HUNDREDS PARTICIPATE IN RED LAKE YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
Story and Photos by Michael Meuers The Fourth Annual Red Lake Youth Leadership Conference was held on March 30, 31 and April 1, 2009 at Red Lake High School in Red Lake Minnesota. ...
Living Rhythmically with the Sun
By Barry Babcock I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to confront only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ...
Citizen's Academy Postponed
The Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office of Emergency Management advises that the Citizens Academy is postponed again this week due to our continuing effort to assist our citizens with flood issues. ...
IRON RANGE WOMEN TAKE THE POLITICAL LEAD
Innovative Political Leadership Training Program Comes to Rural Minnesota May 1st-3rd The White House Project has announced their second annual Rural Go Run political leadership training program for women in Northern Minnesota. ...
State and Federal Officials to Assess Flood Damage
The Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office of Emergency Management received word on Friday, April 10, 2009 that the State of Minnesota Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security (HSEM) will be sending representatives to Bemidji on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 to inspect flood damages to public infrastructure. ...
Open burning permits available online
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Division of Forestry has implemented a new open burning permit online service. ...
More For Your Money: Money Saving Tips For Families - Part I
by Sheila Helmberger Maybe you’ve always been good at saving money. You’ve pinched pennies, clipped coupons and waited until the really good sales to make your purchases. ...
KOOTASCA Crisis Housing: operating on "a wing and a prayer"
By Mary Lou Aurell The homelessness crisis is ballooning in Itasca County as the unemployment rate increases and poverty becomes pervasive. ...
Sharing Bread Soup Kitchen
by Kari Frisch Mother Nature may have played a joke on the Brainerd community by dropping a foot of spring snow on April 1st, but that day the effect of the economy on the hungry was no laughing matter. ...
Stranger Attempted Abduction in Blackduck
The Blackduck Police Department requests the public’s help in gathering information regarding an incident which occurred in Blackduck on either March 23 or March 24, 2009 at approximately 3:30 in the afternoon near the Blackduck Elementary School in Blackduck, MN. ...
Other Local News
Officials happy with efficiency of Crow Wing Jail
[WALKER Cass County's contract to board prisoners at Crow Wing County Jail continues to be the most cost-effective option for the county, Administrato ...
Relationship with reservation hailed by officials
[ WALKER Cooperation between Cass County and the Leech Lake Reservation has resulted in improved services, some cost savings and this year some substa ...
Bar owner wants to relocate to Moose building - Brainerd Daily Dispatch
Brainerd Daily DispatchBar owner wants to relocate to Moose buildingBrainerd Daily DispatchThe owner of Yesterday's Gone bar in downtown Brainerd wants
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Still no details on teacher contract - Brainerd Daily Dispatch
Still no details on teacher contractBrainerd Daily DispatchBrainerd school officials are checking into whether the district must publicly release the t ...
DNR news release for February 4, 2010
DNR NEWS – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FEBRUARY 4, 2010 Media contacts: Colleen Coyne, DNR communications director, 651-259-5023; Patricia Arndt, Parks and Trails Division planning and public affairs manager, 651-259-5578. ...
