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Rotary supports Education Foundation

Aug 17, 2017

Dawn Balow (left) accepts a check for $1,500 on behalf of the Lake City Education Foundation from Lake City Rotary Club President Ron Hooge. The club raised the money at its Circle of Life running event held during Water Ski Days. Balow is a member of the Lake City School Board and is the school...

Bluff View expansion to appear on November ballot

Jul 20, 2017

A proposed expansion at Bluff View Elementary School that would allow the district to expand its pre-kindergarten and childcare programs will go to voters this fall. On July 17, the Lake City School Board voted unanimously to hold a special election asking voters to authorize bonding to pay costs...

2016 a year of transition at City Hall

Dec 29, 2016

The City of Lake City started 2016 with a new city administrator. It will start 2017 with a new mayor. Those are just two of several changes in key positions in local government that took place in 2016. In addition, two changes were made on the City Council and three major staff positions were...

School district thanks  outgoing board member

Dec 22, 2016

Members of the Lake City School Board and district administrators thanked board member Kevin Pavelka (right) for his four years of service to the district as a school board member at the board’s Dec. 19 meeting. The was the final regular meeting of Pavelka’s term. In a break with the tradition of...

School Board OKs 2017 budget

Jun 29, 2016

Almost two years after voters rejected a ballot referendum question that would have paid for roof replacement and other capital projects at Lake City Public Schools, the Lake City School Board approved a preliminary budget June 22 that will fund a portion of that work. The first phase of a two-...

County rancor moves upriver in 2015

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...

Audit shows school district reserves to be 'reasonably healthy'

Oct 21, 2015

The news was mostly good when Bradley Carlton of CliftonLarsonAllen summarized the firm’s audit of Lake City Public Schools at the School Board meeting Oct. 19. The district’s unassigned fund balance, which is considered a bellwether for the overall financial health of the district, grew from $960,...

School district plans smaller levy increase

Oct 21, 2015

Lake City Public Schools wants property taxpayers in the district to know the school portion of their property taxes won’t be as high as it appears on proposed tax statements headed their way in November. In September, the School Board voted to levy the maximum amount allowed by state law. Because...

School Board approves 2-year contract with teachers union

Aug 25, 2015

The Lake City School Board unanimously approved a two-year contract with the district's teachers union at a special meeting Tuesday, Aug. 25. Board member Pat Dwelle was absent. Under the agreement, the teachers will receive a 2 percent raise the first year of the contract and a 3 percent raise the...