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Last spring, the St. Croix Central School Board set a goal that reads as follows; "Be a Top 10 school district in the state as measured by the School District Report Card by the year 2020." Currently our School District Report card score is at 76.3 and in order to be in the Top 10...

Editor's note: A Mike Darrow column from the summer of 2016 was mistakenly reprinted in the Aug. 31 edition of the News. This is the correct column. The News apologizes and regrets the error. On behalf of Mayor Fred and the entire City Council, we want to thank the Doar family, distinguished...

The library is a great place to learn new things, pick out fabulous books to read, participate in monthly activities, and how to get to know your community better. At the Hammond Community Library we have services for faxing, scanning, printing, free computer use, free WiFi, a Kodak...

The one thing about change is it is constant! Nothing could be more accurate in our business these days. And with that comes the challenges of keeping up with those changes. An example of change? Last year, RiverTown Multimedia and its parent Forum Communications Company purchased...

If you read my column periodically, you know that there are several questions that I like to ask people I interview, but one in particular which I try to remember to ask almost everyone because it gets to the heart of everything. I believe I could write every column about someone's...

Staff Commentary It feels really good to know that my wife and I are finished with our taxes for this year, especially since we are both rather new to doing our own taxes and can use as much help as we can get in order to not make any mistakes.