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Below is midweek Lenten season worship for friends, members and visitors of Norway Lake Lutheran parish of rural New London, MN for Wednesday, February 24, 2021. "Think Spring!"...
*Note: this web article was updated on March 1. New COVID-19 cases have seen another sharp decline in the latest weekly report released by the Minnesota Department of Health on February 25. For the rural and city citizens of Brooten, no new COVID-19 cases were reported for a second consecutive week out of a population of 1,466 people. A string of nine straight weeks with no new COVID-19 cases is now reality for the city of Elrosa (population 197). For the city and rural population of Belgrade...
Below is video for worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish on Sunday, February 28 in rural New London, MN....
Below is the video for worship services on Ash Wednesday at Norway Lake Lutheran parish of rural New London, MN. As Pastor Wayne says at the beginning of worship, Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the 40-day journey for the Easter season. The special day is a day of fasting and repentance for Christians, where we acknowledge that upon death, our bodies return to the earth. The sign of the cross marked on our foreheads marks the same sign of the cross marked at the time of our baptism into...
The Bonanza Valley area and the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa local area continues to see little, if any, COVID-19 activity in the heart of the winter and traditional influenza season. For the local zip code areas of Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa, the weekly Minnesota Department of Health COVID-19 report showed just four new cases reported for the period of February 11 to February 17: Belgrade (4), Brooten (0) and Elrosa (0). The village proper of Elrosa has now gone at least eight weeks with no COVID cases. Cumulatively since January of 2020, the MDH...
The walls will continue closing in for whoever the government deems responsible for the massive tax and penalties bill owed by the Brooten Commercial Club to the federal government. The Internal Revenue Service last week added over $6,000 in additional penalties and interest charges to the delinquent tax bill owed by the BCC to the federal government. Former BCC gambling manager Michelle Halls, a tax preparer in downtown Brooten, failed to file paperwork or make payments on four quarters of federal tax liabilities owed for the calendar year of...
Below is video for worship service at Norway Lake Lutheran parish in rural New London for Sunday, February 21, 2021....
Below is the video for worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish of rural New London, MN on Sunday, February 14, 2021. Happy Valentine's Day! Stay warm!...
Below is video for worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish on Sunday, February 7, 2021. We hope you split some extra wood for the fireplace! (Metaphorically speaking!) It's gonna be a cold week ahead of us hardy Minnesotans!...
In a report released on January 28 by the Minnesota Department of Health, the new local number of COVID-19 cases reported for the last week is five for the zip code areas of Belgrade (56312), Brooten (56316) and Elrosa (56325). This represents five new cases in a population of 4,285 in the last seven days. The five were all in the Belgrade zip code, which has a population of 2,622. Last week, Brooten's zip code area had four new cases, and Belgrade's zip code area had two new cases. Elrosa continued a long string of weeks at zero new cases...
Below is video for worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish on Sunday, January 31, 2021 in rural New London, MN. Thank you for joining us!...
Article posted at 11:40 on the morning of Thursday, January 21, 2021. The new COVID-19 case number for the local zip code area of Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa is six for the second week in a row. The rural and town community population of Belgrade (56312), Brooten (56316) and Elrosa (56325) is 4,285. Of that population, a total of six people had positive COVID-19 tests over the past seven days (January 14 through January 20). Below are the new numbers for area zip codes, followed by the cumulative COVID-19 cases in that zip code area over the past...
Press release on Thursday afternoon, January 14. Glacial Ridge Health System (GRHS) is glad so many people want to get the vaccine as soon as they can to protect themselves and others! We understand your questions. Please understand it will take some time to vaccinate everyone who wants to be vaccinated for COVID-19. GRHS and local public health agencies will continue to share information, including when we are notified by the MN Department of Health (MDH) about the allocation of additional...
Below is video for worship recorded at East Norway Lake Lutheran church for members and guests from near and far of Norway Lake Lutheran parish in rural New London, MN....
The Brooten Commercial Club's state tax and penalties bill now stands at $18,016.64. This week the amount owed to the state of Minnesota surpassed $18,000 after additional penalties were added for non-payment. No payments have been made on the account since March of last year. The new due date is January 29, 2021. This week's January 14 print edition of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper included an in-depth story of where things stand today with the delinquent taxes owed to the state of Minnesota and also the federal government by Brooten's...
Below is video for worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish of rural Norway Lake for Sunday, January 17, 2021....
A lost cat was discovered on Saturday afternoon, January 16, on the campus of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school. During the wrestling match at the school, this cat was found near the entryway trying to get in the building. It's likely that the large amount of foot traffic in and out of that door on the northeast corner attracted the cat to hang around. As of Saturday night, the cat is safe and fed. If you know someone who has lost a cat fitting the following description, PLEASE send an...
A small gray house cat went missing on Saturday, January 9 on Nelson Avenue in Belgrade. If anyone in Belgrade has information on it, or knows anyone who may have had a big heart and was willing to take it in to save it from the elements, please call The Observer newspaper office and leave a message: 320-254-8250. Thank you for your help!...
The Brooten Commercial Club has had a property lien placed against it by the Minnesota Department of Revenue (MN-DOR). The total amount owed for the organization's unrelated business income tax (UBI) is $17,967.63. The BCC had a charitable gambling operation that incurred UBI (that remains unpaid) during the calendar years 2017 ($270.99) and 2018 ($17,696.64). In a letter dated December 31, 2020, MN-DOR said, "We are filing a state lien on you and your property for unpaid debt." The letter goes on to state that a property lien is filed on all...
Below is video for worship at Norway Lake Lutheran parish for Sunday, January 10, 2021 in rural New London, MN. Happy new year!...
Here's video for worship on Christmas I Sunday, on December 27, 2020 at Norway Lake Lutheran parish in rural New London, Minnesota. The video player is shown below on this web article. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Norway Lake Parish!...
Here's a video from the night that Santa Claus made an early visit to Elrosa to see local children on Friday, December 18....
The reported positive COVID-19 test figures on Thursday, December 31, 2020, for communities across the Bonanza Valley area continue to show decline, a trend that began at the beginning of December. Numerous area communities saw just one new case reported in the seven-day period. In the zip code area of Brooten (56316), just one new COVID-19 case was reported for the prior week. The figure reported for Belgrade (56312) was five. In Elrosa (56325), for the second week in a row, zero new cases were reported. For the zip code area of Glenwood...
Below is the video player that includes Christmas II worship at Norway Lake Parish on Sunday, January 3, 2021....
With Minnesota's December weather providing full cooperation, children from Trinity and West Lake Johanna Lutheran churches of Brooten held a special recording of their Christmas program on Sunday, December 20. The music and program used was called "The Joy of Christmas" and was created and arranged by Terryl Padilla and John Roberts. The video player is shown below. The performance was terrific after they held a light rehearsal in the Trinity church sanctuary before the outdoor recording took...
