MOSCOW MILLS – It’s not the biggest issue facing his community, but to Moscow Mills Mayor Patrick Flannigan it’s a measure of how times are changing in this small, once largely farming community in southern Lincoln County that’s fast on the road to becoming a “bedroom community.”

For years now, the Troy Kiwanis Club and Community Opportunities have been working towards building a 28-acre park feature between Trojan Lake Estates and Oak Forest, which is to include an accessible playground, hiking trails, exercise stations, a disk golf course and hopefully even more.

Lincoln County has a new Emergency Management Agency (EMA) director, after the County Commission agreed to replace Emma Epplin, who’d been the county’s EMA director since 2015.