The grand complex that was in the 1890s known as Mudbaden Sulphur Springs is being transformed into a regional training facility for police, fire, even military personnel. Scott County Association for Leadership and Efficiency opened the site earlier this month in Sand Creek Township. (Photos by Mathias Baden)

Scott County Association for Leadership and Efficiency's regional public safety training facility opened this month. The 53rd Civil Support Team, a formation of the Indiana Army National Guard, was one of the first groups to use the burn tower for firefighter training.

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Ten years ago, the Jordan Commercial Club chose retiring police chief Alvin Erickson to be the honored guest at the organization's annual meeting.

For more information, read the Looking Back column in the May 15 issue of the Jordan Independent. Read it online in the Print Edition section, or subscribe by going to www.jordannews.com/subscribe.

Fifty years ago, the Scott County Board voted 3-2 to grant the sheriff's request for 24-hour dispatching service.

For more information, read the Looking Back column in the May 15 issue of the Jordan Independent. Read it online in the Print Edition section, or subscribe by going to www.jordannews.com/subscribe.

The Jordan School Board voted tonight to keep paying for a school resource officer, but the school liaison’s position could still be in jeopardy.

The issue came to the board after Superintendent Larry Kauzlarich and the superintendents of the five other member districts in the Minnesota River Valley Special Educational Cooperative decided to make a recommendation to the cooperative’s board to cut their funding for the position. The cooperative, the Jordan district, and the City of Jordan each pay about 1/3 of resource officer Shane Schultz’s $58,000 salary.

Last week, the Jordan Police Department responded to 108 incidents – 11 citations, 22 warning citations, and 75 calls for service.

April 26 at 11:23 p.m. – An unknown 911 call was received from an address along Juergens Circle. Officers responded to the address and found a man intoxicated and out of control. The man was transported to St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Shakopee and placed on a 72-hour hold.

Walter “Wally” Cobb of Jordan died last week when he lost control of his Harley Davidson motorcycle and was hit by a train near the intersection of Frontage Road and County Road 9 in Jordan.

When Walter “Wally” Cobb died in a motorcycle accident last week, he left behind two sons, and a family that wasn’t your traditional family unit.

Cobb and his ex-wife Nanci Barlau remained close friends after their 11-year marriage ended.

“We were more of a family after our divorce,” she said.

When their youngest son was confirmed, the entire family attended – Cobb and his wife Kelly, and Nanci and her husband.

“He decided it was very important that he be there,” Barlau said. “We all went as a family together.”

Here is a look at some of the numbers involved in the May 1 motorcycle accident that killed Jordan’s Walter L. Cobb:

2
fatal accidents along the Union Pacific track in Jordan in the past three years

3,300
feet, approximately, between the train crossing at which Cobb died and the crossing at which Scott Fahrenkamp died on Jan. 12, 2006