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The City of Crookston announced earlier today that they will be conducting snow removal in Downtown Crookston on North/South streets beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, December 9, and continuing sometime into that morning. The city is asking that you please park in off-street parking lots during that time.
The Crookston City Council will meet on Monday night at 7:00 p.m. inside the City Hall Council Chambers. The meeting will begin with an “Oath of Office” as officers James Brandon and Loren Edevold will be sworn in. The Consent Agenda includes approval of the September 27 meeting minutes and a resolution approving City of
When it comes to snowfall, it’s been a mild winter. City of Crookston Public Works Director Pat Kelly said that the Red Lake River is unlikely to rise significantly because of that. “The way it looks right now, it’s probably not going to get a whole lot higher than it is right now,” said Kelly.
City crews were out this week removing grates around some of the downtown trees where the trees had begun to grow into the grates. The openings were then filled with black dirt. Public Works Director Pat Kelly said staff would try torch to cut wider openings in the grates with a plasma torch, but not
The Red Lake River in Crookston crested over 20 feet last week with an ice jam momentarily pushing the gauge of 21 feet. Crookston Emergency Manager Tim Froeber said a separate ice jam upstream of the gauge had the river over 22 feet in some parts of Crookston. “On Thursday afternoon, we ended up with
With the Red Lake River on the rise and a new initial crest predicted at 22 feet, City of Crookston Emergency Management and Public Works have had to shift their plans from a few days ago. Crookston Emergency Manager Tim Froeber said the city would likely open its Emergency Operations Center (EOC) sometime on Thursday
