Jumpstart Your Goals with Help from Inspiring Area Women -- DispatchCast Episode 024
With New Year's Eve already a month behind us, now's the time to get inspired to keep moving on your resolutions -- or get them restarted. Who better to help with that than three women who managed to ...
30 Jan 201836min
Destination Downtown Business Challenge - The Finalists -- DispatchCast Episode 023
And then there were three. Three entrepreneurs remain in the Destination Downtown Business Challenge, each dreaming of a different business to add to downtown Brainerd. Meet the minds behind an artisa...
13 Nov 201736min
Lakes Area Athletes Head to State - DispatchCast Episode 022
To find some of the premier prep athletes in the state, one need look no further than Brainerd and its neighbors. Four area football teams and two volleyball teams have earned their ways into this wee...
9 Nov 201717min
What To Read This Winter -- DispatchCast Episode 021
Winter is coming, and the cozy book nook is calling. But what should you read? Two local book nerds and Brainerd Public Library advocates Laurel Hall and Sheila DeChantal have you covered with all the...
25 Okt 201730min
Reselling, Recycling and Reconstructing: Three Lakes Area Businesses Profiled -- DispatchCast Episode 020
The life cycle of stuff: it's created, it's resold to others or it finds new life in a recycled product. In this Progress Edition episode of the DispatchCast, reporters Jennifer Stockinger and Spenser...
13 Okt 201734min
Clarity, Empathy and the Interview: Dispatch Reporters Talk Technique -- DispatchCast Episode 019
Essential to the craft, interviewing can be one of the most difficult tasks a journalist and an interviewee must undergo. Sometimes emotional, sometimes prickly or stilted or effortless, interviews ra...
2 Okt 201745min
Building in the Brainerd Lakes -- DispatchCast Episode 018
One company's materials are new. The other relies on those created in centuries past. In another Progress Edition episode of the DispatchCast, reporters Spenser Bickett and Chelsey Perkins bring the s...
22 Sep 201727min
14 Lakes Joins Six-Pack of Area Breweries -- DispatchCast Episode 017
The newcomer to the craft brewery scene in the Brainerd lakes area is 14 Lakes Craft Brewing Co., opening up shop in Crosslake. The company takes its name from the nearby Whitefish Chain of Lakes, whi...
15 Sep 201711min
