North Brainerd News Today

A resident in the neighborhood requested the stop signs be removed because of noise complaints.

The three public hearings will take place Oct. 16.

Our dictionary definition for "pachyderm" is "a very large mammal with thick skin, especially an elephant, rhinoceros, or hippopotamus."

Mayor Weston Wamp used a political appearance Monday to attack Hamilton County Commissioner David Sharpe as an "obstructionist with a partisan agenda" and to blast Sharpes main political base — Red Bank — as an area whose leaders "have run it completely into a ditch."

Ronnie Russell, a 23-year resident of Chattanooga, regularly rides the bus to get around the city, especially the No. 3 out east to his job at the Volkswagen plant. And like everyone else who rides the bus, Russell, 47, has to wait at the bus stop to catch a ride.

We seem to be slow learners about vaccines.

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

The more socially vulnerable a community is, the less resistance its residents have to extreme heat exposure.

North Brainerd residents received a follow-up letter over the weekend from the postal service, telling them they do not have to move their mailboxes.

There will be discussion on the current drug and crime status in north Brainerd and surrounding area.