Drumming For Health At Clearview

  Clearview Elementary students are learning to drum, but not in music class. Instead, drumming has become part of their physical education curriculum.   Two years ago, P.E. teacher George Bienusa came across th...

Clearview Student Wins Grand Prize In Live United Essay Contest

  Clearview Elementary fifth-grader Adyson Petty received s surprise visit to her classroom last month, when her family and representatives of LIVE UNITED arrived to inform her that out of 620 entries, her essay...

Ambulance Workers Honored

CentraCare Health – Monticello Ambulance, along with a number of other local agencies, responded to a multi-vehicle accident on I-94 in September of 2017.  One of the vehicles involved was carrying members of a ...

Snake River Cookie Assembly

Cox, Hendrickson Sworn In At Meeting

  In a very quick meeting Wednesday (moved from Tuesday because of New Year), the Becker City Council met to discuss the organizational and committee appointments, charitable gambling at Pebble Creek and the swe...

Wright Co. Board Sets Salaries For 2019

  The Wright County Board of Commissioners set the 2019 salaries for elected officials during their final meeting of 2018.   The board approved a three-percent increase for County Attorney Tom Kelly, from $147,9...

Becker Couple Deliver First Baby Of 2019

  Debbie and Brian Zachman of Becker are the proud parents of the first baby of 2019 born at Allina Health's Buffalo Hospital.   Maxwell Zachman was born at 1:13 a.m., Jan. 1. He weighed 8 pounds 8 ounces and wa...

Setting Goals For The New Year

  Just about everyone has tried making resolutions for the new year, but not everyone keeps them.   Whether it’s eating better, exercising, dieting, quitting smoking or cutting back on drinking, it seems those p...

Becker Father, Son Co Author New Book

  When he was around 10 years old, Becker resident Daniel Myles began asking his family fun questions around the dinner table. Realizing there was something special in the questions, his parents began writing t...

Residents Celebrate The New Year

  People around the world celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of another on New Year’s Eve, and residents of the Becker, Clearwater and Clear Lake areas are no different.   The change of the new year...