On Tuesday, June 25, 7:30 p.m. at the Marine on St. Croix Hall, the city's planning commission will host a community conversation regarding short term rentals.
A second arrest has been made in a case involving May Township, according to a news release from the Washington County Sheriff's Office.
On June 15, a suspect was arrested in association with a woman found in the road, shot, June 9 in May Township.
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Former Scandia Elementary principal Marilyn Opp and former music director at Elim Lutheran Church, Dennis Alfveby, were inducted into the Forest Lake Area Schools Hall of Fame Monday, June 3.
Wetland driveway may go to court?
More than 40 people applied to become Scandia’s next city administrator.
Motorists traveling on Interstate 35 near Highway 8 in Forest Lake will encounter I-35 overnight closures and detours on June 18 and June 19. One direction of I-35 at Highway 8 will close each night, weather permitting.
In the early morning hours of Sunday, June 9, Washington County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a call of a woman found in the middle of the road near Highway 95 and 124th Street North in May Township.
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ill host the 12th Annual Hay Lake Beer Tasting on Saturday, June 15.
Tim Franklin’s group of northern Minnesota print and digital news publications are now part of neighboring Northstar Media, Inc., a company owned by Gene and Carter Johnson.
The school year is coming to an end, but the programming at Franconia Sculpture Park is just warming up. Educators and youth group leaders looking for fun and affordable summer activities to do with kids are encouraged to sign their groups up for an Art in Rural Places workshop.
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Learning that you have a secret admirer can cause your heart to skip a beat and put a bounce in your step. For a new organization trying to make a go of it with not enough time in the day and limited financial resources, finding out a secret admirer wanted to help could make its leaders jump…
The body located on June 2, 2019 near the 17600 block of Manning Trail in May Township has been identified as Jose Natividad Genis Cuate, according to a news release from the Washington County Sheriff's Office.
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Pietro Di Lorenzo was a nature lover. In March, the son of Marine residents Gene and Loralee Di Lorenzo died unexpectedly at 26 years old. To recognize his love of the St Croix River, the Di Lorenzo family created a fund for his memorials, the Pietro Hanka Di Lorenzo St. Croix River Conserva…
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Heading into his final year at Forest Lake Area High School, a Scandia junior has collected a trio of perfect college entrance exam scores.
Scandia Mayor Christine Maefsky presented a Good Neighbor Award Proclamation to area resident Patty O’Gorman at the May 22 city council meeting.
Sunday, June 2, at 4:27 pm, the Washington County Sheriff's Office responded to a call of a body found in May Township. Upon arrival, deputies found a deceased body near the 17600 block of Manning Trail North. The incident is under investigation, according to a release from the sheriff’s office.
Residents of the Tii Gavo neighborhood on Big Marine Lake who were hoping to someday have a private dock are, for now, out of luck.
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Cycling Scandia, a nonprofit organization promoting bicycling in Scandia, has received several grants and gifts to propel the group’s efforts.
Xcel Energy announced plans today to retire its last two coal plants in the Upper Midwest a decade earlier than scheduled. The acceleration of the coal closures is another milestone in the company’s clean energy transition that includes expanding wind and solar, using cleaner natural gas and…
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Katie and Joe Reinhardt have their second driveway and they’re willing to go to court to keep it.
Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies recovered a man’s body from the St. Croix River Friday, May 24. Deputies responded to a call at 12:55 p.m. on the 9300 block of St. Croix Trail North, in Stillwater Township.
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Leif Lundeen was working at an auto repair shop in Lindstrom when he got a call from an acquaintance. The transmission shop in Scandia was for sale.
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At 151 years, Minnesota’s oldest Lutheran parsonage sits in need of repair. Insects have damaged the 1868 era wood of the building, which is no longer lived in but remains preserved as the Gammelgården Museum’s Präst Hus. The logs need stabilization. New gutters and downspouts are in order, …
Caroline Little, a teacher at St. Thomas Academy in Mendoa Heights, has earned the 2019 WEM Outstanding Educator Award for Teacher Achievement. A $15,000 award from the WEM (Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan) Foundation accompanies the honor.
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Eight-year-old Forest Lake girl, Ali Cable, recently competed in the America's Little Miss Regional Pageant in Bloomington where she shed tears of joy with a big win.
Slightly higher spending and lower revenues for May Township in 2018 do not seem to be worrisome trends, according to a summary from auditor Lucas Chase of CliftonLarsonAllen.
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Tensions between River Grove School and the City of Marine surfaced last week after a group representing the school asked city officials to waive the hall rental fee.
Marine will hold its annual spring festival, Millstream Day, Sunday, May 19.
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River Grove, a Marine area community school, will present “The Music Man” May 15, 16, and 17, 7 p.m. at the Marine on St. Croix City Hall.
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Planning is in the very early stages to replace the Osceola bridge. The departments of transportation in Minnesota and Wisconsin have their sights on year 2025.
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The City of Marine officially owns the Marine Elementary School property, councilmen Bill Milller and Lon Pardun announced May 1.
MnDOT has been paving northbound I-35E in Lino Lakes this week and was rained out today. The department has rescheduled today’s paving for Saturday, May 11. Northbound I-35E will be reduced to a single lane between one mile south of the I-35W/I-35E split and I-35 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Expect…
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) announced on April 12 that River Grove: A Marine Area Community School is a 2019 School Finance Award recipient for 2018 financial reporting. The School Finance Award is awarded annually by the MDE, recognizing schools for meeting statutory deadlin…
The Minnesota Department of Transportation urges anglers to plan ahead and use caution while driving through highway work zones on the way to their favorite fishing spots this weekend.
They’re doing it again! The Norwegians are busy getting ready for Vennelag’s 22nd Annual Heritage Festival on May 21, at the Scandia Community Center (14727 209th St N, Scandia) from 6 to 9 p.m.
Scandia Mayor Christine Maefsky presented a Good Neighbor Award Proclamation to area residents Jeff and Dodi Anderson April 16.
Crisis by crisis, year after year, traumas add up for people working in law enforcement. Across the nation in 2018, 145 officers died on the job. A larger number, 159, took their own lives.
The City of Scandia and St. Croix Festival Theatre are partnering to offer Art in Action!, a weeklong day camp for youth interested in performance.
The City of Marine officially owns the Marine Elementary School property, councilmen Bill Milller and Lon Pardun announced today.
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Season opener features barbershop quartet
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The Washington County Historical Society last week announced it has hired Katie Hutton as the site manager of the Hay Lake School and Johannes Erickson Log House museums in Scandia.
Solar farms are back.
You did; no threat to public
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Marine on St. Croix received Tree City USA recognition this spring from the Arbor Day Foundation.
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