Bonanza Valley Voice -

Oh boy! Here it comes! The "Kraken" variant is coming our way! Wow! It's been sequenced out to be 73 percent of all cases in New York. Good grief! How are we going to survive? Are you trembling in fear yet? There are players out there who sure want...

This was just epic....

On Friday, January 13 at the Paynesville Invitational at the Paynesville Area Community Center, the No. 5-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team emerged as champions in an 11-team field. Other tournament notes: Wyatt Engen earned his 100th...

On Saturday, January 14, two members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa middle school band attended a one-day band camp at Elk River high school. To conclude the day's activities, students gathered there for the Central Minnesota Band Association honors...

In 1965, American radio host Paul Harvey gave an immense warning to the American people about the fate of the nation. "We Were Warned: Freedom to Chains" is a short film about the parallels between the warning Harvey gave over fifty years ago, and...

Try to get through the video without laughing....

On Saturday, January 14, two members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa middle school band attended a one-day band camp at Elk River high school. To conclude the day's activities, students gathered there for the Central Minnesota Band Association honors...

From Carl Vernon's YouTube channel out of the United Kingdom, where the producer pieces together news headlines from around the globe that clearly illustrate why humanity as we know it is in trouble....

Such a wonderful worship service to kick off 2023! Below is video from the majority of worship service on Sunday, January 1, 2023 at Sunburg Free Lutheran church in Norway Lake Township in the far northwestern corner of Kandiyohi County. The video...

Below is a cell phone recording of the majority of a special school board meeting at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa on Tuesday, January 3, 2023. Due to weather-driving circumstances, this meeting was conducted via Zoom protocol....

On Sunday, December 18, Grace Lutheran church in Belgrade hosted their Sunday School Christmas program. A video featuring the entire program is posted below....

How about a little throwback to nearly three years ago! This was PRE-COVID! Do you remember the world we lived in back then? In just about every way, our local area in the Bonanza Valley has returned to life exactly how it was in February and early...

It is not looking good for first responder organizations and especially police departments all over the United States right now. In some states, the outlook is quite bleak in terms of whether or not they can fill the ranks of their police...

A marvelous annual tradition at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school has been the Family and Consumer Science (FACS) foods class Gingerbread House project in December. This year a total of 11 houses were made over a two-plus week period of time...

Here's the full video of the Sunday School Christmas program held at Big Grove Lutheran church on Sunday, December 18 in North Fork Township....

The God Squad (religious education) students of the Trinity and West Lake Johanna Lutheran parish of Brooten held their Christmas program on Sunday, December 11 at Trinity church. A video from the final 11 minutes of the program is posted below. The...

A week and a half after making a brief appearance at the Brooten Santa Day event on December 10, The Grinch appeared at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school during the last hour of classes before the Christmas break began on Wednesday, December 21....

Here's a video clip from the Christmas concert held on Monday, December 12 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's Olson Auditorium. This features one of the songs performed during the Christmas carol portion of the high school's winter band concert that...

In this rare gem of a video, the official start of the Centennial celebration in Brooten began with a flag-raising ceremony in front of the former Brooten high school. This was held on Friday, July 18, 1986 at the flag pole west of the building....