Bayport News

Denny Hecker has a $5 billion business empire. In January, he started a home mortgage company and plans to make it a full service real estate, title and loan company.

Writes Belle South of Woodbury: "Subject: Honey, have you vacuumed the yard yet? "About this time of year, just after lilac struts the catwalk but before the grass turns to straw, our yard gets a really bad case of dandruff.

The fall of the Denny Hecker empire continues with the latest news that he has now filed for personal bankruptcy as his auto empire in Minnesota crumbles.

Drivers in Stillwater, Bayport, Oak Park Heights and Stillwater Township should expect delays Sunday during the Anytime Fitness Stillwater Marathon.

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Is Bayport paying its top management too much? City Council Member Torry Kraftson thinks so.

If the Stillwater school district moves ahead with proposed changes to its busing schedule, Teri Reinseth estimates her child care costs will go up at least $300 a month.

Hope House will have annual benefit auction Hope House of St. Croix Valley, an adult foster care home for people living with AIDS, will be holding its 14th Annual Benefit Auction 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 9, rain or shine, 451 N. Everett St., Stillwater.

Business partner of the late shop owner Teresa a oeTinaa Wolff, Marie Kressly, confirmed late Thursday that the 50-year-old Cliffa s Fix-It Shop and 12-year-old Tinaa s Quilt Shop will open for the last time this Saturday.

The Stillwater school district may change its busing system, including moving start times at five schools, to save up to $300,000 a year.

A conveyor belt that feeds coal into the Allen S. King Plant caught fire Saturday, days ahead of a planned shutdown that will keep the plant offline for weeks.

Xcel Energy will shut down operations for at least a couple of days at a plant in Bayport, Minnesota because of a fire, Pioneer Press said, citing company spokesman Tom Hoen .

A conveyor belt feeding coal to an Xcel Energy plant in Bayport caught fire on Saturday afternoon, forcing the utility company to shut the plant down for at least 24 hours.

Four St. Paul-area men and a Montana man paid $8,540 in fines, restitution and court costs for killing antelope illegally over three years.

Ken Harycki didn't mean to cause trouble with Bayport police officers when they stopped him for a speeding violation on Highway 95 last week.

All Things Considered , March 30, 2009 The makers of energy-efficient home products have received a boost from the White House stimulus package.

And the award goes to . . . The finalists are in for the James Beard Foundation Awards, and where Minnesota is concerned, the names are familiar.

Minnesota is facing the largest budget deficit of the last 70 years. The Governor, the Senate and the House have now all placed proposals on the table for discussion.

Heated political arguments over the federal stimulus package haven't subsided, but window manufacturers are starting to see some results from the bill - at least for now.

Bayport Cookery, the upscale restaurant in Bayport that drew crowds for its annual multicourse morel fest, has closed.