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- Mayor Nissen takes the reins
The Lakefield City Council took on one new member during its first regular meeting of the new year.
- New commissioners get to work
District 2 Commissioner Loren Tusa, a five-year board veteran, was unanimously elected chairman of the Jackson County Board of Commissioners, while District 4 Commissioner Roger Ringkob, also a five-year ...
- Working vacation
Andrea Ruesch has made this trip before. And come February, she will be making it again.
- Business Briefs - Jan. 1
Bank invests in leadership Bank Midwest of Jackson presented a donation of $500 to Jackson County 4-H Monday, what administrative loan assistant Cissa Tusa called "an investment in leadership." On hand for the ...
- New Year's Eve passes quietly
New Yeara s Eve came and went just how Jackson County emergency response crews had hoped it would.
- Teacher with top degree plans to st...
Jackson County Central Middle School special education teacher Donna Johnson has earned a doctorate in curriculum and instruction.
- Corn growers see rewards for managing glyphosate resistance
Corn growers see rewards for managing glyphosate resistance Dec. 30, 2008 As more cases of glyphosate-resistant weeds are reported on new acres in the Corn Belt each year, growers are integrating resistance ...
- Lois A. Neitzel
Lois Arlene Vrchota, daughter of Louis and Ella Vrchota, was born January 30, 1938.
- City tightens its belt with tax lev...
The Lakefield City Council approved a 2009 tax levy of $426,731 during its regular meeting Monday evening.
- Worries grow with state aid cuts
Every municipality and county in state Rep. Rod Hamilton's district has voiced concern to the recently re-elected lawmaker about the ill effect statewide cuts in Local Government Aid funding will have on the ...
- Lakefield woman to be seen on KELO
Theresa Condon, the daughter of Stephen and Kathy Condon of Lakefield, will be on KELO TV Dec.
- Kids at Christmas
Lakefield Cub Scouts from the Tiger Cub den met on Monday, Dec. 8, at the Lakefield American Legion Hall and worked to make 100 candy cane reindeer for the Sharing Tree.
- City eyes electric rate hike
An electric rate increase and the proposed fiber-to-the-home network topped the Lakefield Municipal Utility boarda s agenda on Dec.
- Local parents promoting scrip progr...
Jamie Cranston, a registered nurse at Sanford Hospital in Worthington and a mother of two students enrolled at Immanuel Lutheran School in Lakefield, is a co-coordinator of a new program that is helping parents ...
- Across oceans
Arndt Andersen left Norway more than 100 years ago and ended up making a life for himself in Lakefield.
- Children embark on 1,000-book journ...
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the value of a picture book - 1,000 picture books, actually - is worth far more.
- LBA annual meeting prep under way
Planning and preparation are under way for the Lakefield Business Association's annual meeting, set for Sunday, Feb.
- Council whittles down tax levy
The Lakefield City Councila s annual Truth-in-Taxation hearing Monday night produced a modest reduction in the tax levy.
- Riverside to start off concert seas...
The spirit of Christmas is in the air around Jackson County and the sounds of Christmas will soon fill it as Jackson County Central students celebrate the season starting tomorrow .
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City DescriptionLakefield is a city in Jackson County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,721 at the 2000 census.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.1 square miles (2.8 km²), all of it land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,721 people, 731 households, and 453 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,611.0 people per square mile (621.0/km²). There were 784 housing units at an average density of 733.9/sq mi (282.9/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 99.07% White, 0.23% Native American, 0.17% Asian, 0.41% from other races, and 0.12% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.93% of the population.
There were 731 households out of which 28.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.4% were married couples living together, 6.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.9% were non-families. 34.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 20.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the average family size was 2.88.
In the city the population was spread out with 23.0% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, ... Read MoreCity Contained By:Timezones:Size:
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