Sauk Rapids, Minnesota

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Sauk Rapids

Partly Cloudy
Temperature: 5.1 °F

Humidity: 80 %
Wind Speed: 4 mph E
Pressure: 29.86 "

Dew Point: 0 °F
Gusts: 14 mph ESE
Rain Today: 0.00 "

• Second person convicted in arson
  

  A second co-defendant was sentenced to prison Wednesday for his role in a plot to burn the house of a man who was killed in May 2007 during a standoff with police near Alexandria.

• Sartell home damaged by fire
  

  A fire at a Sartell home Tuesday night caused more than $100,000 damage. The fire spread from the fireplace when the homeowner sprayed a flammable liquid on the fire and the container of liquid caught on fire.

• Sauk Rapids, Waite Park investigate smash and grab burglaries
  

  Waite Park and Sauk Rapids police are investigating business burglaries that were reported early this morning.

• Willmar Family's Pizza Company Expands
  

  After 23 years in the pizza business, side by side with members of his family, Jim Gordon is just starting to reap the fruits, and perhaps vegetables and meat toppings, of his labor.

• Local leaders share priorities for session
  

  Rep. Steve Gottwalt, R-St. Cloud Listening carefully to constituents and area leaders, especially when it comes to balancing the state's budget.

• Drinking detail yields 5 arrests
  

  Police arrested five people Wednesday on suspicion of drunken driving during a special enforcement campaign.

• More snow expected for region
  

  The air temperature bottomed out at 20 degrees below zero about 9 a.m. Wednesday.

• 6 arrested during saturation patrol on Highway 15
  

  Police arrested six people for drunken driving Saturday during a saturation patrol on Minnesota Highway 15.

• Helping hands: Great River Rotary Club donates 100 hats, 100 pair of gloves to local organizations
  

  Great River Rotary Club, serving Sauk Rapids and East St. Cloud, has recently distributed 100 pair of gloves and 100 hats to local organizations as part of this year's Warm Hands, Warm Heads and Warm Hearts ...

• Our view: Details are needed on new project
  

  The effort to build an aquatics center in the St. Cloud metro area is shaping up as a great example of why the details of a project should be known before residents are asked to vote on it.

• 4 fire departments at fire on Pine Point Road
  

  Firefighters from four fire departments are battling a blaze this morning at a house on Pine Point Road in Brockway Township.

• Purchase with stolen check leads to arrest
  

  A St. Cloud man was arrested after police say he tried to buy items with a stolen check.

• St. Cloud police seek witnesses of collision
  

  St. Cloud police are investigating a collision that occurred Sunday afternoon at Northway Drive and Ninth Avenue North.

• Heidi Tysver, Dustin Weege
  

  Heidi Tysver and Dustin Weege were married July 26, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Sauk Rapids.

• Sauk Rapids-Rice senior admires brother
  

  Name: Sarah Janson. Age: 17. School: Sauk Rapids-Rice High School. Hometown: Sauk Rapids.

• Sauk Rapids grapples with quiet zone cost
  

  SAUK RAPIDS - The Sauk Rapids City Council will discuss potential improvements for the city's railroad quiet zone next Monday.

• Police hope funeral home visitors saw suspects in Sauk Rapids robbery
  

  Sauk Rapids police are looking for two males who robbed a service station at gunpoint Sunday night and hope people attending a visitation service at a nearby funeral home might be able to help.

• Lisa Mo, Kevin Kissinger
  

  Jeff and JoAnn Mo of 111 10th St. N., Sauk Rapids, announce the engagement of their daughter Lisa Mo to Kevin Kissinger, son of Craig and Donna Kissinger of 86 Willow Lane, Sartell.

• Drug sale investigation nets 13 arrests
  

  Police arrested 13 people this week during a months-long investigation into drug sales by the St.

City Description

Sauk Rapids is a city in Benton County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 11,881 as of July 1st, 2007 census estimates. It is located on a set of rapids on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Sauk River. Sauk Rapids is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area. Sauk Rapids was originally little more than a forest of oak, maple and basswood trees along the Mississippi River until the first home was constructed there in 1851, a large mansion named Lynden Terrace erected by W.H. Wood. Soon other settlers followed and the town was named Sauk Rapids after the rapids just below the Sauk River's mouth on the Mississippi. Soon a general store was built, then a hotel, and a large jail. The first settlers organized a Congregational church that was soon followed by a Methodist, an Episcopalian and a Lutheran church. The first paper outside of St. Paul was the "Sauk Rapids Frontiersman," founded in 1854. A flour mill was erected in 1875, but was destroyed in 1886. In 1876 the first bridge was built, was destroyed later in 1876, but rebuilt in 1879. The first school was built in 1886. In 1874 Sauk Rapids was the end of the line for the local railroad. All the

City Contained By:

• Benton County
• Minnesota

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 12.4319429296 km squared

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