Falcon Heights

Falcon Heights is coming close to filling the city council vacancy created by Joe Brown Thunder’s resignation earlier this summer.

The Minnesota State Fair, in recent years, has had a habit of breaking its own attendance records, and 2018 was no exception.

The Falcon Heights City Council set a course July 18 for filling the council vacancy created by council member Joe Brown Thunder’s resignation.

The woolly mammoth towering over the corner of Larpenteur and Cleveland avenues will soon be a familiar sight as the new Bell Museum opens in Falcon Heights this month.

Officials say there’s plenty more to be done

The League of Minnesota Cities announced June 21 that Falcon Heights was a winner of its 2018 City of Excellence Award.

In mid June, Falcon Heights saw multiple small sprees of people rifling through cars left unlocked overnight.

Though the Falcon Heights City Council was effectively voting on June 13 to increase city resident and business owners’ monthly energy bills, none turned out to voice opposition.

Nearly two years after Philando Castile was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, the Falcon Heights City Council voted unanimously to designate two July days in his memory.

The Shoreview and Falcon Heights city councils both voted to raise the legal age for buying tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to 21. 

The aim of the age change is to make it harder for teens to have access to tobacco products.

Do Good Roseville, the Roseville Area League of Women Voters and Roseville Area Schools hosted the first-ever “Why I Run” panel event on April 24 at Roseville Area High School.