NO CAMERAS FOR BUHL

The Buhl City Council voted down a proposal to install six surveillance cameras around the tiny Iron Range town after it heard widespread scorn from members of the community. About 30 people opposed the idea at Tuesday's council meeting. St. Louis County Sheriff Pat McKenzie said the cameras would have been useful as an investigative tool and a deterrant to crime and would not be used to give people tickets. Mark Frahm is the owner of Billy's Bar in Buhl. He told the Mesabi Daily News that "we don't have rapes, murders and mugging. We're not a big city." Sheriff McKenzie said officers have been called to Buhl nearly 740 times this year so far.