After several months of holding work sessions devoted to the 2025 budget and levy, the Blue Earth City Council voted to approve both the 2025 budget and levy during their meeting on Monday night, Dec. 16. The council had first held a work session before the meeting devoted to a look at the ...
The United South Central School Board looked at a lot of numbers on Tuesday night, Dec. 17, as they had both an audit report from the previous year, and a Truth in Taxation Hearing for next year’s budget and levy. During the Truth in Taxation Hearing the board went over a presentation of ...
Two years ago, in October of 2022, Blu Bair, a bar in Delavan, opened its doors for business. On Oct. 30 of this year, a second establishment bearing the Blu Bair name began operating when Club Blu Bair opened five and a half miles to the east, in the city of Easton. “The original Blu Bair ...
What started as a small idea to help people in the Bricelyn area have greater food security, has blossomed into so much more. And now the Bricelyn Food Pantry has quickly become a stable food resource for families of southern Minnesota and northern Iowa. “The original idea was to have a ...
There are moments in sports when an amazing play, or a game-winning shot, will bring fans to their feet to cheer on their team. It is a rare occasion when something occurs during a game to cause the supporters of both teams, though they are rivals, to join in celebrating as one, a united ...
Dan Mensing’s story could be titled “Local boy makes good.” It would be the story of a local kid who worked as a garbage collector eventually becoming the president of a local bank. “In my family, we always worked hard,” Mensing says. “My dad owned a construction company, ...
A proposal to possibly build one, two, or more, tiny houses in Blue Earth came to an abrupt end during a two hour Blue Earth Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA) meeting on Monday, Dec. 9. The HRA had previously been studying a possible tiny house community of 11 homes that could be ...
At the previous meeting of the Wells City Council, it looked like the tax levy for 2025 would increase by 7.24 percent. However, when the council held their Truth in Taxation meeting on Monday, Dec. 9, city administrator Tiffany Schrader announced the proposed levy increase had been reduced to ...
A lot can happen in one week. During a special Winnebago City Council meeting on Dec. 3, the members of the council, along with city administrator Judi Hynes, lowered the city’s proposed tax levy increase to 9.02 percent. However, Hynes told the council at that meeting that it was possible ...
The Blue Earth Area School Board held a couple of meetings and a public hearing which were all part of their regular meeting on Monday, Dec. 9. That public hearing was the annual Truth in Taxation Hearing, and during that part of the meeting, Fiscal Services coordinator Alan Wilhelmi had some ...
