The Brainerd Dispatch and Pineandlakes Echo Journal asked second graders from across the Brainerd lakes area to write Letters to Santa this holiday season. We hope you enjoy them as much as we have!

Kristen Gschwend's students remind the Pleasant Valley Elementary School life skills teacher of what really matters.

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Marguerita is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor ...

Leigh Robinson was out for a lunchtime walk one brisk day during the spring of 2013 when a call came from the principal at her school. Will, a third-grader with a history of acting up in class, was ...