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Lanesboro School budgets approved

June 13, 2022 by Wanda Hanson Leave a Comment

At their regular meeting on June 8, 2022, the Lanesboro School Board examined the actual 2021-2022 budget and approved the proposed 2022-2023 budget. Superintendent Matt Schultz informed the board that $25,000 remains to be spent on the recent construction project. The 2022-2023 budget general fund shows projected revenues of $5,458,183 and expenditures of $5,391,502 with a … [Read more...]

Lanesboro approves food truck ordinance

June 13, 2022 by Hannah Wingert Leave a Comment

Fillmore County Journal - Lanesboro, MN

At the June 6 regular city council meeting, Lanesboro resident Sarah Pieper from the Old Village Hall Restaurant addressed the council about her concerns with proposed ordinance 113.11 regarding food trucks. She requested that the annual use license be removed from the ordinance and that the price for single use licenses be increased. She also asked whether the council had … [Read more...]

Janeen Lou Honsey

June 9, 2022 by Fillmore County Journal 1 Comment

Janeen Honsey obituary, Fillmore County Journal

Janeen Lou Honsey, age 74, of rural Lanesboro, Minn., passed away on June 6, 2022, at Seasons Hospice in Rochester, Minn., after a short battle with metastatic cancer. Janeen was born October 18, 1947, to James and Esther (Runge) Klomp in Preston, Minn.  She graduated from Harmony High School in 1965 and went on to graduate with her Registered Nursing degree from Lutheran … [Read more...]

Carol E. Sjarpe

June 9, 2022 by Fillmore County Journal 2 Comments

Carol Sjarpe obituary, Fillmore County Journal

Carol E. Sjarpe, age 78, of Harmony, formerly of rural Lanesboro, Minn., died Thursday, June 2, 2022, at Harmony Place Assisted Living in Harmony.  Carol was born February 3, 1944, in Cresco, Iowa, to Howard and Helen (Hahn) Berning.  She attended country school in the Harmony area and graduated from the Harmony High School in 1961.  On July 7, 1961, she married Gary … [Read more...]

Dennis Eugene Voeltz

June 6, 2022 by Fillmore County Journal 1 Comment

Dennis Voeltz obituary, Fillmore county Journal

Dennis Eugene Voeltz, 68, of Lanesboro, Minn., passed away Friday, May 13, 2022 at Methodist Hospital in Rochester, Minn., after a very brief battle with cancer. Dennis was born on May 9, 1954, in Spring Valley, Minn., to Maynard and Frances (Krahn) Voeltz. He grew up in Spring Valley and attended Spring Valley High School. Following high school, he enlisted in the United … [Read more...]

Special delivery for Lanesboro couple

June 6, 2022 by Barb Jeffers Leave a Comment

Sometimes things don’t work out as planned.  Thankfully Joe and Sjeila Goetzke of Lanesboro, Minn., were up for the challenge when Sjeila began having contractions on April 29, 2022; a few days before her due date of May 4. The couple were married in 2012 and were blessed with their first child, Amos, in 2021. They are a busy family, with Joe employed by Eagle Bluff … [Read more...]

Gloria Lynda Karen Tupy

June 2, 2022 by Fillmore County Journal Leave a Comment

Gloria Tupy obituary, Fillmore County Journal

Gloria Lynda Karen Tupy, 72, of Ankeny, Iowa, breathed her last breath on Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at about 3 p.m. at Unity Point Methodist Medical Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa. She fought with cancer the last months of her life. Gloria was born on December 26, 1949, to Clarence and Gladys (Treagen) Williams. She graduated from Lanesboro High School. She married Dale Tupy in … [Read more...]

Lanesboro School asked for a CUP for waterbike business

May 16, 2022 by Wanda Hanson Leave a Comment

Mike and Pauline Wangen appeared before the regular Lanesboro School Board meeting May 11 to ask for a conditional use permit of a 16’x48’ section of school property along the river above the dam. The Wangens are interested in starting a small business renting out waterbikes, which need to be in six inches or more of water for the propellers. According to Pauline Wangen, the … [Read more...]

Food truck hearing at Lanesboro City Council

May 9, 2022 by Wanda Hanson Leave a Comment

The Lanesboro City Council began their regular monthly meeting with a hearing on permitting food trucks in the city. Many local restaurant owners filled the room and spoke of their concerns to the council. Hal Cropp of the Commonweal Theatre expressed his concern that the requirements of a 50-foot distance from a brick and mortar restaurant and the limitation of only two … [Read more...]

Dinner on the Bluff presents: Forty Years of Peregrine Research Event features Jacquelyn Fallon from the Midwest Peregrine Society

May 9, 2022 by Fillmore County Journal Leave a Comment

Jacquelyn Fallon, VP of Field Operations & Minnesota State Coordinator for the Midwest Peregrine Society, will be the featured speaker at Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center’s Dinner on the Bluff event on Saturday, May 14! Fallon’s talk, “Celebrating Success… Continuing the Work! Forty Years of Peregrine Research,” will explore the remarkable success of the … [Read more...]

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