Interminable Township Turmoil: White Bear Township and the Power of the Vote
Author: Sara Markoe Hanson
Why is White Bear Township shaped that way? If you’ve ever wondered about the answer to that question, Sara Markoe Hanson, executive director of the White Bear Lake Area Historical Society, carefully details a century-long political journey involving portions of six cities, more than one hundred separate annexations, two Minnesota Supreme court decisions, and an especially heated decade of battles between citizens and local and state government officials in her cover story “Interminable Township Turmoil: White Bear Township and the Power of the Vote.” The original township that formed in 1858 looks quite different today, thanks to the vote and the independent nature of a group of determined township residents.
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