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2008
The City of Wyoming, Minnesota on the northeastern edge of the Twin Cities metropolitan area is a hidden gem! According to the city's website the town was named after the first settlers who in 1855 relocated from the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. Wyoming boasts its own police and fire departmen...
10/06/2008
It was a bright sunny October day almost a decade ago, when I first stepped off the Forest Lake Area school bus onto the Lendt's Pumpkin Patch. Holding my kindergartener's hand, we walked to the tractor for our ride into the field to pick out the perfect orange beauty to carve into a jack-o-lante...
10/05/2008
Circle Pines is a small city, approximately 2 square miles, in Anoka County. The neighboring community, Lexington is even smaller encompassing less than one square mile of land. Both little communities are often overlooked since they are sandwiched between Blaine, Lino Lakes just to the north of ...
10/03/2008
As Ham Lake, Minnesota is a community without a hometown water tower, it could be easily overlooked by some traveling through Anoka County along Hwy 65. The approximately 13,000 residents of Ham Lake have always relied on private wells and septic systems, rather than city utilities. This is a plu...
10/03/2008
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A day or so ago, I received a Google Alert notifying me that MNRealEstateUpdate was listed as a one of Politics in Minnesota's favorite housing blogs. The article, Tracking the slide online: PIM's favorite economics & housing blogs, posted earlier this week by Dan Feidt, included my blog. What an...
10/02/2008