Early small-town papers didn’t just report local news; they were the announcers, the social connectors, the legal publication of information and records, the advertisers and community promoters as well as the sunshine league reporting illnesses and hospital stays, engagements and weddings, births and deaths.
Candy Parks, advertising manager for the Park Rapids Enterprise, will retire at the end of January. Todd Keute will assume publisher and advertising director responsibilities at the Enterprise.