SEPTEMBER 12

20 years ago (2005)

It looks like the Hurricane Katrina evacuees won’t be coming to Camp Ripley after all. First estimated at 3,000 and later just 300, FEMA says none are coming for now. The four semi-truckloads of clothing collected for use here will now be shipped to Mississippi.

30 years ago (1995)

A district court judge has resolved a two-year old dispute by ruling that the county’s assistant attorneys are underpaid. This is the latest step in a budget appeal filed by then-County Attorney Jack Graham on behalf of John Sausen and Robert Polzak.

40 years ago (1985)

There are six men in the Brainerd Fire Department that feel like they’ve lost their family. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling said that engineers – those city employees who drive and maintain the fire trucks – can

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