Archive - May 2017

Mary Linda (Hensel) Husberg, 70, of Glencoe, died Thursday, May 18, 2017, at Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia.
Memorial services were held Wednesday, May 24, at First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Glencoe with the Rev. Daniel Welch officiating. Luke Dahl was the organist. Special music by the First Evangelical Lutheran School children was “Father Welcomes.” Congregational hymns were “I Heard the Voice of Jesus” and “I Know That My Redeemer Lives.”
Interment will be at a later date.

RS Fiber Cooperative (RS Fiber) will begin the final stage of its state-of-the-art fiber-optic network next month.
 Construction to link the cities of Brownton, Buffalo Lake, Fairfax and Stewart to the RS Fiber network is scheduled to start by the end of June. Those cities will join six others (Gaylord, Gibbon, Green Isle, Lafayette, New Auburn and Winthrop) which have been connected to the network since the project began in June 2015.

The Honorable Kathryn Davis Messerich, who is currently assistant chief judge of Minnesota’s First Judicial District, has been elected to serve as chief judge of the district by her fellow judges in the district. Her term as chief judge is effective July 1.

The McLeod County Chronicle announces the addition of Katie Ballalatak as a staff writer.
Ballalatak will be covering the Glencoe City Council, the Glencoe-Silver Lake School Board and will be writing feature stories for The Chronicle.

The Glencoe City Council’s Finance Committee received the executive audit summary at its May 22 meeting.
Christopher Knopik of CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP (CLA), the city’s audit firm, reported the city received a “clean” audit, which is the best possible outcome.
Knopik also reported that the city is in good financial standing.
At the end of 2016, the city’s unassigned fund balance was $2.155 million or 56 percent of expenditures.