The position of county recorder will now be an appointed one instead of an elected position following the results of a special election held on Tuesday, April 14. The question on the ballot read: Shall the office of Faribault County Recorder be appointed rather than elected at the expiration ...
People entering or leaving the city of Wells via Highway 109 west of town will soon be forced to find an alternate route in and out of the city. “The signs are up and Highway 109 is set to close on the west end of town on April 27,” city engineer Ben Rosol told the council. “That is ...
The Winnebago City Council had plenty to discuss at their meeting on Wednesday, April 15, ranging from alternate proposals for how to calculate runoff for a Stormwater Utility, to complications with Verizon replacing the antennae on the water tower. City engineer Matt Cole presented the ...
The question before the Blue Earth Area School Board at their meeting last Monday night had to do with a resolution to put a couple of bonding questions on the ballot later this year. There was some discussion about the bonding proposition, but it had more to do with when to put the question ...
On Pointe Dance Company has been hard at work preparing for their upcoming recital, “Hello Hollywood,” and instructor Maija Brown is incredibly proud of how far her dancers have come over the course of the season – especially given that this is her studio’s first year participating in ...
It was a relatively short Local Board of Appeals meeting on Monday, April 13, with only a few community members coming out to request adjustments to their property valuations. Prior to opening the floor to the public, county assessor Brady Rauenhorst provided an update on the property sales ...
Winnebago’s mayor, Jean Anderson, is not one for sitting around and doing nothing. “I have always been someone who needs to do things, and stay busy,” Anderson says. “I like to make lists of things to do and then go get them done.” Her wanting to be busy started when she was ...
When people retire, a lot of them enjoy having more time to spend on their favorite hobbies. For many, those hobbies include golfing, fishing and camping. But for a chosen few, one of those hobbies is model railroading. But truth be told, for many model railroaders, the train bug bit them at ...
Mike Sharp is a deputy with the Faribault County Sheriff’s Department. He is also a Minnesota National Guard member who has to take time off from his duties as a deputy to fulfill his obligations for training/deployments. At the April 7 Faribault County Board meeting, Sheriff Scott Adams, ...
Residents of Faribault County have the opportunity to go to the polls on April 14 for a Special Election on whether to fill the position of County Recorder by appointment instead of by election. The question on the ballot reads as follows: Shall the office of Faribault County Recorder be ...
