diff --git a/app/events.py b/app/events.py
index bd628c88..14ae3965 100644
--- a/app/events.py
+++ b/app/events.py
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ def connect():
 @login_required
 def disconnect():
     '''
-    ' On disconnect the session id (sid) of the connection gets placed in the
-    ' disconnected list (see above).
+    ' On disconnect the session id (sid) of the connection gets removed from
+    ' connected sessions list (see above).
     '''
     connected_sessions.remove(request.sid)
 
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ def background_task(app, user_id, session_id, foreign=False):
     '
     '       > where '*' is either 'corpora' or 'jobs'
     '''
-    logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
     with app.app_context():
         user = db.session.query(User).get_or_404(user_id)
         ''' Get current values from the database. '''
@@ -85,7 +84,6 @@ def background_task(app, user_id, session_id, foreign=False):
                       room=session_id)
         ''' TODO: Implement maximum runtime for this loop. '''
         while session_id in connected_sessions:
-            logger.warning('Running...')
             ''' Get current values from the database '''
             new_corpora = user.corpora_as_dict()
             new_jobs = user.jobs_as_dict()
@@ -105,4 +103,3 @@ def background_task(app, user_id, session_id, foreign=False):
             corpora = new_corpora
             jobs = new_jobs
             socketio.sleep(3)
-    logger.warning('Stoping!')