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2017 Grads are a special group; grab your lawnchairs - Harmony is here
Congratulations to the Chisago Lakes and the North Branch seniors for making it through school.
Deciding if you'll like it or not
About three weeks ago I had rhubarb recipes in this column. Guess what….more rhubarb recipes. A friend of mine who works in the produce dept. at Brink’s was telling me that his wife had made all of the recipes in that column and they were delicious, which made me happy. …
Trudeau Law Enforcement Award goes to Wyoming police officer
Wyoming Police Officer Rachel Columbus has been selected to receive the 2016 James Trudeau Law Enforcement Award. This award is given annually to one law enforcement officer in recognition of outstanding dedication and service to youth in our community. Officer Columbus was nominated by Wyoming Elementary fifth grade teacher, Amanda …
Wannigan Days-- a chance for local band to strut its stuff
If a Boz Scaggs-Van Morrison-Sade style of song is your thing, then mark your calendar and save next Saturday for Wannigan Days’ weekend appearance of “Everyday People.”
Memorial Day a time to reflect
The Memorial Day services held at Kost Evangelical Free Cemetery in North Branch featured this bugler from American Legion Post #85.
Memorial Day thank you; great time for high school sports; saying goodbye
I hope you had a chance to take in one of the many Memorial Day ceremonies over the weekend. I got a chance to visit the Kost Cemetery for their Memorial Day service. It was great, sad, and moving all wrapped into one. There was a nice crowd on hand to pay …
Nice additions to a grad party
It won’t be long before there will be a lot of graduation parties happening. Our youngest grandson, Adam, is graduating this year and it’s hard to fathom that it was just a few years ago we played board games on the living room floor together…..time flies by.
NB students helping clean up the community
North Branch students of all ages went out in the community for “Community Service Day” Friday, May 19. Some students were transported to sites by bus and others stuck close to the school grounds. They washed windows at the library and city hall, picked up litter on the roadsides, painted …
Donor, recipient share unbreakable bond and maybe an ancestor or two
There is a family on the East Coast, who welcomed their baby boy into the world 26 years ago. Around this same time a single parent, living in Lindstrom, was raising her two sons working “typing on a computer” in a government office. This mom, Cheryl Ryan, also was a …
Memorial Day is our chance to honor the Veterans from our area, paddle time
For a brief minute this week we saw the sun. It seems like forever since we have had warm sunshine on our faces. Hopefully this weekend will be warm enough and more importantly, dry enough, to get out and enjoy ourselves. I hope you will please make time this weekend to …
Little bit of this and that
We recently had a garage sale in the Park and I had a few cookbooks I thought I would no longer be using so I set them out on the tables at very reasonable prices… 5, 10, 15 cents. Putting them out my thoughts were, maybe I could use a …
Thimm to retire; says he'll volunteer as advisor through bond projects
Only two weeks after the Chisago Lakes School District passed a $63 million bond, Superintendent Joe Thimm announced that he will be retiring effective September 29 of 2017.
Funding approved for North Branch
The voters in the North Branch School District on Tuesday this week, based on preliminary tabulations, supported all three special financing referendum questions.
Lakeside students volunteer to clean up
Students in Mrs. Klecker’s class ventured out from Lakeside School and picked up litter in Chisago City as part of annual May Clean-up Day.
