Your donations of coupons, prizes and monetary support were a wonderful way to reward the kids for reading and kept them excited about it throughout the summer.
The Friends is a nonprofit group that provides advocacy and resources to enhance the services, programs and materials available at the Brainerd Library.
"Ralph’s World" will be touring area libraries June 21-25. The show is the creation of Ralph Covert, an indie rocker, songwriter, playwright and children’s book author who has taken the same sensibility he developed for his touring pop-rock band and applied it to children’s music.
After a brief introduction on his book “Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were to Afraid to Ask,” Wednesday, March 9, at the Brainerd Public Library, Anton Treuer opened the presentation by introducing himself in the Ojibwe language.
A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1921.