The Better Business Bureau (BBB) of Minnesota and North Dakota is advising both businesses and consumers to be on alert for a new phishing scam. According to information provided by the Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association, multiple Twin Cities auto dealerships have been targeted by scammers seeking customer information recently, leading to fraudulent charges on the credit cards of some of those dealerships’ customers.

Nancy Huddleston reports:

Firefighters from the Savage, Prior Lake, Shakopee, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC), Eden Prairie, Bloomington, and Jordan fire depart-ments put out a fire at Thoroughbred Carpets, 8754 W. Highway 101, near the intersection of Highway 13 and County Road 101.

The warehouse and showroom were fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived at scene at 12:25 p.m. Tuesday. As they got the fire under control, fire-fighters worked to save the office area from further damage.

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Hi Everyone

Here is the last blog for the year and I thought I would reflect on the past year.

I have to say this has been a very exciting year for our group.

I have done more house cleansings this year then I have ever did in one year, 5 of them.

Our team was able to take a road trip to The Axe Murder house in Iowa. This was a very exciting trip for us. We are hoping to return next year.

By Nancy Huddleston, Editor

The state fire marshal is on the scene this morning at Thoroughbred Carpets, 8754 W. Highway 101, near the intersection of Highway 13 and
County Road 101.

The warehouse and showroom were fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived at scene at 12:25 p.m. Tuesday. It took eight fire
departments, including Jordan's, 90 minutes to get the fire completely out.

DFLer Jannaya LaFrance of Savage registered with the Campaign Finance Board last week to run against Rep. Mark Buesgens, R-Jordan. She filed under her new married name. According to Politics in Minnesota, LaFrance originally filed last March under the last name Styrlund to challenge the six-term incumbent. A message left for LaFrance wasn't immediately returned. 

Shannon Fiecke

Listening to the police scanner this morning, I've heard several reports of car accidents or vehicles off the road due to the weather. Accidents on Highway 169 north of Jordan have backed up traffic considerably, according to one of my co-workers.

This morning, while dropping off newspapers around town, I found myself sliding much more than I expected to. Driving into the high school parking lot, the back end of my car swung out three times, and I was not going overly fast. 

Foreign high school students are scheduled to arrive soon for academic semester homestay programs, and the sponsoring organization needs a few more local host families. The students are anxiously awaiting news of their new families. This is the final push for the chance of these young ambassadors to fulfill their life-long dreams.

How do you plan to celebrate New Year's?

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the December 31, 2009 print edition of the Jordan Independent newspaper? The page or pages on which those notices were printed are attached to this item, in the form of .pdf’s that can be opened with Adobe Acrobat.