Phillips Memorial Hall, seen here at the community celebration on July 3, is being sold to the Phillips Community Foundation. The decision to sell the property and a nearby village storage building to the foundation was made at the July 11 meeting of the village board.
Three months after it was first discussed in a meeting of the village board, the sale of the Phillips Memorial Hall to the Phillips Community Foundation was approved at the July meeting of the board July 11. However, the vote came near the end of a more than two-hour meeting that included much lively and sometimes contentious back and forth discussion between trustees and village residents fr…