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Unemployment down slightly to 4.4% in Minnesota

Lindsay Gust, owner of Lulie Kids, holds up her recognition from the Alexandria Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors. Gust's new business is located on Sixth Avenue E in downtown Alexandria. (Contributed)
Business

Chamber ambassadors highlight local business

Senior students Caleb Wendel (left) and Zachary Kent hold up $1,000 scholarship checks they won at the annual DECA Shark Tank competition on Sunday. From left to right, judges Elsworth Holm, Mike Tripp, Mark Watkins, Kyle Athey and Nathan Kary stand with the students. “Although I am extremely grateful for having been awarded a scholarship, this experience was something that paid itself forward without a financial incentive,” Kent said. “Experiences like this at our age level are priceless.” (Contributed)
Business

Scholarship awarded to Shark Tank winners was ‘the cherry on top’

Transportation

Otter Tail County man helps American Airlines get 737 Max back in the air

Carl Vaagenes
Business

Alomere Health CEO honored as the 2020 Friend of the Chamber

Jack Pine Brewery in Baxter, Minn., began canning beer in 2017, as seen in this submitted file photo. A health crisis that has consumers wary of eating and drinking outside the house has only exacerbated what is now an aluminum can shortage. Unable to get cans from its usual supplier, Jack Pine Brewery instead is buying them at twice the cost from a different vendor. (Submitted photo)
Restaurants and Bars

For region’s breweries, aluminum can shortage comes at an already difficult time

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Agriculture

Minnesota Fresh see sales surge during pandemic

From left to right, this year’s Top 5 Under 40 Chamber honorees are Alexis Wagner, special education teacher at Lincoln Elementary School; Bobbi Perseke, office manager at Alexandria Precision Machining; Derek Goracke, chiropractor at Central Lakes Chiropractic Clinic; Michelle Nessman, CEO and Founder of Elite; and KaLee Mohrman director of hospice at Knute Nelson.
Business

Alexandria Chamber reveals ‘Top 5 Under 40’ young professionals

The Brass Lantern in the Viking Plaza Mall in Alexandria sits empty as the restaurant will not be reopening. (Celeste Edenloff / Echo Press)
Restaurants and Bars

Brass Lantern owner says several factors play into Alexandria restaurant's closure

Dr. Robert Zajac holds a sign welcoming families to New Kingdom Healthcare. The business recently opened its fifth location in Alexandria. (Contribtued)
Business

On the Street: January 15

After nearly 44 years in business, Les Johnson is retiring and closing up shop. His store, Douglas County Home Center, also known as Douglas County Lumber, is officially closed. (Celeste Edenloff / Echo Press)
Business

Douglas County Home Center in Alexandria closes after nearly 44 years in business

Palmer Creations staff members Jim Palmer, owner; Mark Beasley, pre-press employee; Joanne Brown, project manager; Jen Bergerson, senior perspective ad manager; Bud Prescott, graphic designer; David Drever, pressman; Bethany Hellem, graphic designer; Jim Arvidson, senior perspective salesperson; Carol Wenner, Definitive Woman and Lakes Area Magazine salesperson; and Lynn Barton, graphic designer. (Contributed)
Business

Chamber membership team spotlights new members

After 38 years, Brass Lantern has closed its doors. A post on the Brass Lantern's Facebook page dated Jan. 9 indicated a variety of circumstances were behind the reasoning to close. (Echo Press file photo)
Restaurants and Bars

Brass Lantern in Alexandria closes its doors after 38 years

Gio Cerise, left, of the White Earth Nation comforts Dawn Goodwin as they watch workers resume construction on the Line 3 pipeline in Aitkin County, Minn., on Saturday, Jan. 9. (Ben Hovland for MPR News)
Energy and Mining

Protesters gather at Line 3 construction site in Aitkin County

Robyn Snyder, owner of Winning Edge and the Chamber president for 2020, addressed those who attended the Alexandria Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce annual celebration Jan. 27, 2020. (Echo Press file photo)
Events

Alexandria Chamber’s annual celebration moves online

Kelly Sayre
Events

Listen and Learn speaker to address resiliency, diversity

Agriculture

Mann Lake Limited offers one stop shop for backyard farming

Heather Ahrens, CEO of the Greater Alexandria Area Association of Realtors, and Brian Flaten, 2020 Association President, hold up a certificate for participation in a statewide giving campaign. (Contributed)
Business

On the Street: January 8

Owner Mike Robison serves a patron a drink Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the Alley On Ash in New London. The Alley On Ash is one of the many area bars and restaurants that will have to close their doors each day after 10 p.m. beginning Friday, Nov. 13 as a result of COVID-19 cases rising in Minnesota. Erica Dischino / West Central Tribune
Restaurants and Bars

Minnesota's restaurants prepare for reopening, again

Events

Vance Thompson Vision to hold ‘Wake Up Alexandria’

On the corner of Sixth Avenue and Broadway Street in Alexandria, a bright-colored sign for the store Magpie sports the tagline, “Expect the unexpected.” Engraved words at the top of the structure read, “Raiter and Gunderson,” a nod toward the century-long history of the building. (Jasmine Johnson / Echo Press)
History

If these buildings could talk: Magpie