Sawmill Inn News Today

A look at the lakes region’s growth, wages, worker shortages, affordable housing and where workers will come from in the future

Richard Roach retired from teaching 23 years ago, but hes still passing back "autobiographies" he assigned decades ago.

“We did it together is the best way to put it,” Kevin Stumpf said, noting it was a family effort to make everything work with Marilyn and the family. He said it was a life trip with all of them.

A lot has happened in the lakes area in 2022 with new businesses arriving and more to come and others closing their doors.

A marker was erected in September 2022 with information about the Headquarters Hotel, the Arlington Hotel and the second Northern Pacific Railway depot after the original was struck by a snowplow.

Hiring signs remain a constant in changed work landscape

Hiring signs remain a constant in changed work landscape

WASHINGTON COUNTY — Washington County Executive Josh Schoemann and his staff criss-crossed the county on Friday, for a series of five listening session in four municipalities throughout the day to

A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1922.

Cars, trucks and sport-utility vehicles in Brainerd are a common sight today. But horse-drawn and then electric streetcars provided public transportation in the early years of the city’s history.