A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1924.
The Pequot Lakes Area Historical Society and Crow Wing County recently dedicated a kiosk at the base of the Paul M. Thiede Fire Tower in Pequot Lakes in honor of Art Savage, a longtime Minnesota Department of Natural Resources forester who died more than two decades ago.
McFeely: Roundabouts, not fishing opener, the hot topic in Pelican Rapids
Controversial intersections are proposed as part of a $15 million road construction project MNDOT has scheduled for 2024 that will include resurfacing of highways 59 and 108 in Pelican Rapids. 7:00 am, May 13, 2021 ×
Pelican Rapids mayor Brent Frazier chats over lunch at The Muddy Moose cafe. Mike McFeely / The Forum
PELICAN RAPIDS, Minn. I stopped into my favorite lakes country town this week to get an earful about the Minnesota fishing opener. The hook, if you will, was easy: One year after slogging through an opener dominated by COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and closures, will this opener be back to normal?
Claude & Ernie cartoonist shares final bob of the bobber
Cartoonist Dan Gola retires his cartoon strip named for Claude Schmidt and the late Ernie Musolf after 28 years.
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Dan Gola | Echo Journal Cartoonist | 9:00 am, Dec. 20, 2020 ×
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To all the readers who shared some laughs with me and Claude and Ernie for the past 28 years:
You are the reason it caught on and remained for so long. I thought it would be around for a while because when I went to Keith and Martha Anderson (owners of the Lake Country Echo at the time); their son, Pete (the publisher at the time); and Lou Hoglund (the editor at the time) in the fall of 1992, I had enough material for the next two years.