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Local restaurant owners are optimistic about the summer of 2021. Written By: Christa Lawler | × Fire shoots up from the pan of Lars Benson as he flips shrimp at Lake Avenue Restaurant & Bar in Duluth on Friday afternoon, April 16, 2021. The restaurant is part of the Eat Downtown event that started this week. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com) There has been a demand, among fans of a certain Louisiana-style pop-up restaurant working out of the kitchen at Zeitgeist Arts Cafe, to bring out the beignets. Consider it done. Robert Lee, the southern-raised creative be...

Premium Content Subscriber only The cost of water and sewer infrastructure continues to be a sticking point for the Whitsunday Paradise project after the council knocked back another cost-sharing proposal from developers. At last week’s council meeting, councillors considered a revised infrastructure agreement that proposed the council offset 100 per cent of the cost of water infrastructure and decommissioning an onsite sewage treatment plant, and 30 per cent of the cost of providing sewerage infrastructure. The revised agreement came after the council knocked back an infrastructure agree...

However it was approved with conditions. "Conditions that we have for every other development we have in the region, nothing special, nothing different," Cr Willcox said. Cr Willcox said part of the developers' infrastructure agreement states the works for a water reservoir, land contribution for a water reservoir and sewer infrastructure would be done at no cost to council. However, a different part of the infrastructure agreement states the costs of those works would be offset by the council. "What that means is that 100 per cent of the infrastructure for water and sewer is being worn ...

The cost of infrastructure has forced the Whitsunday Paradise project to go back to the council table with a key decision to be made this week.

February is going to be busy for the criminal justice system in Marshall County. In November, the Iowa Supreme Court suspended in-person jury trials until Feb. 1 because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Friday in Marshall County will be packed with pre-trial conferences — more than 25. Marshall County Clerk of Courts Carol Haney said the pre-trial conferences are intended for the prosecution and defense to come to agreements without juries. If agreements are not reached, then the cases will go to jury trials, with the first one scheduled for Feb. 16. The state court system has 32 separate...