Baxter News

Project New Hope, McGregor, which provides free weekend retreats for military families, recently reported The Learning Channel will be filming at the camp's retreat during the July Fourth weekend.

MaxBotix Inc. opened in Baxter and expanded in leased space in the Baxter Industrial Park on College Road.

Frandsen Financial Corporation announced that the operations of three banks that it owns, Northern National Bank , Community Bank of the Red River Valley , and Frandsen Bank & Trust , will be consolidated under a single FDIC bank charter as of Oct.

A new Mexican restaurant is scheduled to open in Fergus Falls later this month. El Tequila Mexican Restaurant is to open at 524 Western Ave., the former site of Speedway Bar and Grill.

High winds and dry conditions helped spark several fires in Minnesota on Wednesday.

Two dogs were named King and Queen of HART. They led the walk on the Paul Bunyan Trail in Nisswa.

I was given a whole week in the Baxter/Brainerd recreation area: the playground for weekenders who migrate from the cities.

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Our "Friends of Nisswa Lake Park" Committee has been working diligently over the last month or more to design a 3.7-acre lakeside park that meets the needs of our community.

The Nisswa Elementary School PTO will host its fourth annual auction fundraiser April 4 at Grand View Lodge in Nisswa to benefit education programs at Nisswa School.

A Rochester woman was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of fraud after she tried returning nearly $2,000 of goods to the Austin Wal-Mart that were from another store.

The city of Pequot Lakes will lose $78,870 in Local Government Aid this year because of the state's budget deficit, so each city department was directed to cut 5 percent from its budget.

A seven-year-old girl is in critical condition after two cars and a bus collided in Crow Wing County Monday night.

A northern Minnesota school bus bringing high school students back from a Twin Cities field trip struck a car that ran a red light in Crow Wing County, leaving a girl in the car badly hurt, authorities said.

Five clinics have joined the network of primary clincs. They are: Main Street Clinic of Ashland, Wis.; Central Minnesota Sleep Specialists, PLC of Baxter, Minn.; Family Medical Center of Little Falls, Minn.; ...

The purpose of this notice is to advise the public that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency staff has reviewed the proposed Osakis Lake Shoreland Enhancement project and has determined that the preparation ...

We all know the Brainerd Lakes Area is growing. Our lakes and rivers, which help attract people to the area, are feeling the pressure.

For the first time since Rep. John Ward took office, two area students will participate in the Minnesota House of Representatives High SchoolPage Program.

On January 19, 2009 the Lakes Area Drug Investigative Division conducted a search warrant on the 7300 block of Clearwater Road in Baxter.

State Sen. Paul Koering, R-Fort Ripley, and State Rep. John Ward, D-Brainerd, will host a town hall meeting from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan.