One of St. Cloud State’s professors will receive a prestigious award for their lifetime accomplishments. Robert C. Johnson who is a professor of Ethnic Studies will receive the inaugural National Association of Ethnic Studies Robert L. Perry Mentorship Award. Perry was the first African American to earn a PhD at Wayne State and the award […]

Stearns County’s Quarry Park and Nature Reserve is hosting classes to teach the public about local native and invasive plants. The classes will be held on Saturday, April 14th as well as Saturday, April 28th. Parks Operations Coordinator Peter Theismann says the event centers around the Quarry Park and you will gain knowledge about plant […]

A St. Cloud man was arrested after he allegedly tried to break in to an apartment he once lived at. At 3 a.m. Friday St. Cloud Police were called to the 100 block of East St Germain Street for a burglary in progress. When officers arrived they found 53-year-old Brandon McClendon of St. Cloud had […]

Monday will be the kick off of National Animal Appreciation Week. The Central Minnesota Animal Care and Control shelter is celebrating and is inviting you to come by. You can get a tour of the facility, register for prizes, enjoy refreshments and get your questions answered by animal control officers between noon and 4 p.m. […]

The first annual Zapp Historian award will be presented to its namesake, Ed Zapp on Wednesday, April 18th. The award will be presented during the Stearns History Museum and Research Center’s 1st Annual Fundraiser which will be held at the College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph. Zapp was the Museum’s president from 1974-1985 and was […]

Stearns County is holding an open house for the public to see its new Household Hazardous Waste Facility on Saturday April 14th. Tri-County Solid Waste moved into its new building in Waite Park in early February after outgrowing its old space in St. Cloud. The Household Hazardous Waste building collects and recycles or disposes hazardous […]

St. Cloud Police were called to the 1500 Block of St. Germain Street East for an apartment burglary Wednesday Evening. At 5 p.m. officers met with the victim, a 46-year-old St. Cloud resident. Officers learned that sometime between 9 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. the suspects gained entry into the victim’s apartment while it was unoccupied. […]

The Stearns County Environmental Services Department now has an office in the County’s Melrose office. Citizens who need to work with the County’s Environmental Services Department can choose to go to either the Melrose location or to the downtown St. Cloud Administration Center. The staff in Melrose can issue septic permits, construction site permits, land […]

Know a book that’s good enough to eat? Then join the LRS on Thursday, April 12th for its second annual Edible Book Festival. The festival is a competition of entries that look like a book or are inspired by a book title, character or scene and are made up of edible materials. Last year entries […]

The C.R.A.S.H Task Force conducted a High-Visibility DWI saturation during the evening of March 30th. The area focused upon was Highway 15 from Sartell to Kimball. Officers heavily patrolled this stretch of roadway and used illuminated traffic control signs donated by Geyer Signal to warn motorists that they were entering the Enforcement Zone. 98 people […]