Charles D. Mills

Charles D. Mills, Ph.D., age 66 of Marine on St. Croix and formerly of Gloversville, NY passed away after a tenacious battle with an unrelenting cancer on Sunday May 28, 2017.
Charlie earned his Doctorate in Immunology from the University of Chicago and went on to research macrophage biology at the University of Minnesota. His discoveries will continue to enhance the understanding of cancer and disease. His passions were playing basketball, fishing, driving, gardening, water-skiing and spending time at his family’s lake home in the Adirondack Mountains (The Camp). Storyteller, researcher, writer, father and friend, he truly was larger than life and will be remembered by everyone who met him.broadstreet.zone(48036);
He is preceded in death by parents, Robert and Audrey.
Survived by daughter, Audrey (Brad) Kopp; son, Charlie Ray; brothers, Curtis (Linda) and Doug (Meg); former wife, Sylvia; cousins, nieces, nephew and many friends.
Celebration of Charlie’s life will be held at 2 p.m.,

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Council digs into engineering issues

While the bulk of the audience left the Forest Lake City Council chambers May 15 after the council’s decision to approve a new contract with the Forest Lake Police Department, the council continued its meeting and a subsequent work session, covering, among other issues, a couple of long-standing engineering projects.
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The city’s large network of lift stations took one step closer to the beginning of a widespread revitalization, as the council unanimously approved a bid of $3.34 million from Pember Companies for the base bid and three alternates of phase 1 of the Lift Station and Force Main Improvement Project. City Engineer Ryan Goodman was happy to report that the bids were well under the city’s phase 1 budget estimate of slightly more than $4 million. The city is bonding for the project and currently plans to pay back the balance from the wastewater utility fund.
The bid is for work

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