Articles from the February 20, 2025 edition


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  • B-B-E 35th annual Sno-Daze Coronation (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 20, 2025

    On Tuesday, February 11, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school held the 35th annual Sno-Daze coronation program at Olson Auditorium. The full program video is attached here. The coronation crowning takes place just after the 17-minute mark in the video....

  • Deep State officials admit they lied from the start about COVID (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 20, 2025

    In the attached video by Jimmy Dore, an extensive review of admissions regarding COVID lies is provided. These lies were repeated endlessly and breathlessly over a period of 1 to 2 years (or more) beginning on March 2020. Ironically, the lies began soon after the impeachment of President Donald Trump failed in the U.S. Senate. (The irony of that is RICH!) One of the Deep State players highlighted in the video was Dr. Deborah Birx, who served under President Trump and President Joe Biden as...

  • Boys' basketball Jaguars build 3 game winning streak

    Randy Olson|Feb 20, 2025

    The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys' basketball team is riding a three-game winning streak, and they are playing their best ball of the season as winners of 5 of their last 6 games. On Tuesday, February 18 in a border battle at their neighbors to the south, New London-Spicer, the Jaguars had an outstanding second half in a 61-54 win to cap a four-game road swing. Last Friday at Maple Lake, the Jaguars held the Irish to just 16 first-half points in a 68-34 win. B-B-E is currently in 5th place in...

  • Draining the swamp includes the tall task of stopping incredibly stupid spending (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 20, 2025

    The headline says all that really needs to be said here. The ways that the Swamp in Washington D.C. has dreamed up to frivelously spend U.S. taxpayer dollars is breathtaking. Here's a short list: $25 million dollars to promote the following: biodiversity, conservation and "licid" livelihoods by developing "socially responsible" behavior in the country of Colombia. $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. $42 million for Johns Hopkins to research and drive...

  • N.B.A. continues its slide into irrelevance (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 20, 2025

    The National Basketball Association (NBA), which has undergone massive transformations in its messaging and its operations across the past 5 years while the "woke mind virus" has infected its leadership, continues to slide into irrelevance in the professional sports stage. One recent example of its slide into the abyss was on display with the All-Star game on February 16. Television ratings for the All-Star game were its second-lowest in the league's history. It did not help the NBA that the...

  • B-B-E's speech team hosts first-ever Jagtastic Invite (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 20, 2025

    For the first time in many years, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa speech team hosted a home meet at the high school with the first annual Jagtastic Speech Invitational this past Saturday, February 15. Year to year, the speech team occasionally hosts either conference or subsection meets, but this year the team gets two meets at home (subsections are in Belgrade on April 4). In the attached video, B-B-E seniors Tia Nelson and Kora Martinez were recognized during the awards ceremony that afternoon....

  • Alpha News for the $15 million win

    Randy Olson|Feb 20, 2025

    After Alpha News provided scrutiny in the form of old-fashioned journalism, DFL State Senator Omar Fateh recently withdrew his bill that would have directed $15 million in taxpayer money to the WE WIN Institute. This comes on the heels of Senator Fateh's shepherding of $3.5 million to WE WIN via the state legislature and Governor Tim Walz during the 2023 legislative session. The 2025 legislation supporting the WE WIN Institute would have directed $15 million for "culturally specific programming...

  • B-B-E wrestlers compete at Section 5A tournament

    Randy Olson|Feb 20, 2025

    The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team sent 12 athletes to the Section 5A individual wrestling tournament at Yellow Medicine East high school on Saturday, February 22. Out of those 12, three of them earned first or second place finishes to advance to the Class 1A state tournament at Xcel Energy Center on February 28 and March 1. They are Noah Jensen (107 pounds), Brett DeRoo (160), Carson Gilbert (215) and Hunter Laage (285). Results are as follows by weight division. 107: Noah Jensen...

  • This is absolutely amazing! Rare minerals deal in the works with Ukraine (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 20, 2025

    Have you read The Art of the Deal by President Donald Trump? If you haven't read it, you should! If you are Ukrained President Volodymyr Zelensky, then you clearly have not read that book....

  • Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa FFA holds Milk Relay competition (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 20, 2025

    During the lunch periods on Wednesday, February 19 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school, the FFA chapter hosted a Milk Relay competition. The attached video features the Milk Relay taking place that afternoon. Additional National FFA Week coverage will be published in the February 27 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. The FFA hosted turkey bowling on Friday. Click over to the Jaguars Sports extended coverage blog to see a video featuring that event: https://bbejag...