The Lake Elmo City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday (July 20) to establish a city library, effectively opting out of the county system that was going to close it. Now the hard work begins of the organizing and negotiating with the county to still retain some of the services. The vote came at 11:00 pm and we all broke out in applause. I think the opposition in the council melted away when it became obvious that the county library board was going to close our library.
This is the Rosalie E. Wahl library in Lake Elmo, named for the first woman supreme court justice in Minnesota who still lives in Lake Elmo.