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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 …

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 …

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 …

Central Lakes College was well-represented today at a race equity summit titled “Leading Toward Race Equity and Excellence in Education” held at the Initiative Foundation, Little Falls. Mary Sam, CLC director of intercultural services, diversity, and tribal relations, facilitated the event for about 60 area business, education, and community leaders …

Dr. Andrew T. Hook, PhD, an international economist, will teach one economics course at Central Lakes College starting with the fall term Aug. 27. Dr. Hook is scheduled to teach a three-credit, topics in economics course titled “Globalization” Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10 to 10:50 a.m. in C237 on …

PHOTO: From left, Geoff Dittberner, for Minnesota State College Student Association president; President-Elect Steve Sabin of Central Lakes College, and Moriah Miles of the Minnesota State University Student Ass’n. in Washington, D.C., after they witnessed President Barack Obama signing the bill that will prevent Stafford loan interest rates from doubling …

Charles E. “Charlie” Stevens, 94, passed away July 6. He was one of 19 members of the graduating class of Brainerd Junior College in 1940– the first in Brainerd. Starting college in 1938 was a privilege, he once said, just as it is today for those capable of managing the …

Sunnie Pavlacky Adsitt, a graduate of the Central Lakes College Dental Assisting program, is employed at Park Dental in Blaine following graduation this year from the University of Minnesota Dental School as a doctor of dental surgery. She is the daughter of Sonny and Vicky Pavlacky. Her grandmother, Thelma Pavlacky, …