The second annual Heat in the Street celebration, sponsored by the Glencoe Fire Department Relief Association, featured three bands Saturday night under the big tent on 11th Street. Hitchville, above, was led by vocalist Heidi Owens, with Kris Stauffer on bass and Marv Gohman on guitar. Also performing Ray Dawson and the Bootleggers and Prairie Rose Band.
McLeod County had a groundbreaking ceremony for its new highway maintenance facility, to be located at the intersection of State Highway 7 and Falcon Avenue (County State Aid Highway 15), east of Silver Lake, on Wednesday morning, July 24.
What is good for one part of the Buffalo Creek Watershed District (BCWD) may not be good for another part. That was the gist of a BCWD open house July 23 in the Glencoe Township meeting room at the Glencoe City Center.
The aim is to get everyone involved on the same page, if possible.
It was a timely meeting soon after the flash flooding events in late June that hit Glencoe and surrounding areas.
Two days later, McLeod County was listed as one of 18 Minnesota counties included in a major disaster designation and eligible for federal assistance.
Glencoe City Council will meet at 7 p.m., Monday (tonight) in the council chambers at the Glencoe City Center.
On the agenda is a letter from McLeod County on the financing of the Morningside Avenue extension. Also among the agenda items are the awarding of bids for the 2013 improvement project; an agreement on the Buffalo Creek BMX track; a discussion of the proposed 2013 city budget; an upgrade of the proposed campground project at Oak Leaf Park; discussion of a Legacy grant for completing repairs on the north side of the City center; and note of Light & Power's 75th anniversary.
Westbound motorists traveling on Highway 212, from the junction with Highway 5 to Glencoe, can expect delays beginning Aug. 5 as crews begin building crossovers in the median in preparation for resurfacing that portion of the roadway.
Traffic will be shifted to the eastbound lanes on Aug. 8, weather permitting, resulting in a single lane of traffic in each direction. Motorists should enter the work zone with caution and expect brief delays until the project is complete in late September.
Samantha Jo Lange, Glencoe, is a new junior member of the American Angus Association®, reports Bryce Schumann, CEO of the national organization with headquarters in Saint Joseph, Mo. Junior members of the association are eligible to register cattle in the American Angus Association, participate in programs conducted by the National Junior Angus Association and take part in association-sponsored shows and other national and regional events.
Jesse and Darcie Mathwig of Maple Grove announce the birth of their daughter, Piper Lylou, on July 23, 2013, at the hospital in Maple Grove. Piper weighed 8 pounds, 14 ounces, and was 21-3/4 inches in length. Her older brother is Blaine, 2, and her grandparents are Bruce and Julie Larson of Glenwood and Mark and Barb Mathwig of Brownton. Great-grandparents are Don and Eunice Wilts of Benson, Shelby and Lois Larson of Benson, and Dorothy Mathwig of Litchfield.
Mike and Lisa Rademacher of Belle Plaine announce the birth of their son, Jace Michael, on July 17, 2013, at St. Francis Hospital in Shakopee. Jace weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces, and was 20-1/4 inches long. His older sisters are Shaylee Jo, 9, and Rayann Jessica, 7. Grandparents are John and Judy Waldvogel of Glencoe, Tom and Ruth Rademacher of Waconia, Ken Berg of Shakopee and the late Kendal Zitzloff of Winsted. Great-grandparents are Rita Eiden of Silver Lake, Marlene Berg of Shakopee, Rosemary Zitzloff of Winsted and Arnie Waldvogel of Yuma, Ariz.
In a terse, one paragraph letter, the McLeod County Board of Commissioners denied a Glencoe City Council resolution of cost-sharing on the proposed Morningside Avenue extension project.
Glencoe City Council had based its cost estimates for the project on a 70/30 percent sharing of the county-city project.
Proposed security improvements to the McLeod County Courthouse have apparently evolved into an approximately $7 million project, prompting the Board of Commissioners to request County Attorney Mike Junge to petition the District Court to have money released from the Annamarie Tudhope estate to help cover the costs.
Tudhope, former owner and publisher of the Glencoe Enterprise, left the bulk of her estate — between $4 and $5 million — to the county with the intent that the money be used for the construction of a new jail in Glencoe.
Glencoe City Council on Monday night held a supplemental public hearing on the proposed 2013 street improvement project, but then delayed the project until 2014 because bids came in higher than expected.
As a result, City Council canceled awarding the bids for the $2 million project, and canceled an assessment hearing as well as the sale of bonds for the work.
The 2013 project was to include partial reconstruction of several streets, overlay work on others and crack and sealcoating of even more streets in the western one-third of Glencoe.
Imagine heading west, to the mountainous state of Colorado for six days of work — work that includes an early hike to see the sunrise along the Continental Divide, a tour of an old mine, and a journey through the scenic Loveland Pass of the Rocky Mountains.
Glencoe-Silver Lake High School teachers Richard Smith and Terry Becker did just that. They headed to Silverthorne, Colo. at the end of June for a career development opportunity about bringing environmental issues into the classroom.
During the 44th-annual Pola-Czesky Days in Silver Lake last weekend, the infamous toilet bowl races were held Friday evening. Above, Silver Lake Civic Association members Corrinne Mickolichek and Harvey Mikolichek race Clarence and Heath Mikolichek (background).
Lloyd Duenow, who began donating blood in 1959, reached the remarkable milestone of 22 gallons last Wednesday at the Red Cross blood drive at the City Center in Glencoe. In all, the blood drive collected 112 units of blood, including from three first-time donors — Diane Boucher, Daniel Becker and Diane Robinson. Other milestones reached were: Tim Farrell and Sandy Boesche, one gallon; Ron Lewandowski, two gallons; Matt Gruber, three gallons; Lisa Bohnert, five gallons; Carol B. Urbach, six gallons; Carmen Ziemer, eight gallons; and Donald Gruenhagen, 15 gallons.
The Chronicle was in error in its rewriting of a press release in the Aug. 7 issue involving GSL eligibility meetings times and dates. It should have read that the eligibility meetings for grades 7-12 cross country, boys and girls soccer and girls tennis is at 6 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 8, in the high school auditorium. Also on Aug. 8, at 6 p.m., is the meeting for grades 9-12 volleyball and football.
Any talk of a November school building bond referendum is over, but discussion of the space needs at Glencoe-Silver Lake is not. The conversation about facility needs will continue, according to GSL Superintendent Chris Sonju.
At Monday night’s second community informational meeting in the high school auditorium, Sonju said deadlines for a November referendum have passed, and no public vote on a school addition building bond will take place this fall.
The Glencoe Planning and Industrial Commission Monday afternoon received a brief update of the concept proposal to turn the Creekside subdivision near Miller Manufacturing into an affordable housing subdivision.
City Administrator Mark Larson said initial research, however, indicated that the tax increment financing (TIF) request by Hutchinson developer Gus Wurdell may not be available for this project, because Wurdell is not the initial developer of the subdivision.
Noah Brinkmann, 16-month-old son of Tom and Jennifer Brinkmann of Glencoe, tried to get up close to several baby pigs at Thursday’s Glencoe Dairy Day activities at Oak Leaf Park. Local 4-Hers also showed calves as well.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Early Childhood Family Education/Special Education addition to Lincoln Junior High was held last week. Participating in the ceremony were members of the chamber of commerce, school district and ECFE/SE program.
James Eiden and wife, Michele, both 59 and of Glencoe, were injured in a motorcycle-vehicle collision Wednesday morning, Aug. 7, on Highway 61 at Dresbach,, in southeast Minnesota, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.
The accident involved Eidens' 2003 Harley Davidson and a 2007 Toyota Rav 4, driven by James Kruckow, 23, of La Crescent. The crash occurred in a construction zone and rest area.
According to the State Patrol, Kruckow was northbound on Highway 61 and the Eidens were westbound from the Dresbach rest area when they collided at the construction zone intersection.
