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Mahtomedi flag football claims inaugural title
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The Mahtomedi girls flag football team took the state championship in its inaugural year. The Zephyrs completed their perfect season at the Twin Cities Orthopedic Performance Center (TCO) Monday, June 9, defeating LaCrescentHokah 36-20 to claim the first-ever state high school
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The fourth bur oak tree downtown will be removed after all. Mayor Dan Louismet has vetoed the resolution (No. 13519) ordering the plans and specifications for the downtown parking lot project and calling for the preservation of the fourth tree. (See “Council approves plans for downtown parking lots, saves 4th tree,” White Bear Press, June 4.) “It’s a common sense decision. We have four trees that the experts have told us are in good health, (and) one that’s in declining health that will require extra expense to try to keep alive. I think the costbenefit analysis just isn’t there,” Louismet explained. “We should keep the three that won’t require extra money and ultimately remove the fourth tree. I think that’s a logical conclusion given the lead-up to this and the discussion that we have had.” According to the White Bear Lake City Charter, “Any ordinance or resolution passed by the council shall within five days be presented to the mayor for approval. The mayor shall approve and sign such measure or veto and return it with objections to the city clerk within 10 days after receiving the same. Should the mayor fail to return said measure to the city clerk within 10 days of the date of receiving same, it shall become effective as though signed by the mayor. Any ordinance or resolution vetoed by the mayor may be reconsidered by the council, but only at its next regular meeting that takes place more than seven days after the measure is vetoed and returned. If after such reconsideration it shall be passed by a four-fifths vote of all the members, it shall become as effective as though signed by the mayor.” In a memo to the council, City
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The Mahtomedi girls flag football team celebrates an undefeated season with an inaugural state championship title.
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Mahtomedi Zephyrs are state champs The Mahtomedi Zephyrs are state baseball champions for the third time eight years. See full story on page 22.
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coached at the youth level, coaching his son’s football teams from first through eighth grade. After serving as a detective for many years at the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office, Sullivan became a student resource officer at the high school. Looking to continue coaching, Sullivan was presented with
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girls flag football championship. “We knew we were a very strong team,” head coach Nick Sullivan said, “but the way our girls executed (the game) was absolutely phenomenal.” Sullivan serves as the Zephyrs’ head coach and Mahtomedi High School’s resource officer. A former high school football player himself, Sullivan
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