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Basketball: Clinics at CLC scheduled in October
Area youths are invited to participate in Central Lakes College Fall Saturday Basketball Clinics hosted by current CLC players and coaching staffs. Dates are Oct. 6, Oct. 13 and Oct. 20. Clinics will be conducted in the CLC gymnasium. • 8:30-9:30 a.m.: 4,5,6 grade girls • 9:30-10:30...
 basketball / sports 13 hours 48 sec ago
Agendas - Sept. 23
Brainerd School Board Meets 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24 Washington Educational Services Building 804 Oak St., Brainerd 1. Call the meeting to order and roll call 2. Pledge of Allegiance 3. Approval of the agenda as presented / amended 4. District Recognition A. Congratulations to...
 News / government and politics 16 hours 48 sec ago
Breezy Point Women's Club hears about Haiti
The September meeting of the Breezy Point Area Women's Club was held at Billy's Restaurant in Breezy Point with guest speaker Lisa Slepica, who shared her experiences with the group Midwives for Haiti.
community 17 hours 48 sec ago
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Outdoor Notes for Sept. 23
Tuma triumphs in Bass Snatchers' 5th tournament Keith Tuma, with an overall catch of 19 pounds, 1 ounce, won the Baxter Bass Snatchers' fifth tournament of the season held Sept. 18 on Birch Lake near Hackensack. Coming in second was Dwight Hammermeister with a total catch of 17 pounds,...
 sports / outdoors 18 hours 48 sec ago
Senior Menus: Sept. 24-28, 2018
The Senior Nutrition Program offers a nutritionally balanced meal for all people to enjoy. Meals are served Monday-Friday at 11:30 a.m. in Pine River and Crosslake. The suggested voluntary donation is $4 per meal for those over 60 and $7.15 for those under 60. Meals on Wheels are...
 lifestyle 20 hours 48 sec ago
Pine River fishing contest to promote suicide awareness
The dam in Pine River will become the next battleground against suicide from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29. The weapons? Fishing and...
 News September 22, 2018 - 4:00am
High School Football: Failed PATs doom Patriots
PEQUOT LAKES—Dylin Ackerman, Zach Jorgens and Bode Magnuson scored touchdowns, but Pequot Lakes failed to convert any of their two-point conversion attempts in the Patriots' 20-18 loss to Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Friday, Sept. 21, in a Midwest Red Subdistrict game. A 25-yard pass...
 sports / football September 22, 2018 - 1:45am
Pine River-Backus senior homecoming candidates are Torry Hirschey, Crystal Hutchins, Logan Gordon, Laura Huesmann, Nathaniel Wosmek, Gabby Rainwater, Murray Armstrong, Lydia Crawford, Tanner Onken and Bailey Wynn.
Pine River-Backus to 'Walk Like an Egyptian' for homecoming
Pine River-Backus Tiger fans will mark the start of homecoming week with an Egyptian themed coronation at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 24, in the...
 News / education September 21, 2018 - 6:00am
Donna Larson (center, foreground) sits in front of her husband Kevin while surrounded by her family, which is the honorary family for the 2018 Walk to End Alzheimer's-Brainerd Lakes Area Walk on Saturday, Sept. 22, at Forestview Middle School in Baxter. Submitted photo
Crosslake family takes steps to end Alzheimer's disease
Donna Larson and her husband Kevin prefer to live in the moment. The Crosslake couple stop to smell the proverbial roses more often than they...
 lifestyle / health September 21, 2018 - 5:00am
Looking down Barclay Avenue in Pine River September 19, 2018. Denton Newman Jr / Echo Journal
Pine River: Parking ordinance renews old dispute
The Pine River City Council's parking ordinances were again a topic of discussion at the Tuesday, Sept. 11, city council meeting. Early in the...
 News / government and politics September 21, 2018 - 4:00am
Trent Squibb of Hector poses with a bull elk that was fatally hit Friday morning on Minnesota Highway 4 north of Hector. Submitted photo
Car vs. 750-pound elk collision reported in southern Minnesota
HECTOR, Minn. — Collisions with deer aren't unusual on rural highways in southern Minnesota, but a collision with an elk had people scratching...
 News / accidents September 21, 2018 - 8:00pm
Kristin Day maintained extreme enthusiasm right up to the moment she went under the knife to donate a kidney to a friend.
Pine River woman donates kidney to new friend
Only two hours after making a new friend at a Nimrod bar, Kristin Day offered him her kidney. Day, of Pine River, had seen a fistula on the man's...
 News September 20, 2018 - 4:00am
The Mid-State champion Patriot tennis team. Front row, from left: Madeline Sherman, Carly Chaney, Riley Fogarty, Elli Saxerud, Alexa Fyle and Afton Crocker. Back row: Morgan Lueck, Madeline Pluimer, Megan Muller, Erin Bengtson, Morgan Mudgett, Courtney Boller and Coach Monica Sergent. Not pictured: Coach Chad Rudbeck. Submitted Photo
Tennis: Patriots take Mid-State crown
The Pequot Lakes Patriots captured six titles and the team championship in the Mid-State Conference Tournament at Staples and Wadena on Saturday,...
 sports / tennis September 20, 2018 - 10:00am
A close up look at part of the soil of the bog that made its home in front of the Legionville School Safety Patrol Training Center on North Long Lake in 2017. Jennifer Kraus / Brainerd Dispatch file photo.
Another bog floats across North Long Lake
Another year and another floating bog for North Long Lake.
science and nature / News September 20, 2018 - 5:00am
Area Volleyball: Patriots blank Cardinals
STAPLES—Lydia Hubbard smashed 12 kills and Mirjana Ganley and Mariah Rickard each scooped 20 digs for the Pequot Lakes Patriots in a 3-0 Mid-State Conference win over the Staples-Motley Cardinals Thursday, Sept. 20. Britt Kratochvil tallied 16 digs and eight kills for the 9-3 Patriots. Kierra...
 sports / volleyball September 20, 2018 - 10:30pm

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