LITTLE FALLS - Just across the river from downtown Little Falls is a modest industrial park housing the local operations of Airborn, Inc. The Airborn plant looks like every other fairly quiet operation taking place in the same business park - until you walk through their doors. Then it's time to bring out the earplugs.

In terms of economic development, the effects of the Great Recession are game changing.

John Allen, president and chief executive officer and owner of Minneapolis-based Industrial Equities, recently purchased the Bar Harbor restaurant building in Lake Shore.

The Business and Industry Center at Central Lakes College, Brainerd, is offering Advanced Outlook 2007 from 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 28 in C222 of the Brainerd campus.

Danielson joins Extension as AmeriCorps Promise Fellow