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Blaine and Spring Lake Park are lending small businesses a helping hand by awarding grants during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Area residents have a chance to win $100 by filling out a transit survey.
Coon Rapids businesses will soon be able to apply for grant relief from the city for coronavirus-related losses.
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Blaine and Spring Lake Park are lending small businesses a helping hand by awarding grants d…
Area residents have a chance to win $100 by filling out a transit survey.
Coon Rapids businesses will soon be able to apply for grant relief from the city for coronav…
Staff Writer
Spring Lake Park Schools is in the process of purchasing the old velodrome site in Blaine fr…
Anoka County workers who lost their job may be able to get some help from the Dislocated Worker Program.
Spring Lake Park residents can blame COVID-19 for making them wait even longer for Hy-Vee to open in the city. The store is now slated to open in spring 2021, according to Tina Potthoff, Hy-Vee’s senior vice president for communications.
Come up with an idea, put a few words on the pages, add a few pictures. Celebrate your completed children’s book.
Staff Writer
The Anoka Riverfest & Craft Fair Committee has announced that after much consideration it is canceling the 2020 event that was set to be held on Sept. 26.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a number of stressors with it, making no one immune to its impact.
The Anoka County Historical Society is helping Federal Premium/Vista Outdoor with their historical materials in part because the Anoka-based ammunition company will be reaching its 100th anniversary in 2022, marking a century since the Federal Cartridge Corporation, as led by Charles L. Horn…
I stumbled upon something that caught my attention while scrolling through my time-killing bad habit of social media. On Snapchat, Poosh.com, a site I follow, addressed “doomscrolling.”
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, police reform and civil unrest captured voters’ attention, the nation was in a longstanding debate about how to reform our immigration system. On one extreme, we have some who want to open up our borders to everyone, and on the other, we have those who want to s…
If the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has taught us anything it is that police and social justice reform are sorely needed in Minnesota. One reform that must be tackled is the ever-growing achievement gap in public education and the fact children of color, American Indian children and …
As the coronavirus pandemic has burned across the United States, we’ve heard a lot about frontline heroes. The efforts by doctors, nurses, health care workers and first responders are immeasurable to the country.
A rarity on its own, a pair of Rum River Hills Men’s Senior League golfers achieved a hole-in-one on the same day July 28. Clare Anderson of Blaine aced the 150-yard No. 16 with a 7-iron, while Kenny Bahmer of Champlin aced the 108-yard No. 14 with an 8-iron.
The Coon Rapids Mat Bandits traveled to Rapid City, South Dakota for the first wrestling tournament of the summer. The tournament offered two tournaments in one day and two styles of wrestling, folkstyle (high school) and freestyle (Olympic). The Mat Bandits had 11 participants in the tourna…
A Champlin Park graduate and assistant coach during the Rebels’ 2018 state championship season, Natalie Thomas moves across the Anoka-Hennepin district to the head coaching role of the Blaine volleyball team.
Staff Writer
Panfish are the most sought-after fish in America and the best time to be fishing for them in the Upper Midwest is July and August. Water temperatures are nice and warm and panfish go on a feeding binge that will last until the water starts to cool down in September.
Recent St. Francis graduate Dayne Mann came away with the title at the 93rd Minnesota State Junior Boys’ Championship July 27-28, holding off runner-up Andrew Ramos of Blaine by two strokes.
Staff Writer
Members of the Blaine and Centennial baseball teams joined forces in the 2020 Senior Class Salute hosted by the St. Paul Saints at CHS Field and the University of Northwestern in St. Paul. Blaine won 16-6 over the Rappers July 23, then 3-2 over Hopkins July 26, and is scheduled to play STMA/…
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