Hillsboro commissioners granted approval to a 5K race event in the city Saturday, September 27.
Organizer Larry Mueller told city leaders that the Hillsboro Hospitality 5k family run/walk may become an annual benefit event for the Hillsboro Medical Center.
Mueller, who is working with Kim Salander and Dori Baesler, to make arrangements for the event, said that run will start and end in Woodland Park and send runners and walkers on a 3.1 mile course on the city’s east side. The race can’t cross railroad tracks, Mueller said, keeping the participants on one side of town. (more…)
Categories: Area News · Hillsboro
By NEIL O. NELSON
Teams chasing the championship trophy in next Friday’s charity golf tournament can’t bank on mulligans to claim the top prize.
Bragging rights to winning the biggest golf tournament played on the Hillsboro course this year will come on scratch scores and handicapped scoring, not the availability of second shot $5 mulligans.
In other words, the July 18 Hillsboro Medical Center Foundation Charity Golf Tournament can’t be bought.
Golfers this year will be limited to two mulligans each in the 18-hole scramble at the Goose River Golf Course in Hillsboro. (more…)
Categories: Area News · Hillsboro
Terry Reed tells how much fun it is watching horses in the lead finish races at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minn.
He was growing accustomed to watching horses in the back of the pack finish races.
Not any more.
Silver Fastbac, a 3-year-old quarter horse filly owned by Reed, won her third graded stakes race of the 2008 Canterbury Park racing season when she won the 440-yard Great Lakes Stakes (Grade III) race last weekend. (more…)
Categories: Area News · People in the news
By MICHELLE MCLEAN
Owners of a new home asked the Hillsboro city commission Monday to help fix a faulty sewer line.
Dave and Jody Schill built a new home at 218 2nd St. NE in 2006 and have had the sewer back up in their basement five times — including once on Christmas Eve. The Schills said the city has been very helpful in responding to their repeated emergencies — but they’ve also been patient in dealing with the shared problem. (more…)
Categories: City Council · City News
By MICHELLE MCLEAN
One Hillsboro commissioner back-pedaled Monday on a plan to form a partnership between the city and Traill Rural Water Users.
On a 3-1 vote, commissioners approved the second reading of an ordinance allowing the city to negotiate a joint powers agreement with TRW and form a regional water system, complete with a new water treatment plant for the city.
Commissioner Jeff Nelson voted no, suggesting residents “can’t afford” a new water plant, along with other city-wide improvement projects either completed in recent years or now under construction. (more…)
Categories: City Council · City News
First, department heads told of the crowded conditions in the annex to the courthouse built in 1955.
Then, a search committee recommended that the county’s Social Service agency and its growing case files, in addition to law enforcement personnel and their shackled prisoners must all be afforded more space.
Next, a building committee stated categorically that building new was the only answer, dismissing unceremoniously all other options, including the suggestion that county buy, remodel and move its Social Services staff and their clientele into the former Farm Service Agency building, standing empty a block away. (more…)
Categories: Editorial
60 YEARS AGO
June 18, 1948 — Flower thieves were threatened with “drastic action” by the park board. “Thoughtless youngsters” had been raiding the peony beds in Woodland Park in Hillsboro.
A Norwegian language film, “Vi Vil Leve,” was listed in the week’s schedule at Hillsboro’s Traill Theatre for a two-night run.
Hillsboro was set to host the Rogers Brothers Carnival for three days, featuring the “latest in thrill rides” — the Tilt-a-Wheel.
Joanne Wegge of Bingham Township earned top honors in state exams among 8th graders in Traill County rural schools. (more…)
Categories: Over the Years
