Goodhue County
Goodhue County Board receives South Country report
Feb 23, 2017
Leota Lind, Chief Executive Officer at South Country and Scott Schufman, Chief Financial Officer, were in attendance at the February 7 Goodhue County Board meeting. They expressed optimism, despite losses that they and many other insurance companies faced last year.
Schufman pointed out what South...
Goodhue County hopes to start drug court
Feb 23, 2017
Goodhue County Attorney Stephen Betcher discussed a resolution he prepared for the County in hopes of attaining a grant for a drug treatment court. He explained at the February 7 Board meeting that Judge Douglas Bayley and Judge Lawrence Clark attended the Committee of the Whole meeting prior to...
Library speaker to discuss pioneer life
Feb 2, 2017
The Lake City Public Library will host Dustin Heckman, Executive Director of the Goodhue County Historical Society on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 6:30 p.m.
Heckman will present information on early pioneer life as part of the library’s I Love to Read Month and the Community Reads book choice, Little House...
Goodhue County to study building code change
Jan 18, 2017
Newly elected Goodhue County Commissioner Barney Nesseth told Land Use Management Director Lisa Hanni at the Jan. 3 County Board meeting that he would like the county to adopt the international building code, instead of using the Minnesota State building code, to give housing a boost in the county...
Chair on Goodhue County Commissioners flat levy proposal: 'Not yet'
Jan 12, 2017
Goodhue County Commissioner Jason Majerus surprised the County Board at the Jan. 3 meeting with his response to Chairman Ron Allen’s request for new or old business.
Majerus stated, “I’d like to make a motion to set the preliminary budget levy for 2018 at $30,568,619. It should be the 2017 levy,...
Travelling exhibit explores Minnesota's Norwegian heritage
Jan 12, 2017
A traveling exhibit about the Norweigian settlement of Minnesota is now on display at the Goodhue County History Center.
The traveling exhibit, New Land, New Life: Norwegian Immigration in Minnesota, 1825-1925, is on view through April 1.
The exhibit tells the stories behind one of the earliest...
Religion in U.S. and Norway to be compared at history center annual meeting
Jan 12, 2017
The Goodhue County Historical Society will holds its annual meeting on Thursday, Jan. 19, beginning at 6 p.m.
The meeting will be held at the Goodhue County History Center in Red Wing. Admission is free and the public is invited but only Historical Society members may vote during the business...
Goodhue County Board approves agreement on contaminated Red Wing property
Jan 5, 2017
Goodhue County Finance Director Carolyn Holmsten discussed the 3860 Sala Way forfeited property in Red Wing at the Dec. 20 County Board meeting.
She said that at the Dec. 8 Board meeting, she had brought the results of the requests for proposal to the commissioners, to sell the property that had...
Goodhue County levy drops slightly
Jan 5, 2017
On Dec. 20, Goodhue County set its 2017 levy at $30,968,619, which represents a 0.39 percent levy tax rate reduction.
With direction from the board, the levy was lowered from the preliminary budget of $31,103,000, which was the same as in 2016.
County Administrator Scott Arneson thanked the board...
Goodhue County grapples with bridge funding
Nov 30, 2016
Public Works Director Greg Isakson explained at the Nov. 15 County Board meeting, that one of the last fracture critical bridges in the county, which is located in Vasa Township, is going to be replaced. He said plans have been put together to begin building the bridge, but the county does not...
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