Archive - Nov 2016

There will be some new faces on township boards in McLeod County following the Tuesday, Nov. 8, election, according to unofficial election results. Not all townships have fall elections, but here are the results from those that did:
Acoma — Ron Rusch, running unopposed, was re-elected to his supervisor position with 609 votes. Incumbent Supervisor Larry Karg, however, lost his seat to challenger Tom Dahl, with Dahl garnering 405 votes to Karg’s 266. There were 77 write-in votes for clerk; no one filed for the position. Corrinne Schlueter is the incumbent.

Well, woke up on the morning of Nov. 9, and the sun rose despite the election of Donald Trump as president. Amazing because the pundits were predicting the sky would fall if Trump ever won.
To most of us, the day after the election seemed much like the day before. Nothing in our neighborhoods had changed.
But to some, the sky did fall, and panic set in. They were the losers, and they took to the streets after a social media blitz as if they could change the results of the election somehow. They lost their entitlements with the election loss.

A Brownton woman was injured in a two-vehicle accident on Highway 22 near 150th Street on Friday, Nov. 11.
According to the Minnesota State Patrol, Kaitlyn Knick, 23, of Brownton, was southbound on Highway 22 in a 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix at about 8:30 a.m. and had slowed to turn onto 150th Street when her vehicle was rear-ended by a 2006 Dodge Caravan, driven by Bobbi Jo Luckhardt, 37, of Hutchinson.
Both drivers were wearing seat belts.

Sgt. Vihin Patel’s message at the annual Glencoe-Silver Lake High School (GSL) Veterans Day program had a strong theme running through it — appreciation for those who have served in the nation’s armed forces.
Those who served, Patel told the audience, “have given you the freedom and the opportunities to enjoy each day.”
Patel, who lives in Glencoe, is a U.S. Marines veteran who served in Iraq, and is now in the Army National Guard.

The Glencoe-Silver Lake School Board, in two separate actions, voted 4-2 to approve contracts for six district employees.
The contracts for Activities Director Dean Schwirtz and district office staff members Becky Dahl, Crystal Dahlke, Carol Dammann, Dawn Peterson and Lori Peterson were approved.
The contracts are effective July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2018.