Construction projects and permits

When the better weather finally comes, it means construction season is here. Whether you are adding a deck, building something new or considering an addition to your home, a good first step is to think about what permits are needed for your project.

By Jim Sloter

Before leaving Cannes, we took time to look over some of the many yachts moored there - the playground of the rich and famous. Yachts are in some ways interesting and intriguing, but we still prefer our little home away from home on land. 

Not just a pipeline

Letter to the Editor

As an affected property owner and farmland owner, after attending several meetings put on by Summit Carbon Solutions to promote their proposed pipeline project, we feel that the public should be informed of several aspects not clearly presented by Summit. 

Out of the Past by Gene Miller

150 Years Ago

Library Meeting. - There will be a meeting of the Algona Library Association on Saturday Evening next, at the Baptist Church, at half past 7 o’clock. Good music, good essays, and a good time generally. Come everybody. By order of Committee. 

125 Years Ago

By Rev. Al Foote - Evangelical Free Church

Aftermath of Sacrifice

Plenty of examples exist in which judges expand, weaken or throw out the laws that have been put in place through the legislative process. More often than not, people confuse the so-called “activism” of a court with an action taken in a void in the law. 

This meeting doesn’t count

Stay in your own lane please

I wrote this to Representative John Wills after our legislators came to Algona approximately three weeks ago.

By Jim Sloter

By Gene Miller - Out of the Past

150 Years Ago

The heavy wind on Friday last did some damage around town. A portion of the rear wall of Ambrose Call’s brick building at the depot was blown outward. The damage is not so great as was first supposed. That portion blown out was about 7 by 16 feet. Several chimneys were blown down, but no serious damage has been done.

125 Years Ago

By Molly MacDonald

Remember the tornado watch a week or so ago? Well, I dutifully grabbed flashlight, battery-powered radio, cell phone, wallet (so if everything blew away, I could still buy chocolate) and headed down to our not-state-of-the-art basement. Seamus, my adopted German Shepherd, followed, also dutifully. Seamus is terrified of storms (and train whistles and other loud noises) so for an hour I hugged him and assured him all was well.

By Dr. Micah Michell, pastor Lighthouse to Nations, Algona

Faith in Love 

By Gene Miller - Out of the Past

150 Years Ago

Our old friend and the former propietor of the Algona Times is about establishing a newspaper in De Soto, Wis., to be called the De Soto Leader. We wish him all manner of success. 

125 Years Ago

By Phil Albers

EMS

I first began serving on a fire and ambulance crew back in 1996 and have observed a lot of changes in emergency medical care since then. Regulations and training requirements for EMS services have changed. The availability of volunteers has changed, and so have the communities we serve. 

There is one change that I’m glad to see - the ability for EMS to become an essential service.

By Jim Sloter