The Central Lakes College Foundation, Brainerd and Staples, has announced the inception of two endowments – one bequest for a student engineering-science scholarship and one to support the activities of the Gordon Rosenmeier Center for State and Local Government at CLC. Roberta Rott of Maple Plain has provided $10,000 for …

Eight new international students enrolled at Central Lakes College are being introduced this week by adviser Megan Heppner on the Brainerd campus. They are part of the Community Colleges for International Development program and have come to CLC for one year. “We have been BUSY in Chicago all week,” Megan said last …

KSTP-TV news anchor Jessica Miles, a Brainerd-area native, joins her media director husband, Cory Kampschroer, on Thursday, Aug. 16 at Central Lakes College (CLC) to discuss “What’s Happening to Broadcast News?” The Center for Lifelong Learning at CLC is hosting the one-hour program which starts at 4 p.m. and will …

A Tallahassee, Fla. newspaper reports that ex-Central Lakes College football star Frank Mays is vying for a starting spot on the Florida A & M University team this season. Here is the report by St. Clair Murraine of the Democrat, which pictured Frank working out in one of the pre-season …

The Brainerd campus of Central Lakes College will host a debate among three DFL candidates for the 8th Congressional District on Monday, Aug. 6 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Debate Minnesota, a nonpartisan organization, will sponsor the debate among Tarryl Clark, Jeff Anderson, and Rick Nolan. The debate will take …

Bailey Wachholz, a Central Lakes College PSEO student from Nisswa, will be among 53 women ages 13-17 in Orlando, Fla. Aug. 14-18 competing for the title of Miss America’s Outstanding Teen. It is the “little sister” to Miss America. Bailey is an honor student planning to pursue a career in …

Central Lakes College, Brainerd and Staples, has announced the results of competition among 26 participants who were accepted for the 2012 Summer Engineering and Manufacturing Camp held July 9-13 at the Staples campus. Campers in grades 6-12 were paired in the construction of remote-controlled devices that were timed in an …

On Monday, Sept. 24, Central Lakes College will host poet Li-Young Lee as the first guest presenter of the “Verse Like Water” series produced by the English Department at CLC. Instructor Jeff Johnson, who has coordinated similar national poet readings elsewhere, said the series intends to introduce visiting poets to …

Dustin Yorek, a two-year starting offensive lineman and former football team captain at Central Lakes College, will play for the NCAA Division III Presentation College Saints of Aberdeen, S.D. when he enrolls as a junior this fall. Yorek, whose playing size for the Raiders was 6-2 and 280, was a …

Angela Brown has completed her service to the college community as an Americorps VISTA member. She had worked with the Initiative Foundation’s central Minnesota VISTA project out of CLC since last August. She completed her service with the CLC Foundation and the Brainerd Lakes Area Women’s Fund. Angela built capacity …