Tuesday, May 22, 2012
The former member of the Burnsville City Council who passed away in 2011 will be honored with a plaque at the Alimagnet Dog Park.
Editor's Note: This is a press release from the City of Burnsville. Known for his love of dogs – and balanced budgets–former Burnsville City Council member Charlie Crichton will be honored with the unveiling of a plaque at Burnsville’s Alimagnet Dog Park on June 5. The memorial dedication is planned for 5:30 p.m. at the park, located at 1200 Alimagnet Parkway. The ceremony will coincide with the City’s “I Love Burnsville Week” festivities, and will include remarks from Burnsville Mayor Elizabeth Kautz. Crichton, who was 84 years old, died on March 13, 2011, shortly after being reelected to a sixth term on the Burnsville City Council. He served on the Council for 18 years; beginning in 1993 after serving on the City’s planning commission …
The filing period is open until 5 p.m. June 5 for select municipal and county races, including Burnsville City Council and Dakota County Commission.
Election filing for a variety of municipal and county offices—Burnsville City Council and Dakota County Board of Commissioners among them—opens at 8 a.m. today and runs through 5 p.m. June 5. Taking a glance at local candidate filling information: BURNSVILLE CITY COUNCIL The four-year terms of Mayor Elizabeth Kautz and council members Dan Gustafson and Mary Sherry expire on Dec. 31. The following election information is from the city’s website: This fall, Burnsville residents will have the opportunity to vote–or run–for one Mayoral seat and two City Council positions during the 2012 election. Candidates interested in running for one of these three positions can file an affidavit for candidacy beginning Tuesday, May 22 through Tuesday, June…
Monday, May 21, 2012
The Burnsville City Council will meet in regular session at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
A pair of public hearings highlight the agenda for Tuesday’s Burnsville City Council meeting. Scheduled as part of the council’s regular agenda are public hearings to consider resellers licenses for Gold Buyers of America and Pro Paintball. Also on the regular agenda is consideration of a Planned Unit Development amendment to allow a seasonal open air market at the Buck Hill ski area. Other agenda items include: • Recognizing Deputy City Manager Tom Hansen for 24 years of “excellent service” to the City of Burnsville. • Presenting a State of Minnesota proclamation designating Burnsville as a Yellow Ribbon City. • Proclaiming this week (May 20-26) as National Public Works Week in the city. The council meets in regular session at 6:30 p.m. …
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A number of residents lost trees in Saturday evening storm.
Editor’s Note: This is a press release from the City of Burnsville. The City of Burnsville will be providing a site for disposal of homeowners’ trees that were impacted by the May 19 storm. Beginning May 21, residents may drop-off storm debris at the city's compost site, which is directly behind Dodge of Burnsville on Pleasant Avenue. Residents should not put the material in plastic bags to dispose of it at the compost site. If tree debris has been placed in plastic bags for hauling purposes, residents are asked to open bags and empty them at the compost site. The plastic bags can then be reused or disposed of properly by residents. Hours of operation for the compost site will be 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week through Sunday, June 3…
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Residents have veto power over the construction of barriers along Interstate 35 north of the County Road 46 interchange.
Residents living along Interstate 35 in southern Burnsville are contemplating whether they want noise walls erected between their homes and the highway. The Minnesota Department of Transportation has proposed building noise the barriers along I-35 between 157th Street West and the County Road 46 interchange in 2015. According to the Star Tribune, 25 homes—12 on the west side and 13 on the east side—would benefit from the noise reduction barriers. MnDOT conducted a public information meeting at Nativity Episcopal Church, near the proposed site of the walls, this past Thursday. There, residents were able to view the project’s design and layout and ask MnDOT representatives questions. Residents impacted by the walls have been provided with a …
fter spending months and more than 525 hours of staff time trying to get the landlord to fix the plethora of problems at that apartment complex, the Burnsville City Council is now looking at ways to tighten its rental property licensing law.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
The Rosemount High School teacher and former state representative for part of Apple Valley is the GOP nominee to run against U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
Former state respresentative and Rosemount resident Kurt Bills has won the Republican endorsement to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Sen. Amy Klobuchar. Bills won on the second ballot, competing against former state Rep. Dan "Doc" Severson and war veteran Pete Hegseth. While serving in the Minnesota Legislature, Bills has continued to teach economics at Rosemount High School. His teaching duties over the past 15 years have included advanced courses in micro and macroeconomics and American government and politics. Bills and his wife, Cindy, have been married for 17 years and are parents of four children ranging in age from 5 to 14. The couple also owns and operates a home daycare. In a news release, Bills said, "America …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The fate of the U.S. House of Representatives rests on a few battleground districts, including Minnesota's Second Congressional District, according to the Post.
Follow us on Twitter | Like us on Facebook |Get our newsletter |Write for Local Voices Rep. John Kline's (R) race against Democratic challenger Mike Obermueller has caught the eye of the Washington Post. Minnesota's Second Congressional District may be "surprisingly competitive" this year, according to a May 11 article in the Post highlighting battleground districts across the country. Kline "drew the short straw" in redistricting, the Post said, and faces tighter re-election chances. The Post also cited the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's decision to provide support to Obermueller through its Red to Blue Emerging Races program as a factor. Kline, a five-term incumbent, has for years won re-election by double-digit margins in…
A party commission voted to uphold its endorsement of former legislator Jim Carlson on Saturday.
A DFL commission ruled against Eagan Mayor Mike Maguire on Saturday, rejecting his challenge to the party's endorsement of former legislator Jim Carlson. The ruling is a setback to Maguire's campaign for the District 51 Senate seat, currently held by Sen. Ted Daley (R). Maguire competed earlier this spring against Carlson, a fellow Democrat, in a high profile campaign for the DFL endorsement in the race. Carlson took the endorsement on a 200 to 133 vote on the fourth ballot of the endorsement convention on March 24. But Maguire filed a challenge to the endorsement on April 18 after the discovery of a series of convention voting errors in Carlson's favor. The DFL's Constitution Commission gave the challenge a full review in the weeks …
Two blocks of Cedar will close overnight from Friday to Saturday for sewer work.
Cedar Avenue is scheduled to be closed from 10 p.m. Friday until 7 a.m. Saturday between 145th and 147th streets for water and sewer work, according to Dakota County. Recommended detours are to use 140th and 150th (County Road 42) streets to route around the closure. Construction on Cedar began in April 2011. The county project involves creating shoulders specifically for buses and widening Cedar Avenue to accommodate a bus rapid transit system, a station-to-station line that would have buses running from Lakeville to a park-and-ride near the Mall of America and back every 15 minutes during the week. The goal of bus rapid transit, which also is recommended or planned for other corridors besides Cedar, is to better and more quickly connect …
Neal A Wilson
9:42 am on Sunday, May 20, 2012
I currently live within eyesight of Buck Hill, have lived in this beautiful area for the past 29 years, and strongly recommend NOT building the proposed sound walls on either side of I35 in south Burnsville. I grew up and lived in the San Francisco Bay Area on the west side of the Bay on what is called The Peninsula, an extended series of suburb cities from San Francisco to San Jose. Today they … more ›