City of Lake City

No bids for city farmland

Feb 20, 2020

No bids were submitted on over 70 acres of farmland owned by the City of Lake City by the Jan. 24 deadline, City Administrator Rob Keehn told the city council at its Feb. 10 meeting. The city originally purchased the land in Lake Township as a place to spread material from its sewage treament...

Ohuta Park developments approved 5-2

Feb 5, 2020

Work on the Ohuta Park redevelopment is expected to begin this summer. On Jan. 13, the Lake City City Council voted 5-2 to approve the Ohuta Park Special Area Plan developed for the city by WSB and a three-year phased construction program. Cindy McGrath and Faye Brown voted against the measure....

Letter: After 65 years, let's get highway project done

Feb 5, 2020

To the editor: Over the years and including recent times it is interesting to read and listen to a variety of and multitude of comments, responses and concerns on the Highway 61 lane reduction project. Just to bring folks up to speed, this “road diet” change has been discussed continually and...

Letter: City snow crews doing a great job

Jan 29, 2020

To the editor: To the city’s street department, thank you for the wonderful job you have been doing in our snow season. The streets are cleaned in no time. Snow is removed from Lakeshore Drive curbs. You are doing a great job. Thank you. Thank you. This is one of the many, many reasons why Lake...

More of city’s requests land in governor’s bonding proposal

Jan 22, 2020

Lake City already had one reason to be optimistic about the coming state bonding bill. Now it has a few more. Gov. Tim Walz announced Jan. 15 more of his priorities for inclusion in the bonding bill. They include over $2 million in matching funds to help Lake City construct 280-foot breakwaters at...

Council looks at highway project traffic changes

Jan 22, 2020

The Lake City City Council on Jan. 13 tabled one proposed traffic change in Lake City during the upcoming highway construction and approved another on a split vote. They tabled the temporary closure of a block of South High Street beginning at Lakewood Avenue and extending one block north, which...

Hwy. 61 construction firm might rent old public safety building

Jan 15, 2020

The Lake City City Council voted Monday to allow the city administrator to negotiate a short-term lease for the former public safety building at 209 S. High Street to Rochester Sand and Gravel. The company is the general contractor on the Highway 61 reconstruction project. It would use the...

Permit numbers spiked, but their values decreased in 2019

Jan 9, 2020

Home construction is down from a peak a few years ago, but flat fee permits have nearly doubled from a year ago. Those are two of the data points from the Lake City Planning and Community Development Department’s annual report, which was on the agenda for the city’s planning commission Tuesday...

Lakeside fountain will bring generations together, boosters say

Jan 9, 2020

A group of Lake City women are working to bring an interactive water feature to the city’s lakefront. After a previous effort begun in 2016 to bring a splash pad to Lake City fizzled, Megan Kramer said she came back from the Blandin Community Leadership Program interested in giving it another try...

Ice skating rink open

Dec 26, 2019

The ice skating rink at Underwood Park in Lake City is now open. Hours of operation are Monday through Friday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. and weekends from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Underwood Park is located at the corner of North 10th Street and Wabasha County Road 5.