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Red Wing school board member accused of shoplifting from Target
A Red Wing Public Schools Board member is accused of shoplifting more than $500 worth of goods from the local Target over several months earlier this year.
Rachel Marshall Schoenfelder, 49, was charged last week with a gross misdemeanor for eight alleged shoplifting incidents from March to July where she’s accused of not paying for items in her cart at Target’s self-checkout line.
According to court records, Schoenfelder was caught by Target personnel on July 18 attempting to leave with more than $150 worth of goods in a reusable bag she never paid for, including three books, a number of chocolates and men’s deodorant. A court complaint states Schoenfelder admitted to staff she had purposefully not paid for the items in the bag.
Target staff reported Schoenfelder to police, calling her a “known shoplifter” who had been caught shoplifting on camera at the self-checkout line seven other times since March, according to court records. The items she allegedly stole include various foodstuffs, clothing, household supplies and toys such as Pokemon cards and a Lego Darth Vader. Court documents allege she put items in a reusable bag in several instances.
Schoenfelder admitted to officers shoplifting on July 18 and the other incidents, according to court records. She allegedly told police she knew it was wrong but did it “because things were becoming more expensive.” Target staff barred her from the store and served her a trespass warning.
Schoenfelder was elected to her first term on the school board in 2022 and has previously served on the Red Wing Public Library Board. She was not immediately available for comment.
“There’s a fair amount of stuff we’ve digested over the years,” Kerfoot told the Star Tribune at the time of the sale. “It’ll take a while to pick all of it out of me.”
In recent years, he and Sue have spent summers in Minnesota and then traveled back to Missouri to be close to family for the rest of the year.
Visitors love to drop in and talk about Justine Kerfoot or Bruce Kerfoot or the years they spent working at the lodge, Fredrikson said. He’s found that Bruce’s energy seemingly matched that of his mother, who died in 2001 when she was 94.
“He was one of those people that was able to get stuff done more easily or better than other people,” Fredrikson said. “Maybe because of who he was, or maybe because the stars align for this kind of person.”
In a social media post, Kerfoot’s family said they had peace knowing he and his mother “were paddling together to their shore lunch spot.”
Mark Hennessy knew Kerfoot for 40 years, but has had a closer view for the past three years. He said without Kerfoot, the Chik-Wauk Museum and Nature Center, located near the end of the Gunflint Trail, wouldn’t exist. Whenever there was a work project, the executive director said, Kerfoot would show up.
A teenage motorcyclist was killed in a collision with an SUV at a Burnsville intersection, officials said Friday.
The crash occurred shortly after 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Burnsville Parkway and Interstate 35W, police said.
The motorcyclist was identified by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office as Peter Vsevolod Genis, 17, of Burnsville.
An SUV driver was turning left from westbound Burnsville Parkway to northbound 35W when Genis went through a red light while heading east and struck the SUV.
The SUV driver and a woman with him, both from Burnsville, were not hurt.
The other vehicle was a Mercedes SUV. The driver was a 30-year-old male from Burnsville, with a 29-year-old female passenger from Burnsville. Neither of them was injured.
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Boeing will lay off 10% of its employees as a strike by factory workers cripples airplane production
Boeing plans to lay off about 10% of its workers in the coming months as it continues to lose money and tries to deal with a strike that is crippling production of the company’s best-selling airline planes.
New CEO Kelly Ortberg told staff in a memo Friday that the job cuts will include executives, managers and employees.
The company had already imposed rolling temporary furloughs, but Ortberg said those will be suspended because of the impending layoffs.
The company will delay the rollout of a new plane, the 777X, to 2026 instead of 2025. It will also stop building the cargo version of its 767 jet in 2027 after finishing current orders.
Boeing has lost more than $25 billion since the start of 2019. Union machinists have been on strike since Sept. 14. Two days of talks this week failed to produce a deal.
