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Kids are back in school!
Fresh faces were everywhere Tuesday morning at Chisago Lakes Primary School. These kindergarteners enjoyed a nice breakfast before beginning their school careers. Principal Brenda Schell welcomed the students on their first day.
Speaker of the House visits TF on Frac sand concerns
Speaker of the MN House Paul Thissen visited with concerned Taylors Falls citizens and Mayor Mike Buchite Friday, August 29 and walked the downtown to see firsthand issues with multiple frac sand hauling trucks on Taylors Falls streets. The group advocated for the state’s Transportation Policy to be taken up …
Plenty to do in our area this week, 5K, snowmobiles and dancing
This Saturday at Wild Mountain there is something really cool taking place. They are hosting a “Rugged Maniac” obstacle race. You are saying “What on Earth is a Rugged Maniac race?” It is a three mile obstacle course where runners have to climb over and manuever shipping containers, slide down a …
More tomato recipes this week
Is it really September already? I hear that question more often than I care to, but yes, it’s here already... but then you know that. Keep your eyes wide open when the school buses are picking up the young ones. Think good thoughts while you’re waiting behind a bus that is loading …
'Before and After' a project is done
The Lindstrom Park Board would like to say a big THANK YOU to Boy Scout Eli Klatt from Troop 159 for choosing Morning Sun Park as his Eagle Scout Project. For his project he installed drain tile, a drainage field, and replaced the woodchips in Morning Sun Park. This was …
Lindstrom council gives peninsula park purchase the OK
It will be a couple months yet before the deal is officially closed; but last week Lindstrom became the owner of a 33-acre entire peninsula on North Center Lake, which will remain undeveloped and used as public parkland.
A Brush With Kindness recognizes stewards
A Brush With Kindness recognized its project site stewards recently
This community never ceases to amaze me, your help is needed
Over the last month or so, we have been soliciting the public for school donations. The donations would be handed out (discreetly) to those among us who are in trying times and are struggling a little. Well, I am proud to say that your contributions have successfully packed 100 backpacks with …
Now's the time for tomatoes
They come in all shapes and sizes and pack a powerful array of disease-fighting nutrients. Juicy, sweet tomatoes picked off the vine are one of summer’s greatest veggies. They are really a fruit, but I won’t go into that. No matter how you eat them, whether in wedges, round slices, …
Assisted living site clears hurdle in Taylors Falls planning vote
It’s looking like the city of Taylors Falls will be the site of a new assisted living facility; number four under the ownership of Community Asset Foundation.
Ford supports county Relay for Life
Anderson & Koch Ford raised a little over $4,000 in its Drive 4 UR Community promotion held earlier this summer to raise money for Relay For Life. Ford Motor Company and dealers donate $20 for each test drive of a Ford vehicle during a certain time period. The Anderson & …
Duncan, Rollins win in Primary
The turnout for Tuesday’s primary election was in the double digits in all but a couple of precincts in Chisago County’s 23 polling places, which ranks this week’s turnout for a local primary fairly strong. The least number of voters was in Shafer Township Precinct B. There were 34 registered …
Solar power gaining ground as a shared community effort
Even with heavy snowfall last winter and days- on-end where the mercury didn’t get above zero; Ed Eichten said there were maybe five days tops when the solar array; helping to power Eichten’s bison and cheese making farm were under slow-melting snow cover.
