Mike Schoemer, Author at North Wright County Today

Albertville Mayor, Family Feel the Heart of the Holidays

The first trip for the Schommer family to a Zimmerman Christmas Tree farm without their mom was met with an unmistakable sign.

December 10, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

One cut, and there it was. Albertville Mayor Jillian (Schommer) Hendrickson and her dad, Mark Schommer, were on their annual trip to cut down their Christmas tree at a farm […]

Father Asks Community to #PledgeKyra

Community can support both families via GoFundMe

December 8, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

As the community rallies around two families grieving the loss of their daughters in a weekend crash, one of the girls’ fathers is asking for people to remember them by […]

SOAR and St. Michael Team to Illuminate the Night

The special light display will launch Saturday with a live Facebook event.

December 8, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

St. Michael and the SOAR Regional Arts Group are teaming up this holiday season to light up the St. Michael City Center. The new collaboration will officially kick off this […]

Families Identify Two STMA Friends Who Died in Weekend Crash in Wisconsin

The recent St. Michael-Albertville High graduates were "awesome" and "the best of friends," family members said Sunday.

December 7, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

The families of two young women killed in a motor vehicle crash in Wisconsin remembered their daughters yesterday as they released information to the public. Families identified the two victims […]

BREAKING: Two STMA Graduates Killed in St. Croix County Crash

St. Michael-Albertville Superintendent Dr. Ann-Marie Foucault confirmed two women in vehicle were graduates of STMA High School

December 6, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

The St. Michael-Albertville High School community is in mourning this weekend as two recent graduates were identified as victims of a single vehicle accident on Interstate 94 in St. Croix […]

STMA School District Announces Learning Model Changes for Elementary Students

The district's grade 5 through 12 students went full distance learning this week.

December 3, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

Surging COVID-19 cases have again forced St. Michael-Albertville School District’s leaders to change learning models for students around the community. As STMA’s students in grades 5 through 12 adapted to […]

Holiday Lights: STMA Mom Posts Tour of Local Displays

December 3, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

Ready to get into the holiday spirit with a tour of lights? Each year families pile into the SUV, van or sedan to check out all of the displays around […]

Traffic Down to One Lane on I-94 at St. Michael this Weekend

Construction on the freeway will bottleneck at the Wright County border.

November 20, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

Minnesota Department of Transportation District 3 has announced lane closures on Interstate 94 this weekend, hopefully taking advantage of travel limited by the state’s new limitations put in place to […]

Minnesota Dials Back: Walz Curbs Restaurants, Sports as Numbers Overwhelm Hospitals

On a day when Minnesota's Mayo Clinic reported hundreds of sick workers, 'hard' restrictions were put into place via the Governor's action.

November 18, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

As COVID-19 continues to climb around Minnesota, residents are now going to feel the pinch. For the second time in less than 10 months, restaurants will transition to take-out service […]

St. Michael Cinema Announces Plans to Keep Public ‘At the Movies’

Following the success of late-summer drive-in movies, the theater is innovating once again.

November 16, 2020 By Mike Schoemer

Innovation is the name of the game for St. Michael Cinema these days. Movie theaters were darkened throughout the COVID-19 “Spring” earlier this year, and while the federal financial support […]