BEMIDJI — The cooperative Paul Bunyan Communications is distributing a capital credit return to its members.

According to a release, Paul Bunyan Communications is providing more than $3.6 million back to cooperative members in 2025. When profits are earned by the cooperative, they are allocated to the members based on their proportional share of the allocable revenues. These allocations may then be returned to the individual members through capital credit retirements.

"Our cooperative continues to grow and thrive, now serving over 35,000 active members across over a 6,000-square-mile service area," Paul Bunyan Communications CEO/General Manager Chad Bullock said in the release.

The release states that current members with a distribution of $150 or less had credits applied to their Augus

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