The Becker Bandits amateur baseball team saw its season end last weekend with a pair of losses in the Sauk Valley League playoffs. Becker fell 9-8 last Saturday to the St. Joseph Joes, while Sunday saw the Monti...
Matt Hayen was officially appointed as the new chief of police at the recent Big Lake city council meeting. During the second meeting of June, council voted to offer Hayen the position, with four council members...
During their July meeting, Mel Klein approached the Clearwater Twp. Board to express his displeasure over not being notified that Huber Ave. was being chip sealed. He stated no one who lived on the road was aske...
Attention readers: Due to an unfortunate error, the “B” section of last week’s Patriot Newspaper included the July 10th pages repeated from the week before while the July 17th pages were omitted. This week, you ...
Twenty-eight young artists ranging in ages from one all the way up to 10 submitted colorful works of art in the Patriot’s 2021 Independence Day Coloring contest sponsored by Sherburne State Bank.Youngster Elizab...
The Sherburne County Board of Commissioners met last Thursday and tackled several issues that have been drawing considerable attention from residents in the past few months, including changes to the Board of Adj...
During Freedom Days this year, Amy Chmielewski of American Family Insurance of Becker hosted a windshield chip repair day where Abra Auto Body was on site to repair cracks, chips and imperfections of vehicle’s w...
During the Becker City Council meeting Tuesday, BPD Chief Brent Baloun asked council to call for a public hearing in regards to Jubilee Liquor’s alcohol compliance failure. Alcohol compliance checks were complet...
A new attraction is in the works at the Sherburne County History Center in Becker. The Farm Friends Barn is a barn that is being restored in a historically accurate way. The goal of the project is to give kids a...
