Lakeville News

“We need the project to move forward”

The developer in the transit-related apartment and condo complex near the Middleboro/Lakeville commuter rail station is seeking to build all market-rate condominiums due to the housing slump. via SouthCoastToday.com

“You can look at all the publicly traded companies and their businesses obviously have benefited from this current economic cycle”

Max-It Pawn manager Cory Dunn and assistant manager Faith Switzer, right, talked as customer Nancy Mikrut tried on a ring at the Coon Rapids pawnshop recently. via Star Tribune

A Lakeville police officer and another man have been charged with photographing and filming two 17-year-old girls with their shirts off. via KAAL-TV Austin

A police officer in Lakeville, Minn., and a friend are charged with giving two teenage girls alcohol and videotaping them in sexual situations, prosecutors say. via The Post Chronicle

“I am stunned and disappointed by the conduct”

A Lakeville Police officer was charged Tuesday with providing alcohol to minors and possession of pornographic photos of underage girls. via KAAL

“That experience really illustrated what it means when they say the computers are old and are not working well anymore.”

Century Middle School is having a community garage sale to raise $25,000 for computer upgrades. via Twincities.com

“For the first year, traffic will remain roughly where it is today”

Dakota County in May will begin a $20.4 million two-year bridge reconstruction project at the intersection of I-35 and County Road 70 in Lakeville. via Lakeville

A Savage man was arrested in Oregon on a warrant in connection with a Lakeville robbery in September. via KSAX

“We've got a lot of businesses that don't offer landscape and home advice that are interested in having a booth in the expo.”

The snow isn't quite gone, but as far as Maria Switowak can tell, spring has arrived to the back yard of her Lakeville home. via Thisweek Newspaper

The 2008 Lakeville Art Festival will be held on the grounds of the Lakeville Area Arts Center Sept. via Lakeville

New technology is allowing law enforcement cars to go looking for trouble. Computers now installed in cruisers automatically run license plates and alert officers to wanted drivers.

Police in Lakeville are testing that technology right now, but you might be surprised who came up with it: Target.

The Minnesota-based corporation is working on technology that would take pictures of license plates that come into store parking lots.

Last month, Target donated to the Lakeville Police Department the technology that reads and runs license plates through a crime database. Read more

“I hear debate in the Legislature about trying to find new money, but the districts are still trying to pay the general fund shortages that we need to pay for special education”

Bev Topp garnered a unanimous DFL endorsement Saturday, March 1, in her campaign for the state House of Representatives District 36B seat. via Lakeville

A man was beaten to death with a bat at a Lakeville home Sunday. Shortly after 6 a.m., Lakeville Police found Joshua Skare, 33, of Apple Valley, in the living room with signs of blunt force injuries. via KSTP-TV Minneapolis

Lakeville resident John Fruetel will receive the Firefighter Ready award at the April 22 inaugural Heroes Breakfast, presented by the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Red Cross. via Lakeville

Posted by Lady Logician on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:20:00 PM The Junior Logician has been tracking a couple of bills this session so I told him that we would try to do a day at the Capital together. via WWTC-AM Eagan

“It's a seven-day-a-week, 365-day-a-year project. But we enjoy it, and that's the key. People need help, and we're here to offer it.”

Paul Sonnenburg is not only the owner; he's also a client. Is it cliche? Sure. But it's also true. via Lakeville

A repeat sex offender who molested two Lakeville brothers was sentenced in Dakota County today to life imprisonment, a first for the Minnesota district courts. via The Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press

Firefighters extinguished a house fire that started in the garage and spread to the house at 6051 217th Street in Spring Lake Township about 4:15 p.m. Thursday. via Prior Lake American - Newspaper and o...

“I still get heart palpitations when I walk in here”

Ken Hunter shows friends the studio where his wife, Lyn, produces her glass art pieces during an open house last month at their new home in the Spirit of Brandtjen Farms development in Lakeville. via The Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press

“We're more like a mom-and-pop place, somewhere that customers can feel like they matter and can have a rapport with the people who make their food - it's all about community.”

In most people's minds, fast food and gourmet likely don't fit together. But one Lakeville business, due to open mid-March, is getting fancy-dancy. Sonlight Gourmet Marketplace, located at 20655 Kenrick Ave. via Lakeville