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- City budgets keeping up with snowfalls
Tina Nolden with the Pequot Lakes Public Works Department worked to uncover a manhole in Pequot Lakes.
- Firefighters respond to 59 fire calls in past year
Nisswa fire chief Richard Geike presented the end-of-the-year fire report to the city council Wednesday, Dec.
- Highway 371 communities to seek federal funding for project
A Highway 371 committee that includes representatives from Nisswa, Pequot Lakes, Jenkins, Pine River and Crow Wing County is looking to apply for federal funding to move up the date to expand Highway 371 to ...
- Jenkins 2009 levy amount decreased
Jenkins taxpayers will get a slight break in 2009. The Jenkins City Council approved its final levy Monday night in the amount of $236,546 - representing a 2 percent decrease from the preliminary levy amount of ...
- Cook Third Win in KLKS Christmas Card Contest
It's three in a row for Pequot Lakes senior Charlie Cook, the student from Ideal corners is the latest winner of the KLKS Christmas card contest.
- Crosslake Man Dies in House Fire
An 82-year-old Crosslake man died as a fire swept through his Hen Lake home last Wednesday afternoon December 18, 2008.
- Pequot Lakes High School Announces ExCEL candidates
Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership, is a unique recognition program designed exclusively for Minnesota high school juniors who are active in school activities, who show leadership qualities, and ...
- Birds of prey take stage in lesson for Pequot Lakes seventh-graders
Dave Blessing of the University of Minnesota Raptor Center held a red-tail hawk for PequotLakes 7th graders.
- Motorists happy to dole out 10 bucks to put just enough gas in the tank to get around town
Hey, if your gas needle is veering toward that old "E" mark or inching into that red zone, just tool up to the pump and 10 bucks will do ya just fine.
- Ryan's Ramblings: I've changed my office location
After more than 20 years at the Lake Country Echo, I have moved to a different office, this one in my home.
- Lakes area cities wait to see if they'll receive state money that's due to them
As state legislators debate how to deal with a recently announced $5.2 billion deficit, municipalities wait to see how they'll be affected.
- Win-E-Mac superintendent will interview in Virginia, Minn.
The superintendent of Win-E-Mac schools in Erskine, Minn., is one of four Minnesota superintendents traveling to Virginia, Minn., in January to interview for the superintendent position there.
- Crosslake School to seek new sponsor
When Tami Martin, director of Crosslake Community School, was informed recently that the school would soon lose the Minnesota Department of Education as its sponsor, the first thing she thought was: "This will ...
- Fires Destroy Cabin and Home in Mission
On Thursday, December 4, a fire was reported at approximately 9:30 a.m. at a cabin on Pelican Lake Road.
- Patriot Boys' Crush Huskies
The Pequot Lakes Patriots boys' basketball team opened the season with a bang, routing the host Pillager Huskies last Friday by a score of 80-11. The Patriots led 8-2 early and closed the half with a 41-2 run.
- Breezy Point: Disgruntled citizens speak their minds
Citizens of Breezy Point angry over taxes and frustrated with the city council blasted the mayor and council members Monday, telling them city spending was out of control, taxes are too high, and the ...
- Victorian tea parties offered in Pequot Lakes
On a Saturday afternoon in November, it was gray and blustery outside. Inside, four good friends were perfectly warm and content in their own little world of conversation as they sat sipping tea and eating ...
- St. Paul man pleads innocent to charges in Cass Lake shoooting
A St. Paul man accused of firing a gun Aug. 30 in the Cass Lake town homes parking lot and injuring two people pleaded innocent to three felony charges Dec.
- Fire damages cabin at Grand View Lodge
An unoccupied cabin at Grand View Lodge in Nisswa sustained fire and smoke damage in a fire Friday morning, Nov.
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City DescriptionPequot Lakes is a city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 947 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Brainerd Micropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the Pequot Lakes Heritage Preservation Commission, a city once called Sibley and Frogtown became Pequot. In 1900, Walter and Flora Brown filed their plat for the E 1/2 of the SW 1/4 section 10 in T136N-R29W under the title Pequot. It's easy to figure out where the name Lakes came from, but what about Pequot? The Pequot Indians are a small tribe that has existed in eastern Connecticut since the first European settlers arrived here (see Pequot War). While no Pequot tribes ever lived in this area, the Algonquin language was carried here by the Chippewa (Ojibwe) tribes. The name Pequod was used by Herman Melville for the fictitious ship in his novel Moby-Dick.
Two possible explanations for the town's name arise:
1. Lakes area historian Carl Zapffe suggests that a variation of the Chippewa word for arrow (bikwas) as listed by Father Barroga in his Chippewa dictionary gave rise to the word Pequot.
2. Another explanation comes from a 1936 interview of Laurence Anderson, who moved to the town in the mid ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- Crow Wing County
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