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GREENWOOD TWP- The change in leadership on the Greenwood Town Board has brought a reversal on one of the most contentious issues in the township in recent years. After three years of refusal to …
GREENWOOD TWP- The town clerk here finally has a pay raise. At their regular meeting Jan. 10, the Greenwood Town Board agreed on a 4-1 vote to increase the wage for the town clerk from $1,487 to …
Posted Thursday, March 11, 2021 10:42 am Last week, in this space, we argued that the state’s Legislature should end the exemption for townships in the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (MGDPA), citing Greenwood Township’s increasing unwillingness to comply with public records requests. In follow-up, we want to be sure we did not leave the wrong impression. Township residents do have rights to access local government records, but enforcing those rights is far more difficult and expensive for rural township residents than for Minnesotans who reside in local units of gov...
Print subscribers If you're a print subscriber, but do not yet have an online account, click here to create one. Non-subscribers Greenwood to look into bonding for broadband Would raise local funds if federal, state grants are not awarded Posted Jodi Summit GREENWOOD TWP- While there is still uncertainty about federal and state funding for broadband projects in the township, Greenwood Chair Mike Ralston said he was looking into having the township sell bonds to raise the money needed to make high-speed internet for the majority of Greenwood residents a reality. CTC, a company that is prov...