We love that it's just a little community that feels like home. It just has this feeling of everybody just coming and having a good time together. It's a tradition . People come here every year and it's so fun to see those same people every year ...We don't care if they go to our place, to Companeros, or wherever, they're coming into town and we love it . - Rachel Erickson, owner of the Dorset Chick'n Coop Reastaurant and Bar

Let's Visit is our monthly look at a town or area in northern Minneosta. This summer we focused on Blackduck. In these segments hear about Blackduck from the perspective of a transplant from Illinois, a transplant from Deer River and a business owner who wouldn't want to live anywhere else!

Kelliher School serves nearly 300 students in kindergarten thru twelfth grade. It’s a small school with a huge personality. In this segment of Let’s Visit, discover some of the magic happening in Kelliher School- an active robotics team, classroom cattle, hydroponic gardening, community projects to make the world healthier and safer, and a fabrication lab that fuses art class with shop class turning kids’ design dreams into reality. The innovative, often student-driven learning experiences

Kelliher School serves nearly 300 students in kindergarten thru twelfth grade. It’s a small school with a huge personality. In this segment of Let’s Visit, discover some of the magic happening in Kelliher School- an active robotics team, classroom cattle, hydroponic gardening, community projects to make the world healthier and safer, and a fabrication lab that fuses art class with shop class turning kids’ design dreams into reality. The innovative, often student-driven learning experiences

Kelliher School serves nearly 300 students in kindergarten thru twelfth grade. It’s a small school with a huge personality. In this segment of Let’s Visit, discover some of the magic happening in Kelliher School- an active robotics team, classroom cattle, hydroponic gardening, community projects to make the world healthier and safer, and a fabrication lab that fuses art class with shop class turning kids’ design dreams into reality. The innovative, often student-driven learning experiences

…I think that’s one of the fun things about this whole endeavor that I’ve been on. Different people. Different materials. Different designs. It’s just really kind of fun.... and they're not my customers, they're my friends. - Michael Kelsey Michael Kelsey has been making and selling jewelry since the 1970s. He owned Kelsey’s As You Like It in downtown Bemidji for 42 years before closing the store and retiring in 2017. He’s still designing jewelry in his home workshop. This past Friday Michael

Today we talked with Hollis Emery - Program Director & Youth & Individual Placement Programs with Conservation Corps of Minnesota and Iowa . She told us about the opportunites for 18-25 year olds as well as students age 15-18.

All of our staff here are very passionate about our animals and we want what's best for them. We want them to have happiness at the end of this. - Jennifer Lee, Babinski Foundation The Babinski Foundation in Pequote Lakes started as a longtime dream of Donald Babinski. His hopes for animals to have "the shot they need to find a great home" became a reality when the Babinski Animal Shelter opened its doors in 2017. The state of the art facility offers a positive experience for stray or

Today on Boozhoo Nana Boozhoo we learn the Ojibwe words Aandeg and Makwa - the crow and the bear. Check out the video podcast below!

This week Marshall from the Timberjay newspaper has a lot to report - on a recent Court of Appeals overturning of a water permit for Minntac that was a win for both sides - US Steel as well as environmental groups. He also tells us the reason behind an interim rate hike for MN Power customers and a dip into the effect of wind turbines on bird deaths.