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Since 2014 Crow Wing County employees have given more than $183,000 to the United Way.

A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1923.

This contest involved writing a 300-400 word essay with the theme “How are you inspired by America.”

With Black Friday kicking off the start of the Christmas shopping season, shoppers waited outside stores in the Brainerd lakes area, hoping to get the best possible deals before they were gone.

Nancy Vogt is editor of the Pineandlakes Echo Journal, a weekly newspaper that covers eight communities in the Pequot Lakes-Pine River areas — from Nisswa to Hackensack and Pequot Lakes to Crosslake. She started as editor of the Lake Country Echo in July 2006, and continued in that role when the Lake Country Echo and the Pine River Journal combined in September 2013 to become the Pineandlakes Echo Journal. She worked for the Brainerd Dispatch from 1992-2006 in various reporting and editing rol...

A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1923.

Habitat for Humanity to partner with Sofia Heesaker for home near Aitkin

Giving trees are available at several local businesses and churches.

Lakes Area Rescue, now a nonprofit, is now able to equip their volunteers with much-needed emergency medical equipment with the assistance of Sourcewell and donations.

One part of the horse business that always interested Sundby was the tack — saddle, bridles and specialized equipment designed to do a particular job in the communication between horse and rider.