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1 week ago |
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
In the early morning hours on Saturday, as the manhunt began after the assassinations and assassination attempts that killed Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and wounded Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette, Josiah Hill (D-Stillwater) was encouraged to leave his home.
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1 week ago |
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, R-Brooklyn Park and her husband, Mark, died after they were shot in their home in Brooklyn Park in a targeted assassination on Saturday, June 14. Authorities identified 57-year-old Vance Boelter as the suspected shooter that killed Hortman and her husband in one of a series of “targeted” attacks early in the morning on Saturday June, 14. Sen.
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1 week ago |
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
What is it that makes a good romance-style movie, whether it’s classic rom-com, or rom-dram, or action romance? Is it the meet-cute? Is it the swoon-worthy quotable lines? Whatever it is, I’d argue it’s the same as every other movie: it starts with likable characters. And the problem Celine Song created in her sophomore film “The Materialists” isn’t even that it’s predictable (it is, but that’s not why we watch a romance), or that the lines of dialogue are stilted and groan-worthy.
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1 week ago |
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
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2 weeks ago |
hometownsource.com | Hannah Davis
Amidst the debate over the future of non-curricular clubs in the school district, the Forest Lake Area School Board voted in a split vote to approve $3,600 of payments already due to Laura Livermore and Nichelle Zimmer, who together advised the middle school’s Open Minds club for the 2024-2025 school year, and Tyler Jordan, the advisor for the high school’s Gay-Straight Alliance for the 2024-2025 school year.
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