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BURNETT COUNTY

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2016 VOL. 54 NO. 19 www.burnettcountysentinel.com $1.00

ACTING BUG: Grantsburg’s Rod Kleiss has a lead role in ‘Fahrenheit 451’. P2

Land swap anything but done deal BY TODD BECKMANN SENTINEL

SIREN—No decision was reached at Thursday’s natural resources committee meeting due to an on-going public comment period which ends Feb. 1 but if public sentiment were to have ruled the day, the proposed land swap would have been denied. At issue is the land swap in which landowner Jarrod Washburn has offered a 60-acre parcel in the Town of Sand Lake to the county in exchange for 80-acres of county-owned land in the Town of Lincoln, land which abuts property Washburn already owns. In December, Washburn had authored a letter to Jake Nichols, forestry administrator,

proposing the swap. “Acquiring this parcel would allow me to expand my personal hunting preserve into one large enough to be a commercial hunting preserve,” Washburn said in his letter to Nichols. The proposal from December’s meeting brought five property owners and others to last week’s meeting to voice displeasure over the proposed swap. “That parcel is a public gem,” Dan Bullis, Town of Lincoln landowner, who lives near the Clam River and said he is a very active outdoorsman. “It would be a shame to allow it to slip from the public trust.” SEE SWAP, PAGE 6

Road map for 2016 BY TODD BECKMANN SENTINEL

STEVE BRIGGS | SENTINEL

Family fun Drawing more than 100 skaters of all ages each time, the free ice skating from 4-7 p.m. Sundays at Grantsburg Hockey Rink has been a hit with families. Here, parents Sean Smallwood and Jenni Tober skate with their kids Peyton and Cameron. The free-skate Sundays continue through Feb. 28.

SIREN—The Burnett County Highway Department plans to tackle County Road C and what’s referred to as Stub B — the portion of County Road B from Co. Rd. H to the Washburn County line for its road repair work during the 2016 construction season. Those plans were identified by highway commissioner Mike Hoefs during last Wednesday’s infrastructure meeting. According to Hoefs, construction plans for Co. Rd. C (Co. Rd. U to Tower Road in Oakland township) consists of grinding up the

Yes, we were listening GRANTSBURG—For years, people who navigated to burnettcountysentinel.com would frustratingly ask, “What’s Press Pub?” The simple answer is the newspaper’s website was tied-in with our sister papers —all under the umbrella of Press Publications in White Bear Lake, Minn.. For the past six months or so, efforts have been underway to break each paper into its own digital entity.

Those efforts came to fruition last week when burnettcountysentinel.com went live so now when readers navigate to the homepage, they get the local stories, columns, and commentary Grantsburg has enjoyed since 1875, No longer is there the chance of confusing what happens in and around Burnett County with current events in the northern Twin Cities . Publisher Tom Stangl is a strong advocate for the website.

“National studies have shown that people take in the news in different ways,” he pointed out. “This gives our readers another way to consume the news.” As website-savvy readers are aware, the website contains locally reported news, sports, obituaries, columns, letters to the editor, classified ads, community calendar, and more, in addition to an electronic ‘e-edition’ of the complete weekly paper. SEE WEBSITE, PAGE 7

existing pavement, performing minor grade and alignment improvements including improving sight distances, drainage improvements, road base preparation and compaction, placing new pavement, line painting, and sign upgrades. This project is funded in part by Disaster Damage Aids from the state in response to the wind storm of 2012. As far as Stub B, work will include grinding up the existing pavement, performing minor grade improvements, road base preparation and compaction, placing new pavement, line painting, and sign upgrades. “These projects were selected based on the SEE ROADS, PAGE 7

How to make a million BY MEG ROD SENTINEL INTERN

GR A N TSBU RG — One million, two hundred and thirteen thousand, one hundred and sixty-five. This number probably does not hold much meanSEE TABS, PAGE 7

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