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Council would be able to raise taxes formed; and hold discussions with the
that high and survive, and I can tell Plan g Commission, Library
you for certain that the current City BoaW ire Department, Bayport Gra *e-schoo
Council has absolutely no intention Community Action League and any
of doing anything of the sort." other community organizations that B MIKE MARSNIK
Kosmo said the negotiated formula want to be involved. y
Staff Writer
under which the company will pay for "Each council member also invites
the services it receives for the next private comments from any resident," Look out Jay Kimble and Nance Pun
five years, guarantees the city will not he remarked. Baer is in the race for Stillwater mayor
have to make drastic changes during He said the council will work she's only 12 — a sixth grader at Oak
that period. through the Association of Minnesota
"No one can guarantee that there Municipalities to address the Legis- a —this is her second camps
years agg
will not be some challenges in the lature on issues of fiscal disparities, years o, when she was in the secoi
future, but that holds true for any gov- local government aid, reimbursement Liza ran her first campaign for mayq
ernment, business or household," he for city services provided to tax ex- garnered two votes, as did her youngq
said. "Now that the present situation empt property (He wonders, why not the race for sheriff.
has been resolved, we must find so- put the prison on the same formula as At that time, the girls designed their
lutions for the future, that's why you Andersen ?), an end to the state's prac- 1 2 S signs and put them the frp
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elect a city council." 812 South 6th Avenue. Her r neighbor I
street, David , with less voted for het,
Kosmo said the city will continue (See Kosmo, page 8)
and this year, with less than a week q
tion day, he asked why they werenl
* Ryder buses one step again. So, on Saturday, they resurrected
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closer to new home Bay ort council
OAK PARK HEIGHTS — go- ahead, however, unless the Oak
Ryder Student Transportation is Park Heights City Council ap- B MIKE MARSNIK !x
one step closer to having a new proves a conditional use permit for Staff Writer
home to park the nearly 100 buses Ryder to use the site. Thomas could tb
it uses to service District 834 not speculate on when the company BAYPORT — At its Oct. 5 meet- Z
schools. could move its buses, saying he is ing, the Bayport City Council sent a la
Ryder contract manager John still "waiting for a call" from the proposed amendment to the zoning of
Thomas confirmed on Monday that city to find out when the matter will ordinance to more clearly define tb
the company has reached an agree- be placed on the council agenda. home occupation businesses back to m
ment with the Greystone Manage- "We're just one step closer, but the Planning Commission. The Plan- a
ment of Stillwater to lease the site nothing is final," he elaborated. ning and Zoning Commission had si
of the former Junker landfill — Ryder currently keeps its District spent considerable time on the si-
now known as Stagecoach Indus- 834 buses at the Territorial Prison amendment, but the council felt it $
trial Park —a roughly 10 -acre site site on Highway 95 in northern needed to be more lenient in allow - rt
in southern Oak Park Heights. Stillwater. ing the sale of products by neighbor- 0
The arrangement won't get the — MARK BROUWER hood businesses. Beauty salons, in d
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Of nicknames and ffi Today in local history
the Sierra Club Nov. 3 8
149: Residents of Stillwater learned that by an act of the Minne-
• C o 1 u m n i s t 3 sota Legislature on November 1, the Territorial Prison was to be lo-
Utecht won- cated in Stillwater.
Bob
Bob what hap- 0' 1876: At a special meeting of the council of the village of Marine,
ders pened to nick- the city fathers refused to issue a liquor license to Andrew N. Leveen.
;A. -& He had to close his saloon.
names." 1953: The Stillwater Printing Company was sold to Williston Pub-
Columnist lishers of Williston, North Dakota. All equipment was going to that =
Jon Michels: city to be used for publishing a new weekly paper. Stillwater Printing
stresses the im- ffi was a successor to the Post Messenger newspaper which began pub -
portance of the Utecht lishing in 1856. It was discontinued in 1951.
Sierra Club. page 4
Source: Historical Society of Washington County, 439 -5956
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