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She was the girl that "looked like sunshine," and more than 1,600 gathered Wednesday afternoon to bask in her glow and celebrate the life of 24-year-old Katherine Ann Olson, killed last week in Savage when she answered an online nanny ad. Family, friends and former Park High School and St.
Construction of a new home on property adjacent to historic Cedarhurst Mansion needs only City Council approval after the Cottage Grove Planning Commission backed the plan last week. The owners of the famous property, Xoua and See Vang Thao, are seeking the city's permission to build a new home for their family of six while retaining the small bungalow they've inhabited for six years -- originally the gardener's cottage at Cedarhurst -- as a private library and museum for the mansion. Typically, the city doesn't allow two dwellings on the same residential lot, director of community developme
Cottage Grove officials last Thursday took steps to eliminate a growing signage mess at the Highway 61/Jamaica Avenue roundabouts, voting to immediately alter left-hand turn signs that are confusing drivers -- and even causing some exiting the highway to enter the circles heading the wrong direction. City Council members, at a special meeting, voted to remove 'only' from left turn signs and lanes, and will install larger one-way signs inside the roundabout -- perhaps within a week -- in an effort to help drivers unaccustomed to the intersections. The city also submitted to the Minnesota Depa
Steve Estenson finds it hard these days just to look around his second-floor Park High School classroom. Everywhere, it seems, is that smile, that exuberance, that curly red hair. The murder last week of 24-year-old Park graduate Katherine Ann Olson came as a violent, horrible shock to family and friends, her former teacher among them.
Cottage Grove officials on Thursday afternoon took steps to eliminate a signage mess at the new Highway 61/Jamaica Avenue roundabouts, voting to immediately alter left-hand turn signs confusing drivers -- and even causing some motorists exiting the highway to enter the circles heading the wrong direction. City council members at a special meeting voted to remove 'only' from left turn signs and lanes, and will install larger one-way signs inside the roundabout in an effort to help drivers unaccustomed to the intersections correctly enter the flow of traffic. The city also submitted to the Min
If the concept of a roundabout isn't bewildering enough for some Cottage Grove drivers, now this: a sign that at first glance seems to instruct motorists exiting southbound Highway 61 to turn left -- the wrong direction on a one-way roundabout. "We have literally had people going the wrong way on this," director of public works Les Burshten said last week.
The Kruczek family is presenting a haunted house on Halloween to help collect donations for Friends in Need Food shelf in St. Paul Park, an organization Debra Kruczek said has helped her family scratch by through some tough times. "My husband is disabled; he's on a fixed income, and I'm just a food-server with the school district part-time," she said last week while readying her yard and garage for next week's ghostly benefit.
The Cottage Grove City Council will hold a special meeting next week to discuss a confusing signage issue that has plagued an otherwise trouble-free first two weeks of the Jamaica Ave./Highway 61 roundabouts. At the Oct. 25 meeting, city council members will propose requesting a waiver from the Minnesota Department of Transportation to remove a pair of signs confusing motorists as they enter the new roundabouts. A traditional left turn sign has been perplexing drivers exiting Highway 61, causing some to turn the wrong way into the one-way roundabout.
The Cottage Grove City Council will hold a special meeting next week to discuss a confusing signage issue that has plagued an otherwise trouble-free first two weeks of the Jamaica Ave./Highway 61 roundabouts. At the meeting Oct. 25 meeting, city council members will propose requesting a waiver from the Minnesota Department of Transportation to remove a pair of signs confusing motorists as they enter the new roundabouts. A traditional left turn sign has been perplexing drivers exiting Highway 61, causing some to turn the wrong way into the one-way roundabout.
Plans for what one Twin Cities businessman called a "Taj Mahal of wellness and fitness" went back before Cottage Grove leaders last week, four months after its first viewing, but City officials remain leery of the huge taxpayer handout requested for the upstart fitness facility. Advance Fitness president Adrian Haid's plans for a state-of-the-art recreation center first went before the Economic Development Authority at its June 12 meeting.
