Have you gotten your pet license(s) yet? Emmetsburg City Code, Chapter 56.02, states that every owner of a dog over the age of six months shall procure a dog license. The annual license fee is $5 for each male or female dog, and $3 for each neutered dog. To license your dog, you must have a current veterinarian’s certificate showing that the dog has been vaccinated for rabies.

The Emmetsburg Community Visioning Committee wrapped up the 2021 Community Visioning program late last year and immediately began work to tackle several project elements identified through the visioning process. At the city scale, Emmetsburg has a number of gaps within its pedestrian and bicycle mobility network. Many community spaces are not connected with dedicated pedestrian/bike facilities, so the Visioning Committee developed landscape and transportation enhancement concepts, including a "Community Connections" concept with proposed mobility enhancements for primary transportation corridors that would better connect many of the city's schools, parks, and community hubs. These enhancements include enhancing the existing pedestrian/bike lane on N Superior, creating new shared-road pedestrian/bike pathways, and installing a new safe crossing at Harrison Park. 

Community Connections - Pedestrian/Biking Pathways:
PACGDC also awarded the Visioning Committee $4,496 for the enhancement of the N Superior pedestrian/bike lane with green pavement paint, painting sharrows on the road along selected corridors/pathways, and new “share the road” signage. Sharrows are white pavement markings showing a bicycle symbol with two chevrons on top and/or bottom that improve safety on streets that are too narrow for designated pedestrian/bike lanes. Sharrows indicate a shared vehicle and bicycle/pedestrian lane and warn motorists that it is an important bicycle/pedestrian route.

 

The Visioning Committee will work closely with the City of Emmetsburg, Emmetsburg Police Department, and Iowa Department of Transportation to complete these projects. The Committee aims to complete work by the time RAGBRAI comes to town on July 26.

Don’t miss the Annual St. Pat’s Bloody March Bash at The Shores at Five Island (14 N Lawler Street) before the famous St. Pat’s parade on March 19th. Get a Bloody Mary in a custom St. Pat’s souvenir cup with your choice of Bloody Mary Mix (spicy or regular) and vodka (regular or bacon-flavored), served with a loaded meat and cheese skewer for $8, and refills for $6. The Shores will also be serving $5 mimosas and $4 Baby Guinness Shots.