Supervisors inch along comm tower project
The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors is moving ahead with the communication tower project — for the time being — after several votes last week.Discussion from the six-county meeting informed, or misinformed, the rest of the meeting. After returning from the meeting, the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors discussed a communication tower project in Winneshiek County they had learned of that would allegedly cost $1.8 million, which was the figure for phase one of the three-phase project.GJ Therkelsen proposed that project as well as the single phase communication tower project plan on the table in Chickasaw County, now estimated at $2.85 million to $3.2 million (with radios).— For more on this story, see the Aug. 28 New Hampton Tribune.