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BEARS THAT SHINE: Local stars take stage PAGE 3A
Board on board with school building shifts BY SARA MARIE MOORE VADNAIS HEIGHTS EDITOR
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Many flags flying at Manitou Days parade With the Clark Street Civil War Monument visible in the background, participants in the annual Manitou Days Grande Parade display some of the thousands of American Flags distributed during the event in recognition of Flag Day, which coincided with the parade date this year — Friday, June 14. Find more photos on page 1B.
It appears the White Bear Lake Area School Board is on board with proposed plans for a one-campus high school, new elementary school in Hugo and other building updates in the district. The White Bear Lake Area School Board reviewed proposed facilities plans, including new and expanded school buildings, at its June 10 meeting. The plans were put forth by a 90-member committee that met this winter and were previously discussed at a board workshop in April. The board unanimously authorized district administration to come back with detailed plans for a bond referendum at a workshop meeting 5:30 p.m. June 27. The board had little to discuss except to thank the committee members for their hard work. “Thank you to the committee members for their work, planning and organization,” said Clerk Ellen Fahey. “It makes our job easier in terms of knowing there have been community members
already involved in the process, and so many of them.” The board has not yet officially approved the plans or the bond referendum; its vote June 10 was simply an acknowledgement the board wants to continue to move ahead with the process, explained Superintendent Wayne Kazmierczak and Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Operations Tim Wald. The board is expected to vote on the bond referendum at its July 15 regular meeting. Then it would be put on the November ballot. The facility planning committee of 90 staff, parents and community members came to a consensus on the plans this spring after discussing five options for high school and elementary configuration to meet growing enrollment needs. The facilities planning was prompted by the district's recent strategic planning. Enrollment is expected to increase to about 10,800 in less than 10 years, according to district documents. It is about 8,600 this year. Current capacity is 8,700. SEE SCHOOLS, PAGE 8A
Judge issues decision in neighborhood path case BY LORETTA HARDING CONTRIBUTING WRITER
MAHTOMEDI — After almost a year awaiting the court's decision on the neighborhood path dispute in Echo Lake, the city learned last week that District Court Judge Douglas Meslow ruled in the city's favor. The judgement won't be signed, however, until a review of objections filed by the opposing attorney.
The neighborhood dispute that led to legal action started in 2017 when residents in the Wildridge Pines and Echo Lake neighborhoods who walked their dogs, learned how to ride a bike or walked to a friend's house on the path discovered that their safe link between the two neighborhoods had been torn up. The property owner at 970 Wildridge Court, who maintained that the trail was on her property and
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didn't want the public on her land, had brought construction equipment in to tear up the trail. Neighbors packed the Oct. 3, 2017 City Council meeting to voice concerns about the destruction of the path that sheltered them from using the shoulder of busy Lincolntown Avenue when traveling between neighborhoods. Residents in both the Echo Lake
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A picture taken late last summer shows the weeds that have overtaken the trail.
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