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    What's up: Leading stories in Brainerd

    2021-09-04

    (BRAINERD, MN) Check out this roundup of hyper-local news in Brainerd.

    Pulled from contributors around the region, here’s a glimpse of what’s going on nearby. For more stories from the Brainerd area, click here.

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    Local nursing homes report COVID cases

    Local nursing homes report COVID cases

    Amid a massive decline in COVID-19 in nursing homes since vaccines became available, some local facilities are reporting active cases of the disease. The two Good Samaritan Society facilities in Brainerd both had positive cases as of Tuesday, Aug. 31, according to a statement from Executive Director Mike Deuth. Two residents in the Bethany facility were positive, along with four staff members and one resident in the Woodland facility. Also Tuesday, Cuyuna Regional Medical Center in Crosby announced it would restrict visitors once again in response to a positive test in a Care Center resident. Read more

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    Victim reports burglary days later, Breezy Point man charged

    Victim reports burglary days later, Breezy Point man charged

    A 39-year-old Breezy Point man faces burglary charges after breaking into a residence and allegedly taking cash and using a yellow-handled crescent wrench and a steak knife to assault a victim. Benjamin Gregory Nelson, 39, was charged Friday in Crow Wing County District Court in Brainerd for felony first- and... Read more

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    2021 hottest summer on record in Brainerd

    2021 hottest summer on record in Brainerd

    2020 will stick in people’s memories for a number of reasons, but it likely won’t be for its summer heat as this year swiftly wiped it from the record books. The National Weather Service in Duluth reported the meteorological summer of 2021 — June 1 through Aug. 31 — is the hottest on record for both Brainerd and Duluth. The record is determined by the mean average temperature, taking into account the highs and lows for each day and averaging that across the three-month stretch. For Brainerd, summer 2021’s mean average was 71.3 degrees, just slightly higher than the 71.1 degrees recorded in 2020. Read more

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    Brainerd Chamber Hosts Business Input Session on Highway 210 Reconstruction

    Brainerd Chamber Hosts Business Input Session on Highway 210 Reconstruction

    Originally aired September 1, 2021 on Lakeland News Read more

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