Travis Grimler

3 days ago | pineandlakes.com | Travis Grimler

BACKUS — While considering new hangars at the Backus Municipal Airport, the Backus City Council was informed that zoning in that area does not currently include airport hangars as an allowable use. The city's zoning administrators at Sourcewell said the current hangars are grandfathered in, and therefore allowed in the "Public" zone due to their age. New construction, however, would not be allowed as the ordinance sits.

3 days ago | pineandlakes.com | Travis Grimler

PINE RIVER — The Pine River-Backus School Board reviewed and approved a revised budget at the Monday, May 5, regular meeting. Business Manager Jolene Bengtson presented charts itemizing changes to both expenses and revenues, and briefly explained the causes of those changes. Revenues increased since the preliminary budget. The overall revenue was projected at $14,377,618. The new revised revenue is $15,246,598, an $868,980 (6%) increase.

1 week ago | pineandlakes.com | Travis Grimler

60 years ago: May 7, 1965 Tuesday was a big day for students from the Emily Elementary School as they came to Pine River and joined with the elementary students here for a puppet show presented by the National Puppet Theater. (Photo) Robert L Hickman, a medical zoologist with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (center), has been promoted to the rank of captain.

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.

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.