White Bear Lake News

Marc Campbell, president and CEO of Lake Area Bank, said the Claire Erickson family, which owns the bank, has invested $2 million of fresh capital into the institution to cover loan defaults.

Over the past three weeks, Joseph Payne Jr. says, his ninth-grade daughter has been called a racial epithet on a White Bear Lake school bus, been stared at menacingly in a North Campus classroom and had her life threatened by a weapon-wielding student.

If you buy a new Ford F-150 pickup truck, you can opt to spend an extra $350 to equip your truck with a tailgate step, a retracting, ladder-type device that makes climbing in or out of the truck's bed both easier and safer.

Editor's note : As part of the Watchdog: Your Next Job series, the Pioneer Press is writing about various job-seeking tactics and topics.

Paul Bergmann has purchased the Withrow Ballroom & Event Center in northern Washington County, but he insists that his ownership of Minnesota's oldest ballroom won't make it his.

Ken Deans was a newlywed soldier living on a beach in Hawaii when the attack on Pearl Harbor shattered his paradise.

The burial of another World War II veteran set it all in motion. While presiding over the ceremony for Charles Power in June, the Rev.

New mayors were elected in several suburban cities Tuesday night as voters decided disputes over leadership style, development, spending and taxation.

Owatonna once again showed its depth, but without a strong frontrunner, the Huskies missed out on a couple of team goals.

A proposal to build a $22 million sports complex in Vadnais Heights could move a step closer to getting the financial backing it needs.

After a night of uncertainty, it looks this morning like residents in the White Bear Lake school district know the winners of the four open seats for school board.

WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn -- Born in 1910, Walt Westman is as sharp as a tack. "It's wonderful, I'm grateful his mind works fine, his memory is perfect, he can remember, everything," said Charlie Westman, Walt's son.A His love for horses took him to a whole new level.A He served in theA 1st Cavalry Division in World War II.

Monday is the last day of campaigning for candidates and causes on the ballot in local elections.

Voters in Maplewood -- often a city with heated elections -- will choose a mayor and two City Council members Tuesday after a campaign laced with disagreements over leadership style and charges of homophobic scare tactics.

A Scandia woman who admitted she stole more than $87,000 from her employer - after doing the same at a previous job - was sentenced Friday in Ramsey County District Court to five years in prison and ordered to pay restitution.

Five candidates are running for four positions on the White Bear Lake Area School Board.

"This is kind of chancy. We've never done anything this wide and big," warned Roger Bacon.

HUGO, Minn.- Four Minnesota friends fashioned a medieval catapult to fling a variety of objects -- such as wheelchairs and obsolete appliances -- into the sky, they said.

Reports Semi-Retired of White Bear Lake: "At a recent staff meeting, we were discussing our Myers-Briggs personality profiles, explaining how our personality types might affect our job performance.

Sen. Sandy Rummel, DFL-White Bear Lake, has endorsed Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner for governor.