? PLHS spring play opens Thursday PEQUOT LAKES - The Pequot Lakes High School (PLHS) student production of "The Giver" will be performed at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 2, and Friday and 2 p.m. Sunday in the high school theater.

...this collection, but I highly recommend looking up his reading of it on YouTube. "Whorled" by Ed Bok Lee won the Minnesota Book Award for poetry last year. His spare, elegant compositions relay the experiences of a child of immigrants from South...

? New York Trio to perform Tuesday at Tornstrom Intersection, a New York trio consisting of violinist Laura Frautschi, cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper and pianist John Novacek will perform at 7:30 p.m.

? Minnesota Poet Laureate to be featured guest Minnesota's Poet Laureate, Joyce Sutphen, will be the featured guest for a reading and reception event hosted by the League of Minnesota Poets and Heartland Poets at 7 p.m. Oct.

Nisswa fine art show and sale set NISSWA - The Lakes Area Artists' Fine Art Show and Sale is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 23-25 at the Nisswa Community Center.This month, 12 artists will display their work in many mediums, including oils, acrylics, watercolors, pottery, nature prints, rosemaling, collage, jewelry, fiber arts and more. Prints, cards, bookmarks and other items also will be available.

...and a man of mixed heritage-part Irish and part Ojibwe. His work has received a number of awards including the Minnesota Book Award, the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award, the Anthony Award, the Barry Award and the Friends of American Writers...

CAREER Barnett elected to board of directors LITTLE FALLS - Lisa Barnett of Atomic Learning, Inc., Little Falls, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Education Division of the Software & Information Industry Association.

...history."The Opposite of Cold" was released in September of 2010 and has since won the Midwest Book Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction. Hautala is owner and creative director of RedHouseMedia, a Brainerd advertising agency...

...and a man of mixed heritage-part Irish and part Ojibwe. His work has received a number of awards including the Minnesota Book Award, the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award, the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, and the Friends of American Writers...

...Sauna Tradition" with photography by Aaron Hautala of RedHouseMedia in Brainerd, is one of four finalists in the Minnesota Book Awards within the General Non-Fiction Category to be decided in April. During March readers throughout Minnesota...