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Area highways included in MnDOT plans
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Motorists who drive in Fillmore and Houston counties are going to
notice considerable road improvement over the next three years
according to State Representative Greg Davids (R-Preston).
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County must come up with $575,000 in budget cuts for ’10 & ’11
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Coming up with $260,000 more in cuts in the 2010 budget when already two months into 2010 and an additional $320,000 in cuts for 2011 is going to be quite an endeavor. But that’s exactly what the Houston County Board of Commissioners and staff is facing.
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Finding this barrel was like ‘finding a needle in a haystack’
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Mike Staggemeyer stands beside the barrel that was autographed by 20 persons from the Staggemeyer Stave Company eight years ago.
Photo by Charlie Warner
“It was a little like finding a needle in a haystack,” was the way Mike Staggemeyer explained it. The “it” in this case was a white oak barrel that was made at the Bluegrass Cooperage factory in Louisville, Ky. in 2002.
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Jerry McCloud pleads guilty to one count of felony terroristic threats
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Jerry McCloud, 33, of Caledonia pled guilty last week to one count of felony terroristic threats and had the remaining charges dismissed. McCloud had originally been charged with first and third degree felony assault, as well as making terroristic threats, also a felony and two fifth degree assault charges all stemming from an incident that occurred Aug. 27 in downtown Caledonia.
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County will not require EIS for Gengler Quarry expansion
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The Houston County Board agreed with the County Land Use Committee and Zoning Administrator Bob Scanlan in requiring Milestone Materials complete an environmental assessment worksheet (EAW) and not the more involved environmental impact study (EIS).
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CSAH 10 through Sheldon now open
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This bridge over a dry wash a mile southeast of Sheldon was open for business Friday.
Photo by Charlie Warner
The electric warning signs were turned off, the barricades removed Friday afternoon as CSAH 10 through the village of Sheldon was open for traffic. The 10-mile stretch of blacktop road had been closed for two weeks as a crew from Minnowa Construction of Harmony rebuilt a bridge that spans a dry run about a mile southeast of Sheldon.
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The weather was perfect and the crowds large for the International Festival of Owls, which was held March 5 - 7 in Houston. In the photo above, Teri Schroer, director of Education at World Bird Sanctuary, St. Louis, introduced the crowd to Mia, a spectacled owl from Mexico. A demonstration of owl flight was also given with a barn owl soaring silently over the heads of the visitors. At left, Samantha Eiken with son Caleb, of Spring Grove, appeared to be engrossed in dissecting some owl pellets.
Photos by Craig Moorhead
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Green Acres has changed…again
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Many landowners who are enrolled in the Green Acres Tax Deferral will need to make some decisions this spring. The 2008 amendment to the program was changed again on April 3, 2009. The “clarifying changes” of 2009 have resulted in the creation of a new option called the Rural Preserve Property Tax Program.
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