Another lot is sold By Jill Fennema – Last week Wednesday the Edgerton City Council held the annual Truth in Taxation hearing. This yearly hearing typically happens during the last meeting of the year and is when the council sets

By Jill Fennema – Last week’s Edgerton City Council meeting was a long affair, with budget discussion taking up most of the two and a half hours of talk. Dena Berghorst, the director of the Edgerton Public Library was at

Pictured: Last year, Bethel CRC purchased two lots south of the existing sanctuary. They hope to expand their church building in the future. (Photo by Jill Fennema) By Jill Fennema – The Edgerton City Council entertained two different variance requests

The city of Edgerton has been awarded a Minnesota DNR park grant for $169,000. This is a 50 percent matching grant to update the city park. The matching funds can come in the way of dollars and in-kind labor by

By Jill Fennema – Last week’s city council meeting was almost entirely taken up with discussion of whether the city council should allow living space in a commercial building in the Industrial Park. Ron and Kim Menning would like to

City’s lots priced to move At last week’s city council meeting, the decision was made to lower the price of many of the lots in the Northwest First Addition. The city has only sold five lots in the addition in

By Jill Fennema – The Edgerton City Council and Economic Development Association (EDA) have been discussing options for houses in the Northwest Addition for the past couple of months. They have looked at building plans for smaller twin homes with

By Ruth Fennema – At last week’s monthly Edgerton school board meeting, Superintendent Buckridge informed the board on current COVID stats.  There is one staff member and 11 students that have been exposed to COVID.    There is testing available for staff members and the vaccine is now

New councilmembers took the oath of office at last week’s city council meeting. Pictured – Craig Vreeman takes the oath. In the background is Kevin Caspersen who would be sworn in after Vreeman. Article by Jill Fennema – Last week’s

By Jill Fennema – The Edgerton City Council met on Wednesday, Dec. 9, to set the levy amount for 2021. In September, the council had set a preliminary levy increase of 42 percent, as they looked forward at a $7