Archive - Nov 4, 2015

By Paul Thompson
Executive Director
The United Way of McLeod County (UWMC) recently kicked off its 54th-annual campaign to raise funds for its 40 partner agencies and programs and its own Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and Activities Scholarship Program. The need for the programs and services that our partner agencies provide remain at a high level.

United Farmers Cooperative (UFC), headquartered in Winthrop, is planning to build a large fertilizer plant near its grain-handling facility just northwest of Brownton.
Part of that project will include a potential merger with the Brownton Co-op Ag Center, which has a fertilizer facility just to the south of the proposed site.
Jeff Nielsen, general manager of UFC, and others appeared before the McLeod County Planning Commission Wednesday morning, Oct. 28, for a public hearing on a proposed conditional use permit (CUP) for the project.

A Hutchinson man was killed and a Hutchinson Police officer was shot in the ankle late Sunday afternoon in Hutchinson.
The slain man has been identified as 49-year-old Luverne Roy Christensen. The police officer had not been identified as of Tuesday morning.
Police Chief Dan Hatten said in a news conference Sunday evening that officers were called to a residence in the 500 block of Harmony Lane about 4:15 p.m. for what was termed a verbal disturbance.

Minnesota Pipeline Company, acting on behalf of Koch Pipeline Company, is adding 16 pumping stations to the pipeline — one of which will be located near Plato.
Terry Baker of Koch Pipeline appeared before the McLeod County Planing Advisory Commission Wednesday morning, as the pipeline is applying for a conditional use permit (CUP) for the pumping station.
The pumping station will be located in Sections 1 and 2 in Helen Township, just off 122nd Street.
Baker said the pumping station will consist of three 4,000-horsepower pumps.