Proceed with caution on committee consolidation efforts

County board members will be asked to make a major change to how members of certain county committees are selected.At last week’s committee on committee and rules, members voted to send to the full county board a proposal to do away with electing the members of the county highway and land conservation/UW Extension committees. If the county code change is approved, members of those committees wil...

Rib Lake is laying the groundwork now to add ultraviolet disinfection of discharge water at the wastewater treatment plant within the next few years.At the February 11 Rib Lake Village Board meeting, board members approved an $85,000 contract with MSA Professional Services for design and engineering to add the disinfection process to the existing treatment plant.Pat Morrow of MSA explained that th...