My interest in Historic construction methods and materials often brings me to some interesting, and…read morealot of times off the path locations. The St Cloud area was, and still is one of the Country's largest suppliers of granite. When you love things such as old cobblestone streets, and old stone buildings as much as I do, sometimes you begin to wonder about what different types of stone were quarried and used the most in your area. While St Cloud is by no means a small city, the museum, as well as where the former and present day quarries are is off the path a bit. I was blown away by the exibits at this museum, I'd been expecting just a small museum with small displays. Instead the exibits were huge, and they have a 2 story tall interactive exibit on the quarry's. There was alot of other Central Minnesota history covered with big exibits as well. If you're out in this area and are intersted in Minnesota History, or are a fan of old tyme construction materials I'm sure you'll find this to be a great museum. I think this would be a fun museum for kids as well.

If you're from out of town, you should make the time to check out the Stearns History Museum. It…read morehas exhibits that are surprising for a mid-size town museum. Unfortunately, for those of us who live in the area, the exhibits seldom change. As a result, if you were to go here repeatedly, you'd end up seeing the same thing. Having said that, there are things to recommend. The park surrounding the museum has nice walking paths that are great for a summer afternoon walk. Inside, you'll find a fairly elaborate exhibit of granite quarrying (common to Granite City). You'll also find a nature exhibit that features the flora and fauna common to Central Minnesota. Our children enjoy this section of the museum. There are other exhibits as well, but I'd like to keep some of it a surprise for you to find when you visit. In addition, one of the gold mines at the museum for locals is the library which has extensive materials and resources for doing family research, especially if your family has ties to Central Minnesota. You could spend hours here researching and learning about family members from the area.

Entered post office with 2 customers ahead of myself. Moved quickly with the friendly older mail…read moreclerk. Normally this is the post office I use. Just had to purchase 20 cents stamp to mail my letter off.

To USPS, I was super excited to receive an early Valentines…read moregift for my girlfriend! Next thing I know, "delivered". I rushed home and saw nothing. I am still waiting to hear from them and my package is nowhere to be found. I am very disappointed in their abilities to ship it to the correct address, which is easy to locate and read. I hope they can understand my frustration.

Easy in and out. Had to purchase 20 cent stamp to mail a letter. Older gentleman worker was nice.read more

New postmaster/manager. I moved to Sartell from DC in 2017 and always went to this location for…read moreservice. Staff there were outstanding especially Kate. Not so much anymore. About a year ago the head lady retired and the one to replace her is not nice. I try not to go to her for service but sometimes it's unavoidable but after last week I will not ever go back in there again for her if I have to stand and wait in line for someone else or go to a different location and this is not the first time that I've had a bad experience with her. She's very condescending she's rude. She treats you like a piece of dirt. I ship a lot to my family that is stationed in the military F PO Box. She doesn't know what she's doing. I can fill out those forms better than her. I always come prepared with the custom filled out. She even not too long ago lost a very important piece for my son's car Because she filled out the form wrong. It was lost for several months before it finally came back to me and I had to resend it. I continued to go back whenever I needed to send something, but after my experience with her this week, I left and went to one of the locations in Waite Park, which is not convenient, but the people are very nice as, long as she's there, I will not go back if it means I have to step aside and wait for the next clerk to be free. She definitely needs some customer service training.. and if it was because of the holiday, I would give her a break. OK you're busy but she's like that all the time she snaps I asked if I had to sign something which I've always had to do. No, you don't have to. oh OK well, I've always well you don't have to again very rude. I'll avoid going there at all cost if she's the only one I can see. I don't make this decision lightly because it's inconvenient for me as well and I like to give people the chance, but I've given her too many.

Has some of the best employees! They go above and beyond!! Walker/Walter as I am not sure of his…read morename stated his postmaster was out sick and he did a wonderful job filling in her place! Thank you for helping me from a distance!!!

I really like the Waite Park branch of the Great River Regional Library. It reminds me of the…read moreneighborhood library I used as a child growing up. It's quaint and small and the librarians are generally quite friendly. They have a nice selection of adult and children's books and movies. The library is split into sections, one which is predominantly children and youth and the other which is adult. You can order books and movies from the library system and pick them up here. While everyone is waiting for the main library in downtown St. Cloud to open up after the recent fire, this branch is serving as a pickup spot.

A nice branch of the Great River Regional Library system. It is smaller than the main St Cloud…read morelocation, but it has all you need. The selection of items is great plus you can request items from any library in the grrl system. It looks like there is a nice outside court yard with a picnic table and green space. Stop in the library, check out a book, and enjoy it outside.

I love St. Ben's. Perhaps I should say that my gorilla and I come here to set things on fire (see…read moreprevious reviews). Seriously, this is a good quiet place to come, focus and get things done.

Great trolly Library we got here. I come here often to read my great book of memes. Sometimes I see…read morea gorilla watching me. No one has said anything and I am pretty sure it's not just me seeing things, or is it?...

Here are the many things I like about the Sauk Rapids' Post Office. It's clean. It's convenient…read more The employees there are always quite friendly. I've never had a bad experience at this Post Office aside from sometimes having to wait in a long line, depending upon the day and time of visit. Monday mornings are not a good time to stop into the Post Office generally. Two thumbs up for this particular U.S. Post Office location.

Some of the times there's a nice lady who'll talk to you, and other times there's a man who won't…read moreeven look at your package even when it's on the scale. He doesn't talk, and he's mostly very crass.

The building+atmosphere is considerably nice. I don't think I have ever gotten along with a judge…read moreyet; some other staff I have. Not in person or over zoom have I gotten along with a judge enough to agree about an issue I bring up. I have had a furious experience with every case over zoom, those are obviously not in the beautiful courthouses, unless you pretend you have wifi issues and go to court administration for an ipad and solitary room, then at least you still feel like you went to court that day instead of just webcaming people. Knowing where to go and accessing the facility isn't that difficult. There's a great set of stairs or if you have mobility problems they do have handicap accessible ramps for wheelchairs or people on crutches. Beautiful courtrooms. Not much of a maze. Parking is easy to find, I don't mind having to pay as I keep change in the ashtray but there is a 2 hour maximum to be careful about as I recently paid for 2 hours with dimes, and came out to a ticket 137 minutes after my arrival time, I deducted the $2 of dimes I inserted into the machine from the $15 fee though as I was in the coffeeshop around the corner for a total of 180 minutes, parked where I usually have for court. I once went to jury duty for a day, that was interesting and no complaints for that. The metal detectors are friendly. The building to handle criminal cases is different than the building you handle civil cases in, that is where the Law Library can be found. Help will be found in there if you can find the room and ask for the specific help ya need. Judges don't usually let me win or give me a break in any of my civil cases so I don't feel its necessary to finish the courthouses rating higher than a three, because if it was based on my personal outcome for court in contrast to the amount of effort I've put into each case there would only be a star to give as I've not walked away a winner once in two years after trying with maximum effort. I'm not sure if gamblers review casino's based on their win percentage though, so I've tried to base this review on the entirety of the Stearns County Courthouse, and with that said if I was not super unlucky I might like the place because its a nice building and you can handle quite a few different things once you know how to file a case into existence, but I won't say I like the place because nothing is worse than a crappy set of orders constantly delaying things. Reading books and trying to generate an interest in the field of law has backfired after most everything I submit is never looked at, and everything I have submitted got me nowhere. I do not like this county's courthouse because I lose and they have judges with power trips.