Grainwood Elementary third-graders spent Monday, Oct. 6, identifying trees with District Naturalist Andrea Swanson.

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Prior Lake football coach Matt Gegenheimer coaches one of his players during the Lakers' Missota Conference game with Hutchinson on Oct. 3. The Lakers lost 19-18 to fall to 3-3 overall, 3-2 in the conference. Prior Lake will be at Northfield on Friday, Oct. 10 for a conference game at 7 p.m.

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Every month there are things that I come across in my job that never make it into print. Sometimes its something simple, other times its kind of silly. Here's a list of some recent observations.

Janet Williams and her son, Kyle, participated in the annual NAMI awareness walk at Minnehaha Falls on Sept. 28.

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By Karen Wheeler, Slice of Life

Help! I’m wandering about in the information desert! It’s a mom’s worst nightmare, trudging across these arid dunes hoping for the tiniest drop of data to slake my thirst. The reason I’m here?

It’s a boy thing.

“Geez, Mom,” my sons complain. “Big deal if the fire alarm went off during third period. Why do you want to know about that? And who cares what we had for lunch?”

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By Will Nordmark, Spiritual Reflections 

Micah 6:8 reads in the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of the Bible translation, “and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?”

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By Robert Thibodeaux, Community Voices

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Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the October 4, 2008 print edition of the Savage Pacer newspaper? The page or pages on which those notices were printed are attached to this item, in the form of .pdf’s that can be opened with Adobe Acrobat.

By Jim Ross, Guest Columnist

Curly, Verdy, Rollie, and the Bull. They just don't make names like that anymore. Nor men. Does anyone even know Mr. Husom’s real first name or does his birth certificate actually say Buzzy? These characters, and many more, were founders of, or pioneers in, the Savage Volunteer Fire Department. Men who risked all at any hour to fight the fire, tend to the injured, or search for the lost child.

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The Savage City Council will have two meetings on Monday, Oct. 6.

Work session

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By Nancy Huddleston, Editor

Bob Grisim is proof that you can retire from the fire department, but you can’t stop helping people in need.

Grisim, 65, a retired Savage firefighter ,was on his way to work one morning in July when he spotted a big cloud of smoke near Dodd Road and Highway 149.

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“Look – eagles!” someone exclaimed.

And for a moment, the whir of the cement truck and popping of the nail gun seemed to disappear as a small group stood there to watch a pair of Bald Eagles drift from west to east over the McColl Pond Environmental Learning Center (ELC), which is under construction on the backside of Community Park.

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By Sue Ann Gruver, In Touch

As Election Day gets closer, many of you have been asking questions about the levy proposal, including how class sizes will be impacted and what may happen if the levy fails.

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By Joanna Miller, Correspondent

The Prior Lake-Savage Area School Board took a hard look at the work it will have ahead if two levy referendum requests fail in November.

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By Shawn Hogendorf, Correspondent 

One man was cited for failure to yield the right of way and two people on a motorcycle were transported to the hospital after a car-vs.-motorcycle crash near county roads 91 and 8 in Credit River Township at about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday.

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By Keighla Schmidt, Staff Writer

Sitting on child-sized chairs in the media centers at William Byrne Elementary School and Metcalf Junior High School, parents listened as Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District officials explained science, engineering, technology and math (STEM) magnet programs on Sept. 23.

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By Keighla Schmidt, Staff Writer

When Sandy Sweep moved to the Burnsville area seven years ago from Colorado, she got involved at Burnsville High School as an administrative assistant in the guidance department where she helped new students register.

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By Keighla Schmidt, Staff Writer

With two teenagers in the district, Peter Beckel wants a seat on the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School Board.

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By Keighla Schmidt, Staff Writer

For children who have a hard time fitting in and making friends because they have autism or other related conditions, a new haven in Savage is aiming to help them.

West Metro Learning Connections, a group that serves individuals who have Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) or other related conditions, opened in September.

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By Keighla Schmidt, Staff Writer

The Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School Board unanimously approved the maximum increase on the property tax levy for next year on Sept. 18.

The total levy increased by $698,679 this year to $33.6 million from $32.9 million in 2008.

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