Quamba News

As Governor Pawlenty prepares to unallot state-issued Local Government Aid payments to Minnesota cities and counties as part of a plan to balance the statea s budget, county commissioners and city councils around the state are wrestling with how best to deal with the seemingly inevitable reduced funding.

Ita s been said that dogs are a mana s best friend but every once in awhile a dog needs some extra help as Skipper, a two-year-old black lab found out last Friday when he fell through the ice on Quamba Lake.

Sponsored by the Mora branches of Peoples National Bank and Coborn's, the "March is Food Shelf Month Grocery Grab" raised $8,955 on Tuesday for local food shelves in Mora, Ogilvie and Quamba.

The on again, off again Quamba sewer project appears, for now, to once again be on hold.

Local governments adopted their fiscal year 2009 budgets last week but did so knowing that what may be significant cuts in state aid disbursements are on the horizon - cuts which have the potential to take a ...

Governor Tim Pawlenty has announced plans to bridge what he said was a $426 million budget shortfall for 2008.

Their hand forced by the state legislature, Kanabec County commissioners repealed a tax on local gravel production last week.