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Amanda Aukes,  Nicholas Bartlett, Alyssa Bergum, Aryn Blumenthal, Cole Brisbois, Marcus Bump, Erin Christiansen, Jonathon Cubus, June Darling, Adam Distler, Hugh Drinkwitz, Katie Dubois, Jill DuPaul, Noah Erickson, Andrew Erkenbrack, Jacob Ford, Nico Gallegos, Annika Gunderson, Hunter Haines, Brooklyn Hansen, Holly Hansen, Olivia Headley, Marissa Hefty, Jacob Henry, Ashton Her, Mikyla Jo Herman, Aliyah Hussein, Devin Johnson, Henry Kerkow, Emma Krause, Greta Krieger, Andrew Krueger, Dylan LaCasse, Ruby LaMere, Mary Landherr, Morgan Larrabee, Anna Luedtke, Abigail Lund, Gage Lund, Kameron Mager, Ava Malrick, Carley Martens, Destini Maslowski, Ava McCarver, Colin McGeary, Samuel Moberg, Kathryn Morgan, Sophia Nelson, Katelyn Ness, Ryan Olson, Addison Orth, Brandon Payment, Taylen Peterson, Teren Peterson, Zachary Rau, Natalie Rebelein, Andrew Reif, Thomas Schwartzbauer, Dominik Scott, Angelina Shamota, Ethan Sievers, Annabelle Stang, Hayden Swanson, Gaven Thompson, Zainab Tumli, Allie Vetsch, Ashlyn Vetsch, Sophia Villella, Emma Volkenant, Jenna Warmbold, Ashley Wert, Caige Witzel, Kylie

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Submitted photoFormer Wyoming City Administrator Craig Mattson oversaw many changes during his decade with the city. He retired at the end of 2016.
Amy Doeun
Wyoming Reporter
Craig Mattson was born in the Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis just after World War II. His brother had been born before the war, and his parents moved to the West Coast to build airplanes, P-38s. Though his father could have stayed out of the military because of the work he was doing, Mattson said his dad felt guilty and joined the Navy in 1942, serving for the remainder of the war. After the war, the family moved back home to the farm in Minnesota.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Mattson is a wellspring of knowledge about local history.
“My grandfather owned land that went from the Mississippi River to Earle Brown farm,” he said. “Back in the ‘30s and ‘40s, Earle Brown started the highway patrol. When he died, his land went to

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Submitted photosSheree Vincent’s design of a living area in a local lake home earned her a top honor in the Sustainable Furnishing Council’s #GetYourGreenOn competition.
Sheree Vincent, owner of Wyoming interior design business Fusion Designed, was one of five winners of the Sustainable Furnishing Council’s #GetYourGreenOn competition in January. The competition sought to find designers who could create tasteful designs with energy efficient and environmentally friendly components.
Vincent won the Shared Spaces $30,000 and Above Category Award with a design for a local lake home. The design included SFC products, energy-efficient windows and appliances, low-VOC paints and other environmentally conscious features. broadstreet.zone(48036);
“Going green is important to me for the same reasons it should be important to everyone,” Vincent said, noting that the clients that owned the home that garnered her the competition win were equally enthused about being earth-conscious. “The green movement in design shows that we are making an effort to ensure

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The Watershed District will be holding an open house Feb. 21. This year, members of the district want to ramp up community engagement and make sure that residents know that questions can be answered and help in protecting their water resources is available.
From 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. will be a reception with snacks. A brief (15-20 minutes) overview of district activities will be presented. district managers and staff will be available for informal questions and answers with residents. Fact sheets and updates available for current projects and district lakes will also be available. From 6:30 to 6:45 p.m., there will be a volunteer appreciation for the Citizen Assisted Monitoring Program and Citizen Advisory Committee members to be recognized.broadstreet.zone(48036);
From 6:45 to 7 p.m. (or later depending on interest level) will be an overview of the watershed management plan amendment process. There will also be time for a question and answer session

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Cora Boehm, age 95, born in Portland, Oregon, passed away on Sunday, February 12, 2017.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Josephine and Josiah Batson; stepfather, Jacob Goebel; former husband, Maurice; son, Robert; sister, Margaret DuCharme.
She is survived children, Gregory, Patricia Tietz, Linda (Harry) Haluptzok, Kathleen (Steven) LeVesseur, Mary (Mark) Pogreba, Berta; eight grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; one great-great grandson.
Cora was a former Forest Lake businesswoman, co-owner of Der Lach Haus Supper Club, artist, traveler, and decorator.
Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, February 16th at Mattson Funeral Home, 343 North Shore Drive, Forest Lake, MN 55025. Visitation will be 9-11 a.m. at Mattson Funeral Home.
Cards and memorials may be directed to Mattson Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 343 N. Shore Drive, Forest Lake, MN 55025. Online condolences may be made at www.mattsonfuneralhome.com.

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