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From Bradbury Township Mille Lacs County, Minnesota |
Mille Lacs News Since 4/18/07
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Monday April 19, 2010 |
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Fighting City Hall
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Sex Offenders do NOT belong next to children's day care! |
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The Onamia city council had already determined the relocation site and worked out most of the plan details before neighborhood citizens had a clue that 94 convicted sex offenders were moving in next door. Property owners were blind-sided by the city. Shortly before Bradbury residents discovered the city's surprise, the Mille Lacs Messenger had published an article (March 15, 2006) which stated that the new sex offender facility would possibly be built on land owned by the Crosiers , which turned out not to be the case at all. "[Councilman Bill] Hill showed the council a number of prospective building sites, which could be made available to Nexus, the most promising of which is a parcel currently owned by the Crosiers, located east and across Hwy 169 from the Academy’s current home in the Crosier building." In a Messenger article (March 7, 2007) it was reported: "Nexus has expressed an interest on nearly 40 acres of land owned by Leonard and Helen Vanderpoel near the Onamia schools." and
"It is a nice piece of property," Milton said
of the Vanderpoel location. "But there are other properties that already
have sewer and water with less work required on the roads." When a surprise new location was announced a month later, Bradbury residents were shocked to find that the sex offender facility would be build in Bradbury Township. The 38.81 acres did not already have sewer and water, was farther away, and also required work on the roads. Residents felt as if they had been betrayed and deceived. For the next two years, a small group of citizens (those most affected by having sex offenders next to their homes) fought the Onamia city council. This new section of the Mille Lacs News is dedicated to bringing you the story. It will take time to reorganize our web site and bring you details, but we intend to expose the malfeasance and incompetence of the mayor, the city council, the zoning administrator, and the city attorney as they conspired to aggressively insert sex offenders into an opposing residential neighborhood of "outsiders", changing laws along the way to strip away the rights of property owners. What happened to us was unconscionable abuse of power. And it could happen to anyone.
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The Mille Lacs News an independent online news source. Bringing you information about the war between Bradbury Township citizens and the City of Onamia over the fate of a residential neighborhood and the sex offenders of the Nexus Corporation |
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Daniel Webster
"I apprehend no danger to our country from a
foreign foe ... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from
another quarter. -- From the inattention of the people to the concerns of
their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess
that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a
confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their
conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and
become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and
they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and
they will apply the remedy."
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