Bms Students Perform Holiday Concert

  The Becker Middle School bands performed a winter concert for family and friends December 13, their first concert of the school year. Directed by Band Director Shelly Clemen, many of the songs were holiday the...

Friendship Hosts Holiday Party

  Although the grand total has yet to be announced, Camp Friendship’s annual holiday fundraising party last Friday was a success, attended by hundreds of guests to raise funds for True Friends.   Hosted by the T...

Merry Christmas!

Gospel According To Scrooge

  “Christmas, every year tis the same thing”.     This is the opening line from the musical presentation of the ‘Gospel According to Scrooge’ being performed by Becker Evangelical Free Church Sun., Dec. 23.  The...

Christmas Extravaganza Is A Hit!

  The Santiago Lions Club held their 35th annual Kids Christmas Extravaganza at Bailey Ray’s last weekend.   The event featured a visit from Santa Claus, cookie decorating, face painting, crafts, games, a photo ...

Area Post Offices See Huge Increase In Package Deliveries

  This year the United States Post Office (USPS) expects to deliver nearly 15 billion pieces of mail and more than 900 million packages between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.    A large portion of this enormou...

Santiago Twp. Holds Short Dec. Meeting

  With a short agenda and what may have been one of the quickest township meetings in history, the Santiago Twp. board of supervisors wrapped up their meeting Wednesday night in 15 minutes.   The board was infor...

Palmer Twp. Discusses 113th Ave.

  During their meeting Monday night, Palmer Twp. Supervisor Steve Demeules informed the board the Lake Association is planning an Ice Day on Feb. 2 on Lake Julia.   He also advised the public to be aware there i...

Centennial Anniversary For Wright Co. 4 H

  A couple Sundays ago, members of Wright Co. 4-H gathered at Rockford Town Hall to celebrate the end of the year with their annual member and volunteer recognition banquet.   Northern Peak 4-H club leader Randy...

Board Deals With Zoning Requests

  It was a short meeting, but a busy one for zoning issues at the Sherburne County Board meeting Tuesday.   Because the board chambers are under reconstruction, the meeting was moved to the Emergency Operations ...