This Was Brainerd - Feb. 15
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 | ×
Fittingly, Joe Plut returned to his teaching job at Central Lakes College on Valentines Day to a host of hugs and the gift of a teddy bear. Plut, the man known everywhere as the “Mad Hugger,” had been missing for seven days while doctors placed a stent in his heart to repair an artery that was 90 percent blocked.
FEBRUARY 15
20 years ago (2001)
(Photo) Fittingly, Joe Plut returned to his teaching job at Central Lakes College on Valentines Day to a host of hugs and the gift of a teddy bear. Plut, the man known everywhere as the “Mad Hugger,” had been missing for seven days while doctors placed a stent in his heart to repair an artery that was 90 percent blocked.
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W.E. Lively, the hustling Maxwell auto dealer, has sold a Maxwell to Joseph Johnson. Pictured is a Maxwell Mascotte Touring 1911 by Lars-Göran Lindgren Sweden - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1526033
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This truck belonged to Silas Hall s Transfer Line just after World War I. It was used for hauling freight from the NP (Northern Pacific Railroad) depot to stores around town as well as for other kinds of moving. The picture was taken in front of the railroad freight office. Before the truck, Silas Hal used teams of horses and wagons which he kept at 415 Main (now Washington Street). Source: Brainerd Minnesota 1871 - 1971. Reproduced from the Centennial Edition of the Brainerd Daily Dispatch.
Lake Geneva officials have officially determined which vendors may occupy space in the lower level of the Riviera next year and which ones may not.
Members of the Lake Geneva City Council unanimously approved a tenant list for the lower level of the Riviera for 2021, Dec. 14.
Three tenant spaces are set to be eliminated next year because of a renovation project that currently is being completed to the historic building.
City Administrator Dave Nord indicated that the tenants who were not offered to sign a lease for 2021 because of the eliminated spaces include: Creative Glassblowing, Air Brush/Tattoo shop and Dockside Gifts.
The Lake Geneva City Council members are set to vote on the 2021 lease agreement for Riviera tenants, Monday, Dec. 14.
Riviera tenants have one-year lease agreements with the city to operate their vendor spaces in the lower level of the historic building from April 1 through Nov. 1.
Because of renovation work that is being completed to the lower level of the Riviera building, City Administrator Dave Nord has said that three vendor could be removed from the building.
Nord said, Dec. 7, that the council could discuss and vote on which tenants will be allowed to stay and which ones may be removed during the Dec. 14 meeting.
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