A special general election will be held Tuesday, February 11 to fill the Anoka County Commissioner (District 6) vacancy created following the resignation of Rhonda Sivarajah after her appointment as county administrator.
City Residents - our Holiday Wrap-Up Recycling Event is on Saturday, Jan. 25, from 9 a.m.- Noon at Green Lights Recycling (10040 Davenport St. NE, Blaine).
On December 10, 2019, the Blaine Police Department along with Target, Spring Lake Park Blaine Mounds View Fire Department, Minnesota State Patrol, Anoka County Sheriff’s Office, Lino Lakes Department of Public Safety, Centennial Lakes Police Department, and Allina Emergency Medical Services conducted its 10th annual Heroes and Helpers event.
United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of RICHARD ALONZO WOODS, 36, to 98 months in prison for illegally possessing two firearms and for violating the terms of his supervised release. WOODS, who pleaded guilty on May 9, 2019, was sentenced today before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota. On August 1, 2019, WOODS’s co-defendant, DAMON TYRELL LEE ACON, 23, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for illegal possession of firearms.
The end of another decade has come and these milestones create an opportunity to see what has changed in the last 10 years. In Blaine, much has changed.