The annual Giltner Daze celebration starts Friday.
This entry in Sunday’s Booster Days Parade in Hampton won the prize for Best Theme with its America 250-themed costumes and decorations. From left above are Sharon Klute as U.S. Flag Creator Betsy Ross, Damaris Olsen as the Statue of Liberty, Jean Anne Schmidt as Miss USA and Loa Winter as Uncle Sam.
Members of a citizens focus group (seated at center table) present their findings during a report to the Aurora City Council at a May 26 meeting which drew approximately 40 people to the Bremer Center.
Amelia Guenther, left, and Chris Hyde address the Aurora City Council during last week’s meeting, where the local firefighters union made its case as to why Aurora’s ambulance service should remain public, not go private.
Booster Days in Hampton is this weekend
Committee members and other supporters of the new Hampton Veterans Memorial Park gathered at the site on the grounds of the City Auditorium on Memorial Day to celebrate the beginning of construction on the monument. Organizers hope to have the major part of construction on the park completed by this fall.
Todd Jensen, left, is sworn in as a new member of the Aurora City Council May 26 by Deputy Clerk Di Ana Leininger. Jensen will fill out the remaining 2-1/2 years of Wayne Roblee’s Ward 1 term.
The bridge just north of the intersection at Kronborg will be replaced later this summer
Edgerton's Power Up Day Camp
The Students 4 Sustainability Club from CCC drilled holes in the ground and then placed nearly 30 different types of annuals and perennials for the garden, to provide food sources and a breeding grounds for butterflies, bees and other types of insects.