Laurie Swenson
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Laurie Swenson is a reporter/copy editor for the Bemidji Pioneer. She has been with the Pioneer since 2004.
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BEMIDJI — People who adopt a cat or dog at the Beltrami Humane Society can start out with a free bag of pet food through a partnership with Lueken’s Village...
Members of the Headwaters Youth Orchestra practice outdoors Tuesday afternoon at the Headwaters School of Music and the Arts. From left, Melanie Hanson, the school’s orchestra director, leads Ian Kruse,...
Pedal and Roll for Parkinson’s founder Liz Ogren and family and friends spent Aug. 25 riding with Parkinson’s friends in Bemidji for the event. Several arrived with canes or walkers,...
BEMIDJI – Bill Batchelder wants to put in a good word for his city this week as a delegate at the Republican National Convention, being held Monday through Thursday in...
Police Report The Bemidji Police Department responded to the following calls: Property damage 8:54 p.m. Monday, 3300 block of Cedar Lane Northwest. Juveniles were reportedly placing fireworks in mailboxes. Officers...
BEMIDJI -- Golf is not all of what Tiger Woods is about. Neither is infidelity, said Irene Folstrom, his college girlfriend, who has come out to defend him. Folstrom, 35, Bemidji, a Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe member who grew up in Cass Lake, dated Woods for a year and a half when they were students at Stanford University. "I only have amazing recollections of our time together and him as a person," Folstrom said.
BEMIDJI - A Bemidji family has a White House canine connection. Ruby, a 2-year-old Portuguese water dog owned by Julie Quanrud and her husband, Ric Meixell, is the half-sister of President Barack Obama's new family dog, Bo. "I was suspicious because the muzzle is the same," Quanrud said, adding that she became even more suspicious when she saw the Obama family's dog had the exact same white markings as Julius, a full sibling of Ruby's. After discovering that Ruby and Bo have the same father -- Valkyrie's Dr.