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Council closes meeting to discuss investigative data
The council voted to close a portion of the meeting to discuss active investigative data, which is allowed under Minnesota s open meeting laws.
According to the brief explanation in the council s meeting packet, city staff requested the opportunity to update one active investigation. No other details were given.
Alexandria Police Chief Scott Kent was at the meeting.
Tabled request for transient license approved
The council issued a transient merchant license for Tracy Hayes of Alexandria.
The council had tabled the request at its last meeting to find out more information about the items Hayes would be selling.
Alexander Oskar Holverson grew up in Douglas County and still has relatives locally. Written By: Karen Tolkkinen | ×
The Holverson brothers, taken in April 1911, one year before the Titanic sank, from left: Sidney, Henry, Alexander and Walter. (Contributed)
It’s been 109 years since the RMS Titanic sank in the icy Atlantic, and the memory of an Alexandria man who perished that day lives on.
Alexander Oskar Holverson, who grew up in Urness Township and Alexandria in Douglas County, was a businessman living in New York City at the time. He and his wife, Mary, a Pennsylvania native, boarded the supposedly unsinkable luxury liner as first-class passengers, according to Encyclopedia Titanica, a nonprofit online site devoted to the ship.
This week in history in Douglas County.
Written By:
Rachel Barduson | 2:00 pm, Mar. 3, 2021
This week in 1971, 50 years ago: Over 200 people were “snowed in” following the Region Six wrestling tournaments in Alexandria when a blizzard struck. Teams and fans found they couldn’t leave when blowing snow closed most of the highways in the area so they bedded down in the Jefferson High School gymnasium. People slept on wrestling mats and bleachers throughout the night, according to High School Principal Wayne Elton, who stayed with the group all night. Elton also said that a number of people traveling on the freeway came to the school seeking shelter when they were brought to town from stalled cars.
Kansas Profiles: Getting attached at Kipp
Ron Wilson
Special to The Kansan
Those who own skid-steer loaders point out that these industrial machines can have many uses. Perhaps their only limitation is the type of equipment that can be attached to those skid steers. These attachments can pull posts, wind wire, cut trees, dig trenches, mix concrete and more.
Today we’ll learn about an innovative rural Kansas business that specializes in designing attachments for those skid steer loaders, while offering all the capabilities of a complete machine shop.
LeeRoy Douglas is the owner and founder of Douglas Welding and Machine in Kipp. LeeRoy and his wife, Mary, live in Kipp, near Salina. LeeRoy was working in a metal fabrication shop in Salina when he decided to start his own business in 1989.