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6 days ago | 
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
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1 week 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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2 weeks 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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2 weeks 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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2 weeks 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.
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2 weeks ago | 
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
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3 weeks ago | 
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
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3 weeks ago | 
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
After more than a decade and a half of planning and fundraising, the city of Forest Lake will break ground on its new memorial. The new memorial, which will sit on the south side of the parking lot roundabout at Lakeside Memorial Park, features a raised circular design with pavers printed with names of veterans, and a sculpture in the center. The effort has spanned more than 15 years for veterans Bob Dettmer and Ron Miller, who both have been on the committee since the concept was floated in 2008.
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1 month ago | 
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
A major reconstruction of Highway 97 between Hornsby Street/Eureka Avenue and Forest Road begins this summer, the first of a two-phased construction effort. The $17 million project has focused on safety improvements of the 1.8 miles of roadway by almost eliminating non-protected left-turn opportunities, adding a median between the single lanes, and adding pedestrian facilities.
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1 month ago | 
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
In 2020, Thomas Rumreich finished what he’s since described as catharsis for him: a book. He published “Unholy Communion,” a murder-mystery that helped him heal from his experience being sexually abused by a Catholic priest, with St. Paul’s Beaver Pond Press that year. But having his book be made into a film was a dream he didn’t know he had, and added another layer of healing. Mostly, it was to push the conversation about sexual abuse, especially as it happens in the church.
