As European settlers moved across the North American continent, they encountered new kinds of animals. Not all were dominating like the bison, majestic like elks or elusive as cougars. Most were …
A wedding meal of chicken and all the trimmings. Funeral hotdish. Spaghetti fundraiser. These three meals are Stearns County staples, and I bet other counties have their own favorites. …
Cities in the area have allowed the use of golf carts and all-terrain vehicles on city streets for a few years now with the proper permit and equipment. I wanted to put out a refresher, as some …
One of the often not thought of elements of the settlement of North America by Europeans is they changed the land. That was true throughout most of what is now the United States. In …
Albany area’s medical community was concerned — but not panicked — about 75 years ago. In a front-page article of the July 9, 1950, Albany Enterprise, area doctors warned of an …
Oh, the things I have learned over the holiday weekend. I’ve learned we do indeed live in a great country. We can celebrate our rights and freedoms knowing someone else earned them for us. …
Agnes Hemmesch jumped for joy mid-afternoon June 28. I had just told her she won the Riverfest cookie contest with her white sugar with nutella and a fresh strawberry cookie. I have never …
It isn’t often that state law is credited with deciding a baseball game. Still, 100 years ago, in a June 25, 1925, Melrose Beacon article, a local amateur team avoided defeat because of a …
There was a full-page, signed statement in the June 22, 1950, issue of the Holdingford Herald complaining of government oppression. The editor of the paper ran the document in its entirety, …
We tried to map it out last weekend — when was the first year of our family camping at the Old Wagon Campground on Long Lake near Hawick? We figured it to be somewhere between 30 and 33 years …
I baked chocolate chip cookies for our final Melrose Riverfest committee meeting June 12. Cookies were on the menu along with JD’s Taphouse pizza courtesy of fellow committee member Dina. …
During a 1985 meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and USSR General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, both leaders, said they would come to the other’s aid if there was an alien (outer …