As the township officials for the Unorganized Territory previously known as Dean Lake Township, Crow Wing County Board members must eventually act on the petition, having determined Middleton and his ownership partners qualify for the cartway they seek.
A 2017 study by the state showed roundabouts resulted in an 80% reduction in fatal and serious injury crashes compared to right-angle intersections with signals or signs and a 42% drop in all types of injury crashes at intersections with any kind of roundabout.
Central Lakes College Theatre Director Patrick Spradlin retires May 17. He will perform in the one-man show "Clarence Darrow" at the college's Brainerd campus starting Thursday, April 21.
Lakes area residents are sharing their stories of second chances and overcoming addiction during April, which is know around the country as Second Chance Month.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church hired a Cincinnati-based company specializing in bell repair to rebuild the housing last month of its 1875 bell which has not rung in almost a decade after the rope broke. The church at North Seventh and Juniper streets is Brainerd’s oldest church.
