One of the big cats on display rested peacefully in the early morning breezes.

"That elephant has big foots!" a young blonde-haired boy exclaimed as he watched a circus worker groom an elephant early Tuesday morning. Several hundred people including children, grandparents, moms and dads turned out in the St. Croix Industrial Park to watch the Carson and Barnes 5-Ring Circus set up in Hudson.

The problem on the St. Croix River isn't too many boats, it's too few law enforcement officers, the executive director of the Minnesota-Wisconsin Boundary Area Commission told a statewide radio audience last week.

A police officer consoles loved ones of Daniel Mork shortly after his body was recovered from the St. Croix River near the end of the Hudson dike Sunday morning.

A lovers' spat apparently led to the drowning of a 49-year-old man in the St. Croix River early Sunday morning.

The St. Croix County Fair has a four-day run in Glenwood City beginning Thursday, July 22 and continuing through Sunday, July 25.

Catcher Dan Walrack (No. 00) hustles home to score for the Rebels against Ellsworth last Saturday.

Often, there is little opportunity between high school and middle age for a guy who loves to play baseball to find a game. Usually the outlet is the town team and for members of the Hudson Rebels, love for the game is about the only incentive to keep playing.

In the long and colorful history of Hudson, it isn't difficult to find a skirmish or scandal every couple of years and details of them all have appeared in the Star-Observer. But for the past 50 years, there has also been lots of good news, fun news, news about neighbors and friends and news that gives us a glimpse into human nature.