The University of Minnesota Extension - Anoka County Master Gardener volunteer program is sponsoring A Walk in the Garden educational series of gardening classes at the Bunker Hills Activities Center, 550 Bunker Lake Blvd. N.W.

The Blaine-area Just For Kix program participated in Feed the Need, an event organized by Radio Disney and the Girl Scouts of River Valleys at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds May 4.

New Horizon Academy has selected MacPhail Center for Music as the primary music provider for New Horizon’s learning enrichment program.

Anoka County Library, in partnership with the Lyric Arts Theater, will present a Page and Stage performance of Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park” Sunday, June 9, noon, at the Lyric Arts Main Street Stage.

Volunteers are needed by Stepping Stone Emergency Housing, the only homeless shelter in Anoka County that accepts single homeless adults.

Union Looking Back for May 24, 2013

Life Looking Back for May 24, 2013

It has been an Anoka Area Chamber of Commerce tradition to bring in former Minnesota Twins greats whose number have been retired by the team.

Photos of the Week for May 17, 2013

Motorists and passengers should make sure they are buckled up as extra Click It or Ticket seat belt patrols take place not only in Anoka County, but statewide May 20-June 2.

Seniors centers from Anoka, Blaine and Coon Rapids are joining together for a National Fitness Day event this month.

The University of Minnesota Extension - Anoka County Master Gardener volunteers will have their annual fundraising plant sale Wednesday, May 22, from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Anoka Armory, 408 E. Main St., Anoka.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that Golden Living Centers (GLC) Twin Rivers has been included in the five-star category for skilled nursing facilities.

Kiwanis Meetings, club meetings, dances, political meetings, conventions, charity events, class reunions, wedding receptions, Junior Chamber Christmas time fund raisers for the needy, and so many more, plus all the golf events.

First Lutheran Church, the Faith Community Nurse Program of Mercy and Unity Hospitals - part of Allina Health - and Anoka County Family Caregiver Connection are hosting a free memory screening, in conjunction with the Alzheimer’s Association of America at First Lutheran Church, Columbia Heights, S...

Life Looking Back for May 17, 2013

Foxes are the topic of Coon Rapids Senior Services’ May Tea Talk program, titled “Foxy Lady,” which will be presented Wednesday, May 22, 1:30 p.m., at the Coon Rapids Civic Center.

I’m a big cemetery guy. Whenever my wife and I travel to Europe we look in a cemeteries, like Pere La Chaise in Paris, where we spent hours trying to find Edith Piaf’s grave or when we went to the incredibly moving cemetery at Ste-Maire Eglise where the D-Day troops are buried.

Union Looking Back for May 17, 2013

Fans of classic and antique cars, trucks, and motorcycles are invited to attend the Bumpers to Bikes Car Show from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 19, at the National Sports Center in Blaine.

The number of veterans seeking assistance at the Anoka County Veteran Services Office has risen steadily over the past five years, reaching a record 7,100 in 2012.

Rep. Jerry Newton, DFL-Coon Rapids, has been selected by Minnesota House Speaker Paul Thissen to chair the Select Committee on Veterans Housing.