Dennis Weimann Staff

Dennis Weimann

News Director

Dennis has been the News Director/Anchor of Lakeland News since its inception in 1998. He supervises all newsroom employees and activities. He is also the executive producer and anchor of the show.

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Stacy Christenson

Weathercaster

Stacy has been the weather anchor for Lakeland News since it began in 1998. She compiles the forecasts and creates the graphics for the nightly newscast.

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Charlie Yaeger

Sports Director/Anchor

Charlie joined Lakeland News as a Sports/News Multi-Media Journalist in January of 2023. He worked out of the Brainerd office covering local news and sports in the greater Brainerd Lakes area before moving to Bemidji to take on the Lakeland News Sports Director position.

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Matthew Freeman

News Reporter

Matthew mainly follows City Government/Council stories and any related stories under Dennis Weimann’s guidance.

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Skyler Blaine

News Reporter

Skyler is the newest member of our team and joined us in October of 2024 at our Brainerd Studio. He is a Multimedia journalist whose responsibilities include shooting, writing, and editing news stories.

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Miles Walker

Sports/News Reporter

Miles has been the Sports/News Reporter & Anchor for Lakeland News since August 2023. He currently works out of the Brainerd Office.

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Sydney Dick

News Reporter

Sydney is the newest reporter at Lakeland News, who started at the beginning of June, 2024. She is an MMJ and is learning how to do producing, anchoring, and weather as well.

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Josh Peterson

Contributing Anchor

Josh began his career with Lakeland News back in 1999, but recently took the fulltime position as Multimedia Journalist and Social Media Coordinator in May of 2016. He reports from the field daily and fills in anchors the broadcast when needed.