By Todd Abeln, Sports Editor

NORTHFIELD — Shakopee sophomore Maria Hauger successfully defended her state Class 2A cross country title today at St. Olaf College in Northfield. Her winning time was 14 minutes, 19 seconds.

For the Saber boys, senior Trent Lusignan finished fourth in the state today.

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State Rep. Mark Buesgens, R-Jordan, who won re-election in a landslide Tuesday, pleaded guilty Friday (Nov. 5) to drunken driving.

Buesgens was arraigned in Wright County District Court. He pleaded guilty to driving while impaired with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent or greater. A second drunken driving charge and an open bottle violation were dismissed under a plea agreement with prosecutors.

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Daylight Saving Time officially ends at 2 a.m. tonight -- so turn your clock back one hour before hitting the hay, lest you'll be early for church Sunday morning!

Most newer electronic devices have built-in clocks that adjust for the time change, but older ones do not; or they may be programmed to change on the old schedule.

The time change means it will be lighter when you wake up, but darker by the time you head home from work for the day.

Daylight Saving Time resumes the second Sunday in March.

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The Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) has announced that 134 city and county law enforcement agencies will receive in-car cameras as a result of $2.9 million in federal funds administered by the DPS Office of Traffic Safety.

Included are police departments in Shakopee, Prior Lake and Savage and the Scott County Sheriff’s Office.

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A Burnsville High School campus supervisor spotted two students in a vehicle driving through the parking lot of the school’s main campus at 11:50 a.m. Wednesday (Nov. 3) with what appeared to be a gun pointing out of the window, according to Principal Dave Helke.

The campus supervisor notified administrators and the school resource officers who responded immediately.

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Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the November 6, 2010 print edition of the Savage Pacer newspaper? The page or pages on which those notices were printed are attached to this item, in the form of .pdf’s that can be opened with Adobe Acrobat.

Nancy Huddleston of the Savage Pacer reports:

The man accused of assaulting two Burnsville Athletic Club (BAC) volunteers after a youth basketball game has been sentenced to six years in prison by Judge Michael Mayer.

Robin Johnson, 49 of Minneapolis, was charged with one count each of first-degree assault and third-degree assault (both felonies), and one count each of interfering with a 911 call (a gross misdemeanor) and disorderly conduct (a misdemeanor) as a result of a February incident at Burnsville High School.

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Since I've been working in Jordan, many people have reached out to me, offering advice -- some good, some bad, some invited, some unsolicited, most of it received well and taken into consideration as I put together a newspaper, and live life in general.

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Jan McLandsborough of Eagan works on a pastel painting of a photograph she took at Lake Kabetogama in Voyageurs National Park Wednesday morning (Nov. 3) at the Savage Art Studios and Gallery, 4735 W. 123rd St. Bonnie Featherstone, the instructor of the “Pastels with Personality” course, said painting landscapes with personality is “what I want to see from these gals.” (Staff photo by Shawn Hogendorf)

By Nancy Huddleston, Editor

The saying, “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” is certainly true when considering Stacy Pearson and her daughter Sydney.

Stacy has been active in Women of Today for years and has started a chapter in Savage. And her daughter Sydney recently decided to follow her mother’s community service example, albeit in a different manner.

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Carol Smith of Prior Lake works on a cross-stitching project Wednesday morning at the Prior Lake Library as part of the Prior Lake Day Stitchers group. The stitchers meet at the library from 1 to 5 p.m. every Wednesday to work on projects and share expertise with one another. (Photo by Shawn Hogendorf)

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As daylight saving time ends this weekend (turn clocks back one hour before going to bed Saturday night), Minnesotans gain an extra hour of time — time State Fire Marshal Jerry Rosendahl says should be used to check smoke alarm batteries.

“It takes just a moment — and it could be the most valuable moment you spend this year, making sure those alarms go off if you have a residential fire,

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A St. Hubert's priest has resigned after indecent exposure allegations in St. Paul.

Pioneer Press story here:

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By Meryn Fluker, Staff Writer

Voters decided on Tuesday to welcome some new and old names in the Prior Lake-Savage Area School Board election. A mix of seasoned and up-and-coming candidates will fill the board’s four open seats, which each carry a four-year term.

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The city of Chanhassen is working with the Carver County Sheriff's Office to find a replacement for Lt. Jim Olson, who until Tuesday's election was in charge of overseeing policing from Chanhassen City Hall. But at least until January the city will be without a lieutenant to oversee policing services.

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Kristin Holtz and Shannon Fiecke of the Shakopee Valley News report:

As expected, Republican legislators Claire Robling, Michael Beard and Mark Buesgens easily hung on to their seats in District 35 Tuesday. Elsewhere in Scott County, Republicans made gains.

Sen. Claire Robling, a freelance journalist from Jordan who has the biggest district in Scott County, won a fifth term, garnering 69 percent of the vote against DFL candidate Travis Burton, who previously ran for school board in Jordan.

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Jens Bohn (left) and Maj. Gen. Rick Nash have enjoyed each other’s company for years and were together this week when Nash was sworn in as the Minnesota National Guard’s 30th adjutant general.

He’s done a lot for our country and for Minnesota.

Nancy Huddleston of the Savage Pacer reports:

The word down at Razor’s Edge Barbershop was that when it came time to choose a day to swear in the new adjutant general of the Minnesota National Guard, Mondays were the only option because that’s the only day of the week the general’s barber could make it.

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Yesterday's press release from the Minnesota Department of Transportation:

The contract to rebuild the Highway 169/Interstate 494 interchange in Eden Prairie, Bloomington and Edina has been awarded to the design-build team C.S. McCrossan/Edward Kraemer and Sons.

Initial construction items such as bridge pier, retaining wall and temporary bypass work are scheduled to begin this winter, with major construction to begin in spring 2011.

The project is scheduled to be substantially completed by Nov. 15, 2012.

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