As Friday nights fade, we are losing touch with one another. That is the trend University of North Carolina sociologist Neal ...

By Mike Mallow Editor, Grant County Herald After a delay, the West Central Area (WCA) School District finally received the ...

News deserts are expanding in America. Ghost newspapers with reduced staff stretched so thin that news coverage is a thin, pale shadow of what a community needs and deserves are spreading. The ...

By Reed AnfinsonPublisher Through the summer, crews working for Anderson Underground of Sauk Rapids have been installing four large conduits along Minnesota Highway 9 through Grant, Stevens, and Swift ...

This is part of the ongoing voters guide series. For local candidates, see our special section in the Oct. 14 edition of the Grant County Herald. By Reed AnfinsonPublisher Taking on an incumbent ...

Randall Hedtke, age 91, of Barrett, MN passed away Tuesday, October 13, 2026 at his residence in rural Barrett. Randall Robert Hedtke was born April 15, 1935, in Fairmount, ND. He was the sixth of ...

Ruth Elaine Sanford Reetz was born on May 3, 1938, in Parkers Prairie, MN, to Robert and Charlotte (Roberts) Sanford. Ruth and her parents moved to Elbow Lake, MN, when she was two years old, joining ...

Three new teachers and one new staff member greeted students at the Herman-Norcoss school this year. Actually, one of the new teachers arrived a couple weeks later but is on her way to teach math at ...

It will be a bittersweet 120th-year celebration for Wendell’s Trinity Lutheran Church Sunday, June 22. Parishioners will celebrate its 120-year history at the 10 a.m. service, followed by a dinner in ...

The newest tourist attraction in Grant County is the North Ottawa Impoundment, just southeast of Tintah on the Grant/Traverse County border. Completed in 2016, the impoundment drains 75 square miles ...