Roseville

When caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease, even normal family holidays or birthday gatherings can be difficult.

A week and a day after the Roseville Police Department announced an Aug. 23 community meeting to discuss a level-3 sex offender moving into the city, the meeting was canceled. 

Concluding nearly 40 years in education, St. Anthony-New Brighton Schools Superintendent Robert Laney retired June 30.

On July 1, Dr. Renee Corneille became the new superintendent. 

The number of crimes reported in Roseville has steadily increased since 2010.

That’s according to Police Chief Rick Mathwig, who presented a report on crime trends during the Roseville City Council’s Aug. 13 meeting.

Longtime Roseville resident Bob King, a 30-year member of the North Suburban Kiwanis Club of St. Paul, was honored as the recipient of the Division 7 Star Award at the Minnesota-Dakotas Kiwanis district convention held Aug.

There were no huge surprises in the Aug. 14 Roseville City Council primary, which set the slate of candidates for the November election.

An Aug. 6 settlement conference order is the first filing of the year related to a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Roseville and three of its police officers.

Forty-year Arden Hills resident Larry Erickson spent a chunk of his professional life doing accounting work for Pearson’s Candy Company in St. Paul in the 1960s and 70s. 

The Roseville City Council primary election is Tuesday, Aug. 14.

It’s been a rainy Wednesday morning in Roseville at Vern Cardwell and Rosemary Graham’s butterfly garden, but as the flowers dry out, the activity picks up.