About to get religious here so if it offends you, this is your warning to turn the page. This weekend is the one of the two most important days for Christians. It is the day Jesus rose from the dead. This fulfilled the scriptures and Jesus’ word to his disciples. …
Chances are you will never hear even the most avid camper claim that their favorite part about camping is loading and unloading the equipment...not to mention finding someplace to store all that bulky stuff.
Mrs. Fredstrom's class, at Lakeside Elementary —Chisago Lakes, recently participated in a "Skype a Scientist.” A special thank you goes out to Dr. John Martin for answering student questions on Astronomy.
Truckloads of sediment, phosphorus and pollutants are targeted for elimination through a project the Comfort Lake Forest Lake Watershed District that the Managers approved recently. Following this design phase the project will be ready to go out for bid in fall of 2022.
This weekend we have a pre-Easter event taking place. Saturday, the city of Chisago City invites the public to its super-popular Easter Egg Hunt. The hunt takes place at Paradise Park and will happen sun, rain, sleet or even (gulp) snow. The hunt has groups in age categories for all …
A project to improve safety, commercial operations, and the visitor experience at Osceola Landing on the St. Croix River will continue in the spring of 2022. A new motorized boat launch will be the most significant change from current conditions at Osceola Landing. By separating the launching and landing of …
The Chisago Lakes Joint Sewage Treatment Commission took a photo at their regular meeting Monday this week, to document the commission’s certificate of “exceptional” compliance from the 2021 compliance review period by the MN Pollution Control Agency. The commission took this as a sign that contracting with a private sector …
It doesn’t seem that long ago when the Lindstrom downtown underwent a massive redesign with one-way pairs for highway travel taking over the landscape. The city is at it again— with a downtown redesign study draft unveiled at last week’s city council meeting.
On Monday we had the first rain of the season. Wasn’t a gullywasher like Tuesday but still enough to get stuff wet. Did anyone else seem to notice anything strange after the rain? I can not recall ever seeing a rainfall that left a reddish brown residue. The sky didn’t …
The North Branch Chief of Police presented a draft of a new tobacco sales ordinance to city council last week initiating a process to fix some recurring problems North Branch has experienced.
Back together, indoors, under one roof, the North Branch Lions’ celebration of members and community good deeds and dedication was enjoyed last week. The Lion of the Year honor was awarded to John Dolin. He was singled out for his huge effort on the golf tournament which was a success …
We recently traveled to Mexico with our good friends. We have been to Cancun a few times in the past but we decided to venture quite a bit further down the coast this year and stayed south of Tulum. We basically were trying get farther away from the masses.
The county planning commission public hearing March 3 on issues related to a new county ordinance on commercial public shooting ranges had all the makings of a fiasco. There were way too many visitors to fit into the meeting room, and a spillover area with closed circuit video/audio from the …
The plans are beginning to come together for the extension of County Road 17, between North Branch and Stacy. The public open house was held last week at Lent Township hall in preparation for finalizing the design to meet the construction start date in 2025.