Eagle River will receive roughly $385,000 in grant money for repairs to McKinley Boulevard, administrator Robin Ginner announced to the city’s common council during its meeting on Tuesday, May 12. The grant is part of the state’s Local Roads Improvement Program (LRIP), administered by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT).
The Eagle River city council on May 12 rejected a request from the town of Lincoln to re-open the shuttered yard-waste facility the two municipalities had shared until it was closed to public use in March.
The possibility of the use of eminent domain by the city of Eagle River to get a dog park established was a topic of discussion during the May 12 meeting of the Eagle River city council. City administrator Robin Ginner had informed the council she believes the city is limited to one particular piece of property as the last potential site for a proposed municipal dog park.
The city of Eagle River has become a victim of its own success due to its farmers’ market causing congestion on nearby streets. Brad Adamovich, the foreman for the city’s department of public works (DPW), told the city council during its April 14 meeting in 2025, “there were a lot of growing pains going on there with the farmers’ market getting as large as it is, and with all of the traffic.”
A month after the Eagle River city council adopted a fee schedule for open-records requests, the new policy was the center of contention at the council’s April 14 meeting. Eagle River resident Kathryn Craffey stressed at one point in the meeting the importance of transparency in city government to the council which prompted alderman Jerry Burkett to respond by characterizing her comments as “defamation of character.”
The city of Eagle River, as a result of action during the city council’s March 10 meeting, will implement a fee schedule for open records requests. The move follows a raft of requests for documents dating back several years, initiated by Eagle River resident Kathryn Craffey.
The third discussion in six months at the city council level about a problematic three-way intersection in Eagle River resulted in a resolution during the council’s March 10 meeting. That resolution was to move forward with installation of a stop sign to the intersection at Sheridan Street and Silver Lake Road.
When the St. Germain town board next meets in regular session on April 13 among items on the meeting agenda will be two public hearings regarding possible changes in the town’s ordinances. The town board made the decision to conduct the public hearings during a discussion at its March 9 meeting.
The city of Eagle River will re-vamp the city’s yard-waste program and shutter its facility on Elm Drive for use by the public. The decisions to do so were made after discussion during the city council’s March 10 meeting which in turn followed months of debate over the facility’s future.