Busy week

I thought things would be back to normal after getting last week's fair issue out. But for some reason, this week didn't go so well and I didn't get the USD 108 school board story done, or the continuation of last week's Washington City Council meeting or some other content I wanted to include.
I usually type until about 2-3 a.m. on Tuesday nights at home, but last night around midnight, I was literally nodding off while I typed. So I said forget it, and I went to bed. I was full today anyway, so I will try to get caught up next week.

New fair barn

I heard a rumor yesterday that the fair board was wanting to build a proposed horse/beef barn on the race track site. Nope. I talked to Dr. Johnson and we have also done stories in the past on this project and the fair board has always intended on building this new barn south of the gold barn (where the current horse stalls sit.) In fact, this site was written up on an explanation letter that was set out near the fair office by drawings of the fair barn.
So no, they're not going to try to take the race track.
We'll have a story on it again next week and we'll try to include the pictures of the building design.

County fair reaction

I'm curious what people liked or disliked about this year's fair since there were several changes, including the parade route, several livestock show changes, etc. I'd like to hear the good and the bad.

Primary results

Just a quick list of results:

Washington pool vote (1.2% sales tax) lost by 10 votes - 245-255. Wow. That was close.

Of the other county races:
Republican county commission - Roger Otott, 489; Kathryn Stigge, 168
Democrat county commission - Brad Owen, 50; Mike Uhlrich, 42
County sheriff - Bill Overbeck, 852; Jim Mueller, 664
County treasurer - Ann Hawk, 636; Larry Stigge, 571; Christina Metz, 319
Taddiken won easily in his Senate race
Bill Pannbacker won the county easily over Kathy Martin (1120 to 395), but lost overall 15329 to 14149.

Mayberry's to close

I just found out today that downtown Washington will take another economic hit. Mayberry's restaurant is slated to close this weekend. The business has been listed for sale, but owner Brad Portenier said he would be closing the doors Saturday.
It's been a tough year for downtown, with several businesses closing. This is quite unusual compared to the last couple years where more businesses have opened then closed.
But I suppose this is the cycle of life in a small time. I just hope a buyer of the restaurant steps up because these are three big buildings that brought a lot of economic activity to downtown.

Hail hits southern Lincoln Township

A hail storm followed by "green snap" (which means the wind blew so hard it snapped the plants) hit crops in southern Lincoln Township last Thursday. Many fields were devastated by the weather occurrence, which is too bad considering much of the crop in the rest of the county looks amazing.

Blogvoid

Sorry I haven't been blogging much lately. We took a vacation to Minnesota and then a couple days of AAU track meets and now I'm struggling to get caught back up.
I am trying to track down a rumor of a guy wanting to put a new movie theater in Washington. That would be extremely exciting in my opinion. It would be nice to get a young crowd downtown on Friday and Saturday nights.