Did you know that the Federal Government wants to sell three million acres of your public lands? In a proposal released by ...

From July 2 to July 9, nine residents of Scandia will travel to our sister city of Mellerud, Sweden, as part of the ongoing ...

Scandia's fastpitch softball team once dominated big-city rivals in Minnesota. While many have wondered how the small town become a statewide amateur sports powerhouse, the history of the team’s ...

If you’re a relatively new subscriber to this paper, you may not know that I sat in the editor’s seat several years ago for a short time. In fact, I ...

Sheriff Dan Starry has worn many hats in his law enforcement career, from sheriff’s deputy to administrator, but he’s worn them all in one place: Washington County. However, last week marked the end ...

“I’m the only daddy you got. I am the damn paterfamilias” — Ulysses Everett McGill, played by George Clooney in the film “O Brother, Where Art Thou.” This December will mark the 25th anniversary of ...

The new Marine on St. Croix City Councilmember is a returning member. Dan Willenbring was appointed to rejoin the city council during their June 12 meeting and attended his first ...

I just heard a loon fly over the house doing a tremolo call. That call is compared to a crazy laugh. No one knows loon language but the tremolo is guessed to signal alarm, worry, denote annoyance, ...

For Eighteen years, the Annual Hay Lake Beer Tasting event has become the keystone fundraiser for the Washington County Historical Society. This year the breweries attending are Joseph Wolf Brewery, ...

Before my wife Kylee and I moved from downtown Dresser, Wis., to a more rural area of Osceola, we had a relatively small yard to take care of. Sure, we still had plenty to do around the house like any ...