Editor’s note: Since this story broke later in the evening, The Times was not able to speak to multiple people involved in this story the evening that the story broke. The Times expects to speak with more people involved in the story on Sept. 26 and will update the story as soon as possible.
A Forest Lake resident addressed the Forest Lake City Council during its Sept. 25 meeting and made new claims regarding the residency of Councilman Michael Freer. This residency issue was first brought up during a regular council meeting in August, after being the subject of rumors in town for several months (learn more in the story “Council butts heads over residency request”).broadstreet.zone(48036);
During the open forum section of the meeting, resident Matt Arntzen said that he’d learned that Freer’s given Forest Lake address was a home on 4th Avenue Southwest. He brought pictures to the meeting that he



