Becker Read A Thon Winners Named

Nearly 190,000 minutes were read by students in the 2014 Read-A-Thon in the Becker School District in February, according to Becker PTSA President Ann Olson, and more than $5,000 in pledges were raised due to th...

Rep. Jim Newberger (15 B) Legislative Update

The session has been moving quickly thanks to our shorter-than-normal legislative schedule. The first committee deadline has come and gone, and we've already passed several bills, including a tax repeal bill to ...

Meals On Wheels

Maps Hold Many Clues At Sherburne History Center

To celebrate the arrival of an exhibition titled “Minnesota on the Map” from the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul, the Sherburne History Center also hosted a program called “Mapping Your Family History,”...

Plenty Of Reports And Updates Deliberated At Becker Twp.

The spring road tour date was scheduled, appointments for various boards manifested and the engineer, sheriff and planning commission gave their monthly reports at Monday’s Becker Township Board meeting. Plannin...

Snow Delays Robotics Open House

While the late-season snows forced cancellation of the planned open house at Becker High School Tuesday afternoon, the Becker Robotics Team continued working on their new competition robot regardless of the weat...

Becker Mc D’s Hosts Farm Friends Barn Fundraiser

Business was good Thursday night as the McDonald’s of Becker hosted a fund-raiser for the Farm Friends Barn project, a non-profit organization that is raising funds to construct an educational barn near the camp...

Jubilee Liquors Annual Spring Wine Tasting

Becker City Council

Becker Reserve Sergeant Meghan Raygor was honored at Tuesday’s Becker City Council meeting. President’s Award   Police Chief Brent Baloun explained the usefulness and necessity of the police reserve unit and st...

Cobb Appointed New Hhs Director

Sherburne County has a new director of Health & Human Services. Tuesday, the county board appointed Mary Jo Cobb as the new director.   Cobb had been appointed interim director when former HHS Director Ken E...