ECM Editorial: Understand school district needs before casting your ballots

Tuesday, Nov. 7, is an election day focused on local governmental issues. Many areas of Minnesota will have ballots for city officials, school board members, township officers, park district board members and local ballot questions.
Your participation in these elections is very important. If you have questions the Minnesota Secretary of State’s web page (sos.state.mn.us) presents a section entitled “What’s On My Ballot?” You should also notice that early voting has begun. Absentee ballots cast before Election Day are an increasingly important part of Minnesota’s election process.broadstreet.zone(48036);
In all, 46 Minnesota school districts will have operating levy questions on the ballot and 39 will present voters with bonding questions for new or remodeled facilities. These are significant if not critical issues for your schools and we urge you to give these ballot questions careful and informed attention.
There is a basic difference between a bond question and an operating levy question.
Operating Levy Questions
So

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Gordon “Gordy” F. Thiele

Gordon Frederick Thiele passed away at home peacefully on October 4, 2017 surrounded by his loving family. Gordy was born on July 31, 1937 in South Saint Paul, Minnesota and recently celebrated his 80th birthday.
Gordy loved to travel, especially road trips to Duluth, out West or to Branson, Missouri. He was an avid angler, Vikings fan, loved to tell a good joke and cruise around in his Chevy truck. He was a wonderful father who loved camping with his family.
He is preceded in death by his father, Fred Thiele and mother, Betty Thiele.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth; his sons, Bret (Mayra Gomez), Troy, and Dean (Amy Schindeldecker); his sister, Gloria Olander; brother-in-law, Ed Backie; grandchildren, Jade Thiele, Christopher Vorhies and Jennifer (Mark) Beckman; and seven great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be at Mattson Funeral Home, 343 North Shore Drive, Forest Lake from 3 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, October 8. Gordy’s

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Mortgage Foreclosure – NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

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THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.broadstreet.zone(48036);
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage:
DATE OF MORTGAGE:
October 30, 2007
ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $359,000.00
MORTGAGOR(S): John R. Pratt and Allison J. Pratt, Husband and Wifebroadstreet.zone(50962);
MORTGAGEE:
Mortgages Unlimited, Inc.
LENDER OR BROKER AND MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON THE MORTGAGE: Mortgages Unlimited, Inc.
SERVICER: CitiMortgage, Inc.
DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: Filed December 5, 2007, Washington County Recorder, as Document Number 3672319
ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: Assigned to: CitiMortgage, Inc.
LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY:
Lot 2, Block 14 Stonemill Farms 2nd Addition
PROPERTY ADDRESS: 11374 Balsam Way, Woodbury, MN 55129
PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 13.028.21.24.0036
COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Washington
THE AMOUNT CLAIMED TO BE DUE ON THE MORTGAGE ON THE DATE OF THE NOTICE:
$385,286.14
THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no

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Notice of Public Hearings – CITY OF COLUMBUS

NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED ASSESSMENT
2017 Street Improvementsbroadstreet.zone(48036);
Notice is hereby given that the Columbus City Council will meet at 7:00 p.m. on October 24, 2017 in the City Hall at 16319 Kettle River Blvd., Columbus, Minnesota to consider, and possibly adopt, the proposed assessment for the improvement of Furman Street, from W Broadway Avenue to approximately 0.3 miles south (City Project 2017-4) by subgrade preparation, bituminous surfacing, and appurtenances thereto. Adoption by the council of the proposed assessment against abutting or benefiting property may occur at the hearing.
Such assessment is proposed to be payable in equal annual installments extending over a period of 10 years, the first of the installments to be payable on or before the first Monday in January, 2018, and will bear interest at the rate of 4.50 percent per annum from the date of the adoption of the assessment resolution. To the first installment shall be

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Notice of Public Hearings – CITY OF COLUMBUS

NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED ASSESSMENT
2017 Street Improvementsbroadstreet.zone(48036);
Notice is hereby given that the Columbus City Council will meet at 7:00 p.m. on October 24, 2017 in the City Hall at 16319 Kettle River Blvd., Columbus, Minnesota to consider, and possibly adopt, the proposed assessment for the improvement of 141st Avenue, from Lake Drive (CSAH 23) to approximately 1 mile west (City Project 2017-5) by subgrade preparation, bituminous surfacing, and appurtenances thereto. Adoption by the council of the proposed assessment against abutting or benefiting property may occur at the hearing.
Such assessment is proposed to be payable in equal annual installments extending over a period of 10 years, the first of the installments to be payable on or before the first Monday in January, 2018, and will bear interest at the rate of 4.50 percent per annum from the date of the adoption of the assessment resolution. To the first installment shall

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Notice of Public Hearings – CITY OF COLUMBUS

NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED ASSESSMENT
2017 Street Improvementsbroadstreet.zone(48036);
Notice is hereby given that the Columbus City Council will meet at 7:00 p.m. on October 24, 2017 in the City Hall at 16319 Kettle River Blvd., Columbus, Minnesota to consider, and possibly adopt, the proposed assessment for the improvement of 159th Avenue and Xingu Street, from Kettle River Boulevard to 162nd Avenue (City Project 2017-1) by subgrade preparation, bituminous surfacing, and appurtenances thereto. Adoption by the council of the proposed assessment against abutting or benefiting property may occur at the hearing.
Such assessment is proposed to be payable in equal annual installments extending over a period of 10 years, the first of the installments to be payable on or before the first Monday in January, 2018, and will bear interest at the rate of 4.50 percent per annum from the date of the adoption of the assessment resolution. To the first installment shall

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Postponement – NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

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THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.broadstreet.zone(48036);
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage:
DATE OF MORTGAGE:
January 9, 2012
ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $173,417.00
MORTGAGOR(S): Fredrick L. Hoffbeck and Linda A. Hoffbeck, husband and wifebroadstreet.zone(50962);
MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.
TRANSACTION AGENT: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.
MIN#: 100357020050291025
LENDER OR BROKER AND MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON THE MORTGAGE:
American Bank
SERVICER:
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: Filed January 18, 2012, Washington County Registrar of Titles, as Document Number 1211014, thereafter modified by Document recorded on May 24, 2017 as document number 1247355, in the office of the county Registrar of Titles of Washington County, Minnesota
ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: Assigned to: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY:
Lot Thirty Seven (37) and the

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