Week in Review: September 11 Edition

Here's the rundown of what made news in Oakdale over the past week:

• Oakdale kids went back to school Tuesday. Our coverage included the story of an Oakdale Elementary School teacher who gave up a career in engineering, a Q & A with Eagle Point Elementary School’s new principal Shawn Bromeland, and photos from the first day of school at .   
• Oakdale city staff calculated the economic impact of the city’s summer street reconstruction project.
• Fire officials discovered the likely cause of a house fire that destroyed a mobile home in Twenty-Nine Pines, however, the cause of a fire at a Grafton Avenue house is undetermined.
• Representatives from the Oakdale Business Association, Economic Development Commission and City of Oakdale are working together to push for businesses to join and promote The 3/50 Project, a campaign to protect local, independent businesses through customer loyalty.
• Washington County Commissioner Bill Pulkrabek argued that Lake Elmo shouldn’t pull out of the county’s library system.
• The Oakdale Planning Commission decided to continue a public hearing on an ordinance change that would allow ball field lighting at Tanner’s Lake Park so they could get the answers to questions including the height of the lights relative to other ball field lights in the city.
• Lake Elmo Bank marked its 100th anniversary on Friday with a community picnic and giveaways.
• The investigation continues into a Minnesota state trooper’s shooting of a Landfall woman who was attempting to flee a traffic stop.
• In Sports: Tartan’s football team picked up its first win of the season, Tartan’s volleyball team remains undefeated with a win this week over Henry Sibley and North High’s tennis team was overpowered by Stillwater.