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Terry Traver
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The Jan. 17 City Council meeting in Scandia was the first led by newly elected Mayor Christine Maefsky and attended by newly elected Councilman Steve Kronmiller.
Rural event ordinance
The first item was amending the city’s development code related to rural event sites. Led by the work of the Planning Commission and Scandia City Planner Sheri Buss, changes were made to specific sections of the ordinance.
A rural event site is now called a “rural event site activity area,” which is defined as the specific area within a property that operates as a rural event facility on which any of the activities associated with the facility area are likely to occur, including parking areas.
The application for an annual operators permit for a rural event facility must be filed with the city at least 60 days prior to the expiration of the current annual operators permit.broadstreet.zone(50962);
The operator must submit an annual report

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Amanda Hurtley, Linwood, graduated from Valley City State University and North Dakota State University.
Rachel Huset and Abby Lichtscheidl of Wyoming earned a spot on the dean’s list at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point.
Daniel Nelson, Scandia, earned a place on Bemidji State University’s Blue Ice Jazz Band.
Mackenzie Puleom Forest Lake, Miranda Rossbach, Wyoming, and Sydney Halley, Scandia, earned a place on the dean’s list at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire.
Megan P Anderson, Brendon J Cleland-Babcock, Jaclyn R Daub, Seleah M Eckdahl, Skye S Finley, Kayla M Fuller, Matthew P Hansen, Ashley Johnson, Heather K Lowe, Shelby A Muscha, Claire A Plombon, Ross Schultz, Graham S Westphal, and Olivia L Westphal, Forest Lake, Alayna Mackiewicz and Natalie Pothen, Scandia, and Megan R Johnson, Gavin Morse, Natalie J Norman, Lindsey K Tilton, Wyoming, earned spots on the dean’s list at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
Sarah Kroska, Wyoming, Earned a spot on

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Laurie Warner and Anne Neu
On Valentine’s Day, voters in Minnesota House District 32B – including the residents of Wyoming – will finally get their chance to belatedly send a representative to the State Legislature.
Though the Legislature has already been in session for a few weeks, the district hasn’t had anyone to send. The election results for the district race were preemptively nullified in September 2016, when the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that the district’s former representative, Bob Barrett, did not actually live in the district, thus rendering his then-current re-election bid ineligible. Given the proximity to the election and the inability for ballots to be updated, state law required that the votes in the race between Republican Barrett and his Democratic challenger Laurie Warner be nullified.broadstreet.zone(48036);
A new election day for the race was set for Feb. 14. After the election, political strategist Anne Neu won the GOP endorsement to face

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