Help is on the way, but not until next year.

The Take Action Conserve Our Scandia is partnering with the Marine Community Library and River Radio to present an online Candidate Forum for Scandia mayoral and city council candidates on Wednesday, September 30th.

Two people died in a head-on collision Thursday night in Scandia. 

The September 10 Marine City Council meeting kicked off with a report from the Marine Library Association on its slate of fall activities. In addition to a redesign of its website and interior space, River Radio and event programming begins this month.

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office and the Cottage Grove Police and Fire Departments began the search for a missing plane on the evening of Sunday, September 13. They were assisted with the search by the Stillwater Fire Department and the South Metro Fire Department.

City Engineer Ryan Goodman is done talking. Now he’s “barking.”

Midco is furthering its mission to bring broadband services to areas of Minnesota that are unserved or underserved. A ribbon cutting is scheduled for Sept. 16 in which the City and Midco will celebrate the communications company’s expansion of its Internet services.  

 In observance of the 19th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and in accordance with a proclamation issued by the President, Governor Tim Walz has ordered that all United States flags and Minnesota flags be flown at half-staff at all state and federal buildings in the S…

More than 3,800 volunteer groups annually help beautify Minnesota’s roadways

At the Sept. 3, board of supervisors meeting Mike Isensee of the Carnelian-Marine-St. Croix Watershed District (CMSCWD) explained the results of a community engagement process that secured feedback from 310 residents in watershed communities. A citizen advisory committee, which includes five…

To help support local artists, Marine on St. Croix resident Cecily Harris is holding a one-day Marine artist Popup sale 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 12, at 710 Broadway Street in Marine.

Red Cross and Sport Clips Haircuts partner to raise awareness of childhood cancers, offer free haircut coupon to donors in September

The League of Women Voters of White Bear Lake Area invite the public to submit questions in advance of virtual candidate forums planned for MN State House District 39A and B and MN State Senate District 29. Candidates who have confirmed participation so far include Josiah Hill, MN Senate Dis…

The COVID-19 Response Fund for the St. Croix Valley is launching a second wave of grantmaking on August 19. The fund will grant an additional $600,000 (approximate) to nonprofits focused on housing, utilities, and transportation and serving Chisago and Washington counties (Minnesota) and Bur…

County Attorney Pete Orput Thursday announced that James Edward Carter, 56, of Forest Lake, has been charged with three counts relating to sexual assault of two former juvenile students.

Liquor store fined

Festival Theatre to present Staged Readings of “Silent Sky”

PowerUp, a community-wide initiative to make it easy and fun for families and kids to eat better and move more, is seeking youth leaders who want to create a culture of health and wellness in their school or community.

Join classic car and train enthusiasts from across the region on September 9th from 5:00-9:00 pm. The Minnesota Transportation Museum is hosting a Classic Car and Train Show at the Jackson Street Roundhouse, 193 Pennsylvania Ave. E. in Saint Paul.

Washington County is opening applications for financial assistance for businesses in the county that have been negatively impacted through additional expenses or lost revenue due to closures during the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Council members voted at the Aug. 13 City Council meeting to approve the long-in-the-making city ordinance on short-term rentals. Despite continued public concern over the ordinance, the Council requested only modest changes before unanimous approval. 

Incumbents ruled the day locally in the Minnesota partisan primary elections Tuesday, Aug. 11. 

The Minnesota Department of Health’s Public Health Laboratory has found vitamin E acetate in illicit vaping products associated with a recent outbreak of severe lung injury cases in the state.

Two candidates for city council in Scandia, and two more in Marine on St. Croix, will be on the ballot Nov. 3.

Washington County Sheriff Dan Starry and County Attorney Pete Orput sent out the following press release regarding what happened in Hugo this weekend: 

Two temporary patches to a much larger problem are on the table in Scandia’s Bliss neighborhood.

In Scandia, it’s going to be Maefsky versus Simonson: Part 3.

Thursday, Governor Walz announced that Minnesota has been recognized by the National Governors Association and Results for America for its use of evidence and data to improve results for Minnesotans.

After several months of discussion, a decision was reached at the August 6 meeting of the May Township Board of Supervisors to delay the Panorama stormwater project. The combined road and stormwater infrastructure project had an estimated cost of $360,000, of which a third would have come fr…

Right now, the American Red Cross has an emergency shortage of convalescent plasma, a potentially lifesaving treatment for patients with COVID-19. The Red Cross has seen demand for convalescent plasma more than double over the last month as the number of coronavirus cases increases across th…

Landmark law is first step in reversing youth tobacco epidemic

The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) last month announced that they have distributed small business emergency loans to 1,020 small businesses throughout Minnesota, helping them to survive the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Polk County Sheriff's Office released the names Monday morning of those who died in the crash.

City enlists accounting assistance