Monitor in a Minute - Dec 2024

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Area sledders, take note
Folks who enjoy sledding, crossing country skiing and winter walks on the Town & Country Club Golf Course will need to go elsewhere during winter 2024-2025. Club officials announced that the course at 300 N. Mississippi Blvd. will be closed to all forms of access this winter.
The closing is meant to protect extensive work done as part of Town & Country’s Golf Course Enhancement Project. Much of the course has been rebuilt over the past several weeks. Closing the course is meant to protect the newly made improvements over the winter months, said Tregg Hagen, membership and communications director.
Town & Country leadership spent several months weighing plans for the course, before approving a comprehensive renovation master plan developed by architect Jeff Mingay and the club’s long-time course superintendent Bill Larson in 2023, according to the website Golf Course Architecture.
The work has included expanding greens and fairways, as well as tee and bunker work. Initial alternations began in 2023 including removal of trees and restoring the size of greens. All 18 holes at Town & Country are expected to open to golfers in spring 2025.
Town & Country is considered to be the birthplace of golf in Minnesota, hosting the first-ever round of golf in Minnesota in 1893.

LIBRARY TO BE DEMOLISHED SOON
Demolition activities at the Hamline Midway Branch Library, 1558 Minnehaha Ave., get underway soon, according to a St. Paul Public Library press release. Demolition and construction of a new library can get underway following an October Ramsey County District Court decision allowing the project to go ahead after a 16-month delay.
Area residents will start to see activity as items are removed or salvaged. Building utilities will be deactivated and hazardous materials removed.
Work will continue through December. Other timelines and updates will be issued as the old library is prepared for demolition and a new one built.
The library is being replaced as part of the Transforming Libraries initiative. Once construction begins, the project is anticipated to take 18 months for completion. For more information about Transforming Libraries and for ongoing updates, visit www.sppl.org/transform.

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