Sherburne County has adopted an updated Tobacco Ordinance that will take effect on July 1, 2026. These updates to local tobacco regulations ensure alignment with Minnesota state law while incorporating important...
(The following article is from a post by the Associated Press on Monday, Dec. 29).Federal Homeland Security officials were conducting a fraud investigation on Monday in Minneapolis, Department of Homeland Securi...
With all members present, the Big Lake School Board certified the 2026 Property Tax Levy on Wed., Dec. 17, 2025. The total levy amount was $13,887,802.55, an increase of 4.6% over last year, or $605,295. It was ...
Last New Year’s Eve, readers met Tayla List and her son Ezekiel on the front page: a mother and child quietly redefining what celebration looks like. Instead of candles and cake alone or with friends, their birt...
In the final moments of Charles Dickens’ classic, “A Christmas Carol”, the narrator tells us this of Ebenezer Scrooge, “and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive po...
Christmas came to Clearwater a couple weekends ago, with the city celebrating several holiday events to kick off the holiday season.Over at the Clearwater American Legion, kids gathered for the Legion Auxiliary’...
Becker resident Mike Garland and his crew with Mike+You=Cure collected and donated a significant amount of food to the American Cancer Society Richard M. Schulze Family Hope Lodge Minneapolis last week. An estim...
Monday night, the Farm Friends Barn once again hosted its Santa at the Barn event and despite an earlier postponement due to weather, the crowd was enormous and enthusiastic.The line was literally out the barn d...
Snake River Free Mission Church hosted an All Church Christmas Celebration Sunday, Deccmber 21. Children and adults from the congregation participated in the telling of the Christmas story and the arrival of Jes...
With the new year fast approaching, it seems natural to consider the story of Father Time and Clear Lake Fire Chief Ron Koren’s retirement announcement. Though Koren does not resemble the grizzled old man with a...
