BID leaders had organized this North Avenue clean-up as one of the first public-facing events since the commercial strip from 60th Street to 76th Street was approved last fall as an official business improvement district.
Students at Tosa East and Tosa West currently follow a seven-period class format. Block scheduling would reduce the number of classes each day and extend the amount of class time in each learning “block,” with new classes starting each semester or trimester.
'Our custodians and district buildings and grounds staff have been working nonstop to clear the water,' Principal Sarah Dianich said in an April 16 message to families.
Tax increment financing, or TIF, is a tool municipalities can use to help spur new developments within the TIF district. The latest proposal would provide $880,000 to a developer interested in building 14 housing units on a small parcel just north of the Harmonee Avenue bridge.
Hammond's exit puts the city back in recruitment mode less than two years after filling the development director role previously held for 12 years by Paulette Enders, until her retirement in 2024.
Athletic Director Andrew Thompson didn't have an estimate on what repairs to the softball field would entail, though he told Tosa Forward News that contractors would be visiting the site April 14.
Melissa Dolan had received scrutiny before the election for missing a March 30 filing deadline. City records showed she submitted her campaign finance disclosure eight days late, on Election Day.
Flooding thwarted plans to install the Veterans Memorial at Hart Park. Instead, planners now are hoping to begin construction soon on the grassy triangle at Milwaukee and Harwood avenues.
Mario R. Casey is charged with five felonies, including mail theft, after police say he stole an estimated 800 items of mail and sent images of checks from the envelopes to a Florida person identified only as Oxy.
Installing mobile saunas at Hart Park was a novel concept last fall when Heat Haven's owners pitched it to city officials. Now, as the inaugural season is winding down, the wellness business is counting a number of successes.
Sean Lowe, in his April 10 announcement, acknowledged for the first time that he and his wife had recently purchased a house outside of his district, as Tosa Forward News had first reported on April 8.
The six-bedroom home at 1839 N. 74th St. was billed as "the kind of home you didn't think existed in Tosa" and was priced at more than $2 million. And then it didn't sell.
