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How Pine River and Backus area volunteers are helping out.

Here are places to go if the turkey just doesn't turn out or you need a little help.

Pine Rivers historic bakery has changed owners again 7:00 am, Jan. 14, 2021 × Kristy Miller heads the family responsible for producing Pine Rivers favorite baked goods. She bought the Pine River Bakery on Jan. 4.Travis Grimler / Echo Journal Since 2014, John and Julie Sigafus were in charge of making the doughnuts at Pine Rivers historic bakery. As of Jan. 4, they handed their aprons to new owners and a family of helpers. Kristy Miller; her husband, Brian Chaffee; and a slew of famil...

Readers Write: Student debt, COVID deaths, deployments effects on kids Ameliorate the debt.  Text size Copy shortlink: On Dec. 26, in the commentary titled "Bankruptcy is the solution to the student loan crisis" (Opinion Exchange), Joe Nocera observed that "especially among conservatives ... [allowing loan forgiveness] wouldnt be fair to the millions of Americans who did pay off their student loans, often after years of financial struggle, t...

Hidden heroes of deployment: Girls go a year without mom Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/Renee Jones Schneider - Star Tribune/Star Tribune/TNS Brian Chaffee talked to daughter Madison, 9, who had run away from the guests at her birthday party in Scandia, Minn., last year because she was missing her mom, National Guard First Sgt. Jen Chaffee. It was 3 a.m. in Arden Hills. Winds gusted to 30 miles per hour. "Brrr," said Madison Chaffee, not quite 9 years...

Nearly 700 soldiers are headed to the Middle East in one of the largest single deployments for the Minnesota National Guard since the second Iraq war began.