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SMIF seeking applicants for Small Town Grants
Jul 24, 2024
Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (SMIF) is currently accepting applications for its Small Town Grant program. Towns, or Native nations, with populations of 10,000 or less in SMIF’s 20-county region are eligible.
Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations, public institutions and units or agencies...
School board election filing is July 30 through Aug. 13
Jul 24, 2024
The filing period for the election of four members of the seven-member school board at Lake City Public Schools runs July 30 through Aug. 13.
School board members serve four-year terms and oversee school district operations, which include Bluff View Elementary School, Lincoln High School, and Lake...
McCutchen pleads guilty in death of infant son
Jul 17, 2024
On Monday, July 15, the Honorable Douglas C. Bayley, Judge of District Court, accepted a guilty plea from Hunter Matthew McCutchen, 28, to the offense of Murder in the Second Degree, With Intent – Not Premeditated, in connection with the death of McCutchen’s 8-week-old child that occurred in May...
SWCD board meets July 25
Jul 17, 2024
Wabasha County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) will hold their regular board meeting on Thursday, July 25, at 8:15 a.m. at the County Board Room, 625 Jefferson Ave., Wabasha.
Smith leaves city planning department after 18 years
Jul 17, 2024
After more than 18 years, Megan Smith is leaving the City of Lake City Planning Department.
Smith submitted her resignation June 11 effective July 11.
She came to Lake City as assistant city planner in 2006. In 2017, she became city planning and community development director.
Since then the...
After flooding, Wabasha County declares state of emergency
Jul 17, 2024
Wabasha County Commissioners on July 9 approved a resolution declaring a local state of emergency for damages from recent heavy rain and flooding.
County cities and townships sustained damage to public infrastructure, roads and bridges, stemming from flooding on the Zumbro River and the...
Four resign from city volunteer posts following planning commissioner’s ouster
Jul 17, 2024
Four members of City of Lake City boards and commissions have resigned following the City Council’s July 8 vote to remove Tom Rasmussen from the city planning commission.
According to City Administrator Rob Keehn, planning commission member Dennis Branum and Joe Kjelland resigned from that board,...
City facing staff vacancies
Jul 17, 2024
Lake City City Administrator Rob Keehn updated the City Council on several city staff vacancies at the July 8 council meeting.
These included city planning and community development director (see related story), assistant public works directors, port authority executive director, a utility clerk,...
Charges filed after child wounded by gunfire
Jul 10, 2024
The Wabasha County Sheriff’s Office arrested Raymond Tony Duque and Nicole Lynn McGee July 2 with the assistance of the Rochester Police Department, according to a news release.
“These arrests are the result of an incident that happened on June 25, 2024 in Elgin. A loaded shotgun was left...
City: Boat launches re-open
Jul 10, 2024
The Lake City Police Department said in a Facebook post earlier this week that the boat launches at Hok-Si-La Park and Roschen Park would re-open by Wednesday, July 10, after the Graphic went to press.
Flooding kept the launches closed over Water Ski Days weekend and Fourth of July weekend.
The...
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