The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency in 2012 issued a notice of violation to Summit Lake Township because residents of the unincorporated community of Reading were releasing sewage into a nearby stream. Nine years later, the problem persists.
County must renovate KidsPeace space by the end of 2022 to get bonding funds. 9:30 am, Apr. 3, 2021 ×
WORTHINGTON When Nobles County was awarded nearly $847,000 in 2018 to renovate the former KidsPeace Prairie Academy at the Prairie Justice Center into an eight-bed short-term crisis residential facility, it had hoped the work could be done immediately to serve an area very much in need of mental health crisis services.
More than two years later and after two requests for proposals that saw no response from potential facility operators there has yet to be progress.
During a Thursday morning Nobles County Board of Commissioners work session, Community Services Administrator Stacie Golombiecki said her department is interested in contracting with a consultant or project manager to advance the effort. The idea came from discussions her office has had recently with representatives from the state’s Department of Human Services behavioral health division, as well as
Tom Johnson is set to retire April 30 after eight years with the county. 6:00 am, Mar. 6, 2021 ×
Johnson
WORTHINGTON When Nobles County Administrator Tom Johnson announced to commissioners in a closed session Tuesday morning that he would be retiring at the end of April, it didn’t come as a surprise.
Johnson had begun talking about his impending departure a year and a half ago, when the county hired a deputy county administrator in a dual role as emergency management director.
“March (2021) was a speculative date a year and a half ago,” Johnson said Wednesday.
In the position for slightly more than eight years he started in February 2013 Johnson said it’s time to see his kids and grandkids more often. He and his wife have five grown children, scattered across the country from Utah to Georgia, and 10 grandchildren.
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County commissioners to evaluate applications later this month. Money must be distributed by March 15. 5:30 am, Feb. 13, 2021 ×
WORTHINGTON A COVID-19 Relief grant program launched by Nobles County to help businesses and the not-for-profit sector hit hard by the pandemic has generated more than 150 applications.
The Minnesota Legislature awarded $433,000 to Nobles County for the program with the request that counties focus the dollars on those who truly need it. Approximately $10,000 was spent on marketing the program.
“They told us not to take the applications and divide the money (equally),” said Nobles County Administrator Tom Johnson.
That’s why the application used this time asked business owners to tell their story, he explained.