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On March 5, the Scandia Planning Commission and City Council held a public hearing on three applications for conditional use permits for sand and gravel mining operationns (including into ground water) and an asphalt processing operation as follows:
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Fish will be on the menu Friday when some Forest Lake notables get pies tossed in their faces.
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It was a standing ovation for Wyoming Mayor Sheldon Anderson who was a special guest at the March 6 ISD 831 School Board meeting. Anderson was honored for his Extreme Fund-Raising effort and week-long stay on the roof of the Wyoming City Hall that raised $35,000 in public donations to keep the Community Education Forest Lake Teen Center open. Anderson was honored with a plaque presented by Julie Ohman, director of community education. “We needed a champion,” Ohman said. “We are so, so grateful.” Anderson said he became a backer last year of the program that serves junior high students in an after-school facility at the Central Learning Center after learning that it faced financial troubles. Anderson said he has a passion for such programs. As a kid, he said he was a youth who could have benefitted. “I was one of those kids who didn’t want to go home,” Anderson said. He teamed with Kathy Bystrom, youth development coordinator for Community Education, to pull off the successful fund-raiser.
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After 15 years of partnership, the Metro Deaf School will no longer have ISD 831 in Forest Lake as its charter holder. The school has requested the charter school be released from its agreement in ISD 831 in order for it to pursue a partnership and merger with the Minnesota North Star Academy, a high school. Dyan Sherwood, founder and director of the St. Paul school for the deaf, had praise for ISD 831 and former administrator, Beth Sullivan, for the efforts over 15 years of partnership. The relationship was borne in 1992 when a number of parents of deaf children in ISD 831 helped encourage the charter arrangement here. “As the second charter school to open in the nation and the first charter school to serve D/HH children in the nation, Forest Lake was visionary in its unanimous decision back in 1992 and we will be forever grateful,” Sherwood said in a letter to the district. The current charter contract expires June 30. The board voted 7-0 to approve a resolution that ISD 831 does not contest the change in charter sponsors.
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The Rush Line Corridor between St. Paul and Hinckley would benefit from a legislative bonding bill working its way through the state House and Senate. According to State Sen. Rick Olseen, DFL-Harris, the bill would provide $500,000 to build park-and-ride lots. The state funding will move the project closer to securing $5 million in federal funding, he said. “The Rush Line Corridor will greatly benefit the lives of local commuters,” Olseen said. “I’m very pleased that the Senate is continuing to invest in its development through additional park-and-ride opportunities.” The Rush Line funding is part of a $965 million bonding bill that passed the Senate last week on 51-7 vote. District 52 Sen. Ray Vandeveer, R-Forest Lake, was one of the seven members to vote against the bill.
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The Washington County Board of Commissioners on March 4 received an initial overview from Washington County Public Works Director Don Theisen on the state’s new transportation funding bill. Among the items discussed were the estimated benefits for Washington County’s transportation program. Over the period 2009-2018, the county would receive an increase of $57,518,000. The allocation would provide 60 percent for new construction and 40 percent for operations and maintenance for projects such as road pavement overlays and intersections.
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ISD 831 schools have lost two more long-time teachers to retirement. The school board on March 6 approved retirement requests for Georgia Heisserer at Forest Lake Elementary and Thomas Newell at Forest Lake High School. Newell will retire at the end of the school year with 31 years of service while Heisserer will depart with 37 years of service to the district.
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The one-day Forest Lake Home & Business Show is on tap Saturday, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Forest Lake High School, 6101 Scandia Trail N. The home show is a joint sponsorship effort by the Forest Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, Lake Area Bank, and the ISD 831 Community Education program. There is no admission. The show will include a host of door prizes and a kid’s play area. Kodiak Coffee, Forest Lake, is in charge of the food concessions.
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