Author: Wes Reinke

A look back at what happened in Shakopee history. You may also find this column in the Shakopee Valley News.

125 Years Ago: From the Sept. 9, 1897 Scott County Argus

Shakopee has long been noted for the beauty of its quota of the fair sex, but it is also entitled to fame for mighty men, it seems. Some local statistician has figured out the fact that there are at least 33 big fellows that tip the beam at 200 pounds and over.

100 Years Ago: From the Sept. 7, 1922 Shakopee Tribune

Jacob Menden is the owner of a new Ford, purchased of Walter Schoch.

75 Years Ago: From the Sept. 4, 1947 Shakopee Argus-Tribune

Collection of Garbage Under Way

After many months of discussion and … on the part of the Shakopee Commercial club and city council, and several attempts at voluntary methods, the newly inaugurated municipal garbage collection system got under way this week.

Fred Becker, replacing John Farrell who resigned the collection job, has taken on the duties and made the first round of the city Tuesday…

Effective immediately Becker will make his collection trip through the residential sections every Monday and Friday. Schedule for the restaurants and business places has not yet been established.

All garbage and refuse as defined in the ordinance covering the system, is disposed of in a ditch opened on the east end of the former NYA property east of the city. The ditch will then be back-filled and the waste completely covered…

50 Years Ago: From the Sept. 6, 1972 Shakopee Valley News

Brambilla Auto Dealership Now Has New Owners

Brambilla Motors in downtown Shakopee, which had been operated for some 15 years by Art Brambilla, assisted by his son Jack, is now under new management.

As of September 1 the new and used car enterprise was taken over by Calvin and Harold Johnson. Calvin Johnson has assumed the management duties of the business.

He said that he plans no major changes in the operation of the dealership, which will continue to sell Chrysler-Plymouth and American Motors products…

25 Years Ago: From the Sept. 4, 1997 Shakopee Valley News

As population grows, first Scott County senior expo planned

As the population ages, and the number of people in the county grow, the need for a way to provide information about services for the elderly has become more apparent.

At least that’s what Debra Schroeder, director of resident services at St. Gertrude’s Health Care in Shakopee and Joan Lynch, food and nutrition service director at the CAP Agency, thought. Schroeder, influenced by a Carver County senior exhibition, brought the idea of staging an all-day event for seniors and their families to the CAP Agency, Shakopee Community Education and the University of Minnesota Extension Agency, and all agreed a Scott County Senior Exposition was a good idea.

As a result, the first Scott County Senior Exposition will be held Friday, Sept. 26 at the Shakopee Community Center.

The event, which features workshops, exhibits, food and seminars, will give seniors and their families an opportunity to discover just what’s out there and what they can get… In addition, the CAP Agency Thrift Store will put on a special fashion show, blood pressure checks will be provided and hand massages by local therapists will be demonstrated to participants. Lunch and coffee and pastries will be provided. And Julie Miller, president of Prosperity Dynamics, will give the keynote address.

A look back at what happened in Shakopee history. You may also find this column in the Shakopee Valley News.

125 Years Ago: From the Sept. 2, 1897 Scott County Argus

Wm. Willson of the Union School Board, requests us to announce that, owing to a slight delay in the work of the new steam heating plant, the fall term will not begin until Monday, the 13^th. This gives the festive urchin another week of vacation which he will not be loth to accept and enjoy.

100 Years Ago: From the Aug. 31, 1922 Shakopee Tribune

The King Midas Milling Co. have improved their residence property in this city occupied by H. F. Betow by an addition of a new bedroom, a first floor bathroom and a back porch. A new furnace will be installed later this season. The painters are just finishing putting on a new coat of paint on the entire building which will greatly add to the appearance of the residence.

75 Years Ago: From the Aug. 28, 1947 Shakopee Argus-Tribune

Authorities Hunt Escaped Inmate

Authorities are still on the lookout for Mae Johnson, 23, who escaped from the state reformatory for women here at 10:30 last Tuesday morning.

Because her absence was discovered shortly after her departure it was at first thought she would be apprehended in the vicinity of the institution, but search of corn fields and river bottoms had failed to produce results.

The escapee was committed to the reformatory May 12, 1947 from St. Paul on a charge of forgery. At the time of her escape she was on a painting assignment to Shaw cottage and left the premises while her supervisor had returned to the main building for more paint.

50 Years Ago: From the Aug. 30, 1972 Shakopee Valley News

Housing, Shopping Area Development

Development Timetable Depends on Demand…

Shakopee’s City Council is considering a rezoning for a Planned Unit Development proposed by the Shakopee Sand and Gravel Co., for a residential and commercial complex comprising 122 acres.

The development would be located southeast of the Shakopee Senior High School, and north of the corridor established for the rerouting of State Highway 169. County Road 79 would be the westerly boundary of the development.

According to a site plan developed by architects Plagens-McGee, Inc., St. Paul, the site would have single family residences on the most northerly portion of the development. Townhouses would buffer the single family residences from apartment buildings. Between the apartment buildings and a shopping center area would be a park area.

The land is now zoned residential, and the rezoning would be to multiple and commercial. The concept and the rezoning request has been checked by the City Planning Commission and it has recommended approval to the council…

25 Years Ago: From the Aug. 28, 1997 Shakopee Valley News

Concert draws 30,000, traffic snarls

Law enforcement personnel had a traffic headache last week on Wednesday afternoon as an estimated 30,000 people made their way to Canterbury Park for the Lilith Fair.

The traffic buildup began a couple of hours before the 3:30 p.m. start of the concert. Shakopee police, Scott County sheriff’s deputies and state troopers worked to keep traffic flowing and responded to minor property-damage incidents. Traffic was congested on Highways 169 near County Road 83, where traffic exited for Canterbury, as well as Highway 13 and County Road 101.

Lilith Fair, part of a nationwide tour of top female musicians, stopped in Shakopee on the last leg of its U.S. tour before heading to Canada. The Shakopee crowd was the largest for the women’s rock and folk music tour.

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125 Years Ago: From the Aug. 26, 1897 Scott County Argus

The contract for putting in a new steam heating plant at the Union School was awarded to the Moore Heating company of Minneapolis, competing against five other firms. The amount of their bid was $1305. Work is progressing rapidly on the new plant, and there is every reason to believe, from the plans, that the building will at last be comfortably heated. The partition separating the library from the main room upstairs has been removed and the library removed to the spacious room on the southwest. The laboratory and recitation room remains unchanged. Upstairs there are 15 direct radiators and below are three in each room, giving 2,800 feet of radiation. In addition to this there are for ventilation 1,000 feet of indirect radiators. It will make a valuable and long-needed improvement.

100 Years Ago: From the Aug. 24, 1922 Shakopee Tribune

John F. Keohen, State Deputy weighmaster, who has been employed as state weigher at the local mill here for the past year and a half, has been transferred to Red Wing and left last Thursday to begin his duties at that place. Mr. Keohen made many friends during his residence in this city who greatly regret his leaving. He is succeeded by T. T. Morken of Minneapolis.

75 Years Ago: From the Aug. 21, 1947 Shakopee Argus-Tribune

Open House at New Home

            Open house, at which interested residents of the community will be afforded the opportunity to visit and examine a two-bedroom prefabricated Gamble house manufactured by the Page and Hill company of Shakopee, is announced in an advertisement in the Argus-Tribune today.

      The house, erected for Robert Ryan at Spencer and Seventh streets in the southeast section of the city, will be open for public inspection from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24.

50 Years Ago: From the Aug. 23, 1972 Shakopee Valley News

Councilmen Ponder Rock Concert Proposal

Discussion of music and dancing occupied much of Shakopee City Councilmen’s time at their meeting Tuesday night, as they heard a proposal for a rock concert in Shakopee followed by complaints of citizens regarding operation of a dance studio in a residential area.

Ed Dressen, youth activities director for the Shakopee Knights of Columbus, told councilmen of a plan for a young people’s concert in Pat Theilen Rodeo Arena sometime in September, and requested council permission for use of the area.

Councilmen deferred the matter to their scheduled August 29 meeting to allow time to confer with Police Chief R. G. Pat Theilen regarding possible law enforcement problems…

25 Years Ago: From the Aug. 21, 1997 Shakopee Valley News

Seven-building complex planned here

First Industrial Realty Trust has begun construction on the first phase of a seven-building business complex on 53 acres in the Valley Green Industrial Park in Shakopee.

The complex, which will be called Park 2000 Southwest, will have a total of 749,000 square feet available for tenant lease.

The first phase will include a 126,000-square-foot office warehouse, which is scheduled for completion in October. The second phase of construction, scheduled to start this fall, will make available approximately 132,000 square feet of space for lease. Arne Cook, regional development director for First Industrial Realty Trust, said that six of the seven buildings are being designed as single-level office/warehouse complexes. One of the buildings will be a two-level structure with 100 percent office finish.

A look back at what happened in Shakopee history. You may also find this column in the Shakopee Valley News.

125 Years Ago: From the Aug. 19, 1897 Scott County Argus

Judge Meyer moved into his remodelled and practically new home last Tuesday. It has been stated before in these columns, and it will bear repeating, that the work of enlarging and remodelling has transformed the neat little cottage, which had been the Meyer home for so many years, into a handsome residence, imposing in appearance ad an ornament to that part of the city.

100 Years Ago: From the Aug. 17, 1922 Shakopee Tribune

J. W. Black and A. H. Neiter of the Marquette Security Co., Minneapolis were business callers in Shakopee last Thursday. They interviewed the local people as to whether they wanted a third bank in Shakopee.

75 Years Ago: From the Aug. 14, 1947 Shakopee Argus-Tribune

Garbage Ordinance Adopted

Effective Sept. 1 Shakopee will have a municipal garbage collection system instituted by an ordinance adopted by unanimous vote of the city council at its meeting Tuesday night.

Following adoption of the ordinance Ralph Weckman was appointed garbage collector and will begin his duties in the date the systems become operative.

Under the plan, according to the ordinance, City-wide collection of garbage, ashes, rubbish and refuse will be performed at least once weekly for dwellings and at least three times weekly for business districts by the City of Shakopee when the wastes are deposited in proper containers not “exceeding 35 gallons capacity, nor weighing more than 100 pounds when filled.”…

50 Years Ago: From the Aug. 16, 1972 Shakopee Valley News

Board Mulls Separate Office Building

Two Citizen’s Committees Formed…

Shifts at the Shakopee Senior High School for both junior and senior high students this fall will result in serious space problems for administration as well as for home economics and industrial arts classes, according to reports given to the Shakopee Board of Education Monday night.

In an effort to solve the administration area space problem, Board building chairman Russell Nolting proposed a modular type of pre-fabricated building which would house the Superintendent and the Business offices of the school system.

The proposal was taken under advisement by the board, and the building committee instructed to obtain more details for a presentation before a special meeting next Monday night…

Nolting said the building would cost approximately $39,000, and would probably have to be placed on the southwest corner of Sweeney because of sewer and water availability there.

Representatives of junior and senior high home economics programs told the board they have a critical shortage of storage space, as did a faculty representative for industrial arts.

The board instructed administrators to see what measures could be taken to provide additional space somewhere in the building.

25 Years Ago: From the Aug. 14, 1997 Shakopee Valley News

Cub Foods to open Shakopee store in spring

Do you yearn to power shop at one of those humongous grocery stores? Well, your wait is almost over because Cub Foods is coming to Shakopee next spring.

Scott L. Erickson, president of Midwest Commercial Development Inc., said a contract has been signed with Cub Foods to be the main anchor in the 25-acre crossroads Center retail development at Vierling Drive and Marschall Road. In addition to Cub Foods, the center will include a 70,000 square-foot commercial strip of retail outlets, including a Subway Sandwich Shop, and six free-standing outlets, such as a SuperAmerica, Norwest Bank, and a Wendy’s Hamburger restaurant…

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125 Years Ago: From the Aug. 12, 1897 Scott County Argus

Street overseer Sarasen has carried out the instructions of the city council and erected sign-boards on all principal divisions of the roads leading out of town. They will prove to the traveling public a convenience far greater than will ever be known.

100 Years Ago: From the Aug. 10, 1922 Shakopee Tribune

John Vierling, while bathing with some friends, left his goggles lying on the beach. Later, when he wished to see some scenery on the opposite shore, he went to seek them, but they were not to be found. When he finally did locate them, the scenery was gone.

75 Years Ago: From the Aug. 7, 1947 Shakopee Argus-Tribune

Full Time Navy Recruiting Post Opened in City

Shakopee now has a full time navy recruiting station in operation in the city hall and the recruiting officer in charge disclosed this week that the navy is now issuing millions of medals to ex-navy men who gallantly earned them.

The local recruiting station will begin distribution of the World War II Victory Medal, and the American Defense Medal to those ex-navy men and who can present honorable discharge certificates, it was learned.

50 Years Ago: From the Aug. 9, 1972 Shakopee Valley News

County Board Considers Bids on Two Road Projects in Shakopee

Scott County Commissioners received bids from three construction firms for two proposed road projects in Shakopee Tuesday, but tabled awarding of the contract for the projects, pending the determination of placements of rights of way on the roads.

The projects involve the application of aggregate base and bituminous surfacing to a 1.45 mile stretch of County Road 83 running north and south, located west of Midland Glass Company, between County Road 16 and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad tracks.

The other project involves the grading and application of aggregate and bituminous surfacing on a 1.90 mile stretch of County Road 89 between County Road 18 and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific tracks, located to the west of the Stagecoach Inn…

25 Years Ago: From the Aug. 7, 1997 Shakopee Valley News

County Board votes to fill three offices by appointment

The Scott County Board on Tuesday voted to fil the offices of county auditor, recorder and treasurer by appointment, as allowed under a new state granting the board the authority.

The three elected office holders – Treasurer Tom Muelken, Auditor Tom Hennen and Recorder Pat Boeckman – will finish out their terms, which end Dec. 31, 1998.

The law states that the resolution must be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in the official publication of the county, which this year is the Savage Pacer. A provision of the law allows county residents an opportunity to submit a petition, within 21 days after the second public notice, to request a referendum. The petition must be signed by at least 10 percent of the county’s registered voters in the last election.

The board also voted unanimously to fill the office of county surveyor by appointment. The office has been an elected position…

A look back at what happened in Shakopee history. You may also find this column in the Shakopee Valley News.

125 Years Ago: From the Aug. 5, 1897 Scott County Argus

At a special school meeting held last Saturday evening it was voted to issue $1,500 bonds to be used in putting in a steam heating plant at the Union School.

100 Years Ago: From the Aug. 3, 1922 Shakopee Tribune

The Public Tennis Court at Holmes Park will be in readiness for public use after this week. Miss Bowdish, supervisor of the playground work, will give instructions about playing the game to any who desire, any afternoon next week and also on Monday and Thursday evenings.

75 Years Ago: From the July 31, 1947 Shakopee Argus-Tribune

Law Arm Strengthened

Shakopee’s arms of the law were materially strengthened Saturday afternoon when the new Ford De Luxe police car was delivered to the city. … Chief Scherer said Monday night that traffic law violators no longer have any reason to believe they can get away with infractions that were common when the police department was not adequately equipped to give chase. Pat Thielen, night watchman, will man the police car during the night and early morning hours touring the city while the populace sleeps. The new vehicle is equipped with a heater, and a siren and police light removed from the outmoded car. What disposition is to be made of the discarded machine has not yet been determined.

50 Years Ago: From the Aug. 2, 1972 Shakopee Valley News

Contract Agreement Reached with County Employees

40 Hour Work Week Included…

Scott County Commissioners, at their regular meeting Tuesday, August 1, voted unanimously to accept a proposed contract with the American Federation of State and County Municipal Employees (AFSCME) which will increase the number of working hours per week of Scott County union members from 35 to 40 hours.

The new contract was settled upon after six negotiation sessions between union representatives and County Administrator Joseph F. Ries.

Under the contract’s provisions, union members will work from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and will be allowed one half hour for lunch. As a result of the contract, county offices will now be open throughout the noon hour…

As a result of a suggestion by County Attorney Robert O. O’Neill, heads of all of the county offices were called in at a special afternoon session to voice their opinions on the value of the proposed 40-hour week for their staff members, and to obtain their assurance that the extra hours will be fully utilized by employees.

None of the department heads attending the afternoon session raised any serious objections to the increase in working hours, with some of those present saying that employees in their offices often work more than 40 hours per week currently. The new contract will provide for the payment of time and a half wages to any employee working more than eight hours in any single day…

25 Years Ago: From the July 31, 1997 Shakopee Valley News

County office combination to streamline service

Treasurer, auditor, recorder posts to be merged with others

In an effort to further a “one-stop shopping” concept at the Scott County Courthouse, the County Board successfully lobbied the 1997 state Legislature to allow it to make three county positions appointive rather than elective. Now the board will be making the county treasurer, auditor and recorder appointive positions unless county residents petition against the move. Commissioners can also eliminate the positions, which is planned, and combine their functions into one or more departments…

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125 Years Ago: From the July 29, 1897 Scott County Argus

Railway mail clerk John P. Ring informs us that next week the Omaha road will add a mail car to the “stub” or Mankato local, thus giving Shakopee six mail trains a day on the Omaha alone. With from twelve to fourteen mails a day, and in addition a stage mail three times a week, Shakopee is bound to keep in touch with the outside world.

100 Years Ago: From the July 27, 1922 Shakopee Tribune

Leo Hartmann Winner in Orange Crush Contest

The Jacob Ries Bottling Works, Inc., put on a Crown Saving Prize Contest beginning June 15. This contest ended last Saturday, July 22. Leo Hartmann of this city, won the first prize in this contest and Alex Miller of Jordan won the second prize. The names of these boys as well as twelve other winners, appear in the Jacob Ries Bottling Works, Inc., advertisement on page 5 of this issue.

The object of the contest was to make the public better acquainted with the deliciousness of Orange Crush, Lemon-Crush and Lime-Crush. These Crush drinks are now rated as the largest selling fruit flavored beverages in the world.

75 Years Ago: From the July 24, 1947 Shakopee Argus-Tribune

Cafe To Become Dress Shop, New Owner Discloses

Sale of the Libert Cafe on West First street to E. J. Wynn was completed this week and the new owner took possession Tuesday. The business was immediately closed and when the place reopens it will house a new centerpiece to be known as Edna Marie Frock Shoppe, Wynn disclosed.

Mr. and Mrs. Math Libert, who had operated the café for two years and who with their family, occupied the apartment over the cafe, have taken a lake cottage for several weeks. They have no plans for the immediate future, Libert said.

According to Wynn the cafe equipment will be disposed of and the entire interior of the building renovated and altered to suit the needs of the new business, which will specialize in women’s and children’s apparel. Mrs. Wynn will be in charge.

A definite opening date has not yet been set.

50 Years Ago: From the July 26, 1972 Shakopee Valley News

Commission Gives Nelson Permit Nod

Edward Pink retired recently after 45 years as a mailman in Shakopee. In a ceremony held at the Post Office in Shakopee, Postmaster Cormac Suel presents Pink with a certificate of appreciation for his many years of service to the people of the community. Pink was the first mailman assigned to the area when the first U.S. Post Office was opened here in 1927.

25 Years Ago: From the July 24, 1997 Shakopee Valley News

Soccer, boys’ tennis, one-act plays added to school activities

It’s been coming for a long time, said Shakopee school Superintendent Bob Ostlund, but budget constraints made it difficult to add the four of the most requested student activities to the roster.

However, due to an increase of $88,000 in the district’s annual budget following the Legislature’s approval of the K-through-12 financial package, the district can now offer girls’ and boys’ varsity soccer, boys’ tennis and one-act plays, it was announced in Monday’s School Board meeting…

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125 Years Ago: From the July 22, 1897 Scott County Argus

The fire bell clanged out an alarm last Friday afternoon, and when to this were added dense volumes of smoke issuing from the Conter House, there really seemed to be a fire. The streets filled with people and the apparatus was swung around the corner in record breaking time, but two men with shovels had just put out the fire by heaping sand upon it. It was a pall of tar which the men were heating over a fire in the alleyway that had caught fire. Damage 1 ½ cents. There was no insurance.

100 Years Ago: From the July 20, 1922 Shakopee Tribune

School Election Brings out a Very Large Vote

John P. Ring and Mrs. Fred Berens were elected members of the school board for three years, at the school election held Saturday evening.

More than usual interest was shown and a large number of votes were cast. The women’s vote was especially heavy, which displayed the keen interest they take in school affairs.

75 Years Ago: From the July 17, 1947 Shakopee Argus-Tribune

Sand Pit Is Big Industry

Now equipped to screen, load and deliver an estimated 10000 tons of sand and rock daily the Shakopee Sand and Gravel company, operated by Joseph Reis, is finding a ready market for its products over a wide area, it was learned.

Latest pieces of equipment put in operation at the 50-acre pit southeast of Shakopee, are an 85-foot belt conveyor, a 35 cubic yard hopper and a half cubic yard gas shovel.

Atop the massive hopper under which the trucks drive to the loaded, is a vibrator screen which anatomically separates the sand from the coarser materials and deposits much in its own compartment in the hopper.

The screen selects three classes of materials and “throws out” the rock too large for general use. The larger rock, will soon be utilized when a new crusher, already on the site, is put in operation.

In addition to the new machines recently installed his plant equipment includes a drag line and three trucks. Four men are employed full time in the industry and during rush periods others are employed, Reis disclosed.

The hopper, screen and conveyor are all electrically operated to provide the maximum efficiency…

50 Years Ago: From the July 19, 1972 Shakopee Valley News

Commission Gives Nelson Permit Nod

At its regular meeting, Thursday evening, July 14, the Shakopee Planning Commission passed a resolution recommending that the Common Council grant a conditional use permit to B.F. Nelson Co. for the establishment of a roofing tile manufacturing plant on a 60-acre tract of land west of Owens-Illinois in Valley Industrial Park.

The company, a division of Certain-Teed Products Corp., has applied for the permit because at this time it is uncertain as to whether an Eagle Creek zoning ordinance, which as reserve the land for “light industrial use” is still enforceable in the area…

25 Years Ago: From the July 17, 1997 Shakopee Valley News

EDA votes 3-2 against downtown project

Citing concerns with the Blocks 3 and 4 redevelopment financial package, the Shakopee Economic Development Authority (EDA) voted 3 to 2 Tuesday night against an $8 million retail and housing proposal from the Scott County Housing and Redevelopment Authority…

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125 Years Ago: From the July 15, 1897 Scott County Argus

H. A. Zettel has applied for a patent on a new acetyline gas generator of his own invention, and as soon as this is granted a company consisting of himself, M. A. Deutsch and E. J. Gellenbeck, will commence the manufacture of them for market. The invention is a success, as it strains the gas through water, removing the carbon, and thus allowing the gas to burn without clogging the burners, as is the case with the Buffington. Mr. Zettel expects to go on the road soon, introducing acetyline gas and his generator. While in Canada he made arrangements to get all the carbide he can use, hence the famine which has bothered users ever since its introduction here will be over. A shipment of 1,000 lbs. was received from Niagara Falls, and he expects to be able to sell this at a little over 4 cents a pound, about half the price paid up to this time.

100 Years Ago: From the July 13, 1922 Shakopee Tribune

The First National Bank has installed a new Burrough’s adding machine, which is a wonderful piece of mechanism. It registers the month and year, by an automatic touch button as well as adding, subtracting, totaling etc. The cost of installing this new machine is a little over one thousand dollars.

75 Years Ago: From the July 10, 1947 Shakopee Argus-Tribune

Remodelling Job Started This Week

Remodelling of the front and interior of the former Deutsch building on Lewis street was begun this week by the new owner Le Roy Desher…

For many years the building had served as a drug store and was last owned by the Scott County Drug company who has moved temporarily to a section of the Berens building on Holmes street.

When remodelling is completed Mr. Desher will move his variety store stock and fixtures into modernized structure.

50 Years Ago: From the July 12, 1972 Shakopee Valley News

Annexation Turned Down

Voters in remaining Eagle Creek Township, along with those in one section of Louisville Township, turned down annexation by the City of Shakopee in an election held Friday, July 7.

A vote tally after the polls closed showed that 68 were opposed and 19 favored the annexation. The election had been ordered by the Minnesota Municipal Commission (MMC) after a petition had been circulated in four and one-half sections western of Eagle Creek Township favoring annexation with Shakopee, rather than with Prior Lake…

25 Years Ago: From the July 10, 1997 Shakopee Valley News

EDA hearing on Blocks 3-4 set

Master tenant, financing in place for retail, housing unit

With a master tenant in hand, the Shakopee Economic Development Authority (EDA) Tuesday set an “input hearing” on a financial packet for the development of Blocks 3 and 4 downtown. Next Tuesday’s meeting, which will start at 7 p.m. in the City Council chambers, will allow residents to ask questions about the proposal.

The proposal, which involves the Scott County Housing and Redevelopment Authority, calls for a structure that would contain retail outlets on the first floor, and two stories of senior housing above it…

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125 Years Ago: From the July 8, 1897 Scott County Argus

The Jacob Ries Bottling Works take considerable pride in a new ornamental nickel bar sign, advertising their famous Rock Spring Table water. The sign is in the form of a panel hung horizontally by a chain. Its background is satin finished and the lettering polished. To add to its attractiveness … of the two faces of their World Fair medal in bronze appear in raised medallions. The whole makes a handsome ornament for a bar and is correspondingly valuable as an advertiser. It is a credit to the firm, and a credit to the city to have the name appear upon such an artistic piece of work.

100 Years Ago: From the July 6, 1922 Shakopee Tribune

School elections will be held in this city Saturday, July 15^th. Mrs. Fred Berens and Ralph Warner are in the field for members on the school board.

75 Years Ago: From the July 3, 1947 Shakopee Argus-Tribune

Council Cuts Licenses

Conforming to the state liquor law which fixes the number of licenses that may be issued in Shakopee, a city of the fourth class, the city council at 1:10 a.m. Wednesday ended a hectic five-hour session by referring to Mayor J. J. Cavanaugh and Recorder F. A. Dircks, for signature the “on sale” liquor licenses of Leonard Ayd, Frank J. Wampach, E. A. Rademacher, A. V. Krueger and Alex J. Stang.

A subsequent motion instructed the city recorder to return the liquor license applications from and bonds to Hubert Paron, Martin Dressen, Otto Riems and Joseph Weiland.

50 Years Ago: From the July 5, 1972 Shakopee Valley News

North Star Research to Build Headquarters

North Star Research and Development Institute was authorized by its Board of Directors Wednesday, June 28, to proceed with construction of a $1,700,000 headquarters office and laboratory building in Valley Industrial Park, Shakopee.

The Directors approved a plan and model designed by Hammel Green and Abrahamson Inc., St. Paul architectural firm.

Dr. John Clegg, North Star President, said the building will contain 48,500 square feet of space in three wings of two-story height.

It will be housed on a 100-acre site which North Star owns in Valley Industrial Park and will replace the present offices and central laboratories in a rented building at 3100 38^th Avenue S., Minneapolis.

Ground will be broken early in 1973 and occupancy of the new building is programmed for late June of 1974, Clegg said…

25 Years Ago: From the July 3, 1997 Shakopee Valley News

St. Francis opens urgent care unit

St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Shakopee has announced that it will be offering urgent care services.

The hospital’s urgent care unit, located next to the emergency department, will be open Fridays from 6 to 10 p.m., and weekends and holiday from 1 to 8 p.m.

The hospital said that patients in need of nurse treatment usually will be helped faster in urgent care than in the emergency room, where patients with more serious conditions are helped first.

Urgent care services will also be less expensive than treatment in the emergency room. St. Francis Urgent Care is a separate service at the hospital, so patients will be charged for an urgent care copayment, not an emergency room copayment…

Plans to expand urgent care services to weekday evenings are under way…