Arden Hills News

Washington, D.C. - As part of her commitment to fully support Minnesota's National Guard, U.S. Sen.

Submitted by Journal Staff on July 9, 2009 - 11:36am. Looking Back 10 YEARS AGO Members of the local Machinists Union W33, friends and family of Bob Walls gathered Friday in honor of the dedication of the Bob Walls Memorial Union Hall.

The first Fourth of July kiddie parade that I can remember, my mom decorated my doll buggy with crepe paper - red, white and blue, of course.

The parents of Jill Smith and Chris McDougall are announcing their engagement and upcoming summer wedding.

Tony Kielkucki loves to talk politics and if he follows through with a possible bid for the office of secretary of state, there will be lots to talk about.

Hassan Town Chair Joleen Havel says 26 applications were received after advertising the position on the League of Minnesota Cities Web site earlier this month.

In the past four years, Golden Valley-based Mortenson Construction has vaulted up the list of Minnesota's Top 100 Private Companies, from No.

Drivers will want to avoid a stretch of Snelling Avenue this weekend. Minnesota Department of Transportation crews will close the southbound lanes between County Road E in Arden Hills to County Road C in Roseville at 9:30 a.m. Friday.

Manufacturers of implantable defibrillators - a marquee product for the three largest medical device companies in Minnesota - finally have some new study results to crow about.

Frequent rockfalls and avalanches have prompted an end to the search for one of three U.S. mountain climbers whose companions were found dead on a mountain in southwestern China.

And maybe it's something more. Former Minnesota governor Elmer L. Andersen's 100 birthday was celebrated at the University of Minnesota Wednesday evening with memories, stories, a viewing of a new Twin Cities Public Television documentary about the life and times of the former governor and tireless civic activist.

After learning it would be too costly to turn a portion of the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant property into a mix of homes and shops, some Arden Hills leaders and residents say the land should become a grand park.

Extensive roadwork on Snelling Avenue will close sections of the north-south thoroughfare in Roseville and Arden Hills for several weeks this summer.

Motorists must seek alternate routes this weekend in Roseville and Arden Hills as the northbound lanes of Snelling Avenue will be closed between Glen Hill Road and Ramsey County Road E as part of the resurfacing project underway.

The pop-up box on her screen promised Pam Hanson an instant $15 discount. Almost as a reflex, she clicked.

Writes Floater of Arden Hills: "I just HAD to reply to Habber's dream of rubbing a tiger's belly [BB, 6/9/2009: 'What'll it take for you to die happy? Will it involve an enormous cat, lying on its back?']. "In my rather unusual life, I have had the pleasure of working with exotic animals.

Rescuers struggling through high winds and blizzards recovered the body of a second American climber Monday after an avalanche buried a team of three U.S. mountaineers in southwestern China last week, an official said.

Two men from Boulder and another man from Minnesota have been missing since May 20th on a mountain in China.

Arden Hills native Wade Johnson, 24, is presumed missing after he did not return from an expedition with Sender Films on Mt.

A filmmaker from the Twin Cities and two other mountain climbers in China have been not heard from for two weeks, and his parents are trying to stage a private helicopter search into the Communist nation's rugged central interior in hopes of finding the three.