City of Lake City
Lake City Ambulance service grows
Feb 21, 2019
The Lake City Ambulance Service (LCA) expects to hire four additional paramedics in the coming months, a move that the service’s director said is designed to improve service and may help the service become self-sufficient.
The City Council paved the way for the expansion on Jan. 23 by approving a...
Demolition permit sought for vacant downtown buildings
Feb 21, 2019
Some long-vacant downtown Lake City buildings could soon be coming down.
Lake Pepin Development is seeking a demolition permit from the city for 208-214 S. Lakeshore Drive, across the highway from Total Look and Kennedy Hallmark. Plans call for the development of a parking lot, and later, a...
Mayor: Waltman was a dedicated public servant
Feb 21, 2019
To the editor:
Our community recently lost a dedicated public servant. Council Member Mary Lou Waltman passed away on Jan. 26.
I met Mary Lou eight years ago when she was on the City Council and I was on the Planning Commission. We spent many evenings working together on the City’s...
Letter: DeVinny an excellent choice for City Council
Feb 21, 2019
To the editor:
In response to the letter from Jake Mead (“Council missed an opportunity with Mead,” Feb. 14): as Mayor Nichols so succinctly and tactfully explained at the city council meeting, the council is governed by a charter. That charter is the blueprint they must follow.
The process to...
DeVinny appointed to city council
Feb 14, 2019
Jason DeVinny is Lake City’s newest city council member.
The council voted 4-2 at its meeting on Monday, Feb. 11, to appoint DeVinny to the seat the late Mary Lou Waltman resigned in January.
The term expires in January of 2021 and will be up for election in 2020.
DeVinny was one of three...
Keehn talks to Rotary
Feb 7, 2019
Lake City City Administrator Rob Keehn (right) was the guest speaker at the Monday, Feb. 4, meeting of the Lake City Rotary Club. With him is Rotary Club member Barb Pratt. The Lake City Rotary Club meets Monday’s at noon at Port 104 in Lake City. Guests are welcome to attend.
Updated: Five seek Lake City City Council seat
Feb 7, 2019
Five people have applied to fill a vacancy on the Lake City City Council created when the late Mary Lou Waltman resigned her seat last month.
Andru Peters, Joshua Tripp, Jason DeVinny, John Mead, and James Rainwater have applied to serve the remainder of the four year term, which comes up for...
Letter: Waltman was a true public servant
Feb 7, 2019
To the Editor:
It is with a heavy heart that I write.
I recently moved from Lake City and when reading the on-line edition of the Graphic, I saw that a dear friend and true public servant passed away.
To Terry Waltman and family, my deepest sympathies. Mary Lou was a true public servant, who...
Interest high in Hok-Si-La plans
Jan 24, 2019
About 60 people, some reportedly from as far as the Twin Cities, attended an open house meeting Jan. 17 on the master plan being developed for Hok-Si-La Park.
The master plan is one of the requirements to receive regional park designation, which would allow the city to seek state funding for park...
City Council member Mary Lou Waltman resigns
Jan 17, 2019
Lake City City Councilmember Mary Lou Waltman submitted a letter of resignation to Mayor Mark Nichols and City Administrator Rob Keehn on Friday, Jan. 11.
Waltman, who had two years left in her current term, wrote that she was stepping down because of her health.
The resignation doesn’t become...
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