Johnny Micheel started his forestry business 20 years ago, but he really got his start in forestry long before that. Johnny’s father was a soil conservationist; when Johnny was young, his dad purchased a woodland. Since Johnny could walk, he’s been in the woods, nature’s classroom. Both Johnny and his brother Bob decided to go into related conservation fields — Johnny into forestry and Bob into water and soil. Bob is now the Director of Land Conservation in Monroe County, Wisconsin. Johnny started Chimney Rock Forestry in 2006. The company provides goat grazing, prescribed fires, logging, timber management, tree planting and installation and renovation of forest trails. He works on … Read Story
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Harmony Data Center Ordinance Recommended by P & Z
The Harmony Planning and Zoning Commission met October 28 to hold a public hearing for the city’s proposed data hearing ordinance. Approximately 20 residents addressed the commission on the subject. Chair Jesse Grabau outlined the evening’s procedure: each speaker was allowed three minutes, the audience was not to address the speaker and all were expected to be respectful. Planning & Zoning would then discuss and make its recommendation. Robbie Brokken shared her concern about the noise issue. Playing a recording of a data center generator’s noise, she stated that she didn’t want to hear that noise all the time. Erik Olson later asked for more information on the recording; Brokken … Read Story
From Self-Driving Tractors to a Self-Built Airplane
Inside a hangar at the Fillmore County airport sits the newest machine Kent Dornink has built. It is not a tractor, a planter or a combine. It is an airplane. Dornink spent about three years building the plane, a Van’s RV-14A. It came as a kit, in crates and pieces, with binders of plans and instructions, and he put in somewhere around 20,000 rivets holding its aluminum skin together. He finished it in February and had flown it about 100 hours by September. It still wears no paint. That job waits for this winter. Flying is nothing new to him. Dornink has flown for about 36 years, and he and his wife Judith got into it for a practical reason. Judith grew up in Nebraska, … Read Story
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Chatfield Wastewater Treatment Facility Plan
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