When students walked through the doors of Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools last week, they stepped into classrooms shaped by a year of careful planning behind the scenes. While backpacks and school …

Tilling is still the default for many home vegetable gardeners and row crop farmers. Relentless tillage, though, impacts soil health and makes life harder on the helpful microbiota that support …

Power: Vigor, strength, energy, stamina. Personal, mechanical, spiritual, leading or sharing the strength of others, the loss or gain of human power. We depend on having personal power and, …

Two acclaimed worship leaders, public platforms and different opinions — just something that has recently been brought to my attention. Last year, Forrest Frank posted a video to his platform …

Sept. 11, 2001, began like any many other Tuesday mornings across America. Until it became a Tuesday like we’ve never experienced before as a nation. Twenty-five years have passed since …

Weather : Compared to last year, the average high and low temperatures were about the same as 2025 when mercury read 82.6 degrees and 57.9 degrees. The high and low temperatures were 90 degrees Aug. …

With Labor Day weekend upon us, we are finishing out the traditional days of summer. Now, it is time we focus on our school districts and welcoming students and families to the new school year. Fall …

I’d forgotten how much fun a family wedding can be! There had been a dry spell for weddings on both sides of our families until the end of July, when one of our nieces tied the knot. The …

What is the future of regularly published magazines? Will the cost of their production today make them obsolete? Researching possible answers to these queries is a giant project, wasted effort so …

About once a year, with a few skipped years here and there, we have a garage sale. It’s enough time to collect more than you can store and to forget the work involved in hosting one. But what can …

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers buzzed with people the Saturday we visited. Surveying the crowd and squeezing past people, I wondered how many book shoppers, tourists or a combination of …

The halls at Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools will soon echo with the familiar sounds of student voices and bustling activity as the district prepares to welcome learners back for the 2026-27 school …