Remember when big, fat phone books were used as doorstops, paper weights or as booster seats for your children at the dinner table? Remember when phone books were actually utilized to look up a home telephone nu...
Road repairs, review of the proposed 2014 tax levy and a request to make donations to the Becker Fire Dept. Relief Fund a regular budget item were among the items discussed at the regular meeting of the Santiago...
In a split vote Tuesday, the Sherburne County Board approved a conditional use permit (CUP) for Verizon Wireless to build a 160-foot tall monopole cell phone transmission tower at the intersection of Co. Rds 1 a...
The Becker High School robotics team, which operates at the “Coalition of Independent Students #4607” during the competition season, kicked off their second year with a pancake breakfast fund-raiser last Saturda...
The new Winter Lecture Series at the Sherburne History Center (SHC) in Becker was launched Tuesday afternoon, with a small but appreciative audience braving the very cold temperatures to witness the event. The ...
2013 was a very good year for the NorthStar Commuter Rail. At Tuesday’s Sherburne County Board meeting, Ed Petrie, finance director for Metro Transit, told the commissioners ridership was up significantly last y...
With a program that issues iPad® devices to all student from grades 8 through 12, and two Apple® Distinguished School awards already in hand, it is not surprising that the Becker School District has found an eff...
Several people from the Becker community stepped up in front of council Tuesday to urge the city to for the installation of two highway signs that will officially proclaim Becker as a Beyond the Yellow Ribbon ci...
The Becker Board of Education voted to retain its existing leadership structure at the annual organizational meeting Monday night, including the committee assignments from the previous year. Other agenda items...
Hard on the heels of the Holiday season, the Becker Area Chamber of Commerce will host the 21st Annual Business Expo in the field house at Becker High School on Sat., Jan. 25 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Over fifty v...
