The Jordan Brewers play a crucial Section 3B game tonight at the Mini-Met.

Jordan plays Green Isle at 7:30 p.m. The Brewers hold a game and half lead over Green Isle in the Section 3B standings. 

The Jordan Millers had little trouble with Prior Lake as they defeated the Mariners 8-1 on Monday night at the Mini Met.

With the win the Millers are now in first place in the league with a 5-2 record.

Troy Mahoney pitched all seven innings giving up only one hit and striking out eight.

Jordan's 2008 comprehensive plan is out for formal review by adjacent units of local government and for informal review by the Metropolitan Council.

A few parking citations given out by police at the Mini-Met ballpark during the Jordan Art Festival have been dismissed.

The ballpark parking lot near the intersection of Rice and Water streets filled up during the Jordan Valley Bike Tour, which was attended by about 300 bicyclists. Overflow parking trickled into the street leading behind the outfield fence and into the parking lot.

Mathias Baden reports:

“A ways out there, but an appealing combination of pastoral and urban.”

Sound familiar, like someone is mentioning a little town you might have in mind?

In the July edition of Mpls St Paul magazine, Brian Lambert, Shawn Gilliam, and Sarah Howard combined to write an article about the best places to live in the Twin Cities, and Jordan made the list of 20 “great neighborhoods.”

The writers took into account crime statistics, school quality ratings, subjective insights of real estate industry professionals, and historical home sales.

Here's what's been going on in and around Belle Plaine lately, according to the Belle Plaine Herald:

- Belle Plaine issued four permits for new home during the first six months of the year. Ten years ago, the city saw the number more than double, increasing from 19 in 1997 to 46 in 1998.

- The Belle Plaine school board will dip into its budget reserves, despite receiving a surprise one-time increase in funding from the state.

- Three seats for the Belle Plaine City Council are open. Former Councilmember Cary Coop was the first to file.

The city of Jordan is considering a dangerous-dog ordinance that would establish a procedure by which a dog may be declared dangerous or potentially dangerous.

"It is very important that we closely monitor and regulate dogs after
they have attacked or bit someone," Police Chief Bob Malz wrote in a
report to the council.

The proposed ordinance also allows, among other things:

- an animal control officer to designate dogs as potentially dangerous;

- potentially dangerous dogs to be impounded if they are an "immediate threat to public safety";