Hugo Voters Express Support For City’s Current Trajectory
Miron and Hegberg Win Re-election
HUGO - Since the election of 2006, Hugo’s politics have become increasingly polarized between two groups of people with diff erent visions of what the city of Hugo should strive for as it moves into the future.
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Quick Count Meant Short Wait For nervous Candidates
CENTERVILLE - It was only a short wait for the candidates nervously awaiting results on election night in the city of Centerville.
It was just a few minutes before 9 p.m., less than an hour after the polls closed, that incumbents Mayor Mary Capra and Council Member Jeff Paar learned they had been given another term in offi ce by citizens, who returned them for two and four years respectively.
... MoreHugo Candidate Asked To Leave Polling Place
HUGO - City Council candidate Jess Roush was asked to leave Hugo’s Ward 1 polling place at the Hugo Fire Hall mid-afternoon on Election Day.
Judge Orders Condemnation Of Miron Property To Begin
City Waits For Projects To Come Together
HUGO - During the past several weeks, not only was Fran Miron re-elected as mayor of Hugo, but a judge ordered the local watershed district to begin condemnation proceedings on land that Miron’s ancestors have farmed for well over a century.
The mayor’s pretty pleased about both.
Hugo Woman’s Dream Team? The HFD
$10,000 In Contest Winnings Donated To HFD
HUGO – Gloria Brunner had resigned herself to a life of pain.
She didn’t know why the uncontrollable neck contractions were happening, but she knew they hurt terribly.
The real key to her diagnosis was a split-second in time in late 1998 when her husband John snapped her picture—and caught one of those spasms on camera. It was a moment made in heaven, but Brunner had no idea that the photo would lead to a $10,000 donation to the Hugo Fire Department ten years later.
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Lino Voters Reject Charter Amendment
LINO LAKES - By a significant margin, Lino Lakes voters roundly rejected a proposed amendment to their city Charter last week.
Out of 10,187 voters who expressed an opinion on the ballot question, 6529 of them—or 64 percent—opposed the measure, approximately the same split that occurred in 1995 when voters last addressed a similar ballot question.
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