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STATE NORDIC CHAMPION: Mounds View freshman comes out on top PAGE 15

Phase 2 of Seven Lakes Development moves forward BY MADELINE DOLBY STAFF WRITER

Phase 2 of the Seven Lakes Development will move forward with approval from the Shoreview City Council, which voted unanimously to approve the preliminary plat for Phase 2. Originally, the preliminary plat was proposed by Scannell Properties in December 2023. The council approved and reviewed Phase 1 of the redevelopment project of the 50-acre former Deluxe site, located at 3660 and 3680 Victoria Street. Phase 1 included the construction of two industrial flex buildings. It did not include any physical development on an outlot located on the property. The outlot will remain open and undeveloped. The outlot has been rezoned to urban underdeveloped (UND). UND is a placeholder zoning district that restricts any development on a lot until plans have been

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John Tohgen, of Shoreview, and Tom Wos, of Centerville love working for Rehbein Transit Inc. They say they appreciate the company and the company appreciates them.

Drivers are ‘unsung heroes’ in the community BY SHANNON GRANHOLM MANAGING EDITOR

Perhaps those friendly faces behind the steering wheel are, in fact, the unsung heroes of the community. Minnesota celebrates School Bus Driver Appreciation Day in February. The state first celebrated the day in 2017 to recognize school bus drivers

for their efforts to go above and beyond in transporting students to school every day. Rehbein Transit Inc., located in Circle Pines, employs 45 regular education route drivers, 27 special education route drivers/aides, and a handful of standby and trip drivers. “Our bus drivers and aides here at Rehbein Transit are truly the unsung heroes in this community!” said Tyler

Olson, Rehbein manager and safety coordinator. “They show up every day, rain or shine, snow, or blistering heat! They are here and ready to greet our students with a smile,.” “Without the dedication and hard work of these fantastic people,” he said, “many of our students would not make it to school to have access to the education, meals, support

and therapies they deserve. Because of their devotion to their students, Centennial Schools has not had to cancel any route or activity buses when other schools have struggled to transport their students to and from school.” John Tohgen, of Shoreview, is a retired audiologist. He has been

Phase 2 construction will include a 150,000-square-foot-mixed-use building for Fairview Medical.

SEE SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS, PAGE 3

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Tamarack will forge ahead with maple tapping BY JACKIE BUSSJAEGER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Late winter brings the usual conditions that start maple sap flowing, but in a winter that has rarely dipped below freezing, what happens to the maple syrup harvest? It’s a question that a lot of Minnesotans are asking right now, as we enter the usual window for the maple

syrup harvest to begin. Tamarack Nature Center Naturalist Shannon Stewart has been watching the trees closely this season. During the warm weather at the end of January, she put a few taps on trees in her neighborhood just to see what would happen. “I have a black maple in my neighborhood that I tapped on the 27th (which) probably had been running

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for a week at that point,” she said. “We essentially missed the first run.” Savvy syrupers who put their taps out early might have been able to collect a batch during the warm spell, but it’s nowhere near the end yet. “We probably will get another sap run, but it’s going to be based on what the weather is going to do to the trees,”

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