Leader-News - News
The Washburn school board met on June 8 at 8 p.m., just an hour after the polls closed on the school board election taking place downtown.
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Election 2010 Unofficial Results
These results are not official, nor do they cover all ballot issues. Full election results will be in next week’s paper.
“From Underwood to the World!”
When Mark Ness and Charlie Bullinger, principal engineers for Great River Energy, started working with various forms of drying processes at GRE’s Coal Creek Station in 1995, they never thought that their ideas and those of other engineers would turn into something with world-wide impact.
City public works superintendent Larry Thomas left his position with the City of Washburn after a special meeting was held last Thursday at the City Hall.
Water usage on the rise
The city performed one of its first readings of the water meters and was able to read 574 meters as of this time.
New postmaster ready to earn your business
The new postmaster at Washburn’s post office, Ernie Welk, puts a new spin on the phrase, "Going postal."
Celebrate, remember and fight back
"Celebrating More Birthdays" is this year’s theme for Relay For Life.
The transfer from the old manually read water meters, to the new radio transmitted meters has been flowing fairly smoothly for the city.
In their final meeting of the school year, the Washburn school board had a lot to say about buses.
