Bulletin Area News

Beginning on the May 11 state fishing opener, DNR conservation officers started using specially trained dogs to detect zebra mussels on boats and trailers.

The North Suburban Hazardous Materials Team was alerted to the scene of a suicidal woman at the Waverly Gardens senior living community after Ramsey County sheriff deputies received a report that a woman had claimed she had ingested sodium cyanide

The Shoreview City Council accepted bids and authorized contracts for road improvements on Red Fox Road and County Road D at its Monday, May 6 meeting.

Bulletin Area police reports week of May 15, 2013

Updated -- A body that was pulled from the Mississippi River near Robert Street in St. Paul on Wednesday, May 8, has been identified as Kira Steger (Trevino), 30.
A resident who works in the area saw the body floating in the river and notified police at about 1:30 p.m. May 8. The St. Paul Fire Department responded by boat and removed the heavily decomposed corpse from between two barges.

A body that was pulled from the Mississippi River near Robert Street in St. Paul on Wednesday, May 8, has been identified as Kira Trevino, 30.
A resident who works in the area saw the body floating in the river and notified police at about 1:30 p.m. May 8. The St. Paul Fire Department responded by boat and removed the heavily decomposed corpse from between two barges.

The Mounds View School District has plans in place to add a free all-day kindergarten option starting in 2014.
Superintendent Dan Hoverman said the district wants to make good on its Equity Promise, which states that all students in Mounds View schools be prepared for post-secondary success regardless of race, class or disability.

Meagan Beekman will be leaving her position as Arden Hills City Planner on May 10.
Beekman joined the city of Arden Hills as a Planner in 2007. Some of the projects she has worked on over the past five years with the city include -- making improvements to aspects of the city’s zoning code to make them easier to understand and enforce; handling variances and land use permits; site plan review; and working on short-and long-term master planning projects, including the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (TCAAP).