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Severe Weather Awareness Week, April 8-12, is a great time for Minnesotans to prepare for unpredictable and extreme Midwestern weather. In Brooten, the Brooten Fire Department will sound the sirens in town at 1:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. on Thursday,...

Faith communities across the Bonanza Valley area celebrated Easter on Sunday, March 31. Sunrise worships were held at 6:30 or 7 a.m. that morning, and other church services followed. Some churches like First Lutheran of Norway Lake and Trinity...

From the desk of the Bonanza Valley Voice publisher, Brooten, Minnesota, on Saturday, April 6, 2024: Monday addendum: our newspaper family is sickened by the news of the pending closure of newspapers in Hutchinson and Litchfield. The work done by...

Reports across the past week from major United States media outlets have repeated the federal government's boasting about the March 2024 jobs report. In that report, the government is saying that 303,000 new jobs were created. However, here's what...

As a snow storm approached the area and turned what was a mild week of weather into full-blown winter, area churches held Palm Sunday worships on Sunday, March 24. In the attached video, Pastor Rick Krasky provides his Palm Sunday worship...

Year by year after the pandemic, the Belgrade Lions has built up the annual chili cook-off contest as a fundraiser for the B-B-E Area Food Shelf. This year, with a total of eight different parties providing chili, the Belgrade Lions was thrilled to...

Minnesota's 1,777 townships will hold their annual meeting on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. Known as Township Day, these annual meetings are held every year on the second Tuesday in March and sets townships apart from other forms of local government. At...

A woman in Canada was diagnosed with transverse myelitis that rendered her quadriplegic. According to her doctor, he believed that her Moderna COVID booster jab is what caused her to become paralyzed. Two of her medical reports say that the Moderna...

On what ended up being a snowy Ash Wednesday last week (February 14), area churches held worship services to mark the beginning of the Lenten period of the Christian calendar. At St. Donatus Church in Brooten, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Catholic...

The final worship service of the Epiphany season was held on Sunday, February 11 at West Lake Johanna Lutheran church in Gilchrist Township. The attached video features the pastor's sermon. The Lent season has started with Ash Wednesday worship...

The blood clot issue is especially significant for the newspaper publisher's family, as the publisher's wife is battling mystery blood clots that have affected her in the past 2 months. Currently, the publisher's family is investigating the pros and...

On February 8, a press conference was held at the Minnesota State Capitol urging passage of the Democrat-backed North STAR Act. The proposed legislation would make Minnesota a sanctuary state by prohibiting local law enforcement from cooperating...

In case you missed out on attending a worship service over the weekend, here's a video recorded at West Lake Johanna Lutheran church in Gilchrist Township, rural Brooten, on Sunday, January 28. This features Sam Sanders providing reading of the...

Roger Sagedahl of Brooten recently had the honor of turning 90 years old. From his vantage point of Brooten, he has seen nearly a century of history dating back to the late 1930s when the Great Depression still had its grips on America's economy and...