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The Washington County Board of Commissioners appointed District 4 Commissioner Myra Peterson and District 1 Commissioner Dennis C. Hegberg to the Counties Transit Improvement Board. The CTIB is newly created joint powers organization which will administer the proceeds resulting from the 1⁄4 of one percent sales tax and excise tax recently enacted by Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey and Washington counties. District 5 Commissioner R. H. “Dick” Stafford was appointed to serve on the Grant Evaluation and Ranking System committee to review grant applications for funding. The new county sales tax is expected to generate some $5 million a year with the funds to be used for transit programs, including rail and bus programs.
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Central Montessori Elementary School, which is part of the Forest Lake
Area School District, is still accepting registration for its 2008-2009
all-day kindergarten through sixth grade program.The school is a
unique, modified-Montessori school focused on meeting the needs of all
learners. It offers students the proven quality of the district’s
curriculum, blended with the interactive, Montessori educational
strategies. The school features multi-age classrooms, individual
attention and small class sizes. Teachers creatively teach to guide
students on learning adventures. The school is located in the Central
Learning Center, 200 SW 4th St. Free transportation is provided for
students living within the Forest Lake district. For additional
information, contact the school’s main office at 651-982-3170, or check
out Central Montessori’s new website, http://cm.forestlake.k12.mn.us.
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Forest Lake FFA members and advisors traveled to Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted High School for the annual Region IV banquet and awards program where the group was recognized as the region’s top chapter and were awarded the Dahlberg trophy for 2007-2008. This acknowledgment was a result of the leadership, involvement, professional development activities, and career exploration efforts. The chapter also received the W. J. Kortesmaki award for being the most improved chapter and was recognized as the most active in career development event activities. “This group of FFA members is energetic, active, motivated, and have worked together as a team,” said FFA advisor and agricultural education department chair Bob Marzolf. The application will now advance to state competition during the Minnesota FFA Convention this month. Other highlights from the banquet included: Nicky Johnson, 3rd in talent; Alex Murdock, 3rd in the reporter’s contest; Erin Daninger, 2nd in advanced floral design; Hannah Taylor, 3rd in novice floral design; 1st place, treasurer’s book; 2nd place website; 3rd place scrapbook; 3rd place secretary’s book.
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Sixth District Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R-Stillwater, was
endorsed by unanimous acclaim at the Republican Congressional
Convention in Blaine on Saturday, April 5.
Bachmann, 52, sometimes wiping tears from her eyes, in her endorsement speech told delegates “we are lovers of freedom.”
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 Studying up on the cultures of Ireland, Whales, England, France, Belgium and the Netherlands isn’t a classroom lesson for Wyoming Elementary School students Tyler Boyce and Rhea Voss.
No, they’ll actually visit those far-off destinations this summer as part the People to People Student Ambassador Program July 2-21
Rhea Voss (left) and Tyler Boyce, 6th graders at Wyoming Elementary School, have been selected to be delegates for the People to People Student Ambassador Program. They are raising funds for their tuition costs at the Wyoming PTA Carnival at the school on Saturday, April 12.
(Photo By Jennifer Larson)
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 Dr. James B. Bullard, a native of Forest Lake, has been appointed president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis by the bank’s board of directors.
Board Chairman Irl F. Engelhardt said the appointment occurred after an extensive search by the board and was approved by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Dr. Bullard assumed his new position on April 1. He succeeds William Poole, who will retire as St. Louis Fed president on March 31 after serving in the position for 10 years.
Dr. James Bullard, a Forest Lake High School graduate, is now head of the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis, MO. He assumed his new duties on April 1.
(Photo Submitted)
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Comedian Scott Hansen, who has been named Minnesota Comedian of the Year five times, will appear in Wyoming on Friday, April 18 at a benefit for the St. John’s Academy and Little Angel Pre-school.
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The number of expected home foreclosures in the Forest Lake area this year is a crisis of great magnitude.
Rich Malloy, deputy executive director for Washington County Housing and Redevelopment Authority, updated the Forest Lake City Council on recent foreclosure figures during it’s regular meeting on March 24.
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