Jane McWilliams, a Northfield League of Women Voters member, was named 2007 Outstanding Female County Senior of the Year at the Rice County Fair July 19.
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Planning Commission Meeting, June 12, 2007
June 22, 2007 – 7:31 pm
LWV Observer, Pat Kriesel
The Planning Commission discussed the Preliminary Plat and PUD, (Planned Unit Development,) for Fargaze Meadows #2, located in the far southeast part of Northfield. Four Fargaze residents spoke about family safety and nature’s impact the faze 2 development will have to the neighborhood at the public hearing.
Both plans were approved with [...]
Northfield Planning Commission, May 8, 2007
June 18, 2007 – 8:51 pm
LWV Observer, Pat Kriesel
The Planning Commission discussed the Open Public Comprehensive Plan
Meeting to be held Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at the Armory. Brian O’Connell,Community Development Director, will begin the evening by explaining the April 3rd, 2007 Community Choices Workshop results including the following:
Treasures of Northfield results
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May 10, 2006 – 9:29 pm
LWV Observer - Georgiana Campbell
This meeting hosted Rice County high school students at the annual YOUTH
GOVERNMENT DAY. The students spent 45 minutes observing the commissioners meeting and asking questions. Later they toured the district courts and county jail, the social services and public health/nursing departments, as well as the assessor’s office, [...]
Rice County Commissioners Meeting - May 2, 2006
May 5, 2006 – 1:15 pm
LWV Observer - Georgiana Campbell
Four Commissioners were present. Jessica Peterson was absent.
When this week’s meeting was called to order, the Commissioners’ Room in the Government Services Building was almost completely filled with foster care providers who were there to be honored for their work caring for vulnerable adults and children in Rice [...]
Northfield Planning Commission-Tuesday, April 25, 2006
April 30, 2006 – 4:13 pm
Submitted by Pat Kriesel, LWV Observer
Public hearings were held for further development of Rosewood Estates located east of the Northfield Golf Club. The main issue was the Rosewood 5th Addition sharing the storm water retention pond on the golf course.
The original 8.8 acre site with 50 attached townhomes was completed in [...]
Rice County Commissioners Meeting - April 11, 2006
April 14, 2006 – 1:37 pm
LWV Observer - Georgiana Campbell
Beginning with the Public Health Dept. and ending with the Administrator’s request for the routine approval of the consent agenda, this meeting lasted only 40 minutes.
This included a formal recognition of April as Child Abuse Prevention month, which was presented by Social Services head, Mark Shaw. He [...]
Rice County Commissioners Meeting - April 4, 2006
April 10, 2006 – 3:17 pm
LWV observer - Georgiana Campbell
This meeting, which was a Committee of the Whole/Work Session, began with a statement by Nancy Marth, a long-time citizen- observer. She was concerned with planning and protection of the environment within the county and urged the commissioners to act with these considerations in mind.
Both old [...]
Rice County Commissioners Meeting - March 14, 2006
March 26, 2006 – 12:09 pm
LWV Observer - Georgiana Campbell
The commissioners conducted routine business with the departments of public health, social services, solid waste, highway, and the auditor/treasure.
Planning and Zoning, as usual, was busy, with eight items on their agenda, 5 of them for requests for Conditional Use Permits (2 for feedlot permits, 1 to continue a salvage [...]
Rice County Commissioners Meeting - February 14, 2006
March 6, 2006 – 1:27 pm
Submitted by LWV Observer - Georgiana Campbell
The meeting began with presentations by the following:
1.Sheriff Cook who requested an increase in the fees his department charges for serving summons and complaints, to $65 from a $40 plus mileage fee, $65 being closer to the actual costs of serving these papers;
2.Mary Ho from the [...]
