Braham School District discontinues and reduces programs, positions
Julie Parent Contributing Writer The following are notes from the March 21 Braham Area School Board meeting: • The Board approved a resolution to discontinue and reduce the following educational...
View ArticleCIHS to host free financial aid workshop
To assist students in preparing and applying for financial aid, Cambridge-Isanti High School will host a Minnesota College Goal workshop event from 4-8 p.m. Thursday, April 21 (conferences) in the...
View ArticleJudge rejects MDE’s proposed new desegregation rule: ‘Tail does not wag the dog’
Joe Nathan ECM Publishers Columnist (Editor’s note: The Center for School Change, where Joe Nathan serves as a senior fellow, received funds to help study the proposed rule being written about here....
View ArticleGearing up for spring at Braham High School
Matthew Lattimore, Principal Braham Area High School It has been an exciting winter at Braham Area High School. We have been fortunate to have seen great success in our winter activities. I am still...
View ArticleThank you, Cambridge City Council members
Dear Editor: The Cambridge City Council made the best decision at their meeting March 21 to put a resolution of the November ballot to add a .005 sales tax to the Minnesota sales tax to build a new...
View ArticleThanks for supporting waffle breakfast
Dear Editor: Salem Lutheran Church Preschool of Dalbo would like to thank everyone who came to our Belgian Waffle Breakfast. We thank the community so much for your support. Thanks also to McDonald’s...
View ArticleProphetic, visions and dreams
Dear Editor: I have been doing a study of people who are all of the above. I will give you their names so you can go online and you can draw your own conclusion of last day events. My concern for this...
View ArticleHear one family’s story of how distracted driving changed their lives
Dear Editor: On Tuesday, April 12, the words of Matt Logan may indeed change your life. Or at least the way you think about driving a motor vehicle. What is happening on April 12? A special community...
View ArticleKenneth John Drilling
Kenneth John Drilling, 59, passed away peacefully at his home in Isanti, Minnesota on April 4, 2016. Ken was born in Waterloo, Iowa on August 4, 1956. He attended high school in LaPorte City, Iowa. He...
View ArticleEdward A. Van Rossum
Loving husband, father and Opa (grandfather)Ed, age 72, a resident of Stacy, formerly Eden Prairie, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on April 2, 2016. He was preceded in death by his parents,...
View ArticleFundraiser to support Isanti County Agricultural Museum
What started off as an idea to help potato farmers turned into something all local farmers needed. When Willis Dahlman’s father decided to build his first potato harvesting machine in 1924, he could...
View ArticleAllina Health Hospice volunteers find reward in caring for the dying
Even though they are caring for patients who are nearing the end of their lives, the volunteers of Allina Health Hospice strive to make those last few months as comfortable as possible for their...
View ArticleMinnesota Design Team visits Cambridge
Citizens, business leaders provide Design Team input Ashley Haynes ashley.haynes@ecm-inc.com The citizens and business owners of Cambridge came together to give input on what the city should look like...
View ArticleBail set at $500,000 in Stanchfield Township burglary
A Cambridge man has been charged with four felonies in connection with a burglary that took place the afternoon of March 31 in Stanchfield Township after the homeowner arrived home and interrupted the...
View ArticleOn the Go upcoming events
Rotary presents “The Taste” Thursday, April 7: Cambridge-Isanti Rotary Club presents “The Taste,” with over 20 restaurant and food vendors, and lots of fun and great opportunity to network. To be held...
View ArticleDavid Lee Smith
David Lee Smith, age 54, of Mora, formerly of Isanti, passed away April 3, 2016. Arrangements by Akkerman-Ingebrand Funeral Home, (320)679-1933. www.aifuneralhome.com
View ArticleMinnesota mystery author coming to Isanti
Mystery readers are in luck as Minnesota author Kevin Ward will be making a local appearance in Isanti. Kevin Ward Ward will be hosting a book signing event from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, April 9, at...
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