Mendota Heights News

This Thursday, many of us will go around the Thanksgiving table and say what we are thankful for.

With recent editorials, it is obvious that your paper is making the University of Minnesota a scapegoat because of its valid concern regarding the routing of the light-rail line through campus.

Motorists may encounter delays on eastbound Interstate 494 between Minnesota 13 and Pilot Knob Road in Mendota Heights starting today as crews begin foundation and guardrail work, the Minnesota Department of Transportation said.

The 13-year-old boy going for a layup at his youth basketball practice, arrived at the Mendota Heights gym through a circuitous route.

A former Mendota city clerk is accused of giving herself an early pay raise - the same thing she has been charged with in neighboring Lilydale.

Bounthavy Khamratthanome and Sarah Olson, teachers in the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage district, will be honored as 2009 TIES Exceptional Teachers.

Says Louise of Roseville: "Our granddaughter is getting married next week, so my husband went to the thrift store - to buy a necktie for $1.99. "Then he tried on his suit coat, to make sure it still fit.

Leonard Pitts' column rightly explained how it is a grave mistake to generalize that the Fort Hood shooter is typical of every Muslim in America.

Ken Deans was a newlywed soldier living on a beach in Hawaii when the attack on Pearl Harbor shattered his paradise.

Natalie Jaeger, owner of the Olive Grove olive bar, used to be a counselor. Occupation: Owner of the Olive Grove, 720 Main St.

Incumbents mostly kept their seats in Tuesday's election on many school boards across the south metro area.

This text is replaced by the Flash movie. Spanish teacher Robert Hanson had a mission six years ago.

Mendota Heights public works director and engineer John Mazzitello told the city council on Tuesday he will be deployed to Afghanistan this month.

Spontaneous combustion is to blame for an Oct. 18 blaze at a house in Mendota Heights, the city's fire chief said.

Going to parties has put Dorothy Schadegg a little bit behind on preparing the Christmas stockings she sews every year for babies born during the holiday season at United Hospital in St.

Maybe if I'd have had a conceal-carry permit instead of a shovel it would have been easier to explain to my lower North Mankato neighbors.

After Tuesday's election, three newcomers will join the West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan school board and its longest-serving members will each have just two years under their belts.

A group of Adopt a Highway volunteers were packing more than trash along the shoulder of Minnesota 55 in Mendota Heights on Sunday morning.

Reports Christy of Menomonie, Wis.: "My Weber charcoal grill sits on my patio year-round, but has never been used as a birdbath until this week.

Motorists in Mendota Heights might have seen a group of residents picking up trash while packing heat this weekend.