A male driver appears to have been killed in a single car crash in Nessel Township on Rush Point Drive. Sheriff’s investigators report the man is identified as 27 year old Ethan Dawson of Rosemount. He was alone in his car.
The four Lakes Area Police Commissioners met last week and set a new start time for their every-other-month meetings of 5:30 p.m. (They have met at 6:30 p.m.) The meetings rotate between Chisago City Hall on even-numbered years and Lindstrom City Hall on odd-numbered years. Because their meeting schedule is …
On April 10-13, the town of Lindstrom morphs into the fictional town of “Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire,” as the Chisago Lakes Community Education department presents “Our Town.”
North Branch received names of five people interested in being considered for a vacant city council seat. Travis Miles stepped down when he was hired to be the city human resources generalist, a new position created this year. Council accepted applications until March 28 and there will be a review …
If there is one thing I hate, it’s using this space to talk about friends and people in our community who have passed away. It’s not that I hate writing about them, rather it means I am writing about someone I have come to know and many times become close …
A two vehicle crash at Park Trail and 345th Street reported about 11 a.m. One female was taken to Regions in critical condition. The details are being awaited. The cause was thought to have been weather related.
A new power sports business is going to be built on the west side of I-35 in Stacy, near the Kwik Trip. Acknowledging this is under an ambitious schedule, proposer Nick Simpson says if all goes according to plan the Polaris service and sales could move out of Simpson’s hardware …
The Chisago county engineer and staff are herding a number of long range road designs, and more imminent projects along paths towards completion, like a possible Stacy interchange, right. For the most part things are going well. But one concern has popped up tied to the rebuild of Highway 8.
It would be safe to have guessed that the help-wanted ad running when John Hodgkins’ County Deputy position was open, could have sent most job seekers running in the opposite direction.
A new set of play structures and sitework were approved by city council for the Fireside Park on the west side of the freeway around 262nd, in Wyoming.
Lindstrom council was steered through its regular council session last week by Brian Norelius as acting mayor in the absence of Judy Chartrand, who participated on the Internet.
Every year since our kids were small we have saved to take a vacation. My wife and I grew up in households that never, and I mean never, took vacations. It just wasn’t feasible back then. We vowed to try our darndest to make sure our kids had a vacation …