Breakfast With Santa

Corrections

Mayor Paul Knier of Big Lake noted two errors in recent Patriot articles regarding the recent school board meeting and the city council meeting.In the school board article, it was stated that Mayor Knier invited...

Santa visits The Buff

The Big Lake American Legion Auxiliary Unit 147 and the Legion Post sponsored Santa Days at The Buff in Big Lake Sunday.Many volunteers showed up to set up tables and tables of toys for area youths to select fro...

CW/CL Groups Collect Toys and Food for the Needy

Local communities are well known for their generosity, and residents of Clearwater and Clear Lake were out in full force last weekend hosting Toys for Tots toy drives for families with children in need and colle...

BASC ladies bake for Christmas

Members of the Becker Area Senior Center (BASC) spent a day at Linda Ellis Smith’s Home Bakery for the cookie bake, Dec. 6.The ladies have decided this will be an annual event and they include, Kathy Hanson, Ren...

Holiday parties, goodies, and crafts are signs of the season in Clearwater

Anyone searching for a gift for that someone special didn’t have to look any further than Clearwater last weekend; the city was filled with Christmas cheer as a number of organizations held their annual Christma...

Becker School Board reviews district statistics Monday

During Monday’s meeting, the Becker School Board reviewed district statistics for the World’s Best Workforce plan.The World’s Best Workforce plan outlines long term goals for Minnesota schools. Those goals are a...

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Clear Lake City to study speed sign at Hwy. 24

The Clear Lake CIty Council met Monday evening and discussed its 2022 budget, a solar farm and the Highway 24 speed sign.As area residents may have noticed, the electronic speed sign on Highway 24 is no longer f...

Shopping local makes your neighborhood better

(Editor’s Note: Some of the information used for this article was comprised from several sources on the internet).Now that Thanksgiving and Black Friday have passed, many people will be getting a start on their ...