The Sherburne County Government Center expansion will cost a lot more than the $44.5 million estimate the board of commissioners received in December. Tuesday, Doug Wild of BWBR Architects said the number is now...
The Sherburne County Board voted Tuesday, 3-1 to reject all bids regarding bituminous overlays on Co. Rds. 6, 8 and 72, plus culvert modification on Co. Rd. 16. Over the past month, the board has debated how t...
After a 40-minute discussion last week, the Clearwater Township board of supervisors awarded the contract to Astech Corp. for the township’s first ever chip sealing project. Chip sealing is a lower cost alter...
Red Balloon Child Care Center will soon be under new ownership as Sandy Forster and Dennis Yoerg decided to put the business up for sale and got a bite. “It really happened quite fast,” said Forster. “We put i...
This weekend, look for a local gal from Becker to be on National TV. Jen Callahan of Becker will be featured on the CMT program, Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge Sunday night at 8 p.m. “Broken Skull” is ...
In a nearly three-hour meeting Monday, the Becker Twp. Board met to discuss a road name change, road issues, snow plowing contracts and speed zoning. They were also introduced to Marie Pflipsen, the city’s new c...
The Becker City Council met Tuesday night to discuss a bid acceptance, a dehumidification project, community forests management, the personnel policy, support for the relocation of a business and issues dealing ...
Minnesota has long been ranked in the top 10 states for quality education, and according to the GreatSchools website, six of the top Central Minnesota schools are here locally. GreatSchools is a nonprofit orga...
With the area’s early warm-up this spring, many people are already anticipating planting their gardens. However others are talking more about weather change. “We’ve had earlier warm-ups over the years,” said C...
The end of life is not a topic our society likes to either think about or talk about, but it’s important everyone do so and have their health care wishes in place. Vicki Morgan from Light the Legacy spoke on thi...
