By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com Any residents of Floyd County Supervisor District 3 who might be considering petitioning for a special election to choose their supervisor have until Tuesday, Jan. 17, to turn in a petition to the county auditor’s office. The deadline would have been Monday, Jan. 16, which is 14 days after a committee of three county elected officials appointed Jim Jorgensen as the supervisor, but the Board of …
By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com Two Floyd County men – one a current farmer and former trucking company owner-operator from Rudd, the other a retired Army captain from Floyd who is currently working as a maintenance technician for a Garner truck company – have applied to be a county supervisor. One of them is likely to be appointed on Monday to the District 3 county supervisor position, which will officially become …
By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com Residents of a third of Floyd County will have to wait a while longer before they find out who their new county supervisor will be. In last week’s election, Jeff Hawbaker of Floyd was the winner in a three-way race to represent District 3, which includes the northern tier of Floyd County townships plus Rockford township. But on Thursday, Hawbaker submitted a message to the county …
By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com The Floyd County Board of Supervisors approved spending almost $152,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds for 18 RV campsites at the Tosanak Recreation Area, at its meeting this week. Conservation Director Adam Sears had presented the Tosanak plan, along with a couple of other conservation projects using ARPA funds, in January, when the county Board of Supervisors began discussing potential uses for more than $3 …