East Grand Forks City Council says yes to 10th instead of roundabout grandforksherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from grandforksherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mayoral veto stymies East Grand Forks roundabout
East Grand Forks City Council members voted to keep a planned roundabout in the city s long-term transit plans, which kept the project in line for $860,000 worth of federal subtarget funding in 2022. Mayor Steve Gander vetoed that vote last week, and council members failed to override his veto on Tuesday. The roundabout is still in the transit plan and still in line for the federal funding, but, in City Administrator David Murphy s estimation, the failed veto override leaves the city with two options: rush to put a new project in the roundabout s place in time for the 2022 funding, or see if one of three other northwest Minnesota cities in the same program would take East Grand Forks spot in a four-year rotation, which would buy the city time to revisit its decision once again.
East Grand Forks narrowly picks Bygland roundabout over 10th Street rework grandforksherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from grandforksherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘This is one I’m willing to cut’: East Grand Forks Council split on proposal to replace librarian
East Grand Forks officials OK d the addition of a public services librarian at the city s Campbell Library in 2017. The woman who held that job quit at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and council members, wary of its cost-to-benefit ratio and how much use the job would have while the library was mostly closed, voted not to find a replacement. Now that the library is slowly but surely reopening, Campbell staff and some city officials hope to revisit that decision, but at some council members aren t interested.
East Grand Forks OK’s protest of COVID-19 restrictions
Justin LaRocque, who owns The Spud Jr., is planning a protest of Gov. Tim Walz s COVID-19 restrictions. East Grand Forks City Council members agreed to close the street in front of LaRocque s restaurant for that protest, which is scheduled for Saturday afternoon. 6:58 pm, Jan. 5, 2021 ×
State Sen. Mark Johnson, R-East Grand Forks, at left; Rep. Deb Kiel, R-Crookston; Justin LaRocque; East Grand Forks Mayor Steve Gander, and City Council President Mark Olstad discuss Gov. Tim Walz s executive order in a tent set up in front of the Spud Jr. (Adam Kurtz / Forum News Service)