Emily News

Crow Wing County Board Member, Doug Houge, attended the Council meeting to discuss the proposed ATV trail that starts in Brainerd and will be going through Emily.

The Weyerhaeuser Company has retained CB Richard Ellis to sell approximately 680 acres of timber land near Emily, a village near Cross Lake in north central Minnesota.

Meaning The name Emily means "rival" and is derived from Latin. History Historically, although Emily was in the top 100 names in the 1880s, the name slowly declined in popularity through the 1950s, before ...

Joe Gries, Randy Johnson, Jason Tollette and Mike Seeker made up the winning team at Emily,Outing, and Fifty Lakes Lions second annual Golf Tournament held at Golden Eagle Golf course in Fifty Lakes on June 22, ...

Jesse Drake, 13, of Emily, took part in the Midwest Regional Yo-Yo Championship on Saturday, June 21 at the Mall of America rotunda.

Last Monday in a closed session, the Emily City Council accepted police chief John Reed's retirement and named Lt.

Great cookies have been a part of the Paul Bunyan story for years. Rick Beyer at A-Pine Restaurant has a huge Paul Bunyan woodcut advertising the Paul Bunyan Cookie Company.

Two Emily residents who have challenged a proposed settlement between the City of Emily and the developer of 'Northern Lights Over Roosevelt Lake' project will be allowed to intervene in the case.

The Crooked Lake Volunteer Fire Department was called to Andreson Drive on Monday, June 16 and extinguished the burning home belonging to Bob and Sherry Gage.

The Council approved the preliminary Plat for Roosevelt Shores based on twelve findings of fact and twenty conditions.

Nortel has simplified the transition from traditional voice technology to VoIP making it easy for regional service providers like Silver Star Communications and the Emily Cooperative Telephone Company to ...

A dedicated group of individuals from Duluth, MN travels to offer a helping hand and hope to Guatemalans Last May, a group of volunteers from the University of Minnesota, Duluth traveled to Antigua, Guatemala ...

Mayor Lehman, Senator Koering, Senator Coleman and Representative John Ward, posed with the Nisswa American Legion Officers - photo by Clem Maust The annual Emily Memorial Day ceremony drew over 100 visitors to ...

The Council approved using Black Diamond to trim seven trees and take down three trees in the amount of $1,709.33. The Parks Commission was also approved to purchase two tennis court nets and center straps not ...

Some Minnesota bars have taken to calling themselves "theaters," freely reclassifying patrons as actors so they may legally smoke indoors. via Star Tribune

The former St. Paul public-works employee who pleaded guilty to emptying the contents of parking meters into his own pockets was sentenced Friday to 90 days in jail. via St. Paul Pioneer Press

“I started writing poetry when I was a teenager to make sense out of things that didn't always make sense to me”

In honor of National Poetry Month, the St. Cloud Times encouraged area poets to send their best original work on the topic of "spring," in a sonnet of 14 lines. via St. Cloud Times Online

“Uncle ___'s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly”

ACROSS 1. Not yours 4. Lucky four-leafs 9. Wal-, K-, Kwiki- 12. Rude shush, "Shut your ___" 14. via Land

“We saw the system from inside and outside”

Judge Wally Senyk, left, celebrates National Adoption Day last year with adoptive parents Emily and Dan Johnson and their children, Nick, Alexander and Judah. via Daily Journal

A blizzard still rages in the city of Duluth Friday afternoon. Wind gusts of more than 50 mph are driving nearly a foot of snow already on the ground. via KARE-TV Minneapolis