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The members of the Forest Lake City Council are frustrated, and they have every right to be.
Last month, the council told the Minnesota Department of Transportation that it wasn’t sure about giving municipal consent on a new design for the U.S. Highway 8 bridge in Forest Lake. It wasn’t that they thought the bridge rebuild was unnecessary. It wasn’t even that they disliked the design itself. Instead, they felt their requests for changes to the project that would make it more beneficial for local residents were being ignored.broadstreet.zone(48036);
One could make the argument, perhaps, that MnDOT’s original project scope for its I-35 resurfacing and bridge rebuild project was fine the way it was. It would be a hard sell in some cases – the department’s stubborn refusal to expand the Highway 97 bridge, for example, must seem ridiculous to the thousands of commuters who jam its narrow corridor every day –

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During the holiday season, Lake Area Bank organized its second annual Mitten Drive collecting new winter-wear items and monetary donations for local children and young adults in need. The response from the community, customers and staff was immediate. By the third week of a five-week campaign, the bank had already reached its goal of collecting 500 items or the monetary equivalent. The final results were 559 donated winter-wear items in addition to $613 for purchasing further items. Donations will be distributed to disadvantaged youth through the Hats & Mittens organization.

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Skylah Irene Rachel of Scandia has earned a spot on the dean’s list at Iowa State University.
Rachel Baniecke and Amanda Bieman, Forest Lake, and Chelsie Bethke, Ethan Herzog, Amanda Hill, Samantha Moe, and Joseph Steinman, Wyoming, earned spots on the dean’s list at North Dakota State University.
Spencer Hifschulte-Beck of Wyoming and Riley Schilling of Forest Lake earned spots on the dean’s list at Marquette University.

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