City of Lake City
Biggest free food distribution yet planned for March 5
Mar 3, 2021
Volunteers are preparing for the largest pop-up food distribution to date, and they are looking for help.
On March 5, beginning at 11 a.m. at the Underwood Park parking lot on North 10th Street, they expect to distribute 600 boxes of food for free to anyone impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Each...
City doesn’t do private tree work
Feb 24, 2021
After an article in the Graphic about the city cutting down ash trees and otherwise trimming trees on public rights-of-way and public property, the city public works department started getting calls from people asking the city to work on trees growing on private property.
The department wants to...
Grant to fund temporary bump-outs on Lakewood Avenue
Feb 24, 2021
A grant from the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) will allow Lake City to do a demonstration project at an intersection heavily used by Lincoln High School students.
During peak times of the school year, students numbering in the hundreds cross Lakewood Avenue on foot on South...
Community garden plot registration opens
Feb 24, 2021
Registration for the 2021 season of the Lake City Community Garden will run from Monday, March 1, through Friday, March 19.
Registration materials are posted on the City of Lake City website, ci.lake-city.mn.us. Additionally, printed copies may be obtained at the office of Planning and Community...
Bids sought on Ohuta Park
Feb 17, 2021
The Lake City City Council could be ready to accept a bid for the majority of the work on the Ohuta Park redevelopment next month.
On Feb. 8, the council voted unanimously to approve the final plans and seek bids for a project that will bring major changes to one of the city’s most prominent...
Annual ash cull underway
Feb 10, 2021
In what’s become an annual occurence, Lake City Public Works has been felling ash trees, some very large, in recent days. Every year city crews spend some time in the winter pruning hazardous branches or removing trees in the public right-of-way and on public property. Since the arrival of emerald...
Council taps Chamber to get lodging tax money
Feb 10, 2021
The Lake City Chamber of Commerce will be the recipient of the city’s lodging tax revenues this year.
The three percent tax is levied on short term rentals like hotel rooms and vacation rentals by owner. In recent years it has generated over $60,000. The city retains 5 percent for administrating...
New guidance leads some city facilities to reopen to the public
Feb 3, 2021
The Lake City Public Library welcomed patrons inside Feb. 1 for the first time in months.
Library Administrator Patti Bross said it was a quiet first day, but she thinks more people will begin coming in as word spreads that the library is open again.
The City of Lake City closed the library, along...
City skating rink opens
Jan 27, 2021
Lake City’s municipal ice skating rink at Underwood Park opened late last week.
Unseasonably warm temparatures earlier this winter made ice formation at the rink difficult, leaving skaters to find other venues such as the one on Lake Pepin near the government pier.
Now that it’s been cold enough...
Food distribution set for Feb. 5
Jan 27, 2021
Anyone negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic is eligible to pick up a free box of food at an upcoming pop-up food distribution event in Lake City.
The distribution will take place on Friday Feb. 5 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Underwood Park parking lot on North 10th Street, across the...
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