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Snowstorm was earliest in years
Oct 28, 2020
The snowstorm of Tuesday, Oct. 20, was the earliest plow event in at least 22 years, according to City of Lake City Public Works Director Scott Jensen.
“The Halloween storm that is often referenced would be the earliest in our recollection and plowing likely started on Nov. 1,” he said of the 1991...
Pandemic continues to not be very good
Oct 28, 2020
Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Wabasha and Goodhue counties continued their accelerated rise over the past week, impacting several local organizations.
Wabasha County added 70 confirmed cases between Oct. 20 and Oct. 27.
Goodhue County added 110.
Bluff View Elementary School recently notified...
General election is Tuesday
Oct 28, 2020
The 2020 general election is less than a week away. Voters who haven’t already will be able to cast their ballots at polling places around the area.
On Tuesday, a week before the election, absentee voting in Lake City was up over 50 percent over 2016. According to Wabasha County and Goodhue County...
Updated: Fire department grieves, honors departed member
Oct 28, 2020
Sirens wailed, lights flashed, and cannons fired in the Tuesday night darkness to honor Lake City firefighter Clayton Brandt, who died that evening.
According to the Lake City Fire Department Facebook page, emergency services responded to a single-vehicle accident at 12:20 a.m. Tuesday.
Brandt was...
Goodhue County Board moves closer to handing landfill to state
Oct 28, 2020
For over a decade Goodhue County has worked to create a solid waste plan that would include the closure of the Bench Street Landfill. Now, it is possible that the landfill will be entered into Minnesota’s Closed Landfill Program before 2021 arrives.
The county currently pays about $65,000 annually...
CARES Act dominates Wabasha County Board meeting
Oct 28, 2020
Wabasha County Administrator Brian Buhmann led the discussion concerning the CARES updates at the Oct. 20 meeting of the Wabasha County Board of Commissioners. This was the first County Board meeting to be held in the newly remodeled Board chambers which had been paid for with CARES funding.
The...
Any day now, weather permitting
Oct 28, 2020
“(W)ithin a few days, weather permitting.”
That was the estimate Tuesday for how long it would be before traffic was once again allowed to travel on Lakeshore Drive between Lyon Avenue and Grant Street.
It’s the third and final stretch of a rebuild project that extended from the pier concourse...
School adjusts learning model for kindergarten through third grade students
Oct 21, 2020
With COVID-19 rates rising in the area and public health officials recommending schools shift away from in-person learning models to hybrid, the Lake City School Board made some changes to the district’s hybrid plan for students at Bluff View Elementary School.
Before the school year, the state...
MnDOT: Hwy. 61 paving done, overall project 95 percent complete
Oct 21, 2020
Roadway paving is now complete on the Highway 61 reconstruction project, according to an Oct. 20 project update email from the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT).
Also completed recently were the bike trail, concrete sidewalk, and irrigation system along Section 3 of the project, which...
Lake City receives $1.6 million for Ohuta breakwater, Hok-Si-La utility connection
Oct 21, 2020
Two Lake City requests received funding in the 2020 Minnesota bonding bill passed by the state legislature and expected to be signed by Gov. Tim Walz this week.
The $1.9 billion bill includes $587,000 to design, engineer, and construct a water and sewer connection from Hok-Si-La to the City of...
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