Archive - 2019

Although the Panthers’ gymnastics team fell to third place at its tri-meet Thursday, Dec. 19, Head Coach Kim Hahn isn’t upset with her team. As the season is starting to take hold, Hahn said her team is likely fatigued — especially in a sport like gymnastics, a sport where bursts of extreme physical exertion is a part of getting a good score.
The Panthers had the low score at 119.275. Annandale had the high score of 133.15, and Litchfield was just below the Cardinals at 132.525.

(Fo0r the complete story, see the Dec. 25 print edition of The Chronicle.)

Rather than take an increase in compensation for the time they put into the position, members of the Glencoe City Council set aside the opportunity to vote the next city council a raise that might not go into effect until 2023.
At their last scheduled meeting of the year, Monday, Dec. 16, the council voted 3-2 to table until after the 2020 election discussion on a proposal for a slight increase in compensation. Councilors Milan Alexander and Allen Robeck opposed tabling the issue.

Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., who represents Congressional District 7 and includes McLeod County, was again one of two Democrats to vote against otherwise party-line impeachment measures against President Donald Trump.
He recently voted against impeachment in the U.S. House of Representatives, and in October Peterson voted against the impeachment inquiry. The other Democrat who voted in line with Peterson, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, D-N.J., after the vote pledged to switch to the Republican Party.
Both are in districts that voted for Trump in the 2016 election.

When the cleanup was completed following his father’s wake and funeral Mass Tuesday, Dec. 17, there was no doubt where GSL assistant basketball coach Scott Tschimperle would be later that afternoon, on a bus heading for a game with his players.
Scott Tschimperle is and always will be, after all, the son of a coach.

As construction for the McLeod County Government Center is underway, county staff identified an issue with the transition of the current core router to the government center. Commissioners voted to fully replace the router for $67,224.15 at a meeting Tuesday, Dec. 17.
A core router is a piece of hardware technology that’s often called the backbone of a computer network, allowing data communication between computers on the same network.

(For the complete story, see the Dec. 25 print edition of The Chronicle.)