City of Lake City
City administrator interviews are Saturday in Lake City
Apr 4, 2018
Candidates to replace retiring Lake City Administrator Mark Sievert will be in Lake City Friday for a tour, individual meetings with city councilmembers, and interviews with two committees, one made up of city department heads and another of local government leaders.
Members of the latter...
More indoors coming to one of city's prime outdoor attractions
Mar 28, 2018
Hok-Si-La Park in Lake City will begin the 2018 camping season with twice as many sleeper cabins.
The first three cabins, completed in 2016 and funded with help from the Casey T. O’Neil Foundation, were a hit, Park Manager Joanne Klees said.
Climate controlled and wheelchair accessible, the 16-...
Familiar faces vie for city administrator job
Mar 14, 2018
Five finalists remain out of a candidate pool of 38 applicants for the Lake City city administrator job, and two of them have previously worked for the city.
Gary Weiers of David Drown Associates, the firm the City Council hired to help it select a replacement for retiring City Administrator Mark...
Community garden plots available
Feb 28, 2018
Registration for the 2018 season of the Lake City Community Garden is now open and ends March 21.
All gardeners, new and returning, must complete and sign an application and waiver form and return it to the City of Lake City Planning and Community Development office not later than close of...
Dredge sand re-examined
Feb 21, 2018
A program recently announced by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer seeking proposals for “beneficial uses” of dredge sand has attracted the attention of Lake City officials.
At a City Council workshop on Feb. 12, Mayor Mark Nichols recalled a meeting between the city, the Corps, the Minnesota...
Rotary listens to Hok-Si-La update
Feb 7, 2018
Hok-Si-La Park manager Joanne Klees was the guest speaker at the Lake City Rotary Club’s Feb. 5 meeting. She said she was very impressed and proud of the Night of the 1000 Lights that took place at the park on Winter Fest. She recently met with the Lake City City Council and they were asking...
Flooding the rink at Underwood Park
Jan 31, 2018
From Lake City photographer Dave Ender comes this image of City of Lake City employees flooding the ice skating rink at Underwood Park the morning of Jan. 30. The warming house at the rink is open Monday through Friday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m., weather...
Storm blows in, city blows out
Jan 24, 2018
A City of Lake City loader with a snow-blower attachment blows snow off of the road at the southern end of South Washington Street Tuesday. A snowstorm overnight Sunday and into Monday didn’t bring as much snow as forecast, but the city notified residents Monday and Tuesday plows were clearing the...
Council to look at Hok-Si-La, Cemstone and bonding
Jan 24, 2018
A Lake City City Council special meeting scheduled for Jan. 22 has been postponed until 5 p.m., Jan. 29.
The meeting is intended to provide updates on some ongoing projects at the city.
On the agenda is a 30 minute update on Hok-Si-La Park.
At its Jan. 8 meeting, the council approved a $27,000...
Initiative foundation grateful for partners
Jan 24, 2018
With the barrage of news these days from the ongoing fires and flooding in California to the terror attacks around the globe and of course the consistent thrum of politic divide, it is still important to sit back and reflect on what to be grateful for at this time of year. And, there is so much...
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