The Synchro Gators are ending another successful season. The synchronized swimming program that teaches Osseo school students the sport continues to...
Community
A Local School Comes Together Once Again for a Great Cause
A festive event is on the horizon as Primrose School of Maple Grove hosts its 10th Spring Fling Carnival and Charity Fundraiser. Celebrating the...
Taking Center Stage
The secret sauce behind musical excellence. Maple Grove High School (MGHS) does not have a theater program. There’s no theater teacher or theater...
The Garden Path of Kids’ Curiosity
Local elementary schools grow plants and spark interest. Not so long ago, Maple Grove’s youngsters were well acquainted with rakes, hoes and other...
Fathers and Daughters Create Tradition at a Formal Dance where Every Girl Is a Princess
Many a father and daughter in and around Maple Grove and Osseo have carved out a tradition of attending the annual Once Upon a Time Dance. Heading...
Family is the Best Team
Cousins create a summer T-ball team. T-ball is a great introduction to baseball which focuses on basic skills and teamwork, but most of all on...
The Art and Science of Taxidermy
In 1969, 13-year-old Jim Malone won a dead rooster pheasant in a poker game with a neighborhood buddy. Using his brother’s taxidermy book, he...
Focus on Maple Grove: Abode of Antiquity
Elm Creek Park holds secrets of area ancestors. You may be familiar with the house that sits just inside the main entrance of Elm Creek Park...
Blast From The Past
Specialists offer a vintage view of Maple Grove. The Maple Grove History Museum is filled with remnants of the early settlers as well as items from...
Learn Something New with These Maple Grove Programs
What better way to break out of winter hibernation than to escape the house—with the family, a friend or on your own—and build a new skill? Osseo...
Teens with Keys
The prospect of a teen’s first drivers’ license can be a dramatic event for families, but strict state requirements ease the ordeal. As teens get...
St. John’s Students Work to Raise Funds for Texas Hurricane Victims
St. John’s Lutheran School students, pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, teamed up with other local Lutheran schools to raise money for hurricane...
Blast From The Past
Specialists offer a vintage view of Maple Grove. The Maple Grove History Museum is filled with remnants of the early settlers as well as items from...
Osseo High School Students Certify the Neighborhood
Performing cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for long periods of time is a good test of one’s abilities and dedication toward others. It’s also a...
Focus on Maple Grove: Newlyweds Enjoy a Moment at Central Park of Maple Grove
Kristin Jones puts a lot of thought, effort and love into her photos. Whether shooting a wedding, senior picture or Maple Grove Senior High theater...
The Gentle Giants
Jim and Lora Homuth have taken in four Great Danes over the years and insist they’ll never go back. “I want to go bigger.” That was the sentence...
Off the Clock: A Maple Grove Chief Retires
A winter day would usually start with getting to the coffee machine as swiftly as possible. Now that he’s retired, former fire chief Scott Anderson...
Team Sport: Maple Grove Football Rallies the Community
During the frosty winter months, Maple Grove’s youth football association does not lie dormant. For the parents, coaches and players, football is a...
Maple Grove is but One Stop on the Transcontinental Railroad
To walk along a set of train tracks is to follow its path into the past. Locomotives have rules which do not burden cars and ships. These 200-ton...
For the Love of Cars
Gary and Gwen Krukoski of Maple Grove share their restored classic cars at events throughout the Metro. The challenge of turning a pile of parts...
