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Marshall reflects on life in Mahtomedi LORETTA HARDING CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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BEAR’ly Open adapts to ice conditions BEAR’ly Open participants use hockey sticks, baseball bats and golf clubs to propel tennis balls down the “fairways” of the frozen course at last year’s event. See page 8 for more information about Saturday’s BEAR’ly Open.

White Bear Lake man charged, police officer in recovery following apartment shooting BY RANDY PAULSON STAFF WRITER

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WHITE BEAR LAKE — A 33-year-old White Bear Lake man faces multiple felony charges, including attempted first-degree murder, after allegedly shooting White Bear Lake Police Department Officer Ryan Sheak last week. Daniel Loren Holmgren Jr. was arrested early Jan. 25 and taken to the Ramsey County Jail after exchanging gunshots with police officers in the Lakewood Hills apartment building

in the 3100 block of Karth Road, according to court documents. The officers arrived the night of Jan. 24 to arrest Holmgren on a felony domestic assault warrant in Ramsey County in connection with a March 2021 case, for which he had failed to make a court appearance. Officers entered the apartment unit with the permission of Holmgren’s family members, who were also present. He was in his bedroom and became belligerent after the officers SEE SHOOTING, PAGE 10

“Thank you for being here.” That's what retiring Mahtomedi Mayor Judson Marshall would often say to people when he came upon them serving the community in any capacity. Marshall, himself, has “been here” serving the community as mayor for the past 20 years. In fact, he has been here since he was born in 1932. The Mahtomedi Street Car line was still running at that time, and Wildwood Amusement Park was also still operating – just. “By the time I got to it in 1936, they were tearing the amusement park down,” Marshall said. The street car tracks, where people got out at the end of the line in Mahtomedi, were elevated at the south end of the lake, he said. “The amusement park and street car were historic icons for Mahtomedi, just as the Lift Bridge is an icon in Stillwater, except that Mahtomedi doesn't have theirs anymore because we couldn't wait to get rid of them and replace them with buses,” Marshall said. The street car paid an important role in Marshall's life. His mother was from Grant, and his father from North St. Paul. The two of them met at the street car stop in North St. Paul and later moved to Mahtomedi. There they rented space in the Copeland building and ran a store that was noted for its candy and graham cracker crust

pie baked by Marshall's mom. The gangster, John Dillinger, was reputed to have been fond of his mother's pies, Marshall said. But one evening, while the whole family was out in Grant visiting Marshall's grandfather, crooks backed a truck up to the store and stole the cash from the till, along with all the groceries. All the money his parents had borrowed from his grandparents was in that store and was lost, Marshall said. As a youth, Marshall SEE JUD MARSHALL, PAGE 11

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