The news came by e-mail: “Hi Mathias. I may have an interesting story brewing for you,” Jordan resident Kathy Machowski, a ghost hunter a founding member of Beyond the Veil, wrote earlier this fall. “I was in a graveyard not to far from Jordan, and I was doing my ghostie thing. Well, I got an EVP of a man saying, ‘William Bonney.’”

Lori Carlson of the Prior Lake American reports:

A Prior Lake police detective and one-time Scott County Board candidate has been appointed to a position on the Spring Lake Township Board.

Chris Olson was appointed Oct. 20 to serve the remainder of a term held by Eugene Berens, who died in a riding lawn mower accident on Sept. 18. The term is set to expire in January 2011.

Jordan resident Kathy Machowski, a ghost hunter with Beyond the Veil, explains her investigation at the Lydia Zion United Methodist Church cemetery in Spring Lake Township:

Fifty years ago, Mrs. Francis O'Keefe was re-elected president of a rural mail carriers organization.

Read more about Jordan's history in the Looking
Back column published in the Oct. 29 print edition of the Jordan Independent.   

Two mysteries unfold in Lydia -- there is an author pontificating an age-old story about a cornfield and a ghost hunter wondering about words she heard last week in a graveyard.

For more information, read the Oct. 29 print edition of the Jordan Independent.

Thirty years ago, final plans for the 911 emergency phone service systems were presented to the Scott County Board.

Read more about Jordan's history in the Looking Back column published in the Oct. 29 print edition of the Jordan Independent.  

An error was published in the Activities, Church, City Politics, Food, Helena Township, Next Door, Organizations, Police, Sand Creek Township, Spring Lake Township, and St. Lawrence Township sections of this Web site. The Jordan Area Food Shelf opens Saturday, Oct. 10, the same day as its grand opening.

The Jordan Independent takes pride in providing accurate reports of the news.

Lori Carlson of the Prior Lake American reports:

Friends and colleagues joined family members this week in mourning the loss of longtime Spring Lake Township resident and Township Board Supervisor Gene Berens, who died Sept. 18 in a riding mower accident in Lonsdale. He was 72.

Lonsdale police found Berens under a riding lawn mower near the 400 block of Baldwin Street around 11:22 a.m. Sept. 18. A neighbor had called 911 after seeing the mower on top of him on the side of a hill. An autopsy is planned, said Lonsdale Police Chief Jason Schmitz.

The Jordan Area Food Shelf will open early next month in downtown Jordan.

A grand opening celebration will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at the food shelf, 131 E. First St.

Fresh meat and produce will be available, as well as nonperishable food, laundry detergent, toiletries, and diapers.