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“How the Grinch Stole Christmas” opens this week at Children’s Theatre Company

Get ready to have your holiday spirits lifted! The classic story, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, is back by popular demand and returning for its 13th season at the Children’s Theatre Company. This family favorite, all-ages show opens on Friday and will run through January 4.

In this beloved holiday favorite, filled with music and Seussian rhymes, a miserable, cantankerous Grinch plots the greatest heist imaginable—stealing the very thing the joyful Whos love the most. Until, that is, the smallest of the Whos, tiny Cindy-Lou, extends a hand.

2025 Mom’s Choice Awards Winners

The votes are in! Check out our 2025 Mom’s Choice Awards Winners Guide to see which businesses and organizations YOU and fellow St. Michael-Albertville moms chose as the best in town.

Top 5 Local Apple Orchards

Fall will be here soon, and with it comes the opportunity for your family to visit one of our area’s fantastic apple orchards!

Here’s a list of five of the most popular orchards among STMA residents, all of which include pick-your-own apples.

STMA Fall 2025 Community Ed Brochure

The Fall 2025 Community Education brochure is hitting mailboxes this week, with lots of great classes and activities for your family to enjoy this fall.

Check out the digital version of the brochure (linked below) for info on sports, music lessons, technology and creative classes, ECFE classes, and more! Registration for these programs begins at 12am on August 20 at stma.ce.eleyo.com.

Back-to-School Checklist

Whether this is your first year sending kids off to school or you’ve been doing it for many years, there are a LOT of details to keep in mind when it comes to getting them ready!

There’s nothing I love more than a completed checklist, so I made this handy printable list to keep my family’s back-to-school details straight! I’d love to share it with you in the hope that it will help YOU this season as well.