By Nancy Huddleston, Editor

The bright gold façade and teal-colored roof shingles will be coming down at El Loro this year, thanks in part to a city grant program that entices downtown businesses to improve their buildings.

By Nancy Huddleston, Editor

What do you get when you mix beer, wine and liquor?

For the city of Savage, it’s a winning combination in terms of municipal liquor sales for 2007.

By Nancy Huddleston, Editor

The lights might be brighter in the Petula Clark song, “Downtown,” but that was before LED signs that use animation, changing images and words.

Now the Savage City Council wants to make sure those lights on signs don’t get too bright and voted last month to update the city ordinance to regulate the new technology. But doing so took a year, as the city imposed a moratorium on signs that display animation or electronically changing images and messages in April of last year.

The Savage City Council will meet Monday, May 5 at 7 p.m. in council chambers at city hall, 6000 McColl Drive.

The tentative agenda is as follows:

Call to order/roll call/Pledge of Allegiance

Presentations, proclamations, awards, suggestions, petitions, complaints and unscheduled matters — from council members and citizens

Note: Comments limited to five minutes per person. Longer presentations must be scheduled through the city clerk.

The city of Savage will unveil a logo for the future McColl Pond Environmental Learning Center on Monday, May 5 at the start of the regular City Council meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at Savage City Hall, 6000 McColl Drive.

The logo was voluntarily designed by Savage resident and artist Greg Preslicka of Preslicka Studios. Preslicka also designed Savage’s official logo, which was adopted by the City Council in 2000.