Now that the Minnesota legislature has gone home we can now review what our two members, Rep. Tom Anzelc and Sen. Tom Saxhaug who are supposed to represent us, have done for or to us.

Junk JUNKtion! On Saturday, we paid $8 and went to the The Olde Depot JUNKtion, hosted at the old train depot in Brainerd.

Play it Safe Summer season is finally upon us and with it comes the opportunity for outdoor activities, including recreational and organized sports.

Energy cliff The news that we now have 400 'scary' parts per million of carbon dioxide(CO2) in the atmosphere reminds us that there are more hazardous cliffs than just the well publicized fiscal cliff. There is a climate cliff and an energy cliff.

Congratulations, Pillager class of 2013 graduates! Since the special graduation section of the Dispatch was unable to print a valedictorian and salutatorian for Pillager High School, I would like to take this opportunity to recognize Pillager’s Honor Graduates with Distinction: Sonora ...

If you saw the stirring front page picture (Tuesday) of Pack 36’s Cub Scouts at attention saluting as the flag was being raised at the Memorial Day observances at Evergreen Cemetery you had to have gotten a chill running down your back....

Same sex marriage Folks may be dancing in the streets of Mudville over the passage of the same sex marriage law in Minnesota, but as far as I am concerned, they have bought the gay, lesbian and politician's propaganda hook, line and sinker.

This is a message to all of those who think there is no God, that there are many gods, that God is not watching everything all the time, or that we are all gods and can do exactly what we want, when we want.

Crow Wing residents In reference to the front page headline of Saturday's paper, titled Heist, "Welcome to Crow Wing County.

A May 23 letter writer said, “We do not live in a democracy, we live in a republic.”