Community Corner
Week in Review: County Board Districts Redrawn, Union Rallies, Potential Prom Date Interviewed for 'The Daily Show'
Here's a quick summary of what made news in Oakdale over the past week.
- Thomas J. Fox, 44, was indicted Thursday for two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the slaying of Oakdale nanny Lori C. Baker at her home in .
- An Oakdale woman and her two children are now recovering after being run over while crossing Radio Drive Monday near the library in Woodbury.
- Washington County Commissioner Bill Pulkrabek must now decide whether he wants to move or face Commissioner Lisa Weik in the upcoming election after being drawn out of Oakdale’s district.
- District 622 union supporters rallied before Tuesday’s school board meeting to protest their lack of a contract agreement with the district.
- Anthony L. Larson was sentenced for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy while camping and at the boy’s Oakdale home.
- A panel of epidemiologists said there’s a probable link between PFOA and two cancers—testicular and kidney cancer. The chemical, once manufactured by 3M, was found in Oakdale's municipal water, however, the chemical is now filtered out of water pumped through the city’s two main wells.
- marked 50 years last weekend.
- The adult film actress who agreed to go to prom with student, and then learned she’d be banned from the event, was in Minnesota recently to be interviewed for "The Daily Show."
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