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Assault, threats among recent court cases

A Forest Lake man was charged with domestic assault by strangulation after allegedly grabbing someone he lived with around the neck during a fight.
According to court records, police arrived at the home of David Allen Petsch Dinham, 51, in the 700 block of Woodland Drive Southeast, on Oct. 16. A woman who was living in the home with Dinham had called 911 to report that Dinham had grabbed her by the neck and squeezed during an argument. She allegedly believed Dinham was under the influence and said she couldn’t breathe during the incident and thought she was going to die.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Police allegedly found red marks on the woman’s neck and scratch marks on Dinham’s arms, indicating, they believed, that the woman had scratched him in an attempt to get him to let go of her throat. Dinham denied that he grabbed her neck, at which point the woman allegedly loudly confronted

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Turn over for fall

Angie Hong
Guest Columnist
To everything, there is a season. Fall bursts in with a flash of beauty, as brilliant leaves in red and gold tumble to the ground. The local orchards and farms overflow with visitors coming to celebrate the harvest and frolic beneath the apple trees. Sometime between the Halloween costumes and the Thanksgiving turkey, wind blows the last of the leaves to the ground and we look up one day, surprised, and see bare branches against a gray sky and only brown leaves at our feet.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Though our environment is constantly changing throughout the year, the changes are most noticeable and happen more rapidly during the spring and fall. We see leaves changing color on trees and geese flying overhead as they migrate south for the winter. Within our lakes, change is happening as well. During the fall and spring, lakes go through a process known as “turning over.” When

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