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News Roundup: a Gubernatorial Recall, a Green Light on Gun Safety and a Gay Marriage Ultimatum

A weekly rundown of the stories readers found most interesting over the last seven days.

Though you might live or work in Inver Grove Heights, chances are you follow, to some degree, what's happening in neighboring communities. Here are the Top 5 stories from Inver Grove as well as some of the top stories posted on area Patch sites last week.

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While Walker's win makes him the only governor in the United States to win re-election after facing a recall, Rep. Joe Atkins thinks the people of Wisconsin were given little choice. 

Find out what's happening in Inver Grove Heightswith free, real-time updates from Patch.

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 seniors Sara Keifat and Katherine Kruse were among 26 local students awarded Discovery Scholarships from Flint Hills Resources on June 1.

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The Inver Grove Heights Planning Commission approved 5-3 an  that will allow the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to conduct a series of firearms safety courses inside city limits.

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The  was founded in April by Joni Shogren, a mother of four and a part-time estate planning attorney.

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More than 18,000 people have joined a popular campaign on Change.org calling on  to speak out against a 2012 ballot measure that would amend the Minnesota constitution to ban same-sex marriage, according to a statement from change.org

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