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MnDOT announces highway projects
Apr 20, 2016
Minnesota Lt. Gov. Tina Smith and Transportation Commissioner Charlie Zelle have announced a list of 246 state road and bridge projects slated for construction this season. This year’s effort provides significant maintenance work for the state transportation system. However, MnDOT is expected to...
Lake City council to get public safety building plans
Apr 14, 2016
The City Council voted 4-3 Monday night to request plans and specifications for a new Public Safety Building.
The next step, once plans are received and approved, will be to seek bids for construction.
The new building will be located on city-owned property on North 10th Street roughly across the...
Restroom at marina to wait
Apr 14, 2016
A new restroom facility to replace the bathhouse at the Lake City Marina will wait at least a year.
The City Council voted Monday night 4-3 against a plan to build the restroom facility.
A standing-room-only crowd cheered the vote.
Several people took the podium during the open forum at the...
Street work to cause one detour, other restrictions
Apr 14, 2016
Reconstruction of South Eighth Street began in earnest Wednesday morning and will require a detour for a few days. The 100 and 200 blocks of Eighth Street will have to be blocked off for part of the construction. The rest of the street will require traffic restrictions too but traffic will remain...
Goodhue County Commissioners spar over board's role
Apr 14, 2016
The role of commissioners in departmental issues came up among Goodhue County Commissioners April 5 during a discussion of highway department staffing.
County Administrator Scott Arneson said that during the March 15 board meeting the commissioner’s had discussed replacing a highway maintenance...
Test sirens to sound April 14
Apr 13, 2016
April 11-15 is Severe Weather Awareness Week and April 14 (today) is Tornado Drill day. On Tornado Drill day the outdoor warning sirens in Wabasha County will sound at 1:45 p.m. and 6:55 p.m. What to do during a tornado event: In a mobile home - Get out. Even if the home is tied down,...
MnDOT spring weight restrictions end April 15
Apr 13, 2016
Spring truck weight restrictions on state highways will end Friday, April 15 for Minnesota’s Southeast, South and Metro frost zones, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT).
There is one exception in the South zone. The spring truck weight restrictions continue on Highway...
Wabasha County SWCD sets meeting schedule
Apr 13, 2016
Wabasha County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) will hold their next board meeting on Tuesday, April 25, at 8 a.m.
Meetings will now be held on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 8 a.m. in the Wabasha County courthouse conference room at 625 Jefferson Avenue in Wabasha. People with...
Papa Tronnio's new owner is a familiar face to customers
Apr 13, 2016
Pizza has a new daddy in Lake City.
On April 1, Chris Haneca purchased Papa Tronnio’s Pizza from owners Chris and Jean Miller. It’s just the second time the pizzeria has been sold since opening in Lake City in 1981. Both times it was to an employee.
Chris Miller came to Lake City with Jim Tronnier...
Now you, too, can soar with the eagles
Apr 13, 2016
Once endangered, bald eagles are again plentiful around Lake Pepin. Now another creature stands ready to return to the skies over Lake City after a prolonged absence. That creature is us.
And on Sunday, April 3, us was me in a tandem harness hundreds of feet above Lake Pepin in a hang glider...
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