Rich Glennie

June 3 public hearing set for ’13 street work

05/15/2013 - 8:26am

Rich Glennie

Glencoe City Council at its May 6 meeting set a public hearing for 7 p.m., Monday, June 3, for its 2013 street improvement plans for the west third of Glencoe. The $2.1 million project includes about 7.5 miles of city streets that will either be seal coated, milled and overlaid or partial reconstructed. John Rodeberg of Short Elliott Hendrickson (SETH) told City Council that about 35 percent of...

City works on lease to put FSA in City Center

09/12/2012 - 8:21am

The city of Glencoe and the U.S. Department of Agriculure and the Farm Service Agency (FSA) are in negotiations over FSA’s possible move to the Glencoe City Center. The proposal would be for the FSA to take over the first floor of the west side of the west wing of the City Center, part of it currently occupied by the Glencoe Chamber of Commerce....

Stop MPCA from enforcing archaic law on waste disposal

09/12/2012 - 7:49am

Using reasoning that defies logic, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) seems hell-bent on resurrecting a decades-old, and long-dormant, state statute on solid waste disposal that now makes little or no sense — unless you are a politician. The state Legislature needs to repeal this archaic statute soon before the MPCA does any more harm....