Well we all know the Brainerd Jaycees Ice Fishing Extravaganza is coming up on January 30th, with fishing statewide, but if you just can’t just get enough fishing (and some of us can’t) there is this to follow. The Cuyuna Lakes Chamber’s 17th Annual Ice Fishing Contest is on Saturday, Feb. 6, from 12 to 3 p.m. Catch a fish …

Deer feeding and attractant restrictions remain in place in Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Rice, Scott and Washington counties. These counties were added on July 1, 2020, to the bans already were in place in the following counties affected by chronic wasting disease: Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Hubbard, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Mower, Olmsted, Steele, Todd, Wabasha, Wadena …

How would you like to make a difference in the life of a child?  January is National Mentoring Month and Kinship Partners is always looking for caring adults who would like to become mentors to a number of lakes area children – some of whom have been on a waiting list for quite some time.

Every month on B93.3 we draw winners for the big prizes in the Headlines or Hogwash contest from the “Morning Show.” For the month of December we are pleased to announce that the winners are Tim Johnson of Brainerd for the $200 and Karen Tate of Crosby wins the certificate worth $100 to the Baxter Café. 

 Monday night we had the chance to join in a community “Thank You” to some of the health care workers that have been so crucial this year.

I was handed a letter today that arrived at our radio station and it was sent by Heather Kelm, Executive Director of Port Group Homes in Brainerd.  I thought I would pass it along to you in an effort to maybe help them fill the gap the children may be feeling as we get closer to Christmas.  The letter reads …

If you were watching ‘Saturday Night Live’ this past weekend on NBC, you might have noticed a story local to the Brainerd Lakes area made it’s way on the popular segment “Weekend Update”.

The Minnesota Department of Health in partnership with the Minnesota National Guard, Crow Wing County and Central Lakes College, will offer a pop-up testing clinic at Central Lakes College this Thursday through Saturday, December 17th thru the 19th.

Just one month after being honored at the CMA’s with a lifetime achievement award and performing on national television, iconic pioneering country musician Charley Pride has died at the age of 86. 

Since the public rinks have been closed in Minnesota due to the pandemic, many families are making due with their own backyard and lakeside rinks. Over the past few weeks we have seen many pictures of families building and icing their own rinks. If they are lucky enough to be on a lake shoveling off a space on new lake …