The need for a new pool in the City With a Heart is obvious to Jackie Stoltz.

"It's important that our town be progressive and offer multiple things," said the Hartley woman, who served on the pool taskforce committee and is also helping raise funds for a new aquatic center. "We can't just sit back and do nothing. We have to move ahead and be progressive."

Local voters will decide the fate of a $1.7 million bond issue on March 2 that, if passed, will finance more than half the cost to construct a new pool. 'Yes' votes will need to tally 60 percent for the referendum to be successful.

Stoltz...