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The Becker County Museum has gotten traveling displays from some well-known sources in the past couple years. Now, staff is helping create local displays — along with a consortium of other rural Minnesota museums — to not only bring new information to Becker County, but to share...

Some people call the Moab area the most beautiful place on Earth, and even if beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, it is hard to argue the point. Look down almost any street in town and you see canyon walls, setting the scene for what is beyond. Five miles north is Arches...

Snowstorms like last week's gave kids a day off from school, and in return, some parents the day off from work, and reminds us all that winter has arrived in Becker County. Though the winter is still young and there is plenty of snow yet to fall, this time of year can always bring...

It’s time to give thanks, enjoy a delicious meal and learn a little bit of history on where Thanksgiving came from and what the Pilgrims cooked up at their first fall celebration.

‘Tis the season of witches, monsters and things which go bump in the night. It’s also the season for haunted houses, which is the perfect frightening tool to push your limits of being scared. From now until All Hallow’s Eve, there are haunted houses which fright seekers...

Not many think of the time and effort which goes into making the cold mug of beer they bring up to their lips after a hard day’s work. But to make that beer as refreshing as one needs it to be, they need to appreciate the exact science to turn a bunch of grains, oats, hops and...

Though many might have found Saturday’s unseasonably cool and overcast weather a bit less than inviting, it was, as Ray Vlasak put it, “a perfect day for hiking.” That was good news for Vlasak and his fellow members of the North Country Trail Association-Laurentian Lakes...

Boyd Sharp’s love of art is a lifelong passion. The 74-year-old Osage artist can remember his father taking him and his siblings to art museums in Chicago during the 1940s — and just leaving him in the art gallery until the rest of them were finished looking at the other exhibits. “We...

“From homeless to wholeness” is the motto — and the mission — of the Compassion House, the new men’s shelter set to open its doors to the public for the first time this Friday, May 17, in Detroit Lakes. There will be tours of the facility offered from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,...

Volunteers: They’re the backbone of any non-profit organization, the heart in every community celebration. They’re the people who collect donations for the annual food drive at work, the ones who flip the flapjacks for the church pancake feed. Sometimes, they’re the loving...

Dennis Jacobs’ and Karen Branden’s swimming pool isn’t just good for a few laps. The couple, who went to great lengths designing an energy-efficient home, use the pool to help heat the rest of the house. Jacobs, coordinator of Minnesota State University Moorhead’s sustainability...

Though they live within the borders of western China, the 20 members of the song and dance troupe Tarim — visiting the lakes area this week for a six-day artist residency at the Historic Holmes Theatre — do not identify themselves as Chinese. As their tour manager, Tursun Kadeer,...

It’s not likely that many people can say they bungee jumped, skydived, swam with sharks and hiked a mountain over their spring break this year. One person can though — Lindsay VonRuden. “Over my Easter holiday as they call it here — spring break basically — I rode ostriches,...