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Where to put equipment for sewer system tossed around by council

If there is going to be a sewer system, then there has to be equipment to manage that sewer system.

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A riled up Owen Musser, played by Alex Runk, takes after Charlie Baker, played by Connor Unger, as they along with Lauren Saustrom and Annie Cadwell rehearse “The Foreigner,” which opens on Friday night at Stillwater Area High School. (Photo by Andy Blenkush)
Faux ‘Foreigner’ seeks authentic laughs from local audiences

True lies?

Haeri Tollefson claims it’s the best high school play he’s produced. And if you’re familiar with his work with Stillwater or South St. Paul schools, you know that’s saying something.

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Blues festival gets county’s permission to expand

The Washington County Planning Commission is temporarily bending the rules to allow blues musicians to bend notes at the Washington County Fairgrounds this summer.

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Picnic perfect
Angela Taylor, 2, digs into a giant apple while having a picnic with her mother and some friends Monday at the Lake Elmo Park Reserve.
 

No more delays, district officials say

Don’t call it a shake-up. Consider it a restoration. That’s the message District 834 officials are giving regarding personnel changes coming to the district’s central services office this summer, when two previously eliminated administrative positions will return to the payroll and an employee who had been covering two jobs will revert to the position for which he was initially hired.

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This white sedan was one of two vehicles involved in a head-on collision that claimed two lives on Friday afternoon on Highway 5, east of the Stillwater Boulevard intersection. Identities of the victims were not released early Friday afternoon. (Photo by Mark Brouwer)
One of two vehicles involved in fatal accident Friday

Two dead, one uninjured in Highway 5 collision

Two persons died and one escaped uninjured, after three cars collided Friday afternoon in wet conditions on Highway 5 in Lake Elmo, east of the Stillwater Boulevard intersection.

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Deal eludes Pawlenty, lawmakers

Minnesota News
ST. PAUL – It was a week before they must go home for a year, but with no deal to balance the budget Minnesota legislators Monday debated health-care reform, a constitutional amendment and whether to allow dogs on cafe patios.

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Gov. Tim Pawlenty unveiled the new Minnesota Sesquicentennial stamp at the beginning of the Capitol For a Day event in Bemidji on Monday morning. The photograph taken by Richard Hamilton Smith, Park Rapids is of the Mississippi River in the Winona area. 
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty unveils sesquicentennial stamp

Bemidji kicks off Sesquicentennial week

Minnesota News
BEMIDJI, Minn. -- While eating pancakes early Monday morning at the Bemidji Senior Center, Gov. Tim Pawlenty asked Jody Tolbert what she thought was great about Minnesota.

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Opinion: Two coins in a garbage disposal, yoga hurts and wading through Jell-O

I just spent well over an hour dealing with a frying pan full of cooking oil.
 
Cassie Deeg lines up a putt during a match last month. Deeg has been a standout again this year. (Photo by Tom Carothers)
Deeg lines up a putt

SAHS golfers take third, fourth at Forest Hills

The Stillwater Area High School girls’ golf team is steadily improving after finishing third at a Suburban East Conference match at Forest Hills Golf Club in Forest Lake on Monday.

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Stillwater midfielder Jake Tarnowski looks for a passing lane after bringing the ball into the Hill-Murray zone Monday night in Maplewood. Stillwater begins section play next week. (Photo by Bryan Horwath)
Tarnowski looks for a passing lane

Late score lifts Ponies past Mustangs

Attempting to do exactly what the Stillwater baseball team couldn’t accomplish (beat an undefeated Mounds View team) on Thursday, the SAHS boys’ lacrosse team got the biggest win of its young history.

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Gov. Tim Pawlenty, surrounded by reporters, is confronted by Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau, left, as the governor docked at Breezy Point Resort on Pelican Lake late Saturday morning to find out how many fish he caught. Both caught one walleye each, but Molnau’s came first and was the largest. The event is part of the 60th annual Governor’s Fishing Opener, the traditional start to the Minnesota tourism season.  staff photo by Brad Swenson
Gov. Tim Pawlenty with reporters

Molnau edges Pawlenty in opener fishing

BREEZY POINT, Minn. – Gov. Tim Pawlenty caught a 17-inch walleye on Pelican Lake Saturday as part of the 60th annual Governor’s Fishing Opener, but that’s not what he’ll eat.

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