Taylors Falls News

The Chisago County Board of Commissioners agreed with the county's planning commissioners last week on the need for a license to hold a special event.

Beginning Friday, trucks measuring more than 55 feet in length will be prohibited from driving on a two-block stretch between Stillwater's downtown and the Stillwater Lift Bridge, built in 1931.

The St. Croix River divides Interstate State Park between Minnesota and Wisconsin near Taylors Falls, Minn.

Fourteen guest potters are joining seven St. Croix River Valley potters for the annual Pottery Studio Tour and Sale this weekend.

Talk with 77-year-old Betty Stoffel about her past and you will soon see that her whole life has been a continuum of caring.

Verda Ripperger's reputation as an active volunteer at Good Samaritan Society-Care Center has earned her the nickname "Butterfly". One of the residents calls her that because she never sits down.

"It was just plain bad," said 82-year-old Del Longnecker, speaking about life during the Great Depression.

It is always abstractions like "development' and "pollution" that are blamed. Until everybody, "environmentalists" included, faces up to read more the fact that the *real* problem is everybody having kids willy-nilly, we will continue to have ecological problems.

The Lower St. Croix River, one of the nation's first protected river systems, is increasingly under attack from development that threatens its scenic beauty, a national river advocacy organization contends.

Writes Wet Behind the Ears in Beautiful [Bulletin Board interjects: beautiful, albeit apostrophe-deficient] Taylors Falls: "Hubby says I mumble.

It's tough being a Minnesota border town, especially when business tax incentives are being doled out across the river.

Wanting to help others is what led Elvin Kulenkamp into a second career. Kulenkamp moved to Pierce County in 1975 from Taylors Falls, Minn., where he grew up.

Wanting to help others is what led Elvin Kulenkamp into a second career. Kulenkamp moved to Pierce County in 1975 from Taylors Falls, Minn., where he grew up.

For me, photographing birds depends on two things: good fortune and cooperative birds.

Wea TMre So Soft Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 I was talking to my half brother last night, with whom my wife and I and cousins were supposed to have dinner.

Two young Minnesota men - flush with a quarter-million dollars in cash stolen from a grandfather on Christmas Day - spread grief and cheer throughout the holidays with a flagrant trail of ill-gotten gifts, ...

An 18 year old who prosecutors say helped himself to a big Christmas present is now in big trouble.

It took auctioneers about three hours to sell off a truckload of items David "Choc" Junker spent the past 30 years collecting.