The First Baby Born at Windom Area of Health for 2024 is here!!! Baby Girl Martina of Windom, was born on January 3rd at 7:16pm weighing in at 7lbs 10oz. Her Mom, Dad and older sister are over the moon excited to finally have her here as she was overdue. With the honor of being the first born her family was covered in gifts and financial support of approximately $3,400 from over 50 local businesses and organizations.
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Cottonwood County Sheriff’s Office reported 46 calls in the week of December 24th to December 30th. Deputies conducted 10 Civil Processes, had 3 motorist assists, had 2 unlawful deposit of garbage and 12 traffic stops. A full listing of all calls in the Cottonwood County Sheriff’s Office Weekly Citizens Report is available by clicking the link below.
Cottonwood Cnty Sheriffs Dept Weekly Citizen Report 12-24 to 12-30-23
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The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office reported on the 2nd at 4:12am Dispatch transferred a 911 report to the MN State Patrol of a motorist who ran out of gas on 1-90 near the Heron Lake exist. A deputy took a theft report of a generator and responded to a minor accident in a parking lot in Jackson. A deputy read a book to a class at Riverside Elementary School in Jackson,
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The Cottonwood County Board of Commissioners met on Tuesday and elected for 2024 Commissioner Holmen as Board Chair and Commissioner Stevens as Vice Chair. Meeting dates were set for the 1st and 3rd Tuesday each month starting at 9am with one exception of June 18th for the Board of Equalization and December 3rd for Budget Discussion Meeting (TNT) which will be afternoon meetings; and that 12 additional work sessions can be scheduled with no per diems. Official Cottonwood County Depositories and Brokers were re-designated. Commissioner set the per diem for committee members other than commissioners at $85 per meeting in 2024. The Board also approved to set the Cottonwood County crop damage rates at $900/acre for corn and $600/acre for soybeans for the 2024 growing season. The Board than approved one-time half-price tipping fee of $31.67/ton plus $6.67/ton surcharge plus $5.38 waste tax billed to the cities in Cottonwood County for the use of a city wide clean up in 2024 and allow the Solid Waste Department to pick up mattresses at the city-wide events at a charge of $2 per piece. The pick-up price does not include the $15 fee for disposal. The Commissioners than approved applying for MN Pollution Control (MPCA) Clean Water Partnership (CWP) loan funds in the amount of $750,000 for SSTS replacements and then set the interest rate at 3% for 10 years homeowner SSTS loan repayments.
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The Cottonwood County Ditch Authority made four motions:
- to re-open the public hearing for the petition of Harris Byers for a lateral to Cottonwood County Ditch #38 and appoint Commissioner Holmen as Chair.
- to adopt the Findings and Order for Detailed Survey and Detailed Survey Report for a lateral to Cottonwood County Ditch #38.
- to set the 2024 County Ditch assessment interest rate at 3%.
- to move forward with the redetermination of benefits on the list of ditches presented.
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The Windom Area School Board will be meeting on Monday January 8th at 6:30pm at City Hall in City Council Chambers. Meeting can also be viewed live at Media SB22 on YouTube.
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The Cottonwood County Board of Commissioners will hold a work session on Tuesday January 9th at 9am at the Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center to discuss the Landfill.
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The 2024 Springfield Chamber of Commerce annual meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, January 16th at 12:10 pm at Tommy’s Central Street Steakhouse. This meeting is free to all Chamber Members and Lunch will be provided. If you are planning to attend, please RSVP to the Chamber Office by calling 507-723-3508 or by e-mailing spfdchamber@newulmtel.net no later than Monday January 8th.
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It’s the 5th of January and we are headed face first into the weekend… Today is National Bird Day and there are a TON of our fine feathered friends out floating around thinking that they were just so clever being lazy and not flying south this year… I HOPE they don’t regret their decision once the real Minnesota weather decides to kick into gear. It is also National Whipped Cream Day… I’m a little confused because I would think that whipped cream day would be on Thanksgiving Day since you always have a tad of pumpkin pie WITH your Whipped Cream… BUT I’m going to go ahead and celebrate today because we should and have a jolly time putting whipped cream on everything today!!!