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The dozen or so residents affected, who learned of the closure just a few days before it happened, say the north end of their gravel road provided a safe exit from their neighborhood in winter; at the south end is a steep grade that is impassable when icy.

Washington County appears to have won funding for a key trail bridge and gained power to develop bus transit.

A free Nordic walking class through the wooded scenery of William O'Brien State Park is planned for noon on June 2. The park is at 16821 O'Brien Trail N., Marine on St.

Below is a list of top stories from Patch sites in the East Metro including Oakdale , Woodbury , Stillwater and Hudson .

For the next four years, a mile-long stretch of the popular river will see decreased speed limits for boats to protect work crews.

A truck driver with incredible timing and quick thinking helped save the life of a man whose pickup had flipped into a roadside pond, WCCO.com reports.

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Beth Dooley, author of "Minnesota's Bounty: The Farmer's Market Cookbook," is an expert at bringing the garden into the kitchen.

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3, 2012. "She's strong enough to share the load with me, said Sobiech. . Zach Sobiech, left, plays guitar as his friend Samantha "Sammy" Brown,foreground, sings a song they wrote earlier that night called 'Star Hopping' in Lakeland, Minn., on Dec.

The new patio at Green Room is the first rooftop patio in downtown Stillwater with a bird's-eye view of the St.

A former Minnesota Department of Corrections employee who no longer can work because of a prison assault could lose his employee insurance.

Zach Sobiech's battle with cancer may have ended, but the inspirational message he put out for millions will surely endure.

MnDOT will host an official "groundbreaking " for the St. Croix River Crossing Project on Tuesday, May 28 at Lowell Park in downtown Stillwater.

The Washington County attorney is about to try two high-profile murder cases, including a controversial one in Little Falls.

Seventh-graders at St. Croix Catholic School in Stillwater listen to MnDOT's Jon Chiglo talk about building the new St.

You probably know that there are two prisons in Washington County: The Stillwater prison and the Oak Park Heights prison.

Some of this week's top stories include: Stillwater Eric Richard pleaded not guilty to first-degree assault charges Friday morning in relation to the death of Adam McCloud after an altercation last year at a bar in downtown Stillwater.

But when Eric Kaprice Richard II appears in court Friday, May 17, he'll be answering to a single assault charge instead.

A former Washington County sheriff's deputy, accused of stealing prescription drugs meant to be discarded, had his first court appearance Thursday morning, May 16.