Wight County News
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By next school year, early childhood programs in Montrose will have a new, spacious home, in a separate building next to Montrose Elementary School.
Reconstruction work on the vacant building started two weeks ago, right after the official groundbreaking ceremony.
“We are building it for the Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose School District” said contractor Mike Bauer of Bauer Designs in Delano.
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Wright County city Clearwater will get nearly $750,000 for water system improvements.
Clearwater among 5 Minnesota cities to split $41M for water systems
Source: Star Tribune 12/12/2009 News
Five Minnesota communities will receive a total of $41.3 million to improve drinking water and wastewater systems through the Minnesota Public Facilities Authority. Grand Rapids will see the most with a brand new $30M facility.
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Wright County plans for safer Cokato roads
Source: Dassel-Cokato Enterprise Dispatch 12/07/2009 NewsWhen it comes to roads in Cokato, as well as the rest of Wright County, officials know it’s never too early to start planning.
At a public meeting Nov. 10, local people identified goals and plans for Wright CountyÂ’s five-year highway improvement plan, its 10-year work plan, and its bridge replacement program.
The five-year program will be formally adopted by the Wright County board at the end of December.
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As the canine member of the Howard Lake Police Department, Felony tracked criminals and sniffed for drugs in the lakeside town in rural Wright County. Since 2002, his nose had helped the department uncover narcotics valued at $25,000.
But Felony's career, already slowing as he approached 11 years of age, came to an abrupt end this month. In a case of mistaken identity and miscommunication, Felony was destroyed by the Animal Humane Society in Buffalo after escaping from his kennel at the city water treatment plant.
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A St. Michael man was driving in the wrong lane with no headlights and speeding before a crash that killed a 17-year-old Buffalo High student, the Wright County attorney said.
Todd Albert Lifto, 44, was charged Wednesday with two counts of criminal vehicular homicide in the death of Jonathon Kramnic, said Tom Kelly, the county attorney.
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A 17-year-old is dead after a Saturday night crash in St. Michael, Minn. The Wright County Sheriff's office said Jon Kramnic's car collided with a pickup driver on County Road 35 near Jamison Avenue.
Students at Buffalo Senior High School are in shock and some could not hold back tears for their fellow student, funny man, scholar and athlete who is now gone.
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A consortium of 11 cities, including Chaska, Shakopee and Buffalo, is working to meet renewable energy mandates.
The City of Buffalo already erected its wind turbine in mid-September next to its high school, and Shakopee planning officials recently approved a permit for a wind turbine next to the city's utility building on Sarazin Street near Hwy. 101.
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One Otsego woman’s attempt to use a golf cart to get around city streets and trails has been thwarted by the City Council and by the commissioners of two city commissions.
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Turning up the heat on a Wright County cold case prosecution
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune 09/24/2009 NewsThe costly trial of a Buffalo man jailed and acquitted in a 1979 murder case prompted an old friend to take up his cause.
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At a time when the economy is causing many businesses to go on a spending freeze, Crow River Harley-Davidson in Delano is revving up for a renovation.
By next spring, Winsted resident Rodney Scherping, who owns the company with his father, Virgil, said the building will be twice as big. “It should be open the first week in March,” he said, going from 5,300 square feet to about 11,000.