The Lake County Commission delayed action this week on a conditional use permit for a private campground on the southeast side of my beloved Lake Herman. Terry and Bev Timmer acquired Larry Dirks's land and proposed building a campground up…
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Fog on Lake Herman—it must be August. Sun rising through fog on Lake Herman. Seven years later, we have some good-looking trees in the yard. Wherever we go, there will be biking!
Not even 24 hours back in Lake County, and I'm already throwing a party! Well, that assumes you call showing slides and fielding questions about sewer systems a party (and who wouldn't?) The Lake Herman Sanitary District invites everyone to…
For the second time in two years, the Lake Herman Sanitary District finds itself without a quorum. Last week Friday, board member Charlie Stoneback submitted the following notice to Lake County Auditor Bobbi Janke and others: The purpose of this…
Last fall, the Lake Herman Sanitary District, on which I continue to serve, approved spending about $20,000 to have Banner Associates from Brookings recalculate the cost and feasibility of building a central sewer system around Lake Herman. The last time…
Some of my neighbors on Lake Herman have advocated building a central sewer system and pumping our poop to Madison for the city to process in its wastewater treatment plant. The Spearfish Valley Sanitary District has an arrangement like that…
I think I got lied to last night. I don't like that very much. Last night the Lake Herman Sanitary District met by telephone to discuss various issues around our fair lake. Charlie Stoneback and I, the only two Lake…
...Lake Herman Toodles Along Online... Jonathan Ellis from that Sioux Falls newspaper writes a summary of South Dakota's open government practices for the Sunlight Foundation. He says South Dakota has a culture of treating government records as the property of…