor work on renovating it since then. He had thought about adding a new local pharmacy to his chain after Walgreen’s opened its location in Bad Axe. “I felt the importance to give people a choice, the big box store versus an independent pharmacy,” Delpiere said. The spread of the coronavirus across Huron County did slow down the licensing process and the insurance process, since the people in charge of those are working from home. Still, Delpiere was able to get everything
Kara Gehring, left, and Michael Delpiere, right, work at the new Ubly Pharmacy on opening day. (Robert Creenan/Huron Daily Tribune) set up inside the store. “If there was no virus, it would have opened a couple of weeks sooner,” Delpiere said. “It was not a detriment. It posed a few challenges, like getting the contractors and the insurances.” Delpiere said the other Harbor Drug locations, in Harbor Beach and Deckerville, are very patient-oriented, and that bringing a store to another small community in the Thumb is exciting. “It keeps things closer to home,” Delpiere said. “I know a lot of people in the eastern side of the Thumb are excited to see a new business open, and the elderly patients don’t have to travel to the big box store.” The pharmacy is accepting prescription transfers, which people can call 989-6583324 to do so.
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McLAREN THUMB REGION CONVENIENT CARE The recently opened Ubly Pharmacy along East Main Street in the Village of Ubly. The pharmacy is the new location of the Harbor Drug chain of local pharmacies. (Robert Creenan/Huron Daily Tribune)
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