Sorted by date Results 1 - 5 of 5
The 31st annual Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Sno-Daze coronation program was held on Tuesday, February 11 at the B-B-E high school auditorium. Freshmen, sophomore and junior attendants joined senior royalty candidates for the festivities. Kiara Quade and Hannah Sifvert performed a duet, the royalty candidates played the word game "Mad Gab", and Drew Thompson performed a dance solo. Seniors Jacqueline Gossen and Casey Stegeman were crowned Sno-Daze Queen and King to conclude the program. Video of...
A Settlement Conference, presided by the honorable Judicial Officer John H. Scherer, was held in District VII court in St. Cloud on Thursday, February 13 at the Stearns County Courthouse. The case involved a case brought forward by the State of Minnesota and the Stearns County Attorney's office against Brooten business owner Jana Zenner. The State of Minnesota accused Zenner of theft-by-swindle in the amount of approximately $135,000 from the Brooten Commercial Club's charitable gambling operation between May 2016 and December 2018. Another...
At their meeting on February 12, the Brooten Fire Relief Association approved a donation to fund the costs with the Brooten Community Easter Egg hunt. The Easter Egg hunt, which also includes a bicycle drawing, is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 11, 2020 at the Brooten city park. (Rain/poor weather back up location TBD) The Fire Relief Association granted a donation of $1,000 pay for costs of candy, bicycles and advertising and promotion of the event. The donation will go to the...
The video embedded here features the sermon given by Pastor Wayne Kopitzke at First Lutheran church of Norway Lake on Sunday, February 2, 2020....
Lately operating a business in Brooten has become challenging on multiple fronts. If I explained everything I'm thinking right now, I'd probably lose half of my subscribers because of how offended they would be. So let's just say I am gonna keep certain things to myself. As far as other events, well, I am certainly not going to be quiet about them. And what I have to say probably will offend a large portion of my readers. Oh, well. "If you can't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." It's been extremely difficult to run my newspaper op...
