Opinion
Reporting on commission removal missed key elements
Jul 17, 2024
Most letters to the editor begin by being critical of some issue and or action or lack of action on something. However, I am choosing not to begin that way but by offering a grateful thank you to the many people who have reached out to me over this past week. I am deeply humbled and very...
Honored, grateful to be tennis court namesake
Jul 17, 2024
My sincere thanks to the many people who worked to get the tennis courts at Lincoln High School named after me.
It feels great to be honored for doing something I truly love and neat to know I have helped others love the sport as well.
I have been blessed.
Grease solution good, more on the way
Jul 17, 2024
I read the article in the paper about the removal of the grease bins from the alley on Lakeshore Drive.
Not knowing about it, I went and asked the owner of Treats and Treasures.
This is a good step forward for our city. Thank you to Travis Dunn for implementing this plan. I hear other plans are in...
Disappointed with humiliation, persecution by council members
Jul 17, 2024
I just finished watching my first Lake City City Council meeting. I am new to the city and we are trying to get more involved with our new community.
I am very disappointed in what I saw at this meeting. I’m not sure of the exact actions of this gentleman who was publicly humiliated and...
Council members showed their true colors in vote to remove planning commissioner
Jul 17, 2024
July’s City Council meeting has shown the true colors of all our council members. Most of us know that Tom Rasmussen was voted (5-2) off the Planning Commission Monday, July 8.
No matter what was said the council had their mind made up even before the meeting.
One particular council member stood...
City Council action to remove commission member was a disgrace
Jul 17, 2024
Not that it matters to you all, but the way the issue with Mr. Rasmussen was handled by 5 members of our City Council was a total disgrace.
To take a volunteer member of the community and publicly shame him in such a vindictive manner showed me that all of you have no regard for the citizens of...
What Makes Lake City So Special? Hospitality!
Jul 10, 2024
If you happened to be watching local news last week you might have seen the interview with Zak Rivers, the Paddling Cellist who is canoeing down the Mississippi to New Orleans with his cello. Fortunately for Zak (and for us) he landed in Lake City when flood conditions forced a delay.
The Lake...
Travis Dunn helped solve downtown grease dilemma
Jul 10, 2024
For several years summertime on a busy block in Lake City’s downtown meant flies, a terrible stench, and an awful view.
The alley between Fiesta Jalisco and the Family Restaurant was home to two large grease collection receptacles.
Keeping grease out of our sewer system is important and...
Thanks for bringing fireworks back
Jul 10, 2024
Thank you to all the folks that worked to bring fireworks back to Lake City. It was a beautiful night to sit by the lake and enjoy them.
A few years ago the chamber had coffee cans at many establishments in town and people would drop their change or a few dollars into the cans to go toward the...
Sprick, Bremer to be inducted into Canterbury Park Hall of Fame
Jul 10, 2024
The Canterbury Park Hall of Fame’s newest members, breeders Cheryl Sprick and Richard Bremer and Minnesota-bred thoroughbred racehorse Hot Shot Kid, will be inducted during a ceremony July 12 at the Shakopee racetrack, the park said in a news release.
“These inductees join a group of more than 50...
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