Working to reschedule a meeting in Hastings, the Metropolitan Airports Commission had to cancel a previous meeting, due to bad weather. A final decision of when to reschedule would be made later in the week, with residents set to turn out on Feb. 23, 24, or 25, pending a final decision on the date.

January 7, 1993

Showing up just west of Hastings from Jan. 7 some 30 years ago, were seven different airport concepts. With an initial phase leading to the seven sites, the next step per editor Doug Schultz was to use site screening criteria for things like archaeological impact, along with floodplains, accessibility, expandability, noise impacts, public parks and recreation sites, and the like.

Making a narrow escape from carbon monoxide poisoning after accidentally forgetting to turn off the car in the garage, fumes spread around the house lead to a severe headache followed by collapse and unconsciousness. Before collapsing, the father is able to phone his brother-in-law that something is “terribly wrong” and ask him to come over. Carbon monoxide interferes with the body’s normal respiration process and thereby leads to suffocation.

“(The doctor) told me if I’d remained in the house for thirty more seconds I’d be dead,” said the father of the unfortunate Prescott family, after being dragged outside unconscious and presumed dead, the sickness from carbon

80 years ago THE HASTINGS GAZETTE January 22, 1943 Coming in for notice some 80 years ago, Hastings High School students had expressed their willingness to help out with a then current labor shortage by accepting part-time jobs, according to a survey by the Hastings Press Club.

Among the work that Hastings students expressed interest in was shoveling snow, working in stores, factory jobs, and housework, as well as caring for children.

Named to an employment committee to facilitate contact between job seekers and those in need of help were Virginia Williams (chairman), Lucille Morey, Jacqueline Schwenn and Phyllis Wilmer.

104 years ago THE HASTINGS GAZETTE January 26, 1918 Personal Property Tax List (For Publication, Under Chapter 392, Laws of 1917) City of Hastings, County of Dakota, Minnesota Total Tax Rate by School Districts School District No. 26 rate in mills 60.00 (Individual tax valuations follow on front page) The Rural Clubs. Club 4 held its regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Nicholas Conzemius Jan. 22nd. The meeting opened with the Star Spangled Banner, sung by a young ladies quartette. After roll call, there being no business, the following programme was given: piano solo. Miss Elizabeth Conzemius; reading of letters from Red Cross nurses about conditions of hospitals and the work being done in France, and extracts from a speech of Otto Kahn, of New York, urging his countrymen to support America in the war, by Miss Gertrude A. N, vocal solo.

Territorial Dispatch… 164 years ago HASTINGS INDEPENDENT Volume I, Number 3 August 6, 1857 The Charter of the City of Hastings (continued from last week) Highlights to date Chapter I Section 1. Preamble setting stage for municipal incorporation and giving city name. Boundary limits described by Section and Township, with ward divisions.

Chapter II Section 1. Elections mandated on the second Tuesday of May each year, with polls open from 10 .am. to 4 p.m. and 10 days prior notice given.

Section 2. Elective offices of Mayor, Recorder, City Justice, and Council members described, with two council members per ward. Division by lot prescribed for first election, in order to set up alternating seat elections.

Section 3. Stipulations on what to do in case of vacancy for mayor or other offices is laid out.

Section 4. Elections stipulated to occur by ballot, with a plurality of votes to constitute an election. Should two candidates receive the same