The city of Eagle River’s common council bid farewell to Jeffrey Hyslop during its organizational meeting on Tuesday, April 15. The emotional sendoff was highlighted with the presentation of a plaque and an official resolution.
With several area towns either adopting or in the process of consideration of some type of enhanced wake ordinance in recent years, the St. Germain town board last week voted during its April 14 meeting by a narrow margin to reject an ordinance which would regulate the use of enhanced-wake boats on lakes within the municipality.
St. Germain town officials and residents of received good news during a town board meeting on Monday, April 14, pertaining to long-awaited grant money from the federal government. The town’s high-capacity fire department well failed and was deactivated in the summer of 2022.
The future of an enhanced wake ordinance for the town of St. Germain remains uncertain. For the last several months, the St. Germain lakes committee and its ad-hoc subcommittee worked to prepare a draft ordinance to regulate the use of boats which create enhanced wakes on waterways within the town.
Officials in St. Germain discussed — and bemoaned — the municipality’s involvement with a federal grant program during a March 27 meeting of the town board. The town’s high-capacity fire department well failed and was deactivated in the summer of 2022.
The Eagle River common council voted unanimously last week to approve $160,000 in spending on equipment for the city’s police department. Police chief Christine Dobbs made the request to the council for authorization to purchase body-camera systems and vehicles.
A vote by the St. Germain town board on an ordinance to regulate the use of wake boats on town lakes has been put on hold. The town board tabled a vote on the proposed ordinance at the end of a lengthy discussion during its March 10 meeting.
Voters in the town of St. Germain will now have three candidates to choose from for one of two town supervisor seats up for election on April 1. Until very recently, St. Germain was facing a potentially problematic shortage of office-seekers; the town board will undergo a major turnover on April 1 as town chairman Tom Christensen, town supervisors Jim Swenson and Kalisa Mortag, town clerk June Vogel and town treasurer Jeanna Vogel have all decided not to seek re-election.
The Eagle River common council approved during its meeting last week support for a plan to upgrade a downtown highway crossing for pedestrians, bicyclists, and snowmobilers. The crossing spans U.S. Highway 45 near the Eagle River Chamber of Commerce at Bridge Street and leads into Riverview Park.
The Eagle River police department will send people who violate traffic laws to class instead of issue tickets. The city’s common council last week approved implementation of a new program which, in certain circumstances, will allow traffic-law violators an alternative to being ticketed and fined through the court system.
