Council considers initial suggestions on drainage issues

Written by Don Ratzlaff Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:45

The Hillsboro City Council heard at its Oct. 2 meeting the first impressions from its engineer on how to address drainage problems in three residential locations.

Bob Previtera, of Reiss & Goodness Engineers, had been asked by the council to review the three trouble spots that homeowners had brought to its attention following heavy rains this summer.

The first area reviewed was near Birch and D streets following concerns raised about preventing flood damage at the Peter Paul Loewen House on...

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No purr-fect solution to city's feral feline infestation

Written by Malinda Just Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:39

Maybe you’ve seen them around Hillsboro. A lone cat roaming downtown, rummaging in dumpsters behind restaurants, or even packs of cats traveling from yard to yard on your street.

Chances are they are not your neighbor’s pets, but feral felines—that, over time, have become wild, foraging streets and neighborhoods for food.

The Humane Society of the United States estimates that 10 to 90 million feral cats live in the U.S. And, while some communities have laws regarding the proper...

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Commission to recommend restricting liquor to highway zone

Written by Don Ratzlaff Wednesday, 03 October 2007 09:35

After receiving questions and comments from the public for a half hour Thursday evening, the Hillsboro Planning Commission decided to recommend to the city council that the location of restaurants that want to serve liquor by the drink be limited to the city’s “highway commercial” zone.

At present, that would be the area known as Hillsboro Heights along U.S. Highway 56.

About 20 members of the public squeezed into the city council meeting room to participate in a public hearing called...

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Pumpkin project takes off at First Mennonite Church

Written by Malinda Just Wednesday, 03 October 2007 09:33

FirstMennoPumpkins.jpg A small army of volunteers, including members of the Tabor College men’s and women’s basketball teams, were on hand Sunday to unload the truck load of pumpkins for the FMC Pumpkin Patch. In bucket-brigade fashion, the pumpkins came off the truck (left photo), were tossed to Kelly Linnens and then to Drew Maddox (lower left photo) and down a row of TC athletes until it got to men’s coach Micah Ratzlaff for display placement.

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Old Settlers parade celebrates volunteers

Written by Hillsboro Free Press Wednesday, 03 October 2007 08:47

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