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Wednesday’s meeting of the Keweenaw County Board of Commissioners was a short one, clocking in at just 10 minutes. The group tabled a discussion on the sewage lagoons located at Mount Horace Greeley, although the issue still looms and member Del Rajala says that it needs to be addressed in April.
Chairman Don Piche says the valves have stopped working, but there is a way to continue operations without them. The lagoons are expected to generate over $25,000 a year until the end of the decade. Piche says the investing group that has taken over the radar base could potentially assume operation of the lagoons.
The board unanimously approved a special land use permit for a new drive-thru restaurant in Mohawk at the site of a former bank.
Clerk Julie Carlson says that the county needs two members for the Board of Canvassers, one Republican and one Democrat, for this fall’s election cycle.
