Thanks for supporting fundraising team
To the editor, The Bumps Stop Here and Little Bumps Relay for Life team would like to thank everyone for their continued support this year. Our team raised over $17,000 for the American Cancer Society....
View ArticleSilver Lake City Council looks at utility rate increases
By By Karin Ramige The Silver Lake City Council took a look at its current water, sewer and storm water utility rates at the quarterly meeting on Monday, Oct. 1. The current monthly base fees are...
View ArticleArea men injured in crash on County Road 7 north of Stewart
Two area men were hospitalized in a crash last Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 26, near the intersection of McLeod County Road 7 and 85th Street in Collins Township north of Stewart.read more
View ArticleMcLeod PAC approves agenda items, talks about solar gardens
By By Jakob Kounkel The McLeod County Planning Advisory Commission (PAC) met on Wednesday, Sept. 26 to discuss and approve two conditional use permits and a sketch plan. The commission also talked...
View ArticleStewart man killed, father-daughter hurt in two-car crash Friday
A 50-year-old Stewart man was killed Friday morning, Sept. 28, when a car hit his vehicle after he crossed into oncoming traffic on County Road 7 in Collins Township. The two-vehicle crash near the...
View ArticleBrownton residents attend assessment hearing
By By Jakob Kounkel The Brownton City Council’s regular meeting was supplemented with a 2018 street and utility improvement project assessment presentation from Short-Elliott Hendrickson (SEH)...
View ArticleStewart increases council wages, changes pet ordinance
By By Jakob Kounkel The Stewart City Council had a packed agenda and approved a flurry of items at its regular meeting on Monday night. The council, most notably, set annual and meeting wages for the...
View ArticleCounty youth celebrating National 4-H Week
For the 76th consecutive year, millions of youth, parents, volunteers and alumni across the country will celebrate National 4-H Week Oct. 7-13. Throughout National 4-H Week, McLeod County 4-H will...
View ArticleGlencoe girl, ‘Cash’ take top honor at 4-H state dog show
By By John Mueller She doesn’t enter dog shows just to win ribbons. It’s the time with her the dog before and during the shows that is worthwhile to Elise Betcher. The Glencoe teen and her miniature...
View ArticleAssociation turned dreams into reality
In the early days of the 21st Century, a group of Glencoe-Silver Lake School District residents came together to make a dream come true. Fifteen years or so later, its work completed, the group turned...
View ArticleGSL students may start packing, fundraising for overseas trip
By John Mueller A month after the Glencoe-Silver Lake School Board put a proposed overseas trip for students, faculty and adult chaperones on hold over concerns about insurance coverage, the board not...
View ArticleGlencoe City Council begins mulling big-ticket purchases
By John Mueller The price of relocating snow out of traffic lanes and sidewalks was on display in painstaking reality Monday afternoon when the Glencoe City Council took a look at trucks needing...
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