An administrative judge in the US state of Minnesota has ruled solar generation to be a better investment than natural gas for electric and natural gas utility, Xcel Energy. The judgment is the first time in the...
State Sen. John Pederson of Haven Twp. has announced plans to drop out of the Sixth Congressional District race. He reported he would no longer be able to combine efforts for a run for the seat with family, his ...
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...
