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Outdoornews February 25, 2021 District 1 – Baudette area CO Demosthenes Regas (Blackduck) worked snowmobile enforcement and angling activity on special-regulation lakes this past week. Time also was spent patrolling area grant-in-aid snowmobile trails with neighboring officers.  CO Eric Benjamin (Warroad) continued his focus on angling and off-highway vehicle enforcement this past week. Enforcement action taken this past week included a motor vehicle other than a snowmobile operating on a st...

Area MnDNR Conservation Officer Weekly Reports - Feb. 23, 2021 Written By: PineandLakes Echo Journal | 9:00 am, Feb. 23, 2021 × District 10 - Mille Lacs area CO Bret Grundmeier (Hinckley) found some ice anglers having luck catching sunfish and crappies. While checking a hot crappie bite area, one individual was caught trying to keep extra fish. After finding a limit of fish in the angler’s 5-gallon bucket, more fish were found hidden under the snow. Other activity i...

Area MnDNR Conservation Officer Weekly Reports - Feb. 23, 2021

38 / 50 W.E. Lively, the hustling Maxwell auto dealer, has sold a Maxwell to Joseph Johnson. Pictured is a Maxwell Mascotte Touring 1911 by Lars-Göran Lindgren Sweden - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1526033 39 / 50 This truck belonged to Silas Halls Transfer Line just after World War I. It was used for hauling freight from the NP (Northern Pacific Railroad) depot to stores around town as well as for other kinds of moving. The picture was taken in fron...

Swimming steps will remain, but water level likely will drop 3:00 am, Feb. 22, 2021 × Close-up of the newer Pine River city water tower. Before the state and city can move forward to replace the obsolete bridge and dam on Barclay Avenue in Pine River, the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office is requiring mitigation and documentation efforts to preserve the history of the concrete steps there where children used to swim, the Pine River City Council learned at its meeting Tuesd...

Senior Nutrition Program offers meals in Pine River and Crosslake, as well as Meals on Wheels Delivery

2. Pledge of Allegiance: 3. Announcement by Chair Nystrom: A. Due to the current federal and state emergency declarations, the Minnesota directive to residents to stay at home, and guidance about limiting person-to-person contact due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this meeting of the Brainerd School Board is being conducted in accordance with Minnesota Statutes 13D.021— Meetings by Telephone or Other Electronic Means. Persons may monitor this meeting from a remote location by watching on YouTube l...

Henkel says all PR-B teachers were deserving of the honor 3:00 am, Feb. 19, 2021 × In spite of technological challenges, Pine River-Backus teacher Linda Henkel has tackled distance learning classes all year for those elementary students who chose to remain home. Their view of Henkel likely looks something like this screenshot of an online interview with this years PR-B Teacher of the Year.Submitted Photo Pine River-Backus teacher Linda Henkel has been teaching long enough that shes e...

Thursday, February 18, 2021 Minnesota employers will be heading back to the drawing board to revise their handbook disclaimers. The Minnesota Supreme Court now requires specific language in policies that set out the terms and conditions for payment of certain employee benefits such as payouts of vacation and paid time off (PTO). In  Hall v. City of Plainview (No. A19-0606, February 3, 2021), the court held that a general provision in a handbook stating that the handbook is not a con...

Tips have had impact on recent drug related arrests in Pine River and Backus area.