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Rice council proceeds with pedestrian railroad crossing grant application Leaves options open for later decision BY NATASHA BARBER STAFF WRITER The city of Rice is proceeding with a pedestrian crossing at its railroad tracks despite hammering down details of what that crossing may be. Rice City Council members were asked to con rm the city’s Transportation Alternatives grant proposal with Benton County community health specialist Jennifer Lezer at the Jan. 9 meeting. The Jan. 3 meeting had been rescheduled due to weather. In December, the council moved to seek grant funding for an up-down arm similar to those used for vehicles rather than maze fencing after they learned BNSF Railway would work with the city to include the optimal crossing choice when BNSF reconstructs the vehicle crossing in the next two years.
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Vol. 168, No. 41
Stop, drop and BY MAURA WENNER STAFF WRITER
Halter takes time from A Sauk RapidsRice High School schedule junior was caught on camera Jan. 9 to help completing a good deed. wheelchair-bound Blake Halter, the stranger son of Jon and Melanie Halter of St. Cloud, helped a wheelchair bound stranger through the snow after spotting the man as he commuted through Sauk Rapids. Halter was recognized for his act of kindness by the Sauk Rapids Police Department Jan. 10. “I was driving from the high school to the middle school, listening to Rihanna, when I saw him,” Halter said of the man who was attempting to cross the intersection at Second Street North and Summit Avenue North. Halter rst watched a person help the man cross from the right side of the roundabout to the middle.
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PHOTO BY NATASHA BARBER
Blake Halter (center) is recognized Jan. 10 by Sauk Rapids Police Chief Perry Beise and Sauk Rapids resident Greg Schultz and his daughters Claire (left) and Lydia at the Sauk Rapids Government Center in Sauk Rapids. Halter was caught on film helping a wheelchair-bound man navigate through snow drifts on the city’s sidewalks a day earlier.
Targeting safety in a roundabout way and a senior transportation planner at WSB, presented study recommendations for the Mayhew Lake Road Northeast corridor Dec. 12, 2022, at a special meeting of the Sauk Rapids City CounBY NATASHA BARBER cil. Representatives of the Sauk RapSTAFF WRITER ids-Rice School Board, Benton County Board of Commissioners and St. Cloud Five new roundabouts on a Sauk Area Planning Organization joined the Rapids roadway may make commuting council members at the Sauk Rapids safer, but motorists will have to wait for Government Center as they learned the funding and construction to nd out. potential options for a roadway with Mary Gute, project manager dangerous intersections.
Mayhew Lake Road Northeast concept includes four lanes, traffic circles, trail
The 3-mile stretch of Mayhew Lake Road Northeast from County Road 29 (35th Street Northeast) to Highway 23 has ve intersections with collisions above the critical crash rate, according to Gute. The Minnesota Department of Transportation reported intersections at 35th Street Northeast, Osauka Road Northeast, 15th Street Northeast, 10th Street Northeast and 14th Avenue Northeast had a combined crash total of 44 incidents during 2017-21.
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• Mortgage Foreclosure (2) - pg. 15 • Assumed Name - Ace Tree - pg. 14 • City of Sauk Rapids Advertisement for Bids - pg. 15 • City of Sauk Rapids Reg. Minutes, Dec. 12 - pg. 14 • Benton County Notice of time change and special meeting - pg. 14 • Benton County Hwy Construction Projects notice - pg. 14
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