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Community newspapers, like the Dispatch, still going strong

...newspaper buy it because it provides valuable local shopping and advertising information. What percentage buy it for shopping? Sixty-nine percent.Unlike the Brainerd lakes area, other newspapers in towns similar in size, only 46 percent of newspaper readers...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2013-06-10/community-newspapers-dispatch-sti
Opinion
FCC should repeal Newspaper-Broadcast ownership rule

...more trustworthy, than any media outlet that is run to please an owner or a group guided by a profit-maximizing motive. Sixty percent of Americans used social media to engage in political activities in the election of 2012. None of us can know what...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2013-06-10/fcc-should-repeal-n
Guest Columns
Nisswa Garden Club hears talk on container gardening

...events. The "student of the year" awards were given to Justin Jackson, Staples campus, and Brook Ferrian, Brainerd campus.Sixty-four students were also recognized for their outstanding efforts in the classroom by earning a perfect 4.0 grade point average...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2013-05-07/nisswa-garden-club-hears-talk-contai
News
*Update Notification

...smartphone, this has been perfect. Just last week it was announced that the long awaited Android version was finally available. Sixty seconds of frantic matching was now available in the palm of my hand. This game has long been my go-to for a time killer...

http://brainerddispatch.com/lifestyle/tech/2013-05-24/update-notification
Tech
This was Brainerd - Apr. 28

...drive, managed by Supt. Ed Lavoie and his 90 river drivers, left Brainerd on Friday morning and has arrived at Ft. Ripley. Sixty million board feet are to be floated on down to Minneapolis. The water in the Mississippi is at a fair stage and has risen...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2013-04-26/was-brainerd-%E2%80%94-apr-28
Opinion
Gardening and helping others with her passion - has been a half lifetime venture

Sixty-nine-year-old Nisswa resident Dorothy Johnson has been a Master Gardener through the University of Minnesota (UMN) Extension...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-07-11/gardening-and-helping-others-her-pas
News | Lifestyle
Dayton sales tax plan would be boon to some Minn. cities

...expansion is no sure thing. St. Paul, which levies a half-cent sales tax, is also taking a wait-and-see mentality. Sixty percent of those proceeds go for neighborhood or cultural development, with the rest used to repay debt from the city's convention...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2013-01-28/dayton-sales-tax-plan-would-be-boon-
News | Political
Forestview students compete in Math Masters competition

Sixty-five fifth-graders from Forestview Middle School recently participated in a Math Masters competition in Bemidji and Grand Rapids...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-05-09/forestview-students-compete-math-mas
News
Depression is real and people can get help

STAPLES - Sixty-three-year-old Linda Loftis of Pillager thanks God everyday that she is alive.Loftis didn't think she'd make it to...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-05-08/depression-real-and-people-can-get-h
News
Father to dispute claim he abandoned son

HASTINGS, Minn. (AP) - A Minnesota father plans to dispute allegations that he abandoned his 11-year-old son.Sixty-year-old Steven Cross of Lakeville appeared Monday in Dakota County court on a gross misdemeanor of child neglect...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/crime/2011-10-04/father-dispute-claim-he-abando
Crime

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