John Wagner

1 week ago | hometownsource.com | John Wagner

This area’s Town Ball baseball teams will get the 2025 season rolling with a number of games scheduled this week. The Isanti Redbirds, who have started the season with a pair of losses to Class A teams, will open Eastern Minny League action at Chisago Lakes on Friday, May 30 starting at 7:30 p.m. Two days later the Redbirds will travel to Ham Lake for a 2 p.m. start. kAm%96 #653:C5D =@DE E96:C 9@>6 @A6?6C E@ u@C6DE {2<6 @? $F?52J[ |2J `g] x?

1 week ago | hometownsource.com | John Wagner

A local quilting group has made a connection with a most unusual quilting crowd in a different state. Friends First Quilters, which is based at First Baptist Church in Cambridge, has connected with inmates in a maximum-security prison based in Licking, Missouri. kAm(92E’D >@C6 2>2K:?8n %96 =@42= 8C@FA D2H E96 #6DE@C2E:G6 yFDE:46 BF:=E6CD 762EFC65 :? 2 }6E7=:I 5@4F>6?E2CJ E92E 563FE65 62C=:6C E9:D >@?E9]k^AmkAm“x?

1 week ago | hometownsource.com | John Wagner

It would be easy to state the obvious: Cambridge-Isanti’s Keagen Lowman and Micah Gustafson earned their second straight berth into the MSHSL Class AA state tennis tournament by winning the Section 7AA doubles title. But that would not do justice to the pair’s ability to play different types of games to claim that second straight title. kAmx? E96 D6>:7:?2= 2?5 492>A:@?D9:A >2E496D E96J A=2J65 2E u@C6DE {2<6 @? (65?6D52J[ |2J a`[ vFDE27D@? 2?5 {@H>2?

1 week ago | hometownsource.com | John Wagner

The Isanti County Commissioners put a halt to adding a drone program to the county’s Emergency Management Department at its meeting held Tuesday, May 20. Clinton Maxson, the county’s emergency manager, originally presented a proposal to the commissioners to add a tethered unmanned aerial system, also known as drones, at the April 15 meeting. At that time the board chose to table the program because of the uncertainty of the federal funding that would pay for the drones. kAmpE E9:D >66E:?8 |2ID@?

1 week ago | hometownsource.com | John Wagner

Peter Geye has made a connection with the North Shore that is so strong, it has become a regular feature in his literary works. The North Shore is the backdrop for his sixth novel, which is called “A Lesser Light,” and the reason the western edge of Lake Superior near Duluth has become a regular is a simple one. kAm“x’G6 366? 8@:?8 E96C6 D:?46 x H2D <:5[ 2?5 :E’D 366? >J 72G@C:E6 A=246 D:?46 x H2D 2 <:5[” v6J6 D2:5] “p=E9@F89 x’G6 ?6G6C =:G65 E96C6[ x’G6 DA6?E 2D >F49 E:>6 E96C6 2D x 92G6 :?