Archive - 2014

Last Thursday afternoon, the Lucas residence on 14th Street in Glencoe was home to a miniature butterfly sanctuary as crowds of monarchs gathered to eat after the morning rains.
Linsey Lucas, 34, has been breeding and raising monarchs since she was 9 years old, and in recent years, she started “tagging” them to track their migration patterns.
Using information and resources from www.monarchwatch.com, Lucas orders tagging kits complete with a pre-migration newsletter, data sheets, instructions and multiple tags that look like small circular stickers.

Business Manager Michelle Sander updated the Glencoe-Silver Lake School Board on the Panther Field House roof repair and other construction projects at its regular meeting Monday evening.
Sander said the Panther Field House roof repair involves repairing the exterior walls on the perimeter of the roof and the penthouse. She said the repairs are about 60 to 65 percent complete and that no unexpected surprises have come up.
She said the sodding is done around the new Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) playground and almost finished around the new tennis courts.

There are two certainties in Minnesota, road construction and bad weather.
These two came together on 17th Street in Glencoe in June.
On June 17, the north side of 17th Street was excavated up to the curb by GMH Construction of Chaska as part of the scheduled street improvement project.
Later that day, Glencoe received a couple of inches of rain. The rainfall caused some erosion of the material under the curbing along some parts of the street.