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- Bloomington voters head to the polls on Tuesday
- Primary is Aug. 11, direct balloting at Edina City Hall underway
- Richfield voters will narrow the field for city council, House candidates
- Light ballot beckons Bloomington voters
- Candidates face off in Richfield Ward 2 council primary
- Voters guide: House District 63B
- Primary Election voter guide: Third Congressional District
- Congressional District 5 primary voter guide
- Primary election voter guide for Hennepin County Board candidates in District 6
- Racial disparities, COVID-19 at top of mind for county commission hopefuls
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The Richfield Historical Society was scheduled to host The Selby Avenue Syncopators at the Bartholomew House, 6901 Lyndale Ave. S., 1-3 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 22, but the event has been canceled due to COVID-19 precautions.
South View Middle School is pleased to announce the hiring of Tricia Pettis and Kaela Loo as dean of students. The two will share the dean position and also an instructional coach position, a role they have each served in during the past three years.
Edina School District administrators are meeting to determine what form of instruction they …
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz is requiring Minnesotans to wear face masks to try to s…
If and when Bloomington students return to the classroom for the 2020-21 school year has yet…
Bloomington is requiring visitors to its buildings to wear face masks in response to the cor…
When a Bloomington, Edina or Richfield resident tests positive for COVID-19, what happens ne…
Edina's executive order mandating masks in public spaces has been extended and expanded.
Andrew Wig
Edina Community Editor
Edina's citywide mask policy has been extended as part of an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Andrew Wig
Edina Community Editor
As an Edina executive order requiring masks in indoor public spaces took effect July 6, Mayo…
Andrew Wig
Edina Community Editor
As promised earlier this week, Edina Mayor Jim Hovland has signed an executive order requiri…
Andrew Wig
Edina Community Editor
By the end of a special Edina City Council meeting June 29, Mayor Jim Hovland was planning t…
Andrew Wig
Edina Community Editor
Free COVID-19 testing is being offered to those who may need it today, June 23 and tomorrow,…
The city of Edina is officially acknowledging the disproportionate effect the COVID-19 pande…
Andrew Wig
Edina Community Editor
With uncertainty as to what the 2020-21 school year will look like when it begins in less th…
Bloomington’s class of 2020 graduates did not get to walk the hallways of their high schools…
Bloomington will open Bush Lake Beach Friday, June 12, as phase three of Gov. Tim Walz’s Sta…
With the state allowing restaurants to begin limited on-site dining this week, the Bloomingt…
Mall of America has delayed its reopening due to unrest in the community.
Edina Police increased their presence in the city's commercial districts after looting erupt…
Andrew Wig
Edina Community Editor
An obscure land agreement looks poised to scuttle plans for a rare kind of affordable housin…
Andrew Wig
Edina Community Editor
Carolyn Jackson has filed as a candidate to fill one of the two open Edina City Council seat…
Edina voters will help narrow the field of candidates in a range of races during the Tuesday…
The Richfield Historical Society was scheduled to host The Selby Avenue Syncopators at the B…
Bloomington parents planning to homeschool their children during the 2020-21 school year are…
An obscure land agreement looks poised to scuttle plans for a rare kind of affordable housing in Edina – the owner-occupied single-family home.
Nickelodeon Universe at Mall of America will re-open Monday, Aug. 10, after nearly five months closed.
For the past dozen years, Richfield residents and others from neighboring communities have relished the chance to get together at the city’s seminal fall event: Penn Fest.
Local environmentalists made their crusade personal last week when they marched into Edina’s Country Club Neighborhood.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, police reform and civil unrest captured voters’ attention, the nation was in a longstanding debate about how to reform our immigration system. On one extreme, we have some who want to open up our borders to everyone, and on the other, we have those who want to s…
If the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has taught us anything it is that police and social justice reform are sorely needed in Minnesota. One reform that must be tackled is the ever-growing achievement gap in public education and the fact children of color, American Indian children and …
As the coronavirus pandemic has burned across the United States, we’ve heard a lot about frontline heroes. The efforts by doctors, nurses, health care workers and first responders are immeasurable to the country.
It was an historic week for Wayzata baseball, as former Trojan Joey Gerber made his Major League pitching debut for the Seattle Mariners last week.
John Sherman
Sports Editor
Pitchers Garrett Synstelien and Sam Tyrpa will go down as two of the best ever to play for the Excelsior American Legion program.
John Sherman
Sports Editor
After receiving an avalanche of texts, phone calls and emails from college soccer and track coaches on the first day of the contact period for high school juniors recently, Edina’s Maddie Dahlien was “overwhelmed.”
John Sherman
Sports Editor
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