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In 1970, the City Council of Cottage Grove, a community of about 10,000 persons at the time, issued a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to allow the 3M Company to build and operate a hazardous waste incinerator on their Cottage Grove plant site. That incinerator received a significant...

St. Paul Park City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday for its regular meeting, a day later due to observation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The council will consider appointing a new city engineer, and hear from state Sen. Katie Sieben, DFL-Cottage Grove, and state Rep. Karla Bigham,...

A Cottage Grove resident wants to go green. A Cottage Grove landowner is worried about losing green. And Cottage Grove City Council members appear unsure of what exactly to do. The city council on Wednesday tabled a vote on a proposed 113-foot-tall wind turbine on a rural residential...

It's campaign season in St. Paul Park -- but drive down Summit Avenue through the heart of town and it's hard to tell: no campaign signs clutter yards, no candidate literature is left on doorsteps. St. Paul Park City Council members Sandi Dingle and Jeff Swenson are running unopposed...

Filing for two St. Paul Park city council seats closed Sept. 8 with no challengers stepping forward to contest the re-election of Sandi Dingle and Jeff Swenson. Both are running for second 4-year terms. In 2007, mayor John Hunziker and councilmen Steve Hunstad and Tim Jones also...

Cottage Grove City Council on Wednesday OK'd the preliminary 2010 city budget and property tax levy that, if approved in December, would decrease general fund spending by 3.6 percent and avoid major cuts in city staff and services. The $12.8 million preliminary budget raises Cottage...

Cottage Grove City Council members will vote Wednesday on adopting the proposed 2010 budget and property tax levy that proposes to cut city spending by 3.6 percent and would shrink the average homeowner's city property tax bill. The $12.75 million proposed budget includes an approximate...

Gordon Nesvig is scheduled to be sworn-in to the St. Paul Park Public Works Commission at the Monday, July 6, City Council meeting. The council is also scheduled to set the date for a hearing on establishing an Economic Development Authority. Click on the PDF to see the full meeting...

The St. Paul Park City Council will consider appointing Gordon Nesvig to the city's Public Works Commission at its 7 p.m. meeting Monday night. Nesvig was recently considered for an open position on the Planning Commission, but the council selected Deonna Mitchem instead. The council...

The Newport City Council will consider approving the employment agreement between the city and incoming city administrator Brian Anderson at Thursday night's meeting. Anderson was chosen from among four finalists to take over the city's top staff position and is set to begin employment...