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09/14/2009
KLEM NEWS UPDATE-PM
(LE MARS)--THE MAYOR OF LE MARS IS A CANDIDATE FOR A SECOND TERM. DICK KIRCHOFF RETURNED COMPLETED NOMINATION PAPERS TO CITY CLERK BEV LANGEL THIS MORNING (MONDAY).
KIRCHOFF IS COMPLETING HIS FIRST TWO-YEAR TERM AS THE CITY'S TOP ELECTED OFFICIAL. .
OTHER CANDIDATES INCLUDE INCUMBENT COUNCIL MEMBERS KEN NELSON AND JOHN LEONARD AND HOSPITAL TRUSTEE WILLIAM E. "BILL" YOUNG.
THOSE WHO'VE FILED FOR OFFICE ARE UNOPPOSED IN THEIR ELECTION OR RE-ELECTION BIDS.
THE DEADLINE TO FILE FOR OFFICE IN LE MARS IS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AT 5 P-M.
(LE MARS)-THE LE MARS CITY COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER A RECOMMENDATION TO UPGRADE THE CITY'S COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEM DURING TOMORROW'S MEETING .
AFTER CONDUCTING INTERVIEWS, AN ADHOC COMMITTEE OF THE LE MARS CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU IS RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF A WEBSITE DESIGN CONTRACT WITH T.J. TEMPLETON, DOING BUSINESS AS LE MARTIAN STUDIOS.
THE COMMITTEE IS RECOMMENDING A THREE-PHASE APPROACH, BEGINNING WITH CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW WEBSITE AT A COST OF $7,000 AND A MAINTENANCE COST OF $1,000 PER MONTH DURING THE FIRST YEAR.
A NEW INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WOULD BE DEVELOPED IN THE SECOND PHASE, FOLLOWED BY REPLACEMENT OF SEVERAL COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS EACH YEAR. (NEWS REPORT BY LARRY SCHMITZ FOR KLEM NEWS)
(Sioux City)--State D-O-T leaders say they're making progress toward completing Highway 20, what promises to become one of Iowa's main east-west corridors. Iowa Department of Transportation District 3 Engineer Tony Lazarowicz said the new four lane right of way in Webster and Calhoun Counties is nearing completion.
Paving will begin in 2010 and conclude by the end of the calendar year. He also said bids have been let and contracts awarded for the grading of four lane U.S. 20 in western Calhoun and eastern Sac Counties to U.S. 71 at Early. Grading for the segment from Iowa Highway 4 to County Road N-14 east of Sac City will begin next year with paving planned for 2011 and 2012 when it will finally open to traffic.
The grading work from N-14 to U.S. 71 will begin in 2011 with paving to follow. The plans call for this segment of traffic to open at the end of 2013. While the grading and paving take place east of U.S. 71, survey crews have been at work on the segment between Moville and Correctionville in Woodbury County. By the end of this year all road survey work from Moville to Holstein will be complete. The survey work from Holstein to Early will be done as well. Once completed, Highway 20 will be stretching from Sioux City all the way to Dubuque. (News report by Radio Iowa)
VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) The Army Corps of Engineers has purchased 546 acres along the Missouri River near Vermillion that will be used to create wildlife and fish habitat similar to what was there before dams controlled the river's flow.
The land parcel includes 8,000 feet of shoreline.
The corps has been creating backwater areas and building sandbars in that stretch of the Missouri River to duplicate terrain that existed when it was a free-flowing river.
The agency said it hasn't decided exactly how the land will be used, but says it will be for river restoration.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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