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1 week ago | 
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
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2 weeks ago | 
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
A change to the student discipline policy regarding student attire will allow students to wear attire that includes the confederate flag, the swastika, and KKK symbols, unless deemed a threat to the learning environment by administration.
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3 weeks ago | 
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
Rep. Pete Stauber (R — District 8) visited the Forest Lake Area Chamber of Commerce on Friday to hear concerns by area small business owners on Friday, May 9. Most business owners expressed frustration over the complexity of the tax code and the uncertainty of taxes. “Frankly the amount of money we have to spend on an accountant just to keep up with the regulation, that’s why we’re here today,” said Kristen Sheehan of K2 and Company, a communications and event planning company based in St. Paul.
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3 weeks ago | 
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
If the amount of seconds I held my breath in suspense during “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” were consecutive, I’d be well below six feet under the grass.
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3 weeks ago | 
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
A proposed policy being discussed by the school board and policy committee would end up eliminating middle school and some high school student groups. The current iteration of proposed policy 1801 effectively eliminates all student interest clubs and groups at the middle school, unless a separate policy is put in place.
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4 weeks ago | 
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
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1 month ago | 
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
Nearly a year after it was first brought up, golf Carts and ATV/UTVs are now allowed on public city roads — not state highways or county roads — during certain hours of the day in Forest Lake after the city council passed a new ordinance on Monday, April 28.
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1 month ago | 
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
Contention over the school district’s policies over student groups continues as the school board is considering replacing its current policy with two new policies.
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1 month ago | 
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
When it came to choosing Forest Lake Area High School’s spring play, artistic directors Cassi Betker and Amanda Witzmann began looking at what the students’ skills were coming into the spring, and what styles of theater they thought would expand the students’ experience. “They had done like heavy comedy, a drama, kind of a basic play, but they hadn’t done that kind of classic Shakespeare,” Betker said. “We had a lot of sophomores and freshmen coming in who haven’t done a lot of plays.
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1 month ago | 
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
Residents of Scandia will soon have in-town medical care, as the Osceola Medical Center begins construction on a new clinic. Osceola Medical Center closed its clinic in Scandia in 2020, a result of staffing shortages amidst the height of the pandemic. “We were struggling like a lot of healthcare organizations were at that time, so we were struggling to cover both of those facilities, so at that point we decided to centralize,” said Osceola Medical Center CEO Kelly Macken-Marble.
