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State grants help promote conservation
Dec 30, 2015
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has awarded 44 conservation grants to various organizations and entities for restoring, enhancing and protecting habitat in Minnesota.This latest round of habitat funding comes from the agency’s Conservation Partners Legacy (CPL) grant program....
New virus is ready to attack state's stomachs
Dec 30, 2015
A new strain of norovirus, the most common cause of sudden intestinal illness, has shown up in Minnesota, and that could mean more norovirus illnesses this winter, state health officials warned.The new strain, called GII.17 Kawasaki, caused many outbreaks in Asia last winter before arriving in the...
Index shows Zumbro is relatively healthy
Dec 30, 2015
Ongoing watershed fish and aquatic bug sampling in the Zumbro Watershed gives a mix of good news and concerning trends, according to Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Watershed Coordinator Justin Watkins.“An Index of Biological Integrity (IBI) score tells us if we are finding the species...
Peters re-elected to head SMART
Dec 30, 2015
At their 2015 annual fall meeting, the members of the Southeastern Minnesota Association of Regional Trails (SMART) board, elected officers for the 2016 business year. Re-elected to the executive committee were Andru Peters, president, Lake City (Wabasha County); Susie Peterson, vice president,...
Building bump gives rise to optimism
Dec 30, 2015
A small burst of home building in 2015 may be a sign of things to come, according to the Lake City Planning Department.
Construction started on 11 new home units, seven single family homes and two town homes, in the year that ends today.
Though not a boom, it is a drastic improvement.
There were...
New home, new food shelf
Dec 30, 2015
When the Lake City Food Shelf settled into its new facility at the end of 2014, it became in a sense a new food shelf.
The building, in which the community food shelf is completing its first full year of operation, has allowed for several improvements, Director Carole Helgerson said.
The new...
For farmers in 2015: Lots of crops, not much profit
Dec 30, 2015
Ag Partners completed construction on a 615,000 bushel, 90-foot diameter grain bin this summer, just in time.
The bin, along with a half-million bushel bin built two years ago, are full thanks to a bumper crop raised by farmers in 2015.
Mark Ryan of Ag Partners said farmers throughout Wabasha...
Goodhue County commissioners consider fee schedule changes
Dec 30, 2015
Goodhue County Surveyor/Recorder Lisa Hanni discussed the county’s building permit fee schedule at the Dec. 15 County Board public hearing. She said every year the commissioners are asked to approve the fee schedule for the coming year. A single family home in Goodhue County, valued at $150,000,...
Snow emergency averted in Lake City
Dec 30, 2015
When the predicted heavy snowfall totals failed to materialize overnight Monday, so did the snow emergency declaration that seemed all but certain earlier that day.
Wabasha County was under a National Weather Service winter storm warning from Monday, Dec. 28, until 6 a.m. the following morning,...
Tax rates decrease even as levy grows in Goodhue County
Dec 30, 2015
After months of heated arguing by the County Board, it seemed almost anti-climactic when Goodhue County Administrator Scott Arneson presented the 2016 Goodhue County budget and levy at the Dec. 15 meeting. He thanked the County Board, the management team, and staff that have worked on the budget...
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