Greta Kaul
Ramsey County Reporter at The Minnesota Star Tribune
📰Subscribe to your local newspaper. Covering Ramsey County and the built environment @StarTribune. Former: @MinnPost. [email protected]
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2 days ago |
startribune.com | Greta Kaul
As Bloomington grew up, the Thunderbird Motel, with its kitschy midcentury signage, was a local landmark. Soon, the city plans to turn the site where it once stood near Interstate 494 and Hwy. 77 into a bicycle park - at least until they can find a better use. This week, the Bloomington City Council voted to buy the nearly 12-acre property from the city's Port Authority, which bought it for $18.5 million a decade ago and demolished the Thunderbird-turned-Ramada Inn.
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1 week ago |
startribune.com | Greta Kaul
Most people aren't thinking about clearing snow from sidewalks in May. But it's a hot topic at Bloomington City Hall this summer, as city officials consider reducing the miles of sidewalks city workers clear after snowstorms. Instead, they would shovel some of that responsibility on to homeowners and businesses. "It's really to improve walkability for everybody," said Dave Hanson, assistant director for Parks and Natural Resources.
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1 week ago |
startribune.com | Greta Kaul
A new townhome development could bring 54 dwellings to southern Chanhassen. Except parts of it won't look like what that sounds like: Of the townhomes at Pioneer Ridge, 14 are "detached" - they don't share walls, and instead resemble more traditional suburban homes on smaller lots, closer together.
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1 week ago |
startribune.com | Greta Kaul
By Greta Kaul The nine-acre fire broke out east of the Horse River. Firefighters rappelled in and more are expected to arrive by canoe. The Minnesota Star Tribune The Horse River fire started Thursday in a remote part of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. (U.S. Forest Service) As firefighters made headway battling major northern Minnesota wildfires, crews are assessing a smaller blaze that broke out in a remote part of the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area on Thursday.
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2 weeks ago |
gazettextra.com | Greta Kaul
MINNEAPOLIS - Two large northeastern Minnesota wildfires have not grown since at least Friday, officials said Saturday, although more accurate mapping has altered the reported acreage they cover. Hot shot crews were working on smoldering areas on the Camp House and Jenkins Creek fires, both north of Duluth, the Eastern Area Incident Management Team wrote in its daily fire report Saturday morning. Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency.
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