Arts and Entertainment

A benefit is planned for a Cottage Grove native and Hennepin County sheriff’s deputy battling pancreatic cancer.

The Croix Chordsmen" will perform a free concert at 2 p.m. on March 18, at The City Center Amphitheater in Woodbury, Minn. Four part harmony is a universal language of Barbershoppers everywhere. These men belong to an internationally recognized organization known as the Barbershop...

Author Belva Plain died last year, just after completing her 22nd novel, all of them bestsellers. The latest is "Heartwood," (Delacorte Press, $24.95). I had never read a novel by this ubiquitous writer who was almost continuously on the bestseller lists ever since I began reviewing....

I'm the last person to claim I've ever been on the cutting edge of anything -- until now. Thirty years ago, I wrote a little book. I created a publishing company. My wife drew its logo on a wet cocktail napkin. I hired a printer and my first book came out. It was called "Wisconsin...

Events for this New Year's weekend are planned around good and bad weather. There are several from which to choose. In St. Paul Park, two skating rinks at Whitbred Park, on Lincoln Avenue between 13th and 14th avenues, will be open from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 31 and Sunday,...

Families this weekend can visit with model railroad enthusiasts, buy cookies from Lioness members, give blood or visit two benefits. The Newport Model Railroad Club invites families to visit during one of seven holiday open houses at 600 Seventh Ave. in Newport, Dec. 18 through Jan....

Depending on the weatherman, who is predicting a heavy winter snowstorm, holiday events in south Washington County fill the weekend. The Holiday Train will stop in Cottage Grove between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11, near the Youth Service Bureau, 7064 West Point...

This weekend families can take a chance to ride on the Canadian Pacific Railway's Holiday Train, see "Beauty and the Beast" at East Ridge High School or "West Side Story" at New Life Academy. The 2010 Holiday Train committee is hosting a pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m....

At the top of the list of things to do this weekend in south Washington County is the November Scout drive for the Friends in Need Food Shelf in St. Paul Park, Gentle Saturday at Cottage Grove Middle School and stories from the home front during war time as told to the South Washington...

More than 200 people turned out for the third-annual Monster Bash Halloween party on Friday at the Cottage Grove VFW Post 8752 Red Barn for dancing, tacos and the costume contest. And it wouldn't have been Halloween without candy, right? Hundreds of spectators got their fill of treats...