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05/22/2013 - 9:29am
Last Wednesday, Glencoe-Silver Lake High School hosted the annual “mock crash” scenario to inform senior students about the consequences of drinking and driving. An accident scene was set up and several volunteers and emergency services in the area worked to simulate injuries sustained in a crash and the care needed.
09/12/2012 - 8:37am
The anger in Clark Christianson’s voice was obvious Monday night when the Glencoe-Silver Lake School Board met in the Lincoln board room. First, the chairman of the school board heard the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) would not alter errant data that put a bad light on GSL’s recent Multiple Measurement Ratings (MMR), and then he heard...
09/12/2012 - 8:35am
For the third straight year, McLeod County will not increase its property tax levy. The Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, Sept. 4, approved a preliminary levy of just over $18.29 million, the same as it has since 2011. At a budget workshop in late August, the County Board had heard that it would need to use about $88,000 in reserves to keep its...
09/12/2012 - 8:33am
Glencoe City Council last Tuesday, Sept. 4, approved third and final readings on an illicit discharge ordinance and an amendment to its ordinance on ATV use in the city. But it took a 3-2 vote to get a second reading for a controversial “snowbird” ordinance that would ban all parking on city streets from Nov. 1 to April 1 between the hours of 1 a....
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....
09/12/2012 - 8:18am
Crystal Arzate and Juan Santos Diaz of Glencoe announce the birth of their daughter, Valentina Elenora Diaz, on Sept. 5, 2012, at Glencoe Regional Health Services. Valentina weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces, and was 20 inches long. Siblings are Sabina Esperanza, 7, and Dulce Maria, 5. Grandparents are Deb Douglas of Chaska, Jake and Patty Douglas of...
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