A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1923.
This Was Brainerd - April 26
A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1921. Written By: Terry McCollough | ×
Bill Marchel, Brainerd, displays this 20-pound wild turkey gobbler he dropped while hunting with two friends near La Crescent. Both other hunters got turkeys, so the group did better than the normal 27 percent success rate. Marchel must now wait three years before he can apply for another permit.
APRIL 26
20 years ago (2001)
A 17-year-old Brainerd teen was arrested yesterday after threatening to take a gun to Brainerd High School and kill students. The threats were not made on school grounds and he is not a student at the high school. He has been excluded from the school because of threats he made last fall.