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Home /Dealing with docks on public property News14 April 2021 By Chad Ingram Minden Hills council is considering what to do about the proliferation of private docks placed on publicly owned shoreline road allowances within the township, and is looking to involve the public in that conversation. Councillors received a report regarding private docks on public property from township planner Ian Clendening during an online April 8 committee-of-the-whole meeting. As that report indicates, the existing policy regarding such docks essentially divides them into three categories: one, those outside ...

SHARE ON: An OPP cruiser (Photo credit: supplied) Officers from Kawartha Lakes OPP detachment were called to Shadow Lake Road #3 just after 8 AM, only to find a submerged snowmobile with no rider. The call came in on Monday with officers showing up near the mouth of Gull River to find the snow machine. The OPP reports they were able to find an opening in the thin ice that was consistent with a snowmobile going through. They later found the snowmobile, which they were not able to recover. After searching through the area, they weren’t able to find the operator. Officers believe the rider wa...

Written By: Terry McCollough | JULY 10 20 years ago (1999) The trucks are ready to roll to start building the Hwy 371 Brainerd bypass, but first MnDOT needs a conditional use permit from Baxter. That will allow them to move 25,000 dumptruck loads of sand from the 6.4-mile route, with another 25,000 loads south of the river in Crow Wing Township. 30 years ago (1989) Charles Knox, 27, was sentenced to eight years in prison for killing Michael Mahoney, 34, of Nisswa. In a 10-page hand-written statement, Knox said he didn’t do it and was failed by an imperfect court system. He quoted Shakespear...

Written By: Steven L. Kohls | 8:43 pm, Dec. 15, 2020 × The sun bursts through a pine tree Monday, Dec. 14, on the shore of the Gull River in East Gull Lake near the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers campground. The light dusting of snow during the weekend applied a coating of snow on the tree branches. Steve Kohls / Brainerd Dispatch The sun bursts through a pine tree on the shore of the Gull River in East Gull Lake Monday, Dec. 14, near the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers campground. The light dusting of snow during the weekend applied a coating of snow on the tree branches...

Danger in the pines: Area logging railroads 120 years ago In the closing decades of the 19th century, pine logging was a major industry in southern Cass and Crow Wing counties. By 1889 lumbermen had already cut most accessible shoreline timber and floated the logs to sawmills downstream. The remaining p... Written By: Jeremy Jackson and Douglas Birk | 4:52 pm, Jun. 25, 2013 × In the closing decades of the 19th century, pine logging was a major industry in southern Cass and Crow Wing counties. By 1889 lumbermen had already cut most accessible shoreline timber and floate...