Lots Of People To Be Thankful For
We will sit down with friends and family to a wonderful Thanksgiving gathering Thursday. We will eat too much and be drowsy for some of the day. But there is something that goes with Thanksgiving we can’t get to...
Editorials
Carrying On Family Traditions
My family comes from a long line of cooks and bakers. My mom was blessed with the gift of hospitality, which she learned from her mother and Grandma (Gilyard). It has always brought my mother great joy to prepar...
To The Editor
Veteran’s Day used to be a day that many took the day off to visit the gravesite of veterans of days past or even to visit friends that were hospitalized in V.A. hospitals. But this coming Veteran’s Day as we ...
The Reality Of Addiction
All you need to do to hear about our society’s addiction problem is turn on the TV or pick up a newspaper. Opioid addiction is spreading so rapidly it’s being called an epidemic. The Centers for Disease Control ...
To The Editor
We can't accurately predict the future, but we can imagine a world of tomorrow that exists with technology that we've never heard of. Today, 2077, we live in a self-sustaining community that exists along major t...
To The Editor
The Friends of the Clearwater Library wish to thank the following individuals who contributed to our fall book sale: the people who attended the book sale at the Clearwater Library and purchased books and media....
A Mazing Halloweens
Halloween has always been a fun time of year for me ever since I was a little kid. There’s something about being spooked, wearing a costume and seeing people’s awesome outside decorations. It also doesn’t hurt t...
Hats Off To Our Fire Fighters!
During the past few weeks, Citizen-Tribune staffers have covered the various Fire Prevention Week open houses hosted by our Clearwater, Clear Lake and Becker fire fighters. Intent of the open houses to have kids...
Wake Up! It’s Morning
I have no trouble waking up in the morning. But it wasn’t always that way. When I was much younger, my mother had to get me up every morning for school. Some of my brothers and sisters were the same way. L...
To The Editor
I‘ve never written the Citizen before, but can’t resist anymore after this fall sports season. The coverage of Becker sports has been far below what we’ve come to anticipate from your paper. The recent article l...
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