St. Paul News

One of the largest entertainment events to come to St. Paul in a long time is now within days of taking place, but there is more taking place than just the Saturday Brett Kissel Hometown concert.

St. Paul Education Regional Division will be dipping into its reserves to fund a deficit budget for the 2016-17 school year.

After weeks of heated debate, the federal government’s controversial medically assisted dying bill had worked its way to the Senate mid-way through last week.

The Shamrock Valley area, located 13 miles east of St. Paul, could one day become the site of 385-meter-tall wind turbines, scattered over 75 quarters of land, according to information from Northlands Energy Inc.

Christian Dubois is ready to roll out his new business, DASH, after some stops and starts put his plan on brakes along the way. “There was roadblocks, and there was roadblocks,&” he said of the year-long attempt to get the business off the ground.

The Town of St. Paul had considered and dismissed the idea of going plastic bag-free a few years ago, but Coun. Ken Kwiatkowski brought the idea back at the May 24 council meeting, with the view of eliminating plastic waste in landfills.

Saturday’s rainshowers might have seen the St. Paul 4-H Sheep Show & Sale retreat indoors at St.

The Town of St. Paul is planning on a balanced budget this year, with a small increase in residential and commercial tax rates resulting in “not a lot of money to spend,” according to Mayor Glenn Andersen. “It’s a very tight budget here.