As the plane descended from the clouds and the tropical island of Maui was directly below us, I could finally feel the tension in my body melt into the air like the spring snow in Minnesota. The cold, the dark s...
As I was scraping the thick ice off my windshield Monday morning, I wondered what had happened to spring. A day earlier, temperatures were in the 40s - close to 50 in some areas, and I was already looking forw...
I have tried numerous times to communicate with our leaders and found that my views have not been shared with whomever is in power. I believe there is one thing that we can all agree on, and that is that when we...
I have always loved music. Most of my 9 siblings took music lessons. Many of us didn’t practice enough. I took piano lessons (3rd grade through 12th grade) from Lydia Heed in Becker. She taught piano lessons un...
Last month I attended a presentation on gender violence prevention given by Chuck Derry of the Gender Violence Institute in Clearwater. As a woman, I thought I understood the issue well. As a mother of daughters...
During the Jan. 16, 2018 Becker City Council Executive workshop, council member Hendrickson questioned whether the council should respond to the recent editorials in the Sherburne County Citizen-Tribune. He as...
Doug May, Jr. began what was - and still is - a friendly competition between 10 fishermen 19 years ago. They got together and decided the winner of the first Pike-O-Rama winner would be the person pulling the bi...
Donny and Judy Knutson have been a part of the Becker landscape for a very long time! Both were born and raised within just a few miles of Becker and have lived in the area their entire lives. Donald is the son ...
We would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for helping to make Ivan’s Big Adventure a successful event for the Bender family. We appreciate that each of you were willing to partner with ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Susana Kuehne has joined the Citizen-Tribune for a few weeks, contributing stories for the vacationing Bill Morgan. For most of my life, I played by the rules and rarely strayed from what was exp...
