Council rankled by ongoing overrun dispute

Forest Lake City Council members told staff they preferred a speedy resolution to the Daniel DePonti Airport’s paving project cost overrun situation as frustrations continued to mount with the engineering firm responsible for the disparity.
The council discussed the issue at a special Feb. 6 work session, which was attended by members of Dresel Contracting, a Chisago City-based firm that contracted with the city to perform excavation work last fall during the paving of the airport runway. As the project was nearing completion, the city was told by SEH, the engineering firm that designed the runway for the city, that an error in its estimation of how much fill would be needed to replace topsoil at the site had led to an overrun that would add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the project – 90 percent of which is likely to be paid by the Minnesota Department of Transportation Aeronautics

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Firefighters jointly extinguish truck blaze

Photo courtesy of Ed Stec
Forest Lake and Wyoming firefighters responded to a truck fire Jan. 24 on Interstate Highway 35 near the border of the two cities. The fire was called in shortly before 2 p.m., and the response temporarily shut down the freeway. The 26-foot box truck started on fire due to an undetermined mechanical issues, burning up the cab and engine and penetrating slightly into the trailer area. No one was hurt in the fire.

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WSC preparing to move operations

The Wildlife Science Center is preparing to move from its current Columbus site to a new property in Linwood. WSC has until March 31 to move the operation.
“The show of support from friends in the community has been amazing, and just as the cold hit, our contractor finished laying the ground fencing for 14 gorgeous habitats,” Executive Director Peggy Callahan said in a press release. “The first group of wolves will be moved in the next few weeks.”broadstreet.zone(48036);
The wolves got extra help from the students at Northwest Passages High School. The students constructed a sturdy wolf den that will provide shelter and privacy for some of WSC’s resident wolves.
For more information, contact Callahan at peggy@wildlifesciencecenter.org or 651-464-3993.

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