Here is your Brainerd Dispatch Minute podcast for Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.
Trenton Riley Robertson, 22, was found dead in Bass Lake Sunday, Aug. 7.
The Brainerd School Board must appoint a person to fill the vacancy left by Jana Shogren, who will be done on the board Sept. 2, as she is moving outside the district. The appointee will only serve for one meeting.
The contests will determine which candidates will appear on the ballot for the Nov. 8 general election, including those for governor and lieutenant governor, secretary of state and attorney general. Several local races also feature enough candidates to prompt a primary.
Voting officials said the decrease in ballots cast by mail likely had to do with decreased concerns about COVID-19 compared to two years prior.
A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1922.