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The Silver Lake City Council held a heated special meeting Monday, May 6, to review and address the status of the multi-unit housing certificate at 104 S. Grove Ave.
The city continues to deal with allegations of criminal activity at the building. The city says the owner has not fully complied with the city’s multi-housing unit ordinance since it was adopted in January of 2017.
The council voted unanimously Monday to revoke the multi-housing certificate for the property and gave owner Mike Jaunich until May 15 to vacate those living there. The building will be posted as uninhabitable.

As the Minnesota Legislature works to assemble a final state budget agreement, Sen. Scott Newman, R-Hutchinson, will serve on the conference committee for the transportation bill.
The conference committee, which includes five members of each legislative body, is responsible for working out a compromise on differences in the tax bills passed by the House and the Senate.

For several months, the white farmhouse on the south end of Sunrise Drive has sat on blocks waiting to be placed on a foundation.
And waiting.
Now, the City of Glencoe is done waiting. Tomorrow night, May 9, 7 p.m., the planning commission intends to address the permits the city issued to Erik Duvall of Erik Duvall Construction in March. The commission will hold a public hearing on its plans to revoke both the special-use permit and building permit it issued Duvall last year.

With Shopko’s closing May 5, all 19 of its former employees, seven of which were full-timers, lost their jobs. What hasn’t been lost on the employees is the relationships they’ve cultivated along the way.
When Shopko’s corporate office first announced store closures, the list didn’t include the Glencoe location. Employees breathed a sigh of relief as they rejoiced in job security — until just a few weeks later when, on Feb. 8, the corporate chain announced additional closings that included Glencoe’s “Hometown” store.

To the editor,
With the approach of the next presidential election less than two years away, it is inevitable that the aspirants for the presidency grasp at everything that will increase their notoriety. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has given members of the Democrat Party a marvelous opportunity for notoriety: The Green New Deal. It is amusing to watch and listen to the folks express support – enthusiastic support – for Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s ideas.