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My extended family has held football season tickets for many years, and we’ve always had a tradition of swapping tickets with family and friends. I’m worried that a new trend toward restrictive tickets will make it either more difficult or just impossible to have such an exchange. It seems counterintuitive to pay a ‘convenience fee’ [...]

We would like to sincerely thank the residents of Elk River and surrounding communities for their support, thoughts and prayers and generous donations given during the Sweets for the Sweeties fundraiser in honor of our twins, Kennedy and Khloe, born prematurely on Aug. 21, 2011.  We are so happy to finally have both girls at [...]

Hopefully the more information out here about things like this … the more people will make choices that really serve the greater good. Although I’m afraid it doesn’t always work that way … it’s still important to put out the information. Good letter on ALEC. Thanks. — Jon Frasz, Facebook (Editor’s note: Frasz posted this [...]

Something’s happening here, but what it is ain’t exactly clear to most Minnesotans. Have you ever heard of ALEC? Probably not, they don’t advertise what they’re up to. But member Reps. Mary Kiffmeyer and Sondra Erickson certainly know. ALEC stands for American Legislative Exchange Council and is almost entirely funded by some of the largest [...]

It’s time for us to stop putting the oil companies in charge of protecting our natural environment. They’re not doing a very good job. They are telling us that this new pipeline will be good for us because it will make jobs. They forget to tell us that sometimes these things spill and cause messes [...]

It really was a pure golf shot, arcing high into the late May, crystal clear blue sky. The problem was, it headed toward the third green rather than the 12th, the hole I was actually playing. Walking up to the green to apologize to the group in front of us, I let out an audible [...]

I would like to express my thanks to the Elk River School Board and staff members of VandenBerge Middle School for recognizing my daughter, Madelyne Sorenson, at the most recent meeting of the Elk River School Board. Maddy was recognized, along with another young man from Rogers Middle School, for musical achievements within and outside [...]

Thanks for the excellent coverage of the Beyond the Yellow Ribbon kickoff event. We’ve come to expect this kind of reporting on important community developments. The Beyond the Yellow Ribbon organization is meant to mobilize community resources to serve the needs of military families. We understand that there are 186 National Guard members in our [...]

When I was a kid, I had a great time playing hockey with friends and cousins. There was definitely some envy of those who were exceptionally good at skating or puck handling or shooting. There was little if any “checking” and I don’t remember any fighting. Playing sports is a risk above hiking or grocery [...]

Should you show your drivers license in order to vote? If you are in a hurry to vote, it certainly cuts down on the time spent at the polls. When someone asks your name, have they ever asked you to repeat it? Years ago I knew a good number of people in our ward, so [...]