LOCAL
Gardens love the snow cover
Though our snow blowers may be getting the workout of a lifetime and our poor backs are paying the price of all that shoveling, Northern gardeners have received one of nature's most welcomed gifts......lots and lots of snow and early in the season to boot.
Make ahead New's Years appetizers
The new year is just around the corner and if you are hosting a party you should have been thinking about what to serve for appetizers - or hors d' oeuvres.
Let's be safe on New Year's Eve, need some resolution ideas? Let the master help you
Friday night is the biggest party night in the world.
Students decorate rain barrels; Soil and Water sponsors environmental contest
The Chisago Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) was awarded a grant through East Central Energy's Operation Round Up program to host a classroom rain barrel decoration contest for schools in Chisago County.
Lindstrom Council briefs...
Lindstrom City Council wrapped up the end of the year business Dec. 21 approving a supplemental contract for SEH consulting engineers to work with the state on lighting designs for the Hwy. 8 reconstruction project.
YEAR IN REVIEW
2010 faces and places that were newsworthy
The year 2010 in Chisago County brought no real changes in the economy, especially the housing market, which had begun to stagnate in 2006-2007 and still showed no growth.
FORMER LEGISLATOR SAYS PROJECT OK’D EASILY; LOCATION WAS NOT STATE’S FIRST CHOICE
So far, so good for Rush City Prison after first ten years of operations
Governor Jesse Ventura and about 300 close personal friends dedicated the correctional facility at Rush City in 1999 in a rather festive event filled with dance troupes, music and a host of dignitaries.
Keeping Christmas Cactus and Peace Lily healthy
In an earlier article I wrote of some gift ideas for the holiday.
Last minute meal decisions made easy
Are you finished with preparations for you're Christmas celebration? If you are entertaining, and you have your menu planned, I have some recipes that you might try for the vegetable part of your meal.
Have a wonderful Christmas this year, coloring contest winners have been chosen
If you have a television, or even if you don't but have walked by one recently, you have had to see the footage of the Metrodome roof caving in.
Suggestions for living holiday gifts
Chisago County Master Gardeners have been writing about holiday suggestions for years.
A few favorites from Treasury of Christmas cookbook to handle your holiday baking list
It's cookies, cookies and more cookies today. Less talk and more recipes.
Weatherman says a lot of snow, please, when are they ever right? Apparently this time
Holy cow, what a weekend that was. Living in Minnesota, you would think we would be used to a huge snow event, but apparently it has been so long that we have forgotten how fun they really are.
Wyoming City council holds 2011 budget to same level as 2010, only a couple residents speak at Levy hearing
When Wyoming City Council adopts its levy for the coming year it also adopts a resolution setting "departmental expenditures" for the year as well.
