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One person was seriously injured early in the morning Jan. 8 after several underage drinkers fled a party in a Wyoming home, Wyoming police reported.
According to Director of Public Safety Paul Hoppe, two officers responded to a noise complaint around 12:30 a.m. at a home in the 4500 block of East Viking Boulevard. When they arrived, he said, the officers found that a party with roughly 150 people in attendance was being thrown at the home, and many of the people imbibing alcohol at the party appeared to be below the legal drinking limit. The officers began organizing people into groups depending on whether they were above or below the drinking limit, but their priorities began to change as people began to flee into the freezing temperature – including one man, later identified as Travis Vanelsberg, 20, of North Branch, who allegedly barricaded himself in an second-story room before diving

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Submitted photoHunter Houle in action. Forest Lake 18-year-old Houle died last week after a snowmobile accident
The Forest Lake community lost one of its own on Jan. 6 when 18-year-old Hunter Houle died due to injuries suffered while preparing for a snowmobile race on Pine Lake near Gonvick, Minnesota.
“He was a fun-loving kid with a heart of gold who was always happy,” sister Jenna (Houle) Peterson said. “He was also an awesome uncle to all his nieces and nephews.”broadstreet.zone(48036);
Houle’s girlfriend of four years, Amber Cron, said that the two had a life planned together including a wedding and had even talked about the names of their future children.
“There was never a time when he didn’t show me how much he loved me,” she said. “He was the most caring person I have ever known.”
She also said that the relationships he had with his family and friends were extremely important to him.
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The Wyoming Council Chambers was packed Jan. 3. By the time the meeting began, there was standing room only. After the Pledge of Allegiance, City Clerk Robb Linwood swore in Councilwoman Linda Nanko-Yeager and Councilman Joe Zerwas, who won their re-election campaigns, and new Mayor Lisa Iverson. The election of Iverson to the mayor left her council seat open. At the start of the meeting, there were only four council members.
After completing the various business for the first meeting of the year, including setting meeting dates, appointing commission seats and other decisions, the council needed to appoint its fifth member.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“We owe it to residents to fill it quickly,” Councilwoman Claire Luger said. “I would advocate to appoint who came in third. That was the people’s vote.”
Zerwas concurred.
Yeager agreed that a new member should be appointed immediately but disagreed that it should be the third-place council candidate, former Councilman Roger Elmore.

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