20 years ago (1991) (Photo) Walt Konen, building supervisor for the Crow Wing County Museum, moves a water cooler jar filled with over 25,000 pennies. The pennies were contributed by visitors, and there is a goal of 2 million pennies to be raised by the end of 1991.   3...

20 years ago (1991) Roy Trowbridge has seen trapping slide from its heyday to today — when it's not fashionable to wear fur. “There are only a few trappers left,” said the 83-year-old, who's been trapping for 75 years. He's still called out to take care of pesky beaver.  ...

20 years ago (1991) (Photos) Brainerd High School graduate Chuck Marohn gives a thumbs-up to the ceremony in the high school gym. Senior class president Michelle McCollough tells Class of '91 and audience members that integrity brought out many achievements.   30 years ...

MAY 30 20 years ago (1991) Imagine more than 1,000 people living in one square block of space for eight hours a day, sharing six bathrooms and six water fountains. That was how one Washington Middle School teacher described conditions in the crowded building.  ...

MAY 29 20 years ago (1991) Brainerd Mayor Bonnie Cumberland likened the relationship between Brainerd and Baxter to a romance. “Not love at first sight, but we like each other.” When a merger was suggested, Baxter Mayor Don O'Brien said, “Throw out your charte...

20 years ago (1991) With three vacancies on the staff, Lake Region Clinic has launched a search for more physicians. Dr. Arden Anderson is retiring and Muesing and Roemelling are leaving. Drs. Boran, Gray, Knipp and Stephenson will double their caseloads in the interim.   ...

20 years ago (1991) There are 16,000 stories to recall at Brainerd's Evergreen Cemetery on this Memorial Day. The timbered hills have filled since the first person — Charlotte E. Cowley — was carried there in 1872, when Brainerd was just a settlement.   30 years ago...

20 years ago (1991) (Photos) Mark Platta of Brainerd lured in a 2-5 brook trout using a nightcrawler. Rebekah Ressen and Rhonda Jujan of Brainerd pulled in a 5-8 rainbow trout using a fly in eight feet of water. Both photos taken by Nisswa Bait Shop.   30 years ago (198...

20 years ago (1991) (Photo) Hundreds of players eagerly drop nickels and quarters into slot machines at Grand Casino Mille Lacs near Onamia. Nearly 20,000 gamblers a week have come through the doors since the hall opened on April 2.   30 years ago (1981) At the...

MAY 23 20 years ago (1991) Brainerd Warrior sophomore Anne Gustafson has qualified for her second straight trip to the Class AA state golf tournament after a fifth place finish at the Region 8AA tourney.    30 years ago (1981)  A Seei...