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Jenna Parent curls over the bar at 10 feet, 6 inches in the pole vault.
The Forest Lake boys and girls track and field teams began their season with an indoor meet at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls, on March 25. The girls placed second as a team with 80 points. The boys finished 11th with 26.
Rochester Century won the girls competition and La Crosse Central the boys, both with 88. Seventeen schools – 10 from Minnesota and seven from Wisconsin – participated.broadstreet.zone(48036);
The girls effort was headlined by a pair of victories in the distance races. Sophomore Regan Duffy took the gold medal in the 1600 meters with a mark of 5:24.79, besting her nearest competitor by more than six seconds. Eighth-grader Amelea Hauer won the 800 meters in 2:27.91, more than five seconds ahead of second.
Other podium finishes were earned by junior Jenna Parent in the pole vault (second,

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Senior Abi Asperheim and sophomore Abigail Groeneweg headlined the list of girls basketball award honorees after being named to the Suburban East all-conference team.
Asperheim was further honored as an academic all-state player.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Senior Tia Moscatelli and sophomores Lexie Hultman and Kenzie Stumne earned a place on the all-conference honorable mention list.
Asperheim and Groeneweg were named co-MVPs of the Ranger varsity squad.
Asperheim was also given the Connie’s Courage Award. Other winners of team awards were sophomore Maddy Rice (Most Improved Player, Hardest Worker), sophomore Lindsey Johnson (Defensive Stopper) and senior Ally Bartlett (Ranger Award).
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Rice set a new all-time record by shooting 10-of-10 from the free-throw line in a single game.
Asperheim, Bartlett and Moscatelli served as captains this year. Rising seniors Maija Tanberg, Katherine Taylor and Grace VanBergen have been named the captains of next year’s squad.
The varsity Rangers finished 15-13 on the season.broadstreet.zone(50962);
Tanberg was named the MVP of the junior varsity

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Southwest Junior High eighth-grader Blake Johnson, a Level 8 gymnast competing for the Plymouth-based Mini-Hops team, brought home seven medals, a trophy, two certificates of achievement and an athletic letter from the USA Gymnastics men’s state championship meet at Bloomington Jefferson over the weekend.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Johnson medaled in all six individual events in the Level 8, 13- and 14-year-olds category. After taking third in the floor exercise (11.9), he swept to victory in the pommel horse (12.4), rings (12.6), vault (11.3), high bar (12.1) and parallel bars (11.0). His combined total of 71.3 earned him another gold medal in the all-around.
The Mini-Hops team also earned a state title with a grand total score of 217.5.
A straight-A student, Johnson also earned the state academic award.
Johnson has been involved with gymnastics for most of his life and has been competing for eight years.
He recently participated in a national invitational meet in Las

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Terry Traver
Scandia Reporter
What began as a typical council meeting on March 21 evolved into a contentious discussion about an article regarding the Log House Landing project submitted by Mayor Christine Maefsky and Councilman Steve Kronmiller for the spring Scandia newsletter.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Councilman Jim Schneider was irritated that the article was not approved by the full council before being sent to city staff to be placed into the newsletter because he felt that the content was biased; ultimately, the article was not placed in the newsletter.
“It’s a perfect example of someone trying to verse their personal views in the newsletter, which I am dead set against,” Schneider said. “The facts are again being skewed. It was voted on and it’s a done deal.” City
Schneider was referring to the agreement previously voted on and approved by the council to remodel the Log House Landing boat ramp with financial assistance from the Carnelian-Marine-St. Croix Watershed

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Police Chief Rick Peterson took a pie to the face and earned $686 in the process. The money will go toward the cost of the Forest Lake Fourth of July festivities. More than $3,400 was raised in all.broadstreet.zone(48036);

Ian Lexvold of Masquers Theatre put his game face on moments before co-worker Trish Swinarsky nailed him with a pie.

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The Forest Lake High School band and orchestra programs received superior ratings at the Minnesota State High School League Region VII Instrumental Large Group Contest on Feb. 14 at St. Francis High School.
The orchestra performed the first movement from the Tchaikovsky “String Serenade” and Shostakovitch’s “Waltz No. 2” while the Symphonic Winds performed “Tempered Steel” by Charles Rochester Young and “Irish Tune from County Derry” by Percy Grainger.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Three judges listened to and critiqued each group. The judges conversed about what rating they felt each group deserved: fair, good, excellent, and superior. After their discussion, the judges would calculate the average of the total ratings and present it.
“This year is the first, in as long as I can remember, that the orchestra scored a unanimous superior rating,” Orchestra director David Livermore said in a press release.
Also competing in the contest were St. Francis, Andover, Chisago Lakes, North Branch and Princeton. Only

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Minnesotans who voted in November to empower an independent commission to set state legislators’ salaries may have been surprised to learn that the raw politics they’d hoped to transcend never went away.
Last month, when the newly appointed Legislative Salary Council approved a 45 percent salary increase for the state’s 201 legislators, the leader of the Minnesota House pounced.broadstreet.zone(48036);
In a March 16 letter, Speaker Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, instructed the House controller not to fund the pay increases, scheduled by law to take effect July 1.
Depending on his appetite for brinkmanship over the issue, Daudt risks plunging Minnesota into a state constitutional crisis. He has already, in our opinion, subverted the will of the voters.
In a landslide, 76 percent of them voted in November for a constitutional amendment creating the Legislative Salary Council, whose statutory duty is to “prescribe” legislative salaries by March 31 of odd-numbered years. The amendment struck from the

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Taris Z. Danchenko of Wyoming (Coon Lake Beach), Minnesota passed away at his residence on March 29, 2017 at the age of 91. Taris was born on March 11, 1926 in Amery, Wisconsin to parents Taris and Ruby Danchenko. He is preceded in death by his wife Joyce; parents and sisters Erlene and Anna May. Taris is survived by his daughter Marjorie (Morris) Ward of Coon Lake; grandchildren Naomi (Glenn Austin) Ward, Wesley (Jamie) Ward; great-grandchildren Norah and Elliot Austin; and Colton and Keira Ward. Funeral service 11:00 a.m. Monday, April 3, 2017 at the Grandstrand Funeral Home in Lindstrom, Minnesota with visitation one hour prior to the service. Interment at East Lincoln Cemetery in Amery, Wisconsin. Condolences may be expressed online at www.grandstrandfh.com

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