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Special Edition - Larissa's Top Area Stories of 2023

KAXE/KBXE Reporter Larissa Donovan reflects on some of her favorite stories she covered outside of her usual territory. Highlights include the Highway 35, LLC project plans in Grand Rapids, challenged library books at Brainerd Public Schools, assisting with KAXE coverage of the Blandin Paper Mill strike and IM Care/Lakeview Behavioral Health contract, and the Energy News Network series on the Iron Range.

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Chelsey Perkins became the News Director in early 2023 and was tasked with building a new local newsroom at the station. She is based in Brainerd and leads a team of two reporters covering communities across Northern Minnesota from the KAXE studio in Grand Rapids and the KBXE studio in Bemidji.
Larissa Donovan has been in the Bemidji area's local news scene since 2016, joining the KAXE newsroom in 2023 after several years as the News Director for the stations of Paul Bunyan Broadcasting.
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