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Mark Dayton, a DFL candidate for governor of Minnesota, stopped by the Brainerd campus of Central Lakes College Thursday, July 22. He toured part of the campus and witnessed an EZ Enrollment Day at which nearly 130 new students registered for the fall semester that starts Aug. 23. Over the …

The Central Lakes College Veterans’ Resource Center in Brainerd on Tuesday, July 27, will host an afternoon for American Indian military veterans, spouses and their dependents. The event is for anyone interested in exploring higher education and educational benefits that are available through military education programs. Veterans and their families …

A Brainerd Eagle Scout candidate is making the Central Lakes College campus in Brainerd animal-friendly. Joshua Hofmann has built 13 homes for birds and small mammals on the 121-acre campus near the Mississippi River. The sites range from small and close to the ground for Orchard Mason bees to a …

Brady Dunham (right), 14, of Palisade and his cousin, Dylan Smith, 15, of LaPorte constructed a winning robot at the sixth annual Central Lakes College Summer Engineering and Manufacturing Camp. SEaM Camp is a week of entertaining education for grades 7-12, emphasizing hands-on work with electronics, motor controllers, mechanical drafting, …

Central Lakes College has numerous remodeling and campus improvement projects under way this summer. The Brainerd campus is filled with the sound of workers installing heating and ventilation ducts, as well as converting classrooms to more efficient and specific spaces for new curriculum. There’s also new carpeting in the first …

Nick Heisserer has accepted the position of Central Lakes College Registrar and will start in the position on or about August 4. We know Nick from his work as Assistant Director of our TRIO/Upward Bound program from 2004-2008. Nick also served as Interim Director of TRIO/Upward Bound during 2008-09, taught …

Psychology students at Central Lakes College will earn bachelor’s degree credits at St. Cloud State University thanks to an articulation agreement signed July 30 by CLC President Dr. Larry Lundblad. As part of the agreement, the one-hour lab portion of an online St. Cloud State Psychology course will be offered …

The campuses of Central Lakes College, Brainerd and Staples, are dotted with construction zones as remodeling and ventilation improvements take place this summer. Here are some of the projects: 1. New Videography Production studio and Mac lab at Staples; 2. Chalberg Theater, where work begins July 19 to install new …

Dr. William Faber, a natural resources instructor at Central Lakes College, Brainerd, was on the organizing committee for the 45th North American Moose Conference June 23-26 at Voyageurs National Park near International Falls, and Central Lakes College was one of 14 co-sponsors of the event. Faber chaired a two-hour conference …

“Noises Off,” described as “the funniest farce ever written,” closes the Central Lakes College summer theatre season July 6-10 and 13-17 in Chalberg Theatre on the Brainerd campus. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. “Noises Off” plays on the concept of a play-within-a-play, in this case a dreadful sex comedy titled …