The Minnesota College Athletic Conference has named the inaugural MCAC Fall Elite ’17 Team, which consists of the top performing student-athletes which excel both in the classroom and in the competitive arena. CLC’s own Paige Wallevand was named to this MCAC Fall Elite ’17 Team. A new conference initiative this academic year, MCAC Elite Teams are …

Central Lakes College is celebrating National Girls & Women in Sports Day by inviting area students to attend a women’s basketball game for free. Any area student, no matter what age, will get in free to the Wednesday, Feb. 7 Women’s basketball game against Mesabi Range Community and Technical College, …

The deadline has been extended to March 1 to give to the Raider Athletics Capital Campaign. Central Lakes College recently launched the Raider Athletics Capital Campaign with a goal to raise $220,000 in order to provide student athletes with the best possible opportunities. The project scope includes: To renovate the …

The Central Lakes College Art Gallery presents The Sky is Falling, an exhibition and workshop by visiting artist Tim Kowalczyk. During this workshop Kowalczyk will be demonstrating his unique building process and image transfer techniques. The exhibition will showcase Kowalczyk’s trompe-l’oeil ceramic sculptures. An artist workshop will be held on Friday, …

At first glance, the title ‘Five Women Wearing the Same Dress’ sounds like a physical impossibility. Instead, this often hilarious, sometimes poignant, always funny play is the first spring season offering of Brainerd Community Theatre. The play runs February 23-24 and March 1-2 at 7:30 p.m., with an additional 2 …

Verse Like Water: the visiting poet program of Central Lakes College, will present New York Times best-selling author Nick Flynn at noon Feb. 14 in the Chalberg Theatre. Flynn is a poet, playwright and memoirist, and his book Being Flynn topped the New York Times best seller list. It was …

The next Rosenmeier Forum titled “Gordon Rosenmeier: A legislative legend” will be at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 12 at the Chalberg Theatre, Central Lakes College Brainerd campus. The event is free and open to the public. The speaker is Steven Dornfeld, a former seasoned political reporter who researched and wrote …

Central Lakes College Welding students took a majority of the awards at the 2018 American Welding Society’s Behind the Mask Welding Competition, held recently in Eveleth. The competition was for both students and industry professionals. CLC students placed in 6 of the 9 award categories, coming out on top over …

In conjunction with Black History Month, Central Lakes College will host Duluth Human Rights Director Carl Crawford for its February Cultural Thursday event. Crawford will address the state of our post-racial society in our community, state and nation. This presentation will take place at noon Feb. 1 in the Chalberg Theatre, …

Combining ancient dance form with familiar ideas about the earth and our stewardship of it, the world renowned Ragamala Dance Company will present ‘Sacred Earth’ on February 9 at 7:30 p.m. The performance, part of the Central Lakes Community Performing Arts Center’s Cultural Arts Series, will be held in the …