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Wrestlers win variety of honors and titles

Current, former and future Rangers won a variety of honors outside the context of high school varsity competition this season.
2015 graduate James Pleski, now a redshirt freshman at St. Cloud State, earned Division II All-American honors by finishing fourth at 149 pounds at the national championships and was named the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference rookie of the year. broadstreet.zone(48036);
Kieler Carlson won the ninth-grade state championship at 126.
Reid Nelson placed first in the MN/USA Youth state meet.
Winners of Suburban East Conference junior varsity titles were Cayden Christenson (98), Dan Vanacker (106-B), Tyler Raway (120), Kieler Carslon (132-A), Mason Arrigoni (145-B), Chase Carlson (152), Logan Collins (160-A), Logan Rowe (182) and Sam Locke (220).
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Moscatelli wins Athena Award

2017 Forest Lake Athena Award winner Tia Moscatelli. (Photos courtesy of TLC Digital Images)
Forest Lake senior Tia Moscatelli has been named the recipient of the 2017 Athena Award for her contributions to the Forest Lake volleyball and basketball teams.
The Athena Award recognizes the outstanding female senior athlete at each of 43 participating schools. broadstreet.zone(48036);
Moscatelli was informed that she had won a few weeks ago when she was pulled into the athletic office at school.
Tia Moscatelli grew up playing basketball in Forest Lake, and will take her talents to Gustavus Adolphus next year.“I was a little bit in shock because there are so many great athletes at Forest Lake,” Moscatelli said.
Moscatelli has played on the varsity squads in both her sports since she was a freshman. She was a captain in both sports this season.
“We had really good seasons in both basketball and volleyball this year,” Moscatelli said. “Being a captain,

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Former councilman is a jack-of-all-trades

Photos by Terry TraverScandia resident Dan Lee is a jack-of-all-trades, but artistic expression is his passion.
Terry Traver
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Scandia resident Dan Lee is a man of many talents and a singular mind.
He has owned and operated a restoration business, served as a city councilman and taught disabled children how to ski. He is a military veteran, a painter and artist (and Swedish Dala horse rebuilder), the owner of a hobby farm and married with two children. With 25 years of experience in the Restoration trade, he started his own business, BRC Restoration, in Washington state and ran it for eight years. When he decided to move back to Scandia, it took him about one year to shut down the business and sell his home in Washington. In 2011, after living in his Scandia home for almost a decade, the house burned down due to a lightning strike, and he and his

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Recent court cases include stabbing, drugs, sign incident

Several notable local court cases reached their sentencing stages in early 2017, including those of multiple acts of violence, a man found sleeping in the Forest Lake Wal-Mart parking lot with drugs and a gun, and the campaign sign dispute involving the Forest Lake mayor’s wife.
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In one of multiple older cases that reached the sentencing stage this year, Kyle John Duraine, 25, of Forest Lake (a separate recent criminal complaint lists him as having a Columbus address), was sentenced to probation and a $50 fine Jan. 4 for a third-degree assault case stemming from a Nov. 4, 2014, incident that occurred outside the Marcus Theater in Oakdale. According to court records, Duraine was getting a ride to Oakdale from an acquaintance when he began arguing with another person in the back seat of the acquaintance’s car. When the acquaintance grew irritated at their argument, he reportedly stopped the car at

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