Spring Grove Herald

Go forth and develop: Spring Grove has housing options

Published by Herald on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 11:11am

Spring Grove has a big task ahead: stirring the pot of housing development.

On Monday, Oct. 7, city stakeholders, councilors, Economic Development Authority (EDA) members and residents heard preliminary results of the housing study conducted by Community and Economic Development Associates (CEDA). The final report will be presented to the EDA soon.

“Every project is different,” CEDA Specialist Cathy Enerson said. “You might have a project that’s ready to go and the next project might need everything. The city’s stake is whatever your best return is for your community.”

Go forth and develop: Spring Grove has housing options

Published by Herald on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 11:11am

Spring Grove has a big task ahead: stirring the pot of housing development.

On Monday, Oct. 7, city stakeholders, councilors, Economic Development Authority (EDA) members and residents heard preliminary results of the housing study conducted by Community and Economic Development Associates (CEDA). The final report will be presented to the EDA soon.

“Every project is different,” CEDA Specialist Cathy Enerson said. “You might have a project that’s ready to go and the next project might need everything. The city’s stake is whatever your best return is for your community.”

Go forth and develop: Spring Grove has housing options

Published by Herald on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 11:10am

Spring Grove has a big task ahead: stirring the pot of housing development.

On Monday, Oct. 7, city stakeholders, councilors, Economic Development Authority (EDA) members and residents heard preliminary results of the housing study conducted by Community and Economic Development Associates (CEDA). The final report will be presented to the EDA soon.

“Every project is different,” CEDA Specialist Cathy Enerson said. “You might have a project that’s ready to go and the next project might need everything. The city’s stake is whatever your best return is for your community.”

Disaster relief money coming to SE Minnesota

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 11:08am

Gov. Tim Walz authorized on Oct. 1 the use of Minnesota’s Disaster Assistance Contingency Account to help pay for damage caused by severe winds, rainfall, and flooding in mid-July.

State Rep. Greg Davids (R-Preston) said this is welcome news for a number of communities in southeastern Minnesota.

“These storms devastated a number of areas in our district, and I have been urging the Walz administration to direct relief funding here as soon as possible,” Davids said. “I’m pleased that the aid is arriving soon.”

Quilts shine at annual Festival of Quilts during UffDa Fest

Published by Herald on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 11:05am

 

After last week’s edition featured the fun activities of UffDa Fest, we realized we were out of space to put in photos of quilts from the Piecemakers Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show and Sale, so here’s a sampling of the beautiful quilts on display last weekend.

Quilters also enjoyed a dialogue with Spring Grove quilter Kay Capps Cross, who rolled out the barrels with her numerous quilts.

Cross told the story of how she got into quilting, how it can be therapeutic for her and why she enjoys it so much.

Bulletin boards at school highlight important people

Published by Herald on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 11:03am

Showing their appreciation for teachers, staff and administration, Spring Grove Public Schools is showing off their employees on a bulletin board.

Each month, a new group is featured on the first bulletin board seen as you enter the lower hallway.

Cynthia ‘Sid’ Jean Strachauer, 76, formerly of Spring Grove

Published by Herald on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 11:01am

Cynthia ‘Sid’ Jean Strachauer, 76, formerly of Spring Grove recently passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2019 in La Crosse, Wis.

She was born on Sept. 24, 1943 in Minneapolis to Sally (Daily) and Herman Strachauer.

Sid married Don Vesterse in Black Hammer, Minnesota on June 1, 1963. Together they had three children: Dana, Drew and Dusty. They later divorced.

Sid lived in Minneapolis, Spring Grove, La Crescent and later, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

She worked at Gundersen Lutheran Hospital for the D.A. of La Crosse County and New Horizons Shelter.

legal notices

Published by Herald on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 10:58am

PROCEEDINGS
OF
THE
BOARD
OF
COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS

Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 9:30 a.m.

Place: Commissioners Room, Courthouse, Caledonia, MN 

Members Present: Teresa Walter (Chair), Jack Miller, Bob Burns, Fred Arnold, Eric Johnson

Call to order. All said pledge of Allegiance.

Arnold moved, Miller seconded, unanimously carried to approve the amended agenda.

Letter: Representative’s remark about suicide is appalling

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 10:38am

I attended a Rep. Hagedorn Town Hall meeting in Winona in early September. I’ve been haunted ever since by his response to a citizen who was asking if he was aware of the relationship between gun ownership and suicide. Mr. Hagedorn’s response was that he believed that “people who commit suicide go to hell.”

Letter: Times may change, but the need to support a free press has not

Published by tlittle@bluffco... on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 3:30pm

Once upon a time, having a job at a newspaper meant working in one of the most imposing buildings in town, inhaling the acrid aroma of fresh ink and the dusty breath of cheap newsprint and feeling mini-earthquakes under our feet every time the presses started to roll. For those of us old enough to remember those days, National Newspaper Week 2019 could be one big, fat elegiac nostalgia trip.