Residents happy with parks as they are
Farmington residents appear to be happy with the parks and trails they have, but uninterested in paying more taxes to expand their options. The city’s parks system got generally good marks on a resident survey conducted this summer. 74 percent of residents reported using the city’s trail system and another 74 percent reported using neighborhood parks. Of the residents who have used the city’s parks, 79 percent rated them either good or excellent.
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Dewatering work being done to allow the reconstruction of Walnut Street has been identified as the cause of cloudy water discovered earlier this summer in the Vermillion River.
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Stroll through the Horticulture building at the Dakota County Fair this week, and there’s one thing you won’t see: any of the large, ripe vegetables from a Second Street garden here in Farmington.
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There’s not a lot of common ground between bank balances and blacksmiths’ anvils. Dealing with one is a mostly mental pursuit, the other mostly physical. Kate Aspenwall likes it that way. She’s got two jobs to keep herself busy. One exercises her brains, the other her biceps.
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Garden tractors have long been useful tools for hacking away at overgrown lawns, but at this year’s Dakota County Fair the normally peaceful landscaping tools are going to unleash a whole new kind of destruction. The lawn tractors and their drivers will be set lose on each other in a miniature-scale demolition derby to be held at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 11.
RELATED CONTENTFarmington men escape as truck slides into Mississippi
For good friends Randy Johnson and Jim Hunt, Monday morning was supposed to be spent floating on the St. Croix River and catching walleyes. Instead, the two Farmington men escaped tragedy, then spent the new few hours watching from shore as crews fished their truck and trailer out of the water.
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It’s Monday morning. It’s steamy-warm outside. It’s one week until the opening day of the Dakota County Fair. And there’s a 5x5-foot patch of black dirt outside the sheep barn at the fairgrounds that needs to be dealt with.
RELATED CONTENTTeachers seek comfort level with science
Talking last week about the Farmington School District’s disappointing results on the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment science test, assistant superintendent Christine Weymouth suggested teachers would have to find ways to work together.
RELATED CONTENTBike race series comes to Eureka
The continued deterioration of a Burnsville road has pushed a south-metro bike racing institution a little bit farther out into the country. The Silver Cycling club was scheduled to hold its first Farm Dog Time Trial July 28 on the roads of Eureka Township. The race will take the place of the long-running Black Dog Time Trial, which has taken place for nearly 30 years on Black Dog Road in Burnsville. Events are also scheduled Aug. 11 and Aug. 25.
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It’s pretty hard not to notice the large, shady trees along Akin Road. They’ve been there for what seems like forever, so no one really pays too much attention to them, right? Wrong. Two Farmington church congregations do, and their efforts to save what turns out to be an endangered habitat were acknowledged by the city of Farmington Monday night.
RELATED CONTENTFind the hot fishing spots around Farmington
During these lazy, hazy days of summer lots of anglers hope to get out of town for a fishing weekend, but finding the time sometimes proves tricky. But there’s good news for Farmington’s fishers - living in a town where there’s more than 100 ponds means there’s plenty of fishing holes, right here at home.
RELATED CONTENTBesters are county’s Farm Family of the Year
The University of Minnesota has named the Al and Beth Bester family of Hampton Dakota County’s 2010 Farm Family of the Year. The Besters were recognized locally Tuesday, July 13, at the Dakota County Board of Commissioners meeting.
RELATED CONTENTPool aims for an older crowd
Farmington's municipal pool has long been a source of summer fun for Farmington kids, but this season the city wants to open up the opportunities to a new age bracket.
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For more than 20 years Farmington’s Ramble and Amble has been a successful fund raiser for the American Cancer Society. But the Ramble is about to become a Relay. Later this month the American Cancer Society will hold its first Farmington Relay for Life.
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The fifth project application round for the Farmland and Natural Areas Program moved closer to completion this week.
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