Archive - 2014

The McLeod County Board will consider a 2 percent levy increase for 2015 after a workshop session Tuesday morning.
The item will be on the County Board’s regular meeting agenda Tuesday, Sept. 30.
The County Board on Tuesday looked at the potential impact of tax increases of 0 percent to 4 percent at the workshop, and the impact of the tax increases on different types of property.
County Auditor-Treasurer Cindy Schultz strongly urged the Board to consider putting any additional revenue generated by a levy increase into a reserve fund.

The calendar says it is offically fall. The leaves are beginning to turn beautiful fall colors. But all too soon, they will begin to fall and then the raking begins.
For residents in the city of Glencoe, the process will be different this year.
The city has purchased a leaf vacuum and will be vacuuming the leaves in the street.
Residents will now be able to rake leaves into the street, along the curb in the gutter line. The city will vacuum the leaves once a week.

executive director of the McLeod County Historical Museum, felt like she was “preaching to the choir” as she gave a talk to the Glencoe Historic Preservation Society on Glencoe’s early history.
Pickell-Stangel was the guest speaker at the society’s annual meeting Sept. 17, peppering her talk with little-known facts about Glencoe’s early founders.
The people most instrumental in forming Glencoe — Martin McLeod and Col. John Stevens — also were instrumental in forming the state of Minnesota, said Pickell-Stangel.