My Obituary

Jamie Newburg of Forest Lake, MN passed away peacefully On Saturday May 28th at his home sorounded by his family and loved ones. Jamie was 103 years old.

Jamie lived a long healthy life and greatly impacted the lives of many of the student and players he both coached and mentored. 

 Jamie was the mens head basketball coach at the University of Minnesota from 2020-2057 where he accumalated 15 big ten titles and 6 National Championships. Outside of basketball Jamie enjoyed reading and spending vacations with his wife Annie.

Jamie is survived by his Wife Annie, his 2 sons Aaron and Eric, and his over 1,000 student athletes whose lives he touched.

Funeral service will be held on Sunday June 3rd at Chisago Lakes Baptist Church in Chisago City, MN at 5 p.m. with a dinner to be held after the service.

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“The County Denies the Sheriffs’ request for additional equipment and personell.

            Today Washington County officials and the County Sheriff , Gus Decisari, gathered to discuss the possible adding of equipment and personel to the cities police department. Sheriff Decisari expressed his concern for the citizens as the crime rate has been growing in the recent months. He also expressed the age of the vehicles that his deputies were driving and that it was a concern for the counties reliability for law enforcement.. The discussion quickly turned into a strong tempered and somewhat slandering meeting as there were some questionable comments made by our city leaders regarding the migrants in the area. “ We have never had problems until we began letting migrants come to this county to work” said Sheriff Decisari. Regarding the amount of crime in his city. The 2 sides argued over the objectional comments made by the sheriff . “ Those people who come here to work are decent, hardworking people being employed at jobs that local residents don’t want to do, they add a great deal to the economy and they pay taxes,” said County Commissioner member Shenuski.

            The Sheriffs request for money for new cruisers and deputies was voted down 5-2 as the reasoning by the board of Commisioners was that the budget just simply couldn’t allow it. So for now our county law enforcement seems to be operating without the unecessary equipment to be confident in keeping us safe and secure.

           

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Interstate 790 automobile accident claims 2 lives and injures many more.

A fatal accident occurred this morning at 6:45 a.m. on Interstate 790, on the western edge of Forest Lake. Two tractor-trailers apparently collided and started a chain reaction according to police. According to Sergeant Albert Wei of the Forest Lake Police Department, A total of 4 tractor trailers and 14 cars were involved in the accident. ‘One of the tractor trailers was a tanker hauling diesel fuel, it was very lucky that it didn’t roll over or dump any fuel and catch fire.” Wei said.

            In total 2 people were killed and 20 others were injured, four of which were airlifted and rushed to the hospital and are in serious condition. The four in serious condition are believed to have life threatening injuries, according to Forest Lake Fire Chief, Tony Sullivan. ”The crash scene looked something like a war zone when I arrived, bodies laying along the road, and people covered in blood sitting next to their cars. “”I have never seen anything that bad in the 18 and a half years I’ve been with the fire department.” Said Chief Sullivan.                       

            The accident created quite a mess as the interstate was still closed at 10 a.m. and officials had no timeline for when it would be open. The accident occurred in the northbound lane .Due to the crash, the entire highway was closed in both directions according to Sergeant Wei. The investigation of the accident is on going as police are still looking into details.