A community input time was held for 15 minutes before the June 3 Lanesboro City Council meeting. Several residents spoke out against the wastewater treatment plant project, asking that ordinance 151.30 be removed from the council’s consent agenda that evening. The ordinance pertains to the floodplain district, which would allow the city to build the wastewater treatment plant … [Read more...]
Time to listen to common sense
By Amy McCall Lanesboro, MN Lanesboro Public Utilities (LPU) Commissioner Don Bell said it best: “Why would you put critical infrastructure on a sandbar in the floodplain, next to a river that floods?” This dose of common sense matches the wisdom of city leaders that set a 1998 (and still current) policy of no development in the floodplain. State floodplain hydrologists … [Read more...]
National Trout Center opposes new sewer plant location in Lanesboro
Jeffrey S. Broberg, LPG Chairman, National Trout Center St. Charles, MN Dear Lanesboro Mayor and City Council: The National Trout Center (NTC) passed a resolution at our April 9 Board Meeting in opposition to the proposed Lanesboro Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) location at the MN 250 bridge. I submitted NTC objections to the City Council at your June 3 … [Read more...]
Golf (5/28 – 5/30)
(B) 1A Meet (Bethlehem Academy (350, 337 > 687) beat BP (358, 355 > 713) for the boys team title. Kingsland (383, 367 > 750) and Lanesboro (387, 373 > 760) made the Day 2 cut, taking third and fourth. FC’s Jake Fishbaugher (77, 75 > 152 = +12) was second after Day 1, and finished that way behind Southland’s Max Schmitz (73, 77 > 150 = +10). Kingsland’s … [Read more...]
Lanesboro’s own community variety show goes “On Broadway” Friday, June 14
Lanesboro, MN –”On Broadway” is the theme of the next “Over the Back Fence” Community Variety Show presented by Lanesboro Arts on Friday, June 14, at 7:30 p.m. at the historic St. Mane Theatre in downtown Lanesboro. Songs like “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” “Bosom Buddies” and “Something to Believe In” will each be part of a gleeful evening that also includes jokes, … [Read more...]
Lola Williamson
Lola I. (Nelson) Williamson, 80, of Rock Falls, died Sunday, May 19, 2019, at CGH Medical Center. Lola was born July 2, 1938, in Lanesboro, Minn., the daughter of Willie and Bertha (Gates) Nelson. She married Kenneth Williamson on June 16, 1962. Lola graduated from the Methodist-Kahler School of Nursing in Rochester, Minn., and became a registered nurse. Lola was proud of … [Read more...]
James Stanley Johnson
James Stanley Johnson passed away on May 24, 2019, in Mesa, Ariz. Jim was born in Rochester, Minn., to Stanley and Ruth Johnson. Jim worked with his dad at the Johnson Funeral Home and Johnson Furniture Store in Lanesboro, Minn. He opened his own business, the Lanesboro Body Shop, and was a volunteer fire fighter, also in Lanesboro. Jim married Marlys (Rye) on September 3, … [Read more...]
Call for emerging artists of all media for place-based Lanesboro Artist Residency Program
Lanesboro Arts invites emerging artists of any discipline living in Minnesota or one of the five boroughs of New York City to apply to the place-based Lanesboro Artist Residency Program, generously supported by the Jerome Foundation. Applications are due at 12 p.m. (noon) CST on Wednesday, July 31, 2019, for residencies taking place in 2020. The Lanesboro Artist Residency … [Read more...]
39th annual Art in the Park fine art festival
Lanesboro Arts is proud to present the 39th annual Art in the Park fine art festival on Saturday, June 15, 2019, in Lanesboro’s Sylvan Park with 90-plus fine art and craft booths and live music. Renowned for quality, variety and value, Art in the Park is a family-friendly art fair that attracts thousands of regional patrons each year. The focal point of Art in the Park is, … [Read more...]
Herbie Willie Erickson
Herbie Willie Erickson, 86, of Caledonia, passed away Saturday, May 18, 2019, Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse. He was born November 3, 1932, in Holt Township, Minn., to Randolph and Lillian (Helland) Erickson. Herbie enlisted in the United States Army and served as a Sergeant in the 1745th Light Weapons Infantry during the Korean War from January 30, 1953, until Jan. 28, … [Read more...]