PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF HOUSTON COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 9:30 a.m. Place: Commissioners Room, Courthouse, Caledonia, MN *Virtual Meeting Held due to Peacetime Emergency Declaration in response to COVID-19 Pandemic. Members Present via Computer: Eric Johnson, Teresa Walter, Jack Miller, Robert Burns, and Greg Myhre Call to … [Read more...]
Summary of Minutes, 8-11-20 Fillmore County Board of Commissioners met in special session, Courthouse, Preston.
Summary of Minutes, 8-11-20 Fillmore County Board of Commissioners met in special session, Courthouse, Preston. Present: All members, Administrator/Clerk, other staff, citizens, and the press. Board approved: • Agenda • Consent agenda • Commissioner Warrants $87,160.23 • Finance Warrants $1,196,340.57 Public Health • RESOLUTION 2020-040: MDPS grant agreement for … [Read more...]
STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF FILLMORE DISTRICT COURT THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASE TYPE: FORECLOSURE
STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF FILLMORE DISTRICT COURT THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASE TYPE: FORECLOSURE Court File No. [23-CV-19-303] Marine Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. DANIEL A. FOX, Defendant NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE UNDER JUDGMENT AND DECREE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by virtue of a Judgment made and entered Nunc Pro Tunc in the … [Read more...]
Correction
In the August 24, 2020, editioin of the Fillmore County Journal, in the the article titled “Rushford Village to push on continuing mantenance,” it was stated the next Rushford Village Council meeting will be held September 8. The correct date for the next meeting is September 1, at 7 p.m. at the Village Hall. We apologize for this error. … [Read more...]
Expertise?
By David Webb, MD Lanesboro, MN Tired of being told what to do by experts? Perfectly understandable. After all, highly educated, experienced individuals have time and again been completely wrong about things – to the dismay and often detriment of us all. That said, I would add that we might do well to differentiate true from self-proclaimed expertise and not to disparage … [Read more...]
Letter about Sarah Kruger…
To the Editor, As a paraprofessional educator, I welcome the thought of a sensible, practical, well-informed, and determined young woman running for the Minnesota State Senate 28 seat. Her name is Sarah Kruger. Let me share with you why you owe it to yourself, your children, and your grandchildren to vote for Sarah. Sarah is running against incumbent Senator Jeremy … [Read more...]
Letter about August 24 Jeff Erding commentary on Democrat Leftists…
To the Editor, Another commentary from Jeff Erding still grinding away on how radical and leftist Democrats are. I thought maybe he wanted to reintroduce 1953’s McCarthyism where most anyone that ever attended a socialist gathering was suspected of being communist, but no, he now pinpoints only radical leftist Democrats have Marxist/Socialist leanings. Being a … [Read more...]
The phony criticism of history and our ancestors
By Stan Gudmundson Peterson, MN I absolutely despise what the radical left is doing to America and the world today. Tearing down statues, monuments, and trying to destroy history, good and bad, is much like Mao Tse-Tung’s ‘Cultural Revolution’ in its destruction of the old. As if history can be changed. Their beliefs about and attitudes toward the past are silly. … [Read more...]
Third winner of the summer
Kandice Hammel of Dorchester, Iowa, stood next to her brand new kayak that she won from a recent drawing. On July 31, 2020, Visit Bluff Country Magazine conducted the third prize giveaway drawing of the summer, which was a brand new kayak. As the magazine celebrates 35 years as the premier tourism publication of Historic Bluff Country (a.k.a. The Driftless Area), they will … [Read more...]
Donald C. Colsch
Donald C. Colsch, age 77, of Mabel, died Saturday, August 22, 2020, at Green Lea Senior Living in Mabel. Donald was born February 25, 1943, in Waukon, Iowa, to Leroy and Margaret Colsch. He grew up in the Dorchester area and was a longtime machine operator at Northern Engraving in Spring Grove. He was proud of his children, and enjoyed watching Joe compete in antique … [Read more...]