Harvest Weekend is upon us: the parking-lot market Saturday morning, bake sales in every direction, the small carnival by the community center, and the haunted trail in Riverside Park after dark, which is exactly as scary as the volunteers can…
Fall ball is done for the year — the frost got to the outfield before the outfielders did. Gloves oiled, bats racked, and the Middle School field goes back to being a field. Count the Saturdays — a whole extra…
Color is coming in fast along the east hills and the rail-trail is at its best right now. Weekend visitors: the lakeside lot fills by ten; the overflow is the gravel lot behind the community center, and it is a…
School starts Tuesday after Labor Day. First bell at the middle school is 8:15, same as it has always been, and the five-week lunch cycle is posted outside the cafeteria and on the school page. Thursday is hotdish Thursday. This…
Good news for evening strollers in Brainerd — the Concerts in the Park series is back at Gregory Park, brought to life again by Brainerd Community Action and the Friends of Gregory Park. Folks turned out with lawn chairs and…
The school supplies drive is on at the middle school front office through the end of the month — notebooks, pencils, glue sticks, and backpacks in decent shape all welcome. Ms. Farrow keeps the list and knows exactly what is…
A few folks have asked, so, formally: the Goldenvale Dispatch is the town’s newsletter. It carries council notices, school announcements, Wolves scores, lake conditions, road work, and the occasional recipe when the Harvest Weekend bake sale produces one worth keeping.…
The water tower repainting is finished, the scaffolding is down, and the crew tells us the new coat should be good for twenty years. The lettering came out sharp and the whole thing is visible from the highway again instead…
Mr. Aune’s social studies classes have filled the middle school gym with this spring’s Heritage Day projects, and the town is invited Thursday evening to walk through. This year’s crop covers the logging camps, the 1893 rail line, the power…
The Wolves open their season Saturday morning. Coach Merritt reports the boys have been throwing since the snow came off the field, the new caps have arrived, and the answer to the question everyone asks is: charcoal and gold, same…