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Mosquitoes test positive for West Nile virus in Dakota, Anoka counties
OAKDALE, Minn. — Another day, another rainshower and another target on Metropolitan Mosquito Control District's map of hotspots.At Oakdale Discovery Center, field crews were out on Monday collecting samples before helicopters returned to the region to apply mosquito control."We've been really busy," MMCD spokesman Adam Carlson explained to WCCO News. "Every time it rains an inch or more we have to check the wetlands where larvae are most likely to develop, which has been a lot. There's been excessive rain, and every week we've had to send up our helicopter for treatment. We'd like a break."To date, Carlson said the district...
Forest Lake: Construction starts on airport taxiway expansion
Construction started Monday at the Forest Lake Airport, where crews are extending the airport’s taxiway and building taxilane extensions. The $721,789 project, scheduled to be completed on Aug. 16, will connect the airport’s south hangar area directly to parallel Taxiway A, said City Administrator Kristina Handt. That will help “ease congestion around the existing singular access point to Taxiway A and Runway 13/31,” she said.
So Minnesota: Gammelgården Museum of Scandia
One museum honors those who came to America looking for a better life. Gammelgården Museum of Scandia honors Swedish immigrants who founded the community. “That immigrant story is the same,” Tiffaney Clark with the museum said. “People are coming for some new opportunity, maybe escaping war or famine.”
Nowthen Among 7 Minn. Cities to Get High-Speed Internet
(TNS) — The largely rural Anoka County community of Nowthen is getting wired with something most Twin Cities suburbs already have: high speed Internet. Nowthen Mayor Jeff Pilon, City Council members and representatives from Comcast held a symbolic groundbreaking Tuesday outside the city offices to kick off the effort.
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