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under current law. According to projections, Dassel would get more money from the state next year under Dayton’s proposal, but it would fare better under current law over time. It would receive $391,721 in aid under current law in 2018, but would receive only $378,866 in 2018 under Dayton’s proposal.

Dassel Mayor Jeff Putnam said he’s not too concerned about the proposed changes to local government aid. “All I can do is look at the budget and take care of Dassel with what we got,” he said last week.

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In 1913, William Carlson purchased an existing meat marketon main street in Grove City, MN. His son, Willard, continuedthe business, after serving in WWII until 1983. Today the busi-ness is still going strong, still run by the Carlson family, still inGrove City - just around the corner from the original site. Wecontinue a tradition of processing and selling locally grown,quality meats. We offer many varieties of homemade sausages,including some new recipes and some old favorites includingour famous potato sausage.

If you have any memories of Carlson Meats that you wouldlike to share with us, we are looking for contributions for amemory book. You can e-mail them through our website:www.carlsonmeats.com. You can also mail them to our address:P.O. Box 205, Grove City, MN 56243 or visit us at the meatmarket.

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A mother accused of trying to suffocate her baby has been sentenced in Ramsey County to four months behind bars.

Litch f ield resident K a-tie Elaine Lewis, formerly of Hutchinson, admitted she suf-focated her infant until the

5-month-old boy passed out. Judge Judith Tilsen ordered Lewis to get treatment for her diagnosed disorder, cal led Munchausen-by-proxy. Experts say the disorder is one in which someone, usually a parent, hurts another person to gain sympathy for themselves.

The 25-year-old was also giv-en a suspended sentence of a

year and a day and ordered to serve three years of probation.

Prosecutors said a May 2 sur-veillance video from Children’s Hospital in St. Paul showed her pinching her son’s nose and covering his mouth. According to the criminal complaint, the infant “kicked frantically when he could not breathe.”

The baby had been admitted

to the hospital the previous day, after he was monitored and tested at Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis for several days. Lewis had reported that the baby would stop breathing, turn blue and then regain consciousness on several occasions.

According to the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office, Lewis pleaded guilty to domestic as-

Mother gets four months for suffocating her infant

A big question is whether voters would approve funding the technology initiative, in addition to maintaining the dis-trict’s current spending levels. “They don’t want to say no to kids, they don’t want to say no to schools, but they do want to say no to taxes,” Devine said.

Three options are available to fund the technology propos-

al, according to District Busi-ness Manager Bill Menozzi.

The district could poten-tially link the proposal to its operating levy, which voters ap-proved via referendum in 2009. The referendum expires in 2016, but the district could seek to “revoke and replace” it with a new referendum, which would include money for technology upgrades. The current operat-ing levy funds the district at a rate of $600 per student.

Another possible option is

to hold a separate levy refer-endum and present the tech-nology upgrades as a capital project, Menozzi said.

A third option is to hold a debt service referendum, re-questing that the district pay for the technology proposal through a bond, while seeking voter approval to pay back is-sued debt over a period of years.

Board members expressed little interest in holding a refer-endum this spring, but some of them indicated this fall or next

spring could be a possibility. Board member David Huhner said he received some feed-back from people complaining that the technology proposal was being “shoved down their throats.”

Frazier disagreed and said the proposal was only a draft and subject to change.

Huhner said he understood nothing has been finalized but wanted to reassure concerned citizens. “I’d like to smooth that over,” he said.

Governor’s Local Government Aid proposal Current Law Current Law Governor’s Current Law Governor’s 2013 2014 Proposal 2018 Proposal Certified Estimated 2014 Estimated 2018

City LGA LGA Estimated LGA LGA Estimated LGA

Cedar Mills $5,968 $5,847 $7,318 $5,363 $5,692

Cosmos 128,232 123,562 142,242 116,178 123,562

Darwin 37,512 36,836 48,042 34,964 56,280

Dassel 301,387 319,044 345,577 391,721 378,866

Eden Valley 228,099 217,639 259,479 243,304 301,319

Grove City 156,743 150,393 175,793 149,854 196,410

Kingston 12,833 12,442 17,663 14,123 24,103

Litchfield 1,588,853 1,521,643 1,790,483 1,342,498 1,728,507

Watkins 251,433 243,184 280,143 223,783 241,863

Source: Minnesota Department of Revenue

sault by strangulation. As part of that plea, counts of second-degree assault and child endan-germent were dropped.

“We pursued (third-degree) assault charges to no avail,” noted Dennis Gerhardstein, public information officer with the County Attorney’s Office, in an e-mail.

In addition to her probation, according to Gerhardstein, McLeod County is issuing a no-contact order between Lewis and

the victim.“It is likely that they will work

out some kind of supervised vis-its,” Gerhardstein wrote. “The kids are with their dad … ”

Conditions of her probation include that she continue with her current treatment program, cooperate with a child protection case plan, attend a parenting class or other support group, and attend mental health counseling.

The Associated Press contrib-uted to this story.