Days Gone By In Staunton

Thursday, Dec. 13, 1990 -- Future Lake Expansion Unclear -- Staunton's City Engineer Deborah Ramsey recently told the City Council that "they needed to take steps if they were interested" in the Staunton Lake expansion project for 1991. The Council hired Hansen Engineers last year to conduct a feasibility study of such a project. When they hired Hansen the Council indicated they might pursue a lake expansion project in 1991. The present lake was built in 1926 and has experienced natural siltation.

Earlier, this year the City conducted an income survey of Staunton residents in an effort to secu...