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Mendota Heights Patch Week in Review July 3-9

The state shutdown stole the show, but local government decisions and Mendota Days also made the news.

Here's what you may have missed last week on Mendota Heights Patch:

Residents celebrated the on Monday. Friends and family gathered around the city to watch the from .

It was the first full week that the state of Minnesota spent in a state of near-complete shutdown. responded with their take on the shutdown, while communities struggled to the . Mendota Heights Patch will continue to collect all links of shutdown coverage in featured on the homepage until the shutdown is over.

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The city of Mendota Heights passed a new, more restrictive at their meeting Tuesday. They also started a discussion of what commercial would look like in the city.

Lilydale business was featured last week. They'll be celebrating 50 years in business this August.

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NASA successfully launched the last space shuttle mission on Friday. Patch collected a for the occasion.

The Mendota VFW prepared for their annual held Friday and Saturday.

In sports, the 12-year-old traveling team traveled to Cooperstown, NY to compete in a national tournament and visit the Baseball Hall of Fame.


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