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    July 9, 2019
    Thomas Alley, Detroit Lakes, recently graduated from LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas, as one of five students honored with the university's Distinguished Senior Award. (Submitted photo)
    Area students graduating from college
    Alley graduates from LeTourneau University as one of its 'distinguished seniors' Thomas Janne Alley, son of Julie and Daniel Alley, Detroit Lakes,...
    community/peopleJuly 9, 2019 - 5:45pm
    July 1, 2019
    Barb Halbakken Fischburg holds up the commemorative plaque for Friend of the Lakes Award recipients while standing on the public beach by Little Detroit Lake. (Submitted photo)
    DL's Barb Halbakken Fischburg receives LDA Friend of the Lakes Award
    This year marks the 75th year that the Lake Detroiters Association has been promoting their mission of protecting and enhancing the lake. Over...
    community/peopleJuly 1, 2019 - 11:59am
    June 6, 2019
    Left to right: Judge Benson, Desta Lutzwick, and Karoline Gustafson. Not pictured, Jeff Gontarek. Submitted Photo
    New Community Service Program encourages healthy behavior changes in Perham youth
    PERHAM — Youth Actively Restoring Debt (YARD) is a community service program for juvenile offenders sentenced to hours of work in the community....
    community/peopleJune 6, 2019 - 9:54am
    May 17, 2019
    Richwood Lutheran Church organist Jean Erickson was honored recently for 45 years of service to the congregation. She first started playing organ for the church in 1974. (Submitted photo)
    Richwood Lutheran honors Erickson for 45 years as church organist
    Richwood Lutheran Church, located in rural Detroit Lakes, will be celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2022 — and for nearly one third...
    community/peopleMay 17, 2019 - 12:10pm
    Area students graduate from MN colleges
    Local students to graduate from MSUM May 17 MOORHEAD — Minnesota State University Moorhead will award degrees to about 850 students during...
    community/peopleMay 17, 2019 - 12:08pm
    May 8, 2019
    Audubon residents Andrew and Debbie Osten were recently recognized as Becker County's 2019 "Emerging Leaders," after completing the University of Minnesota Extension's leadership course. (University of Minnesota Crookston photo)
    Extension recognizes Audubon couple as 2019 'emerging leaders'
    MOORHEAD — Audubon residents Andrew and Debbie Osten received special recognition at the Emerging Leadership Program Recognition Banquet...
    community/peopleMay 8, 2019 - 3:16pm
    April 3, 2019
    Area students are excelling academically at colleges across MN, N.D.
    Several local students earn academic honors at BSU BEMIDJI — Several lakes area students have earned dean's list and president's list honors...
    community/peopleApril 3, 2019 - 4:11pm
    March 22, 2019
    Area students earn academic honors
    Local students named to MSUM dean's list MOORHEAD — Several local students have been named to the Minnesota State University Moorhead dean's...
    community/peopleMarch 22, 2019 - 12:00pm
    March 9, 2019
    MKRO kindness grant recipient Connie Hammes, Lake Park, cuddles with Kalani, one of the 80-plus feline residents at the Marshmallow Foundation where she currently volunteers and works part-time. Hammes plans to use the $250 grant to help build a 'catio' for their cats to enjoy the outdoors. (Vicki Gerdes / Tribune)
    Cats deserve kindness, too: Lake Park woman to use ‘kindness grant’ to build catio for Marshmallow Foundation
    "Every act of kindness is like a pebble thrown in a pond, sending out ripples far beyond where the pebble entered the water. When we're caring...
    community/peopleMarch 9, 2019 - 12:00pm
    March 2, 2019
    Perham native Greta Guck is the new director of the Detroit Lakes Public Library. She took over the reins from her predecessor, Mary Haney, on Jan. 2. (Vicki Gerdes / Tribune)
    'We're in an exciting era': Detroit Lakes' new library director is relishing her role in the community
    When the Detroit Lakes Public Library's new director, Greta Guck was growing up in Perham, Minnesota, being a librarian was not something she...
    community/peopleMarch 2, 2019 - 8:00pm
    February 3, 2019
    By permission of Boys’ Life Magazine, February 2019, published by the Boy Scouts of America.
    Comic strip depicts Brainerd Boy Scout’s lifesaving efforts
    BRAINERD, Minn. — It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Ben Soukup, Scout in Action! Not many people can say they’ve been immortalized as...
    community/peopleFebruary 3, 2019 - 8:54pm
    January 24, 2019
    Missing Mahnomen woman has been found alive
    MAHNOMEN — A Mahnomen woman who was reported missing on Monday has been found alive. Jennifer Olson, who had last been seen when she was leaving...
    community/peopleJanuary 24, 2019 - 2:26pm
    January 22, 2019
    Area students are excelling academically
    Local students on NDSU's fall dean's list FARGO — Several local residents were among the 4,125 North Dakota State University students...
    community/peopleJanuary 22, 2019 - 4:55pm
    January 10, 2019
    Zirbel has made a number of memory bears over the years for family and friends. Submitted Photo
    In loving memory: Local woman gives grieving families something to hold onto
    Laure Zirbel has been an avid sewer for most of her life. She can make just about anything, but she's been using a pattern for the last 20 years...
    community/peopleJanuary 10, 2019 - 3:00pm
    December 31, 2018
    Sometimes, kindness travels with us
    You know those super awkward moments where everyone is standing in an elevator and no one is talking? They seem to happen anytime we find ourselves...
    community/peopleDecember 31, 2018 - 10:29am
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