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Explore Your Parks Night in Albertville Returns Thursday, May 16

The weather looks perfect and there's fun to be had at Albertville's parks this week.

May 14, 2024 By Mike Schoemer

Join Albertville city staff, council members and firefighters for fun, free food, and prizes for kids and adults from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 16. The event will feature: […]

Tagged With: Albertville, events, family fun, parks

Albertville’s Financial Security Bank Merges with Bravera, Expands Building

Makeover includes branding, space, but staff mainly stay in place.

February 12, 2024 By Mike Schoemer

Bravera Bank team

It’s been a mainstay at the corner of County Highway 19 – aka Labeaux Avenue – and 57th Street Northeast since Albertville’s development burgeoned in the 2000’s. Financial Security Bank […]

Tagged With: Albertville, Bank, Bravera, business

Major Albertville, St. Michael Intersection to Get Repaved Monday, July 17

Traffic will be snarled at the thoroughfare much of the day.

July 14, 2023 By Mike Schoemer

The Wright County Highway Department will be paving a bituminous patch on County Highway 18 (Jason Ave NE) from the intersection of County Highway 19 (Labeaux Avenue) to 600 feet […]

Tagged With: Albertville, paving, road construction

Interstate 94 Project to Get Finishing Touch with Albertville to Monticello Stretch

MnDOT will see the project through to completion as soon as next year, adding an additional lane of traffic in each direction.

July 12, 2023 By Mike Schoemer

Interstate 94 sign

The Corridors of Commerce Program, which has made much of the widening of Interstate 94 from Maple Grove to Clearwater possible over the last decade, is coming to Albertville’s assistance […]

Tagged With: Albertville, Interstate 94, Monticello, six lanes

Eastbound Interstate 94 to Close at Albertville Wednesday

The overnight closure will help crews wrap up bridge work on the freeway.

October 4, 2022 By Mike Schoemer

Interstate 94 sign

Motorists can expect eastbound I-94 to be closed at Wright Co. Rd. 19 in Albertville from 7 p.m. Wednesday evening, Oct. 5 to 3 a.m. Thursday morning, Oct. 6. Eastbound […]

Tagged With: 94, Albertville, County 19

DEVELOPING: Hudson, Lucero and Hendrickson All Enter Legislative Race after Redistricting

Hours after redistricting maps were released by the Minnesota Supreme Court, familiar faces entered the race to the State Capitol.

February 16, 2022 By Mike Schoemer

With redistricting maps causing major changes to Wright County legislative districts once again after a decade of continued – if interrupted – growth, a trio of familiar faces tossed their […]

Tagged With: Albertville, Eric Lucero, Jillian Hendrickson, Walter Hudson

Former Albertville Mayor, Ron Klecker, Dies at 89

Klecker was, arguably, "Mr. Albertville," leading the community through growing pains and helping create a vision for more than just an outlet mall.

October 11, 2021 By Mike Schoemer

Ron Klecker

Truth be told, I knew of Ron Klecker LONG before I came to St. Michael-Albertville. Klecker, the former mayor of Albertville, died at the age of 89 last Friday. He […]

Tagged With: Albertville, mayor, obituary, Ron Klecker

New Albertville Project Receives Boost from State Job Creation Fund

The $31 million project is the centerpiece of a new industrial park north of Interstate 94.

September 9, 2021 By Mike Schoemer

The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) announced that six businesses are expanding in Minnesota with the help of $2.1 million in awards from the Job Creation Fund […]

Tagged With: Advanced Volumetric Alliance, Albertville, Business Park

Huge Changes for Albertville as Interstate 94 Ramp Opens to Drivers

The daily queues of vehicles making their way through the city via County 37 will no doubt slow to a trickle.

August 26, 2021 By Mike Schoemer

Interstate 94 sign

Starting tonight, crews will open the new ramp from Wright County Highway 19 to eastbound Interstate 94. It ends the almost daily parade – at peak traffic times and weekends […]

Tagged With: Albertville, Interstate 94, traffic

The Hen and The Hog Rises, Serves Up Comfort in Albertville

STMA's newest eatery has navigated the waters to offer Minnesota Wontons, mac and cheese and much more.

February 17, 2021 By Mike Schoemer

It was an idea that, like many great ideas, sprung from a night around a kitchen table. Out of the ashes of a pandemic that has left many businesses without […]

Tagged With: Albertville, new business, restaurant, The Hen and The Hog

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