LOCAL
Solar array screening revised; Fire department receives water rescue team funding
March 25, with Council Member Nikki Battles absent, the four-member Chisago City Council moved swiftly through its agenda with one exception.
Goodbye Alice - you will be missed
If there is one thing I hate, it’s using this space to talk about friends and people in our community who have passed away. It’s not that I hate writing about them, rather it means I am writing about someone I have come to know and many times become close …
Prepping for the warm season veggies
It’s time to start thinking about planting your warm season veggies if you start them from seeds inside before bringing them outside in May.
Law Enforcement
A two vehicle crash at Park Trail and 345th Street reported about 11 a.m. One female was taken to Regions in critical condition. The details are being awaited. The cause was thought to have been weather related.
County grants property tax abatement to Stacy power sports business
A new power sports business is going to be built on the west side of I-35 in Stacy, near the Kwik Trip. Acknowledging this is under an ambitious schedule, proposer Nick Simpson says if all goes according to plan the Polaris service and sales could move out of Simpson’s hardware …
County-led projects may see federal funding impacts
The Chisago county engineer and staff are herding a number of long range road designs, and more imminent projects along paths towards completion, like a possible Stacy interchange, right. For the most part things are going well. But one concern has popped up tied to the rebuild of Highway 8.
DRE is timely, productive post
It would be safe to have guessed that the help-wanted ad running when John Hodgkins’ County Deputy position was open, could have sent most job seekers running in the opposite direction.
Wyoming City Council briefs.....
A new set of play structures and sitework were approved by city council for the Fireside Park on the west side of the freeway around 262nd, in Wyoming.
New Lindstrom liquor store manager hired, street work heading for bids
Lindstrom council was steered through its regular council session last week by Brian Norelius as acting mayor in the absence of Judy Chartrand, who participated on the Internet.
Easter seems so late this year
Every year since our kids were small we have saved to take a vacation. My wife and I grew up in households that never, and I mean never, took vacations. It just wasn’t feasible back then. We vowed to try our darndest to make sure our kids had a vacation …
Bravo to the FACS class at Chisago Lakes
I just want to give a shout out to all of the kids in Ms. Koeppel’s Family and Consumer Science class.
Vehicular homicide charges filed
Felony vehicular homicide charges have been filed in connection with a minivan and passenger car crash Friday, March 14 about 6:18 p.m. on Rush Lake Trail, in Nessel Township. One of five children involved was removed from life support March 20 and passed away.
North Branch man sentenced for woman’s death in Lakeside Park
The North Branch man convicted of second degree murder, criminal vehicular homicide and assault in an incident that resulted in the death of a 17 year old female in a Forest Lake park, was sentenced in Washington County District Court March 20.
