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While the process still has a ways to go, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school board made a big step towards selecting a new superintendent at a special work session meeting on Tuesday, April 24. After a multi-hour long process with multiple interviews of four finalists for the top position at B-B-E, the school board voted to bring Patrick Walsh of Hutchinson back on Thursday for a final interview session. Walsh is the current 9th-12th grade (senior high) principal at Hutchinson public schools....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school board will interview superintendent candidate finalists on Tuesday, April 24 at the high school. Interviews will begin at 2:00 p.m. at the high school, and community members are invited to attend. At the March 19 school board meeting, the April 24 date was provided for interviews, but the times were not released at that time. (School board members were, however, advised to keep the times of 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. available that day for potential interviews.) On...
Publisher's note: the newspaper will "clean this up" for full accuracy and will publish this - hopefully at its full length - in the April 12 issue. At the February 26, 2018 joint hearing of the Senate Agriculture, Rural Development and Housing Finance and Policy Committee, Dr. Marin Bozic provided around 20 minutes' worth of testimony. The hearing was chaired by Senator Torrey Westrom of Elbow Lake. Dr. Bozic is an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota specializing in Dairy Foods and Marketing Economics,...
Below is the agenda for the Monday, January 22 Brooten city council meeting, the second of two regular monthly meetings for January. Note: all times are approximate and cannot be guaranteed. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. 7 p.m. - Stearns County Attorney Janelle Kendall will give her prosecution report for the calendar year 2017 7:15 p.m. - Police Chief Casey Jansky will provide an update on the police department and provide any additional information as needed from the December 2017 police report...
A multi-block section on the western side of Brooten lost electricity on Saturday, October 21, after an overhead power line was clipped by farm equipment. At 4:45 p.m., a loud boom was heard in western Brooten when the external auger on a large (500+ bushel) gravity box clipped an overhead power line across Highway 55 between School Street and Western Avenue. The gravity box was pulled by a large tractor, and a white Dodge pickup was hooked up behind it. The power pole holding the line sits...
(Feature photo) Belgrade V.F.W. member Jim Thoen was working hard on Saturday, October 7 with his fellow V.F.W. members serving up steak and pork chops to the hungry masses at the Belgrade V.F.W. Post. The next V.F.W. steak fry and pork chop feed is Nov. 4....
Here's video from the October 7 concert at the Brooten Pavilion, a fundraiser for the Brooten Fire Department....
While no loss of life has been reported, a two-alarm fire north of Brooten on Sunday, October 15 claimed a rural Brooten home. The fire call went out around 5 p.m., and both the Brooten and Elrosa fire departments responded along with the Glacial Ridge Ambulance service. By 6 p.m., the fire was out but the departments still had plenty of work to do putting out the smoke and any potential flare-ups. A full story will be posted on Monday morning, October 16, following the release of the Stearns...
The Senior Class of 2018 won Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's Powder Puff flag football game for Homecoming 2017 on Wednesday afternoon (September 27). The game was played with four, six-minute quarters. The junior class had a 3-0 lead after the first quarter, and at halftime the Class of 2019 held a 7-3 lead. The seniors stormed back in the second half and won by an unofficial score of 16-10. (The sports reporter was not paying attention to the scoreboard at the final horn, unfortunately!) It was a...
The Belgrade V.F.W. Color Guard presented the American Flag and the Minnesota Flag prior to the Homecoming football game at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa on Friday, Sept. 29. The scene before kickoff was picturesque, even picture-perfect at the B-B-E Jaguars football stadium, as the four members of the Belgrade V.F.W. gathered on the west end of the football field along with our B-B-E Jaguars football team. While our Jaguars stood side-by-side along the length of the west end zone, they held their...
The Dave and Clara Rooney family hosted the 37th annual OktoberFest at the Padua Pub on Wednesday, October 4. Turnout ran strong throughout the four-hour long evening German Smorgasbord, with a variety of Deutsches Essen! The Pub's reception hall had a full house soon after 5 p.m. and well past 7 o'clock. While enjoying their delicious supper, guests at the Padua Pub enjoyed old-time classic country and modern music from Jerry's One-Man Band of Melrose. (HD video below)...
The Brooten Fire Department's Pavilion dance fundraiser is underway tonight (Saturday, October 7). Everyone is invited to come in and enjoy terrific country music performed by Amanda Watkins and Cal Ecker - straight out of Nashville! The 18-plus dance ends at 12:30 a.m.! Amanda Watkins posted the following as her biography on Facebook: "Meet Amanda Watkins; born in the wild and wonderful state of West Virginia, and raised in sunny Florida. Amanda is the quintessential "American Woman" who holds...
First of all, NO, part of the roof of the B-B-E elementary school is not missing! That is a wildly untrue rumor, probably among many other untrue rumors flying around. Here's the real story...a severe thunderstorm packed a huge punch and knocked out power across the Bonanza Valley area. The eye of the storm hit Brooten at about 12:40 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 20 with sustained, 80-mph straight line winds. Around that time, a power line arced near the Bonanza Valley State Bank property along...
With a lack of electricity closing school at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa on Wednesday, September 20, labor was plentiful throughout the Bonanza Valley and B-B-E areas to assist with the cleanup in the aftermath of a severe wind/rain storm. The powerful system that brought straight-line winds in some areas surpassing 80 miles an hour tore through the Brooten, Belgrade and Elrosa communities shortly before 1 a.m. Roughly a half- to three-quarters of an inch of rain was reported with the storm....
The Brooten Fire Department Relief Association hog roast and 20-gun raffle is at the Brooten Pavilion on Saturday, Sept. 23. The hog roast with all the fixings (free will donation) starts at 5 p.m. along with games. During the general and gun raffle that begins at 7 p.m., up to nine additional guns will be part of the mix of prizes. Dozens of area businesses have donated prizes. Check out some of what will be on hand in the video below. Thank you for your support of Brooten's hometown Fire...
Sketchy weather across west central Minnesota held off for the entire afternoon during the 38th annual Terrace Fall Festival and Fiddlers Jamboree on Sunday, Sept. 24. While the forecast, combined with difficult weather in the week leading up to the day, hurt turnout for the event, the weather did not dampen the enthusiasm of those who made it to the scenic amphitheater of the Terrace Mill. Catch additional coverage of the event in the Sept. 28 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice...
Shown is a 40-minute video of the pageant held as a fundraiser for the Sedan Fire and Rescue crew on Friday, Aug. 18 during Sedan Daze. More coverage and photos will appear in the Aug. 24 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
The Fall Festival is coming once again to Trinity Lutheran Church of Grove Lake, Sunday, Sept. 3 serving from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Featuring hot pork sandwiches, salad and dessert. Bake, produce and craft sale! All are welcome! Come out and support the first fall church event of the Bonanza Valley area!...
Organizers behind a special 150th anniversary day of celebration at West Lake Johanna Lutheran church invite friends and extended family to visit on Sunday, August 20 this summer. Worship service with Holy Communion begins at 10:30 a.m. that day. A noon meal will follow catered by the Padua Pub (free-will offering). Special music will be provided by Tony Sanders (organ) and Daniel Peterson (vocal). Past members of the church who have gone into the ministry will also be at the celebration....
Back by popular demand! The Sedan volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad invites everyone from across the area to attend the Sedan Fire Daze fundraising celebration on Friday, August 18 in Sedan. The night kicks off with a parade at 6 p.m., followed by a "pageant" at 7:30 p.m. After 9 p.m., those 21 and older can enjoy a street dance featuring the local band Wasted Time. A raffle (gun and other prizes) will be held at 10 p.m., and a food stand will run all night. All proceeds will go to the...
The Catholic Charities 2017 Rural Life Celebration will be held at 11 a.m. on Sunday, August 13, 2017, at the Joe & Toni Borgerding family organic dairy farm in rural Belgrade. All are welcome to attend this outdoor family-friendly event that will take place rain or shine. This event is being hosted by St. Donatus of Brooten, Saint Francis de Sales of Belgrade and Saints Peter & Paul of Elrosa. The theme for this year’s Rural Life Celebration is “Caring for God’s Creation: Sharing in the Stewa...
Shown is video from the Belgrade August Fest street dance featuring "The Hit List" band. Over 650 were served at the Belgrade Firemen's chicken dinner earlier in the evening, and most of those same guests enjoyed taking in the free ice cream social sponsored by the North American State Bank. Also, the B-B-E Area Jaycees held toilet bowl races next to the street dance area and had over 14 teams participate. The toilet bowl races champion was the team of Dawn Rupp and Shelby Anderson. More coverag...
Belgrade has new young ladies to represent the town over the next year after new royalty was crowned at the Belgrade Royal Ambassador program on Saturday (Aug. 12) of August Fest. The program was held on main street for the first time in many years, with a beautiful stage decorated on a GTS trailer parked kiddie corner at the center of downtown next to the Belgrade Meat Center. Hundreds of well-wishers, friends and family were in attendance. The emcee for the program was 2017 B-B-E graduate Moll...
Below is video showing the first 58 minutes of the Rural Life Celebration outdoor Catholic Mass on Sunday, August 20, 2017 at the Joe and Toni Borgerding dairy farm in rural Elrosa....
Elrosa's seventh hit of the game was a memorable one at the Region 15C amateur baseball tournament opener on Friday (Aug. 4) in Farming. Pat Illies stepped the plate with two outs and Kevin Kuefler sitting on second base in the bottom of the ninth inning. Earlier in the game, the Regal Eagles took a 2-0 lead in the top of the sixth, while Elrosa got one run back in the bottom of the seventh. In the bottom of the ninth, Kevin Kuefler knocked a stand up double deep to left field on two outs, and I...
