East Side Review

Painful year comes to a head with June 16 verdict

Slow Roll group bike ride

Code amendment extends liquor store hours

On June 20, the Mendota Heights City Council unanimously adopted an amendment to the city’s alcoholic beverages code allowing for Sunday sales and extending liquor store hours.

Glenn Charles Burke of Inver Grove Heights pleaded guilty on June 21 in Dakota County District Court to four felony counts of theft by temporary control and two felony counts of theft by swindle. 

Simley High School student Abby Guggisberg will be featured in Circus Juventas’ Nordsaga, July 28-Aug. 31 under the Big Top in St. Paul. 

The Minnesota State Fair, along with several of its vendors, will host a State Fair Job Fair from 4 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, June 28, in the Progress Center on the fairgrounds. That evening, more than 600 fair-time positions will be available.

Grant David Hendrickson, 28, of South St. Paul, was sentenced June 19 to 32 years in prison for killing a man and wounding another in a shooting that took place last year at a Burnsville Dollar Tree. 

A 3-year-old was hit by a car driven by his mother on Saturday, June 17., in the parking lot of Harding Senior High School.  

The boy, Hsa Kpaw Moo Ku, later died from his injuries. 

On June 19, the South St. Paul City Council unanimously approved a resolution to send the state its bonding requests.