Pequot Lakes News

The Radco Truck Accessory Center's new Baxter facility, formerly home to The Floor to Ceiling Store, is on track for a late March opening.

The Catholic churches in Nisswa, Pequot Lakes and Pine River have been clustered as Lake Country Parishes for eight years, and now those three churches will move toward a merger complete with one worship site and a new name.

The historic fire tower on County Road 11 near Pequot Lakes is the last vestige of a series of fire towers designed to provide early warning of a fire in the heavily wooded region.

The visiting Pequot Lakes Patriots were outscored 14-3 in overtime in losing to the Thunderhawks of Grand Rapids on Saturday Jan.

The Crow Wing County Sheriff's office responded to a report at 9:08 a.m. Thursday to a two-vehicle accident involving a school bus at the railroad tracks at Washington Street and 13th Street in Brainerd.

Leah Petersen, of Sauk Rapids, a 2008 graduate of St. Cloud Apollo High School, and Ryan Markham, of Pequot Lakes, worked with Staples Elementary pupils Nicholas Sharma and Kaitlyn Smith in the Central Lakes College Staples campus science lab recently.