Mar 16, 2017
As this year’s high season for visitors approaches, you may be jumping for joy or possibly wringing your hands. As a destination, Lake City has some of the most beautiful scenery to offer and a long list of activities that draw visitors from Wabasha to Wisconsin to Wuhan, China.
Tourism is a $14...
Mar 9, 2017
To the editor:
Everyone in Lake City knows at some level that place making is important to our community – you just may not know that term.
Think of the former Big Bear property on Lakeshore Drive. Nobody thinks that the way that property looks is good for our community.
When we find a great...
Feb 16, 2017
Lake City Economic Development Authority (EDA) Director Lisa Babington will share information about Lake City’s childcare gap, the proposed ski jump at Mt. Frontenac and Babington’s partnership with the United Way at the Spark women’s networking group on Monday, March 6, at Port 104 in Lake City...
Dec 7, 2016
Florence Township will hold an open house to discus plans for a 120-meter ski jump at the former Mt. Frontenac ski area.
The open house will be from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, at Florence Town Hall in Frontenac. Representatives from Friends of American Ski Jumping, a major player in...
Oct 6, 2016
This is a busy time of the year for Dennis Courtier.
On Saturday morning Dennis Courtier was judging apple pies for the Johnny Appleseed Day contest at The Bluffs of Lake City.
On Monday he was accepting congratulations at the City Hall ballroom.
When he’s not making public appearances, he and his...
Sep 29, 2016
The Lake City Economic Development Authority and Lake City Chamber of Commerce have announced that Pepin Heights Orchards has been named Lake City manufacturer of the year.
In addition to growing, harvesting, packaging and shipping apples from its Lake City operations, Pepin Heights Orchards also...
Jul 28, 2016
New to the Lake City area, Lisa Babington was looking for a way to get involved in the community.
On a visit to City Hall she saw a notice for a meeting of the Economic Development Authority (EDA) board and decided to attend out of curiosity.
At the meeting, she learned the EDA would be looking for...
Jun 9, 2016
After only 16 months, Elliot Culp is leaving a bit of a legacy and a big workload for his successor.
Culp, who joined the city staff in February 2015 as the new economic development director, is leaving the post later this summer.
“Whomever fills this position will have to hit the ground running,”...
Jan 6, 2016
Donald Springer ended the last Wabasha County Board meeting of 2015 by thanking his fellow commissioners for a peaceful and productive year.
2015 followed several years of rancor and discord on the board. But two new commissioners, Cheryl Key and Brian Goihl, took office at the beginning of the...
Dec 10, 2015
More than a year after Dunphy’s restaurant closed, there are signs of a change in the restaurant’s former home at one of Lake City’s most prominent intersections.
First “sold” signs went over the Nielson Real Estate signs that had hung for months in the large windows. Then a large blue roll-off...