Mike Munzenrider

The Falcon Heights City Council was happy to give final approval Nov. 14 to a senior housing complex that will be built on Larpenteur Avenue. It should be complete in a year.

Reveal comes as development work stalls

Change continues at Rosedale Center with the early November announcement of a standalone, 264-seat steakhouse that’s slated to open at the Roseville mall next fall.

DFLer Kelly Moller scored a resounding Election Day victory by recent standards in House District 42A, beating incumbent Republican Rep. Randy Jessup by more than 3,200 votes.

The Ramsey County Library system wants to hear from library users to help develop its master plan for 2025 and beyond.

Election Day was a good day for incumbent city council members in Arden Hills, Shoreview, Lauderdale, Little Canada and Mounds View — it didn’t hurt that many ran unopposed this fall.

Arden Hills

Coming out of a lively campaign season in which a pre-primary field of nine candidates were up for three seats, the Roseville City Council will be mostly the same come next year.

It was all comfortable margins for the DFL incumbents in House districts 41A, 41B, 42B and 66A, who by the end of Election Day on Nov. 6 had all tallied at least 60 percent of the vote in their respective races to win.

A multi-year controversy was seemingly put to an end Nov. 6 when New Brighton voters, 61.76 percent, cast a ballot to keep on the books an ordinance switching city elections from odd to even years.

The shocking details just kept piling up: the woman’s grandson was in jail in New Jersey, he’d been charged with DWI and had hit a pregnant woman with his car.