Bayport-based Andersen pays out $41.5M in profit sharing
Andersen Corp. employees got good news on Thursday, just in time for the holidays. The Bayport-based window and door manufacturer announced it had shared $41.5 million in profits in 2022. Eligible...
View ArticleSt. Paul teens arrested after car chase sparks Cottage Grove alert
Four St. Paul teenagers were taken into custody Friday night after officers found them inside a vehicle reported stolen in Cottage Grove. The four male suspects, ages 13, 14, 15 and 16, were arrested...
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Cottage Grove calls for artists to submit park building proposal
The city of Cottage Grove is looking for artists to create and install original, permanent artwork on an interior wall of the new Glacial Valley Park building. The city prepared a request for proposal...
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Cottage Grove man arrested after ramming squad car pleads guilty to federal...
A Cottage Grove felon who was armed when arrested after ramming a police squad car has pleaded guilty to illegal possession of a firearm. Jason Kearns (Courtesy of the Washington County sheriff’s...
View ArticleGrey Cloud Island mining company wants 120 acres annexed to Cottage Grove
A mining company that operates a rock quarry in Grey Cloud Island Township wants part of its land to be annexed into neighboring Cottage Grove. Holcim MWR Inc., formerly Aggregate Industries, filed an...
View ArticleMinnesota pollution control, health officials press need for legislation on...
Minnesota pollution and health officials made the case at the state Capitol on Thursday for legislation to restrict nonessential uses of “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, and for the $45.6 million...
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Forest Lake developer wants to revolutionize apartment construction, drive...
In Forest Lake sits a manufacturer attempting to change the trajectory of modern housing construction. Norhart’s method of building apartment unit components in-house, and then completing the...
View ArticleCottage Grove: Report of man with hatchet prompts school lockdown
Three South Washington County schools were placed in lockdown Wednesday afternoon after someone spotted a “suspicious, shirtless” man walking near Park High School with what appeared to be a hatchet....
View ArticleGrey Cloud Island mining company withdraws petition to have 120 acres annexed...
A mining company that operates a rock quarry in Grey Cloud Island Township on Thursday withdrew its petition to be annexed into neighboring Cottage Grove. Officials from Aggregate Industries, which had...
View ArticleBeginning April 25, southbound U.S. Highway 61 converts to single lane in...
The Minnesota Department of Transportation announced that at 6 a.m., Tuesday, U.S. Highway 61 going southbound between 70th Street and U.S. Highway 10 near the Cottage Grove area will be reduced to a...
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Family donates life-saving AED to Cottage Grove park where son died, and...
Teddy Dowdle collapsed and died of sudden cardiac arrest a year ago after going up for a rebound while playing basketball with his older brother and friends at Woodridge Park in Cottage Grove. He was...
View ArticleSt. Cloud man charged with assault, kidnapping in Cottage Grove case...
A man armed with a handgun forced his way into his ex-girlfriend’s house in Cottage Grove on Saturday night, threatened to kill her, assaulted her and then kidnapped their infant son, police said....
View ArticleEEOC accuses Cottage Grove Culver’s franchisee of allowing extensive...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission this week sued the owner of a Cottage Grove Culver’s fast food restaurant, alleging the company allowed its employees to harass their coworkers with...
View ArticleCottage Grove to hold Strawberry Fest Thursday-Sunday
Cottage Grove’s Strawberry Fest will be from Thursday through Sunday in the city’s Kingston Park. The carnival will be open 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday, 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m....
View ArticleCottage Grove man sentenced to prison for shooting Uber Eats driver
A Cottage Grove man has been sentenced to six years in prison for shooting a food delivery driver near his townhouse in 2021. Otis Donnell Shipp, 50, was convicted of first-degree assault and given a...
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Cottage Grove officials close on part of former Mississippi Dunes Golf Course...
For as long as Zac Dockter can remember, city officials in Cottage Grove have been wanting a substantial city park on the Mississippi River. They’re finally getting their wish. City officials closed...
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Ramsey and Washington County’s food scrap recycling program to expand this fall
Maplewood Mayor Marylee Abrams got the news on Sunday that Ramsey and Washington counties will be soon expanding a pilot program and collecting food scraps from all residents in her city. On Monday,...
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Alex McKinney tapped to be new Washington County parks director
Ask Alex McKinney, Washington County’s new parks director, to rank the county’s parks against one another – and he’ll politely decline the request. “I can’t pick a favorite,” said McKinney, who was...
View ArticleCottage Grove: Animal-cruelty investigation underway after eight dogs found dead
The Cottage Grove Police Department is asking for tips in an animal-cruelty case after the bodies of eight dogs were found in a remote part of the city near the Mississippi River. The dogs, all of a...
View ArticleEight dogs found in Cottage Grove died outside city, officials say
Eight dogs found along the side of a road Sunday in a rural part of Cottage Grove are believed to have been brought into the city for disposal after having died from an illness elsewhere, police said...
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