Fridley Links: Moore Lake Is Place to Practice Rescue
Firefighters from New Brighton came to Fridley for ice-water rescue rehearsals.
Here are some of the ways Fridley made news online over the past week.
- Resident Sought: Police in Mt. Vernon, IL, are looking for Willie "Munch" Hill, whose last known address was in Fridley, as a "person of interest" in a 2010 murder there. (WJBD Radio)
- Sheriffs Chat: Three former Anoka County sheriffs swapped stories at the Anoka County History Center. (ABC Newspapers)
- Medical Marvel: Fridley resident Goffrey Duevel is training to work in the field—medicine—that has seen him through a series of major procedures. (Star Tribune)
- Elder Fisherman: Fridley resident Bill Erickson, 87, is still ice fishing. (St. Paul Pioneer Press)
- Spendy Election: Campaign-finance filings reveal that Republican Pam Wolf spent $20,500 to unseat DFLer Don Betzold, who spent $47,000 in the 2010 race for the state Senate in District 51. (Politics in Minnesota)
- House Explosion: Authorities lay blame for a Dec. 10 Circle Pines house explosion on workers from a Fridley company who installed a leaky fuel tank. (Quad Community Press)