Hillsboro, ND — The Hillsboro City Commission held their regular monthly meeting on Monday night, November 15th at the Hillsboro Community Center. At the meeting, the commission heard some good news in regards to their grant request for a pedestrian bridge across Interstate 29. Commission Vice President Levi Reese, who presided over the meeting with…
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Hillsboro, ND — The Hillsboro City Commission held their most recent regular monthly meeting last Monday, November 1st. At the meeting, the commission continued discussion about the drainage issues on Loyal Ave in the Prairieview Development in the southeast corner of town. Hillsboro Commission President Terry Sando says unfortunately the cost to address those flooding…
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Hillsboro, ND — The Hillsboro City Commission held their second regular monthly meeting on Monday night, September 20th at the Hillsboro Community Center. At the meeting, the commission held a public hearing for their preliminary 2022 budget. There was no public comment, and Hillsboro Commission President Terry Sando says now they’ll fine tune the final…
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Hillsboro, ND — The Hillsboro City Commission had their 2nd regular monthly meeting last Monday, August 16th at the Hillsboro Community Center. The commission recently approved moving forward with a special election this November to fill a vacant commission seat. Hillsboro City Commission President Terry Sando shares some of the details on the election. The…
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Hillsboro, ND — The Hillsboro City Commission held their 2nd regular monthly meeting last Monday, July 19th at the Hillsboro Community Center, where they continued to face criticism from residents on their handling of blight problems across the city. The Hillsboro City Commission addressed the issue at their previous meeting, but again reiterated their mistake…
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Hillsboro, ND — The Hillsboro City Commission had to put out fires at their most recent meeting after blight letters sent out by a commissioner caused an uproar in the community. Roughly two dozen or more business and residential property owners attended the meeting to speak up after receiving letters stating that their property needed…
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Hillsboro, ND — The Hillsboro City Commission is moving forward with creating an ordinance that would prohibit the use of shipping containers on residential lots. The commission discussed the matter at their regular meeting on Monday night. Although they offer optimal storage for users, shipping containers can be quite unsightly for neighbors. Hillsboro City Commission…
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Hillsboro, ND — A simple gaming authorization drew lengthy and heated discussions on Monday night during the regular Hillsboro City Commission meeting. The Tap That Bar currently contracts with the Hillsboro EDC nonprofit for their gaming, but this contract year they have selected the Aggie Foundation, a nonprofit out of Velva, North Dakota, for their…
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Hillsboro, ND — The city of Hillsboro held their regularly scheduled first monthly meeting Monday night at the Main Street Community Center. At the meeting, the city approved two façade grants for updating the exteriors of two downtown businesses. The commission approved spending $5,000 to assist The Idea Shop to improve the brick exterior around…
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Hillsboro, ND — The city of Hillsboro held their regularly scheduled meeting Monday evening at the Main Street Community Center. During the meeting the city held the Tax Equalization meeting discussing increased property tax assessments. During the meeting Some commissioners expressed concern that some home assessments were outdated resulting in lost property tax revenue for…
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