Mounds View

The Mounds View City Council adopted a preliminary general fund budget and levy for 2020 at its Sept. 9 meeting. 

The Mounds View Schools Education Foundation recently welcomed three new members to its board of trustees: Ann Gentry, J.J. Killins and Erin Stalsberg.

Local students re-elected to Minnesota Youth Council

A few weeks before the start of school, 36 students from around the state were already hard at work at a weekend retreat planning for the upcoming legislative session. 

After a second reading and unanimous approval by the Mounds View City Council on Sept. 9, a new ordinance will soon take effect raising the tobacco purchasing age to 21 throughout the city.

Majority of work to be complete by fall 2020

Bridget Kranz
staff writer 

Officer and driver hospitalized

A high-speed chase in Mounds View the evening of July 7 led to a collision between the driver of a stolen vehicle and a Mounds View police officer in a squad car.

On the Mounds View ballot this November, two city council incumbents are running for re-election without any challengers, and the incumbent mayor is also running unopposed. 

Mounds View Mayor Carol Mueller was the last to speak before the festivities could begin — food and a climbing wall and more — at the Aug. 21 ribbon cutting for Ralph Reeder Food Shelf’s new location in Mounds View. 

The candidate filing period for city council races without a primary closed Aug. 14 and the following candidates have filed for elected office in Shoreview, Arden Hills, Mounds View, Lauderdale and Little Canada.

This year marks the 60th since Mounds View was incorporated as a village in 1958. 

Mayor Carol Mueller said the city she heads is a wonderful place in which to work and play.