It’s All Downhill From Here
I hit yet another milestone birthday this week and am now forced to admit I’m middle-aged. Which sounds worse, 50 years old or half a century? Yes, I’m officially over the hill. How do I know? I now qualify for ...
Editorials
Oahu Is My Second Favorite Hawaiian Island
Goodbye Maui. Hello Oahu. Leaving Maui halfway through our vacation was bittersweet. Maui exceeded our expectations to the nth degree and left us spent, thrilled, anxious and optimistic. It killed us that we wer...
Hawaii Trip Was Like Getting A Glimpse Of Utopia
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...
Dreaming Of Spring
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...
To The Editor
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...
Music Strikes A Chord
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...
We Have A Long Way To Go To Stop Gender Violence
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...
To The Editor
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...
Pike O Rama Was Doug’s Valentine
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...
Wont You Be My Valentine?
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 ...
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