Reaction in the Staples community to a KSTP television ‘investigative reporting’ segment broadcast last week was virtually universal: it was a hatchet job. More...
Approximately 650 people participated in the ‘Feed My Starving Children’ event held last weekend in Staples; and thanks to their efforts, a total of 135,432 meals were boxed and will be sent to countries where there is not food enough to feed their citizens. More...
Benefit dinner/auction for Rick Hanson will be February 20 at the Bear’s Den
A benefit spaghetti dinner and live auction (with auctioneer Daryl Larson) will be held Saturday, Feb. 20, at the Bear’s Den in Leader to help defray medical expenses for Leader native Rick Hanson.
Rick, 47, was diagnosed with rectal cancer this past January. The cancer has since spread to his liver. More...
This conservative’s thoughts on taxes are sensible
For God’s sake (or at least for Pete’s sake), could just a few good legislators in those anti-tax straitjackets please listen to and heed former Gov. Al Quie, a Christian conservative of uncommon common sense and compassion? More...
EDITOR’S NOTE: The
following letters about the
Dower Lake Pier were both
sent to the KSTP television
station in addition to being
published here.
To: Bob McNaney, Becky Nahn, KSTP Eye Witness News
Dear Mr. McNaney and Ms. Nahn, More...
Tickets are now available for “Drinking Habits,” a two-act farce by Tom Smith produced by Lamplighter Community Theatre.
The play will be presented Friday and Saturday, Feb. 25 and 26, with a social time beginning at 7 p.m. and the performance at 7:30 p.m. On Sunday, Feb. 28, the social is at 2 p.m. with the performance at 2:30 p.m. More...
February 11
STAPLES MOTLEY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING Thursday, Feb. 11, T Maxwell’s in Staples. Social, 6 p.m.; dinner and program, 6:30 p.m.
February 12
DUAL RECOVERY ANONYMOUS MEETING every Friday at 4 p.m., 210 Jefferson St. S (upstairs at the Cyber Cafe) Wadena. For info., 218-631- 1714. More...
Benjamin Alan Best, from Winterhaven, Florida, has spent the last five years biking across the United States, meeting fellow Americans along the way and raising awareness of veterans. He traveled through Staples
Feb. 8, having spent the night in Motley, thanks to More...
Albert Peter Jambor, 87, of Browerville, died Feb. 2, 2010, at the Lakewood Health System Hospital in Staples.
Funeral services were held Feb. 6, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Staples. Burial will be in the evergreen Hill Cemetery in Staples.
Arrangements were with the Brenny Funeral Home in Staples. More...
Cardinal boys down Pequot Lakes, Minneapolis Washburn
Jordan Riewer set a new school scoring record as the Staples Motley Cardinals added two more victories to their win column in this week’s cage action.
Riewer scored 17 points Saturday night but his first basket -a three pointer vaulted him over Eric Kelley to become the all-time leading scorer in Staples Motley Cardinal basketball hist More...
P NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF REDEMPTION
State of Minnesota Karen Busch County of Todd County Auditor/Treasurer
TO: ALL PERSONS WITH A LEGAL INTEREST IN THE PARCELS OF
REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE FOLLOWING NOTICE. More...
Introducing the new Staples City Hall & Staples Public Library
Idaho trip was hunt of a lifetime for area youth