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Minnesota Department of Natural Resources staff has drawn up a preliminary engineering plan for the proposed 17-mile trail from the Itasca State Park contact station to Emmaville.Courtesy of Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
The Itasca-Heartland Connection Trail committee met Monday to discuss its next steps, having secured $2 million in bonding from the Minnesota Legislature.
“The appropriation is significant. It does provide an opportunity to move forward,” said Kent Skaar, senior project manager for the DNR Parks and Trails Division.
Another meaningful milestone is the purchase of a five-acre parcel at the intersection of the Heartland Trail and CSAH 4. This location is the proposed trailhead for the proposed Itasca-Heartland Connection Trail.
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BROWN COUNTY Brown County commissioners will receive a 2020 probation department statistics report at their regular meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 19.
“This was a year of uncertainty. COVID-19 flipped many procedures and policies upside down,” Brown County Probation Director Les Schultz wrote in his report. “Staff truly outdid themselves this past year, working with many constant changes that COVID-19 pushed us towards. We were locked down for most of the year and had to supervise our clients differently.”
Schultz said his department had to learn Zoom, Web-ex, Team, VPN, and Splashtop, all of which were unheard of last January but became proficient at them in just a few months.
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