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🌱 Nelson wins mayoral drawing, but Spring Lake Park recount awaits

Spring Lake Park, Minnesota Patch AM: a 4 min read

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In today's newsletter:

  • Nelson wins mayoral drawing, but Spring Lake Park recount awaits
  • Spring Lake Park isn't alone in its election tie
  • Technical problems leave Spring Lake Park police blotter unpublished

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Cooler; a morning shower, with a high of 54 and low of 32 degrees.
  • Thursday: Partly sunny and colder, temps: high: 40, low: 27.
  • Friday: Partly sunny, with a high of 39 and low of 28 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Spring Lake Park mayor wins tied race by drawing. Challenger seeks recount (mprnews.org) — Spring Lake Park Mayor Robert Nelson won a drawing to break his 1,401-vote tie with challenger Halyn Roth, but Roth immediately requested a recount. The public can attend the recount Nov. 17 at 9 a.m. at the Anoka County Courthouse, leaving another step before the mayoral contest is settled.
   

2. Kentucky Election Decided by Coin Toss After Exact Vote Tie (internewscast.com) — Spring Lake Park's tied mayoral race has a counterpart in Kentucky, where a coin toss settled a county contest after both candidates received 91 votes. This report describes a possible drawing between Mayor Robert Nelson and challenger Halyn Roth, each with 1,401 votes, while noting a recount could change the outcome.
   

3. Life police blotters: Nov. 10 (hometownsource.com) — Spring Lake Park's police blotter was unavailable for this week's roundup because technical problems remained unresolved at the newspaper's print deadline. Fridley's blotter was also affected, leaving a gap in local coverage alongside the published reports of impaired-driving arrests, thefts and property damage elsewhere in the area.
   

4. Champs by a mile: Blaine girls cross-country runs away with 1st-ever state championship (hometownsource.com) — Spring Lake Park runners David Mueller and Genevieve Rajkowski finished 120th and 111th in their respective Class AAA state cross-country races Nov. 7 in Ham Lake. The meet also brought a historic breakthrough for nearby Blaine, whose girls won their first state championship with all five scoring runners finishing in the top 30.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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