View Point - Editorial

Speak now or forever hold your peace.
Tuesday night the public is encouraged to attend a hearing on the ND200 improvement project. State and local officials and the engineers in charge of the road rebuild want to hear what local residents and propertyowners have to say about the handful of plans and options available for the 2008 project.
All options are still on the table, the city commissioners have been told. The final plan will be decided by weighing what the public wants, what the city can afford and what best fits with engineering guidelines. (more…)

A new building couldn’t be built soon enough for Kim Jacobson and Mike Crocker.
Soon rather than later would be nice; realistically, the two Traill County department heads know it will likely be later, not sooner, if at all.
Jacobson, director of the Social Services agency in the county, and Crocker, the Traill sheriff, were encouraged last week when the board of county commissioners renewed the dialogue on the proposed new addition to the 100-year-old Traill County Courthouse.
Back on the front burner, where it goes from there, we’re not sure. (more…)

Local businesses no doubt noticed the annual Hillsboro Business Association dues statement that arrived with last week’s mail.
This week’s mail delivered an HBA letter to both association members and non-members asking for help in purchasing a new electronic billboard sign for downtown.
Seems like everyone has their hand out.
True, they do, from the Hillsboro Medical Center’s request for help in its building project to the Hillsboro Community Partnership’s ongoing effort to save Union Block to the most recent plea for help: HBA’s solicitation for assistance in buying an electronic sign that will replace the decades-old sign at the intersection of Caledonia Ave. and Main Street.
All worthy causes, without question. (more…)