The local BPOE Elks Club 263 held its annual Aspire Holiday Party in December. For more than 50 years, volunteers from the ...

A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1925.

The Parker Elks Lodge, BPOE 1929, held their annual Kids’ Christmas Shopping Spree Dec. 6. Invited low-income families from the community were treated to breakfast at the Elks’ Lodge and then went ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. – Members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE) Lodge 782 out Lake Hopatcong, N.J., along with U.S. Garrison Picatinny Arsenal personnel, rolled up their ...

The Parker Elks Lodge, BPOE 1929, held their annual Hoop Shoot competition on Saturday, Nov. 15 at Irataba Hall. Young people in different age groups competed to see who could complete the most ...

The Mahanoy City BPOE 695 has continued its longstanding mission of community service with a significant contribution to help local families in need. The lodge recently presented a $6,000 check to ...

Robert D. Usle LACONIA, NH — Robert ‘Bo’ Daniel Usle, of Laconia, NH, took his final walk over the horizon on Sunday, November 9, 2025. He was accompanied by his daughter and sister-in-law as he took ...

The current discourse on the role of generative AI shows that therapy and companionship – i.e. applications in which AI acts as a conversation partner, companion or supporting instance – are now ...

“Elks Care, Elks Share” is the motto of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE) across the United States. Locally, Salisbury Lodge #699 continues to put these words into action to help ...

A man accused of severely beating a fellow 82-year-old Elks member last year at the Redondo Beach lodge in an attack caught on video will not fight his criminal charges. At a hearing Tuesday, Aug. 19, ...