Roseville

Familiar faces run for mayor, 6 seek council seats.

There’s so much enthusiasm to run for the Roseville City Council that primaries were triggered for both the mayoral race and the race for two council seats.

Graduating preschoolers from Kinderberry Hill in Roseville headed to Central Park May 31 for some pomp and circumstance to mark their move to kindergarten this fall.

Teddy Wong downplays his legacy.

“I did OK,” he says, sitting at the dining room table of his Roseville home on a recent May afternoon with his wife, Laura, and daughter, Renee. “We opened a couple of restaurants.”

Ragnar, the Roseville Police Department’s newest K9 officer, finished three months of intensive training at the St. Paul Police K9 School on May 24. The Dutch shepherd is seen with his handler, officer Kyle Eckert.

Though construction season came in with a whimper for most of the north suburban area this spring, roadwork just south of the area on one of its major thoroughfares is coming up this summer.

St. Francis Animal and Bird Hospital announced the addition of Dr. Jessica Lewis to its team. Lewis initially began working at the hospital in the spring of 2011 as a veterinary assistant.

Longtime Roseville resident David Olson passed away unexpectedly in the early hours of May 13. He was 55. He is survived by his wife Margaret and daughter Vivian, as well as his twin sister Jenni and many nieces and nephews. 

On the hottest day of the year so far, the Roseville Police Department convened a “Cops and Cones” event at the Dairy Queen on Rice Street in response to a recent string of burglaries and thefts in the area.

On May 14, just a month removed from the season’s last major snowfall, the Roseville City Council discussed potential changes to how the city manages parking when the snow flies.