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Sajan goes public, stays local, targets growth

Sajan goes public, stays local, targets growth

Submitted photo Angel and Shannon Zimmerman started Sajan as a home-based business and grew it into a publicly-held company.

Aruban reunion

Aruban reunion

Submitted photo Friends in the River Falls High school class of 1978 traveled to Aruba in January to celebrate the members’ 50th birthdays.

New company offers all-season patio solutions

New company offers all-season patio solutions

Debbie Griffin photo New company Cabreeco prepared last week to display its outdoor patio structures at a trade show. The company has four permanent employees, but everyone pictured helped with the show. Front row, left to right: Kent Forsland, Nanette Schellhorn and Jerry Boyde. Back row, left to right: Diane Forsland, Matt Wible, Bill Lester, Luke Schraw, Jana Forsland, Luke Hanson and Nate Nester.

EDC honors top businesses

EDC honors top businesses

Submitted photo The St. Croix Economic Development Corporation chose the 2009 Businesses of the Year at the recent EDC awards banquet. Left to right: Brent Niccum, NCCM Company; Chetan Patel, SMC Ltd.; Larry Knegendorf, Baldwin Telecom, Inc.; and Ken Heiser, Associated Bank.

Counterfeit suspects caught

Three young Minnesota men were picked up Thursday night, March 11, after allegedly flashing around five $100 bills at a rural Pierce County bar in the town of Trenton. The three men, all 21 years old, were stopped on Hwy. 63 not far from the Woodshed Bar where they allegedly tried using the fake bills.

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Local arrest means express lane to prison

Frederick Deen, 29, Mound, Minn., received a two-year prison sentence March 5 for tax evasion and wire fraud as part of a $20 million mortgage fraud scheme.

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Let the Easter Eggs roll

Let the Easter Eggs roll

If you have young kids, mark your calendars for 1-3 p.m. Saturday, March 27, at Glen Park. That’s when an Easter Egg Hunt, sponsored by the River Falls Lions and the university’s Falcon Fellows, will be held. A free, public, Easter Egg Hunt was once a tradition in River Falls, but there hasn’t been one for more than a decade.

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City Council: Sweeper comes, oil goes

The City Council worked quickly through its meeting Tuesday night, first recognizing a crowd of about 40 Northern Star Council Boy Scouts from local troops 459 and 54 who were there to help earn merit badges for citizenship and communication.

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Spring forward this weekend

Spring forward this weekend

Get ready to turn manual clocks forward by an hour prior to 2 a.m. Sunday, March 14, when daylight-saving time begins.

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Woman charged with stealing from RF computer business

Charges were filed last week against a Hammond woman accused of stealing $3,705 from a River Falls business while she worked there in early 2009.

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Hudson bank records judgments of $7 million against developers

Even after the bank bought the property, area development companies and a North Hudson man owe over $7.2 million in four foreclosure judgments.

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Battered, bruised and mixed up

Battered, bruised and mixed up

Police arrested a 22-year-old UW-River Falls student for battery late Saturday night, but no one’s been able to sort out what happened and why. Heavy drinking likely contributed to the conflicting accounts and blurry memories. Neither the college student arrested nor the young man who had his nose split open by a blow to the face could explain.

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Experts say test well water annually

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How safe is that drinking water in your glass? The latest numbers show nearly two-thirds of Wisconsin residents get their drinking water from private wells.

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Gun-carry advocates declare victory

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The chairman of Wisconsin Carry Incorporated calls it a precedent-setting case.

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Amish need not number livestock

Wisconsin News
A central Wisconsin judge says an Amish farmer does not have to register his livestock premise with the state, as required by a five-year-old law.

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Editorial: The right stuff

Editorial: The right stuff

The River Falls Police Department gave a fine accounting of our community when investigator Chuck Golden journeyed to Madison to lobby for a bill that seeks greater protection for children exposed to the ugly realities of domestic abuse.

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Jerry wins state floor title

Jerry wins state floor title

Senior Carly Jerry won a state championship for the floor exercise and the Cats took home medals in all five events at the WIAA State Individual Gymnastics Tournament Friday night in Wisconsin Rapids.

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Cats can’t climb out of early hole

Cats can’t climb out of early hole

Nothing went right for the Wildcat boys’ basketball team in the first six minutes of its sectional final at Antigo Saturday night. By the time River Falls righted the ship they found themselves trailing the top-seeded Red Robins 14-0.

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Should the city continue the tradition of using one of its fire trucks to parade state champion high school teams and athletes through the downtown?

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