LOCAL
Growing your own fruits and vegetables, a nightly class offered by Extension
The Chisago County Master Gardeners are continuing to take orders for the bare-root fruit plants we offer each spring.
It’s eggs this week including ‘easy and crazy’ omelet in a bag
The Christian celebration of Easter is just a week and a half away and I have been decorating Easter eggs for the past seven weeks.
Ready to order my AARP card
By now you have hopefully received your blue renewal cards in the mail.
Stacy Enrichment Center gives kids a place to go, something to do
It opened originally as a child care center, but the small gray building next to the freeway in Stacy has now evolved to better fit the needs of the local community.
Weed inspectors gather for annual heads-up on noxious plants, pests; hear of ditch hay concerns
Whenever city councils or town boards take action to designate their official “weed inspector” there’s almost always witty comments and jokes made at the expense of the unfortunate soul who gets the title.
County Road 17 open house attracts many, comments under review
About 70 citizens signed the registration sheet and many more visited the open house last week at Lent Town Hall, held for presenting information about the alignment of a future extension of County Road 17.
New courses bring opportunities at CLMS
Chisago Lakes Middle School has incorporated several new course requirements and new course electives for the academic year 2005-06.
Holocaust victims remembered through CLHS fundraiser
Trying to understand the sheer volume of five million items of any size, type or variety of anything is typically beyond our grasp.
The good and bad sides of algae explained in CLMS science class
Is it a good thing when the water in our 10,000 (or so) lakes turns green?
Growing tomatoes in the home garden
There's just nothing better than homegrown tomatoes––green, red, yellow or striped.
It's all about almonds this week
It’s about almonds today. Mentioned in the Old Testament 73 times, the almond, resembling the peach in the way it grows and with the same type of blossoms, has been valued for its flavor and versatility.
Thank you daylight savings
Wow, time really does fly. There is only a short time left to take advantage of our early renewal offer.
Split council vote on meter replacement in light of license requirement disclosure
An agenda item added at the start of last week’s Wyoming city council meeting may be a larger issue than it appeared to be at first blush.
When called; these guys made the difference between life, death
Lifesaving actions by Wyoming’s fire chief and a Wyoming police officer were celebrated as a standing room only crowd witnessed an award ceremony March 21 at city hall.
