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6 days ago | 
pineandlakes.com | Tom Fraki
Barbara Rowe, 75, passed away on November 30, 2024, in Pequot Lakes. A Celebration of Life service is planned for Wednesday June 4, 2025 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm at the Whitefish Golf Course in Pequot Lakes. Arrangements are entrusted to Brenny Family Funeral Chapel, Crosslake.
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6 days ago | 
pineandlakes.com | Tom Fraki |Pequot Lakes. He
klick! Photo Gallery: 2025 Governor's Fishing Opener Walleye Stocking 1 of 55: GFO2025WalleyeStocking (2).JPG Tom Fraki / Echo Journal 2 of 55: GFO2025WalleyeStocking (1).JPG Tom Fraki / Echo Journal 3 of 55: GFO2025WalleyeStocking (3).JPG Tom Fraki / Echo Journal 4 of 55: GFO2025WalleyeStocking (4).JPG Tom Fraki / Echo Journal 5 of 55: GFO2025WalleyeStocking (5).JPG Tom Fraki / Echo Journal 6 of 55: GFO2025WalleyeStocking (6).JPG Tom Fraki / Echo Journal 7 of 55: GFO2025WalleyeStocking...
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1 week ago | 
pineandlakes.com | Tom Fraki |Pequot Lakes. He
CROSSLAKE — Students from the Crosslake Community School gathered at the Cross Lake Recreation Area to fish, learn about fish identification and biology and water/personal flotation device safety during the Governor's Fishing Opener on May 9, 2025.
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1 week ago | 
pineandlakes.com | Tom Fraki
50 years ago: May 8, 1975 (Headline) U.S. Soil Conservation is 40 years old this yearThere is no way that the 6 billion people expected to be alive in the year 2000 can get all their food from the cargo holds of ships, said an administrator of Foreign Agriculture Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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1 week ago | 
pineandlakes.com | Tom Fraki
BREEZY POINT — After several years of contention and consideration, talks of removing the Breezy Point Disc Golf Course may have come to an end. The Breezy Point City Council discussed recommendations from Bill Toft, of the Breezy Point Alliance, to close the course at its regular meeting Monday, May 5.
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1 week ago | 
pineandlakes.com | Tom Fraki |Travis Grimler
John Sidney Erickson, 83, died Friday, May 2, 2025, at Essentia Health - St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Brainerd, Minnesota. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on May 1, 1942. His family moved to Brainerd, Minnesota in 1945 and he graduated from Washington High School, class of 1960. He married Mary Ann Hauck on October 3, 1964. John enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served from February 1964 to May 1968.
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1 week ago | 
pineandlakes.com | Tom Fraki
The last snow of the season has finally come and gone. Though, with living in Minnesota, that never really feels like a safe assumption. The grass is greening up, the trees are budding and rain is starting to roll through again. Certainly a welcome sight, for as often as droughts have been a problem over the last years. For the days that aren’t dampened, now is the time of year to get back out in nature and get active.
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1 week ago | 
pineandlakes.com | Tom Fraki |Travis Grimler
Dorothy Mae Brown, age 97, of Jenkins, Minnesota passed away peacefully on Friday, May 2nd, 2025, at her residence in Pine River, Minnesota. She was born on January 27th, 1928. Dorothy came into this world weighing only three pounds with little expectation of surviving her first night. With the love of her parents and God, she survived that night…and 35,524 more. She graduated from Pine River where she was crowned Queen of Pine River High School.
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1 week ago | 
inforum.com | Tom Fraki
BRAINERD — With more than 20 years of experience as a fishing guide in the Brainerd lakes area, Nate Blasing knows plenty about local lakes and fishing. It might not have come as a surprise when he was recommended and selected to guide for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz during the 2025 Governor’s Fishing Opener in Crosslake on Saturday, May 10.
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2 weeks ago | 
pineandlakes.com | Tom Fraki
CROSSLAKE — The Crosslake City Council voted to direct City Administrator Lori Conway to issue a disciplinary letter to a city employee at a special meeting Friday, April 25, according to an unofficial record of the meeting. The meeting was moved to a closed session on statutory grounds to allow the council to review allegations regarding the employee, who was not named.
