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TOWER— The city council here, absent council member Kevin Norby, discussed a familiar list of issues Monday night, without taking much action. The condition of the city’s drinking water …
TOWER- The Tower Planning and Zoning Commission approved a conditional use permit (CUP) for Justin Renner’s RV Park project at a special meeting on Aug. 12. The motion to approve the CUP was …
Posted Marshall Helmberger TOWER— After two years of waiting and hoping, city officials here received some good news from the state Legislature last week. A funding plan approved by lawmakers includes an extension for the second phase of a harbor trail system that had been mothballed after the mishandling of the first phase of the project back in 2018-19. The funding had originally been approved by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources, or LCCMR, back in 2016, but LCCMR officials put a hold on the dollars after the city made major changes to the first phase of the pro...
TOWER— The city council here, on Monday, approved a motion to request an engineer’s study of options for addressing the community’s lack of wastewater treatment capacity. At a time …
Jodi Summit TOWER- A snowmobile caught fire while fueling up at Vermilion Fuel and Food, in Tower, last Thursday morning, sending a plume of thick black smoke soaring over Main Street. Loud pops, crackles, and booms could be heard blocks away. “I heard a small pop,” said cashier Colette Sistad, who was outside observing the flames from a safe distance. “I didn’t think anything of it. But then a guy came running in telling me to call 911.” A snowmobile group from southeastern Minnesota had left Fortune Bay only a few minutes earlier and stopped in Tower to fill up their machines.