Stillwater News

When Mike Schoonover overhauled the painting booths in his Schoonover Bodyworks collision repair shops in Shoreview and Stillwater last year, he picked one of the toughest Decembers in which to spend a pile of dough.

For the fourth time this year, Central Bank of Stillwater has taken over a failed bank.

The list of proposed projects spurred by downtown Stillwater's new $5.2 million parking ramp ranges from a $1 million banquet hall at the Lowell Inn to a state-of-the-art post office building featuring a "green" roof covered in vegetation.

For more details go to www.robinasbell.com . Nov. 12: 7 to 9 p.m., Seward Community Co-op, 2823 E. Franklin Av., Minneapolis, 612-338-2465, class, $25, preregistration required.

It's that time of year. The hunters are out chasing the deer and the bucks are out chasing the does.

St. Paul, MN -- There was a large tent and several law enforcement vehicles in the normal parking lot of O'Gara's on Snelling in St.

Peter J. Orput, Assistant Hennepin County Attorney, announced today that he is running for Washington County Attorney.

Lori Sturdevant, editorial writer and columnist specializing in government and politics for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, will be the featured speaker at this month's Conversations of the Valley, a public affairs luncheon series sponsored by the St.

Peter J. Orput, an assistant Hennepin County attorney, announced his candidacy Tuesday to succeed retiring Washington County Attorney Doug Johnson.

Seven Stillwater galleries and studios are teaming up for Art on Main from 4 to 9 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

After the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, don't count on Cub Foods to help pare the price of gas at Holiday Stationstores.

Congratulations to Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann for her rally against Obamacare yesterday in Washington.

A new civil legal advice clinic will open Monday in the Washington County Government Center, 14949 62nd St.

A 41-year-old Maplewood woman jailed on charges of stealing credit cards and checks from teachers' purses in Washington County now faces allegations in Ramsey County that she carried out similar crimes at schools and churches.

Don Shelby and photojournalist Tom Aviles are on assignment in Iraq covering the Minnesota Army National Guard.

Share + Oct 29, 2009 10:57 pm US/Central Reporting Liz Collin 1 of 1 The U.S. Consular Agency in Puerto Vallarta confirms that 20-year-old Josh Gunderson of Stillwater, Minn.

It's an old story: Country kid comes to the big city to make a fortune. It played out in the Minnesota banking market in the last decade, as several rural community banks opened branches in the Twin Cities area, hoping to tap into a booming market, according to analysts.

A Hopkins man, sued Thursday by a family seeking answers to their son's death in Mexico, allegedly told officials there he had nothing to do with it.

A former Stillwater police officer accused of attempted criminal sexual conduct has been acquitted.

As Josh Gunderson lay dead in a pool of blood in a hotel bathroom in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, his friend Ashley Jones tried to arrange a flight home to Minnesota, according to a wrongful-death lawsuit filed Thursday in Washington County District Court.