I am a packrat. Among one of the “packratted” items from a long-ago trip to the South Pacific is a nondescript package of ground-up tree root. It’s been sitting in a cabinet in my livingroom since I smuggled ...
TO THE EDITOR: Hello friends and neighbors! Every two years the public has the opportunity to get involved in their local political precinct caucuses! This is an excellent time for you to meet people who share...
The other day I was watching the Brady Bunch - don’t ridicule me for being nostalgic - and there was an episode titled “Where’s the Smoke?” where eldest brother Greg is seen by his sisters smoking a cigarette at...
TO THE EDITOR: Money could be had if some entrepreneur would market the blown down trees around us. Scores of them are in both private woods and the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge, especially just south of C...
As this episode of “The Polar Vortex vs. Humanity” seems to be coming to an end, I must confess to being just a bit bemused by the week-long panic I saw on the faces of area weathercasters. There is no doubt b...
Pebble Creek Golf Course opened to the public in 1989 with a lot of hoopla. It was designed to be the finest golf course in the region - and it has served in that regard since. But in past years, there has been ...
Here’s to hoping 2014 is a way better year than 2013. One of my favorite songs this time of year is “Same Old Lang Syne” by Dan Fogelberg. It’s a song about Fogelberg meeting up with a lover from his past with a...
I'm impressed by people who have artistic ability. (I find drawing stick people challenging). When I worked as a cashier for Virgil Gilyard at the Country Store/gas station in Santiago from 1985-1993, I got to k...
As always on the day after Thanksgiving, it appeared that every other car and truck passing through the Becker area had a Christmas tree bagged and tagged on the roof, as people from far and wide visited their f...
TO THE EDITOR: - Enlighten me, please. Doesn’t the golf course rely on city subsidies? Hasn’t the question been raised: Can Becker afford the golf course? Shouldn’t the mayor do everything possible to get i...
