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Payne making the grade for the Gophers
It’s been a long and challenging 2022-23 season for the Minnesota Golden Gophers (7-15, 1-11), the latest a blowout loss at home Saturday to visiti...
February 8, 2023
News
Mayor delivers State of the City Address
On Feb. 1, Mayor Myron Bailey delivered the 2023 State of the City Address from the Cottage Grove City Council chambers. Numerous city and county offi...
February 8, 2023
News
Valentine’s Day is coming!
SPELLING BEE Time BY BEA WESTERBERG “They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything”. Bill Keane I will sta...
February 8, 2023
News
Happy New Year, happy today
SLICES Of Life BY JILL PERTLER The new year - January as a month - is a time for reflection. To assess our progress in life: where we were,...
February 8, 2023
News
OBITUARIES
Kimberly Ann (Baxter) Koenigs, 53, of North Fort Myers, Florida passed away Tuesday Jan. 17, 2023, from complications of COVID pneumonia and a long ba...
February 8, 2023
Community, News
Talking red and green
SPELLING BEE Time BY BEA WESTERBERG “Oh dear, I sure hope that the Groundhog is loved more than one day in a year”. Unknown Here we a...
February 1, 2023
Community, News
Lessons from the past two years
SLICES Of Life BY JILL PERTLER The last couple of years have been doozies — for just about all of us. The world has changed before...
February 1, 2023
News
New 0.5% city sales tax proposed
The Cottage Grove City Council approved the first step toward implementing a possible 0.5% local option sales tax (LOST) at the Jan. 18 council meeti...
January 25, 2023
News
COTTAGE GROVE Police Report
COTTAGE GROVE Police Report January 19 6:47 p.m. an officer responded to 80Th St S, Cottage Grove, regarding a parking violation. 6:56 p.m. ...
February 8, 2023
News
ACCIDENT Report
ACCIDENT Report Thursday, Jan. 26 9:08 a.m. - A motor vehicle accident with property damage was reported in the 7700 block of 80th Street S...
February 8, 2023
News
ARREST Report
ARREST Report Thursday, Jan. 26 • At 2:18 a.m., Julio Burgara- Lara, 21, Saint Louis Park, was arrested for warrant service. • At 2:...
February 8, 2023
News
COLLEGE Notes
COLLEGE Notes Dunwoody College names Cottage Grove resident to Dean’s List Matthew Fritz, son of Timothy and Elizabeth Fritz , received academ...
February 8, 2023
News
CAMPUS News
CAMPUS News Quincy University QUINCY, Ill. – Cole Erickson, Woodbury, has been named to the Quincy University Dean’s List for the Fall 2022 s...
February 8, 2023
News
GUEST Column
GUEST Column BY WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSIONER KARLA BIGHAM, DISTRICT 4 It has been a busy first month since I joined the Washington County B...
February 8, 2023
Community, News
out & about
The temperature outside are double digits below zero and to be honest, the thought of going “Out and About” is probably on the mind of anyone right no...
February 1, 2023
Community, News
Classified document stink pile
An Old Testament story records an overwhelming infestation of frogs throughout Egypt. There was no place in Egypt where frogs were not present in lar...
February 1, 2023
Community, News
A differing stance to Hudella
To the Editor: I read Representative Shane Hudella's Legislative Update (January 26). I agree with one point in his piece. If abortion clini...
February 1, 2023
News
The expanded story of Grey Cloud
Grey Cloud Island has a long history of settlement by Native American peoples. It was an important place for the Woodland mound-builders (c. 100 BCE t...
February 1, 2023
Community, News
We are using up January
SPELLING BEE Time BY BEA WESTERBERG “That grand old poem called Winter”. Henry David Thoreau Thank you mother nature for recovering...
January 25, 2023
Community, News
Renting or buying, which is best for you?
A retired minister and his wife had never owned a house. They had spent all their married lives living in housing provided by churches. At age 65 they...
January 25, 2023
Community, News
Going back on promises
To the editor: A few months ago, Minnesota voters determined that the DFL deserved to lead in St. Paul, giving them the House, the Senate, and the Go...
January 25, 2023
Community, News
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
The dam has broken Last week, House Democrats pushed through the most radical abor tion bill in America, putting our state on par with just seven...
January 25, 2023
Community, News
out & about
We are blessed with several civic organizations that provide various services to our communities. From Lions to Rotary, Knights of Columbus to clubs ...
January 25, 2023
Community, News
We are making it!!
SPELLING BEE Time BY BEA WESTERBERG “Snowflakes are pretty patterns etched in water’s dreams”. Anthony I. Hincks I think we can giv...
January 18, 2023
Community, News
LEGISLATIVE Update
LEGISLATIVE Update BY STATE REP. SHANE HUDELLA 2023 Session is underway January 3 served as ‘Opening Day’ at the State Capitol, and I was h...
January 18, 2023
Community, News
COLLEGE Notes
COLLEGE Notes Local students named to Dean’s List St. Cloud State University has announced the names of more than 1,100 students whose academi...
January 18, 2023
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COTTAGE GROVE Police Report
COTTAGE GROVE Police Report January 19 6:47 p.m. an officer responded to 80Th St S, Cottage Grove, regarding a parking violation. 6:56 p.m. ...
February 8, 2023
Obituaries
Obituaries
Roger Eichele 1988-2023
Roger A. Eichele, age 34, of Elsinore Missouri and formerly of Cottage Grove Minnesota passed away suddenly but peacefully on Jan. 8, 2023. He was bo...
January 25, 2023
Obituaries
Betty Wenger 1927-2023
Betty Wenger, age 95, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023. Betty will always be remembered as a farmer-atheart and a lifetime member of The ...
January 25, 2023
Obituaries
Gary McCoy 1952-2022
Gary McCoy, age 70, of Cottage Grove, MN Passed away peacefully on Dec. 23, 2022, surrounded by his beloved family. Gary was born on July 19, 1952, at...
December 28, 2022
Obituaries
Floyd Ott 1937-2022
Floyd C. Ott, age 85, of Washington County, passed away suddenly but peacefully on Friday morning, Dec. 9, 2022. Floyd Clem, was born on Nov. 24,...
December 21, 2022
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ARREST Report
ARREST Report Thursday, Jan. 19 • At 8:05 a.m., a 17-yearold juvenile male was cited with trespass-return to property within one year. ...
February 1, 2023
Sports
LeMay swims to another Park school record
Senior Mitchell LeMay stroked to half his goal of being one of Park’s fastest freestyle swimmers ever, setting a near school standard in the 50 frees...
February 1, 2023
Public Notices
COTTAGE GROVE Police Report
COTTAGE GROVE Police Report January 10 5:08 p.m. an officer responded to East Point Douglas Rd S, Cottage Grove, regarding a vehicle unlock. ...
February 1, 2023
Sports
Girls basketball team tumbles twice
Park’s offensive woes continued Friday as the host Wolfpack couldn’t muster enough offense to hang with visiting Roseville in a 50-33 loss. It wa...
February 1, 2023
Sports
Park Sports Roundup
Park Sports Roundup Wolfpack wrestlers take second in South St. Paul tourney Park seventh grader Landon Brooks and sophomore Gunnar Mullen wo...
February 1, 2023

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