eureka township

When Eureka Township residents go to their annual meeting Tuesday, they'll get an update on a proposed housing density ordinance change that would give landowners more flexibility with their housing rights. A group called the Transfer Task Force has been working on a proposed change...

Area township voters will go to the polls Tuesday to elect representatives to their respective boards of supervisors. Polls will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Empire, Eureka and Castle Rock town halls. Longtime board member Jamie Elvestad is running unopposed for Empire...

For years, Dakota County and the Vermillion River Watershed District have played a leadership role in working to understand and address groundwater and surface water contamination from agricultural activities through the Agricultural Outreach program, developed as a result of the...

Once again, Empire township's elections should bring little surprise the morning after. But Castle Rock and Eureka? Well, that might be something different. The filing of affidavits of candidacy for township elections closed Tuesday, and two of the three townships around Farmington...

Looking at the dry, yellow stalks of corn in many Dakota County fields, it might be hard to think of the flood waters that stood in many of those same fields early in the 2012 growing season. But the Minnesota Department of Agriculture remembers those days, and, most likely, so...

Even though the CapX2020 Brookings County-Hampton project has broken ground, area residents will not start to see construction until sometime next spring. It's been a couple of years since much has happened with the project, but that doesn't mean the project has gone by the wayside....

Individuals interested in soil and water protection in Dakota County should consider filing May 22 to June 5 to run for the position of Supervisor of the Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD). Soil and Water Conservation Districts are political subdivisions of...

There is more drama than you might expect in the world of organic farming. Bad weather and legal battles. Romance. Even some menacing coyotes. Atina Diffley has captured much of that drama in Turn Here Sweet Corn, a recently published memoir that records more than three decades...

A Eureka Township woman, apparently suffering from a mental disability, escaped serious injury after driving her van into the side of the Eureka Township Hall last week. The woman, whose name is not being released, reportedly drove her van to the township property sometime after...

The victim in the fatal industrial accident has been identified as Samuel Ray Young, 49-years old of Lonsdale, MN The Dakota County Sheriff's Office is investigating an industrial accident that claimed the life of Samuel Ray Young, a 49-year old of Lonsdale. Young was working at...