Osseo News

A perfect storm of bad financial news could be brewing for Minnesota schools. With state funding for education already frozen through June 2011, schools must now face the distinct possibility of a cut during the 2010 legislative session to help erase a $1.2 billion state deficit.

A 34-year-old woman is critically injured after a Hennepin County sheriff's deputy broadsided her car while responding to an emergency call on Christmas.

The Elk River Dance Team made its competitive season debut with a second-place finish in a conference meet at Blaine.

The Osseo School District has taken final action on one of the elementary schools it shut down last year.

What'd I tell ya about the barn finds yesterday? Here's another, a 1960 Austin-Healey BT7 being offered for $7,950 out of Osseo, Minnesota.

Bob Schwappach, a World War II veteran and Elk River resident, is one of the proud few with bragging rights for how much blood they've donated.

What is your new title? Regional manager/vice president, Northern Technologies Inc., Ramsey, Minn.

High school: Suburban East , 7 p.m. - East Ridge at Forest Lake; Hastings at Stillwater; Park at Mounds View; White Bear Lake at Roseville.

The Elk River High School Class of 1938 still remembers, if somewhat more haltingly these days.

Name of Product: Quest Commercial Juice Dispensers Units: About 14,000 Manufacturer: IMI Cornelius, of Osseo, Minn.

The gist: Housed in the old city library, this sale showcases mostly natural repurposed and some painted furniture with antiques, garden ware and a smattering of gift goods and a gourmet foods boutique.

When La Shawn Ray talks to his students at the Area Learning Center about making the most of opportunities, all he has to do is point to himself.

C.S. McCrossan Inc. of Osseo presented the apparent best value design-build proposal for the construction of an approximately three-mile segment of new Highway 610 in Brooklyn Park and Maple Grove.

Maple Grove Police say that a bus driver who slumped over the wheel of a loaded school bus Tuesday has been released from the hospital.

No passengers were injured when a school bus carrying 39 students and their chaperones went into a ditch this afternoon in Maple Grove, authorities said.

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North Branch Area Public Schools announced this morning that Michael Cunningham has accepted the position of activities director.

The driver who allegedly hit and killed a Champlin woman in a crosswalk over the weekend now faces felony charges for his role in the hit-and-run. Christopher Mark Beussman told police he knew he was drunk when he got behind the wheel of the vehicle that allegedly killed the 44-year-old mother of two, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday ...

With Austin Daye officially announcing what many have suspected for weeks, his decision to stay in the NBA Draft, it is as good a time as any to examine what his departure will mean for the '09-'10 Zags squad... Ziggin' and Zaggin': What Austin Daye's Departure Means for the Zags by Shay Cronin 21 reads Opinion With Austin Daye officially ...