Blackduck MN

Events this week include a car show in Grand Rapids, the Lakes Area Music Festival kickoff in Brainerd, Animal Tracks & Signs in Bagley and the Blackduck Woodcarvers Festival.

The Drakes will represent Northern Minnesota along with Brainerd, Esko, Badger/Greenbush-Middle River and Moose Lake/Willow River at the 2025 state softball tournament.

Family and fishing are big at the Kitchi Landing Resort south of Blackduck, which was once operated by Val Engelman's great-grandfather as Hagen's Resort.

While Rachel Gray loves to be in the fields raising beef cattle, she spends a lot of her day tracking markets and shares how changes like tariffs could impact the industry.

The region will be well represented in the Class A meet, with 69 entries; Northern Minnesota has five entries in the 2A meet.

The Red Lake Department of Natural Resources invited students from Blackduck, Kelliher, Ponemah and Red Lake for the Water Festival at Concordia Language Villages on Oct. 10, 2024.

U.S. Sen. Tina Smith visited with farmers in Blackduck about the soggy start to the planting season. Congress still has far to go on the already-delayed 2022 Farm Bill.

The exhibit will be on display in Bigfork through Sept. 30.

After a career in teaching, Rachel Gray returned to her family's ranch, where she now breeds designer cattle in an effort to best serve her buyers and her heifers.

Jennifer Morrison, sales and marketing director for Anderson Fabrics in Blackduck MN, took some time to talk with Maggie Montgomery from Northern…