I haven’t been on a rollercoaster since I was 15 years old. I went to Six Flags in Illinois with my mom, sister, and my late ...

The fiber expansion involves boring or plowing new lines along roadways, installing pedestals and control boxes, and eventually connecting homes. Once finished, most of Scandia’s homes, especially ...

During summer, the population in the area increases as our summer friends come to visit. It’s the ideal time to celebrate the ...

Readers of the Country Messenger have nominated businesses and individuals in seven categories: eating and drinking, sports and recreation, health and fitness, shopping, arts and entertainment, local ...

Did you know that the Federal Government wants to sell three million acres of your public lands? In a proposal released by ...

From July 2 to July 9, nine residents of Scandia will travel to our sister city of Mellerud, Sweden, as part of the ongoing ...

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Sheriff Dan Starry has worn many hats in his law enforcement career, from sheriff’s deputy to administrator, but he’s worn them all in one place: Washington County. However, last week marked the end ...

I just heard a loon fly over the house doing a tremolo call. That call is compared to a crazy laugh. No one knows loon language but the tremolo is guessed to signal alarm, worry, denote annoyance, ...

Scandia continues to wrestle with the number of ATVs, jet skis, boats, golf carts, snowmobiles, docks, and ice fishing houses around the homes in its lakeshore neighborhoods.

For Eighteen years, the Annual Hay Lake Beer Tasting event has become the keystone fundraiser for the Washington County Historical Society. This year the breweries attending are Joseph Wolf Brewery, ...

If you’re a relatively new subscriber to this paper, you may not know that I sat in the editor’s seat several years ago for a short time. In fact, I started in the newspaper business years before that ...