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Thursday, May 17, 2012
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News Briefs
Wednesday, May 16
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Newman's amendment requires MPCA to review 1986 statute
|  | | State Sen. Scott Newman, R-Hutchinson |
An amendment to an environmental bill recently passed by the State Legislature will require the commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to conduct a new study into the basis of a 1986 state statute that could potentially impact McLeod County's solid waste program and the methane-to-energy plant at Spruce Ridge Landfill, which supplies about 30 percent of the electricity generated for Glencoe Light & Power.
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| | New school lunch rules kick in July 1 | The Glencoe-Silver Lake school district will have to raise its school lunch prices by 45 cents over the next few years if it plans to meet new mandates set by the United States Drug Administration (USDA).
And the district's food service provider, Chartwell, will have to submit its proposed menus to the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) for approval each year to ensure it is meeting the federal mandates on its food offerings to students.
Besides that, the menus need to offer specific minimum and maximum amounts on certain foods in order to comply with the new standards that are aimed at the childhood obesity epidemic in the country.
The new rules take effect July 1.
|  | | Candidate filings open Tuesday for county offices | Filings for candidacy for McLeod County elected offices will open Tuesday, May 22, and end at 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 5.
Because of redistricting, four of the five McLeod County Commissioner seats are open for election on the Nov. 6 ballot:
| | | DNR's walleye stocking called a success in High Island Lake | It has been years in the making, involved hundreds of thousands of dollars and hundreds of volunteer hours, and High Island Lake near New Auburn is coming back to life. There is even a possibility of a walleye fishing contest in its near future.
A winter fishing contest is being contemplated, by members of the Friends of High Island Lake.
Their optimism was verified in the middle of April after the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) took samples of the lake by netting for the walleyes that were stocked nine months earlier. | |
| Sports
| | Panthers notch back-to-back wins | | Suddenly, Glencoe-Silver Lake is winning baseball games. The Panthers, who started the spring with four staight losses and showed a 2-8 record six days into May, belted Lester Prairie 16-1 last Monday. After a loss at Delano the next day, GSL knocked off Wright County Conference rivals Annandale and Hutchinson on consecutive days (May 10-11) at Vollmer Field. | | | GSL boys tally 404 True Team points | | The athletes who make up the 2012 GSL boys' track and field team now know. Indeed, they know that even without state-decorated sprinter Ryan Kuester, they are quite a force. | | | GSL softball rallies past Hutch | | After a string of disappointments - including a loss to Annandale last Thursday, despite two home runs by Courtney Lemke and a grand slam by Samantha Lange - the GSL Panthers ended the week on an up-note, scoring a come-from-behind, 7-4 win over Hutchinson on May 11. | |
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