Ship Keeping Residents Healthy

Sherburne County Health & Human Services (HHS) is continuing its efforts to improve the health of its citizens.   One of the biggest health issues in the county, state and the nation is obesity, and HHS has ...

Rivers Of Hope Youth Program Scheduled

Rivers of Hope, the domestic abuse assistance center serving Sherburne and Wright counties, has announced its 2015 Summer Youth Program.   The program will be run Mondays and Tuesdays for junior high students an...

Basc In The Sun

Annual Spring Clean Up Event Signals Start Of The Youth Summer Baseball

The Becker Youth Baseball program kicked off their summer season with their annual spring clean-up event this past week.     The event brought together over 40 parent volunteers, city maintenance staff and baseb...

Salt Brings County Services Together

About 75 Sherburne County Seniors joined the SALT council for the 19th annual Seniors and Law Enforcement Together day out at The Friendly Buffalo last Wednesday. Seniors gathered for a light breakfast and the p...

British Invade Bhs Spring Choir Show

Though the logistics of moving masses of students on and off of the stage in the new Performing Arts Center at Becker High School had the directors feeling some minor butterflies before the curtain went up, the ...

Swcd Offering Small Farms Program

Small farm owners and their animals realize many benefits of proper manure and pasture management (i.e. good land stewardship).  For example, a well-managed pasture can produce more forage which results in less ...

Widespread Clean Up Day Last Saturday

The annual spring clean-up day took place in three communities last Saturday, with residents turning out with varying degrees of enthusiasm to find a new place for their unwanted items.   The turn-out was “about...

Becker Senior Wins National Scholarship

BHS senior Aimee Schulz learned recently that she had been selected as one of only nine regional winners of a National Honor Society (NHS) scholarship in the entire nation.   The press release from the NHS reads...

Farm Friends Host Fund Raiser