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Our Baxter leaders have now joined with the city of Bemidji and many other cities across Minnesota and the United States in honoring the second Monday in October as Indigenous-American Peoples’ Day.

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After nearly 40 years of ministry as an ELCA pastor, Pedersen retired and added the title of author to his lengthy resume.

Looking for a summer book? Here are some new releases, for all ages, with connections to Duluth and its surrounding areas.

A round-up of upcoming entertainment events, such as concerts, plays, music in the park, author events in the Brainerd lakes area.

We have so much good to share with each other, so much good to accomplish.

Thanks also to all community performance groups, support and helping groups, school boards, teachers, city councils, elected leaders, working people, kids, seniors.

Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota survives thanks to local and state support.

Written By: Darrell J. Pedersen | 5:15 am, Feb. 7, 2021 × At night, they wrestled people from their homes and left them in unmarked graves. El Salvador. Forty years ago. As with Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero, any who dared speak in opposition to El Salvador’s dictator became death squad targets. Minnesotans took turns accompanying each of the 20 pastors serving in the tiny Lutheran Church of El Salvador. They were life insurance because dictators didn’t want to risk kill...