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La Crosse parks department apologizes for lack of notice about bluff plan

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Some people in La Crosse still have concerns about a proposed hiking and biking trail in the bluffs. 

A two-hour informational meeting Monday night in a nearly-full city council chamber may have helped ease some of those concerns. 

La Crosse parks and rec. director Jay Odegaard responded to questions about the effect that new trails might have on the condition of Grandad Bluff. 

“I apologize to people that were not made aware earlier through the public meetings and the neighborhood association meetings,” Odegaard said. “That is a lesson this department has learned.”

Several homeowners, who live near the bluffs, claim they didn’t know about the trail plan — which will no longer be named Grandma’s Gateway — until a January park board meeting, where the idea of allowing access to the trail was discussed.

One question was whether the Mississippi Valley Conservancy had taken a stand on the trail project. 

Carol Abrahamzon of MVC said the organization neither supports nor opposes the plan for new recreational trails.

There was applause, and some expressions of thanks, from audience members for the parks department scheduling the meeting. 

A native of Prairie du Chien, Brad graduated from UW - La Crosse and has worked in radio news for more than 30 years, mostly in the La Crosse area. He regularly covers local courts and city and county government. Brad produces the features "Yesterday in La Crosse" and "What's Buried on Brad's Desk." He also writes the website "Triviazoids," which finds odd connections between events that happen on a certain date, and he writes and performs with the local comedy group Heart of La Crosse. Brad been featured on several national TV programs because of his memory skills.

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