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A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1921.

Pennsylvania’s secretary of agriculture, Russell Redding, discusses how the Department of Agriculture is making strategic investments to support farmers using best conservation practices on their farms.

RANDOLPH — The Potter Paleoindian Site on the east end of town in the Moose River Valley was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on Thursday, April 28, state archaeologist Mark Doperalski confirmed. “This site is an undisturbed, highly intact habitation that dates to approximately 12,500 to 12,000 years ago,” explains retired state archaeologist Richard “Dick” Boisvert of Deerfield, who led a number of “digs” there. “The Potter Site contain...

Meat Packing Proposal Discussed by Granada Trustees Granada Trustees voted to approve a letter of intent to supply water and electricity to businessman Curtis Tempel during their February monthly meeting. Tempel, who is proposing a small-scale slaughter, harvest and processing facility in Granada in the vicinity of Camp Amache. Temple explained the operation would be filling a need for the area with the construction of a 15,000 square foot building. “Right now, the only USDA inspected meat pa...