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The town of Pepin, Wisconsin hosts Laura Ingalls Wilder Days on the second full weekend of each September. The newspaper publisher and youngest daughter traveled to Pepin on Saturday, September 13 for the first day of the two-day event. In the attached video, a barn owl education session is featured. This took place in Laura Ingalls Wilder Park. Additional coverage of this trip was published in the September 18 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. More is forthcoming in the September 25...
The second-to-last Brooten Farmers Market will be held on Thursday, September 18 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the city park. Available on the 18th: pumpkins, mums, garden produce (tomatoes, peppers and more!), homemade jams, hand drawn cards and more! Thank you to everyone who stops by with their support. You are appreciated in Brooten....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa volleyball team utilized a strong, balanced attack with 3 players in double figures in kills to defeat West Central Area in 4 sets on Tuesday, Sept. 16 in Barrett. Kacey Fischer with 14 kills and Kadynce Haider and Macey Roering with 10 kills each were part of 142 attacks and a team hitting efficiency of 19.7 percent. The win raised B-B-E's record to 11-4 overall. On Saturday, the Jaguars won the Crosby-Ironton Invitational. They swept visiting Holdingford last...
A celebration is planned this Sunday at East Norway Lake Lutheran church of rural New London. It begins with worship at 10:30 a.m. followed by a catered meal and a 150th anniversary program. It all culminates with an old-fashioned ice cream social that afternoon. In the church's Centennial history written by the late Marvin Hauge (1922-2001), he noted that the church history at that time dated back 117 years. In 1858, the state of Minnesota was founded, and around the same time, the earliest pio...
An open house at the barn will be held on Monday, September 15 at Equine Inspired Soul, a rural Belgrade business focusing on healing with horses, "Compassion, Healing, Empowerment" and owned and operated by Tanya and Adam Dingmann. The event begins with a ribbon-cutting ceremony is at 4 p.m., and this is followed by a presentation of their mission and offerings at 4:15. A special Meet the Horses and Tour of the grounds is at 4:45, and a horse demo is at 5 p.m. Dingmann gives a special note...
Here's another video featuring music performed by the High 48s at the Terrace Mill Bluegrass Festival on Sunday, September 7. This web article will eventually feature a photo album by the Bonanza Valley Voice that includes pictures from that sunny afternoon....
The sun was shining all afternoon in Terrace on Sunday, September 7. That afternoon at the Terrace Mill's outdoor stage, the High 48s from northeast Minneapolis performed in front of a large Bluegrass Festival crowd who enjoyed over 4 hours of live music beginning with Skally Line. The two attached videos features the High 48s playing that afternoon. Coming up at the Terrace Mill: Roger Thalman and Prairie Woodcarvers invites the public to the Terrace Mill on Saturday, September 20 for a...
Trinity Lutheran Church of Grove Lake held a marvelous Fall Festival on Sunday, September 7. The turnout for their dinner, bake sale and produce sale drew almost 170 paid adults and youth along with many children who were young enough to eat free. Additional coverage was in the September 11 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. The attached video was recorded near the end of the two-hour event. As stated in the video, proceeds from this were donated to the Glenwood and Brooten Food Shelf...
The Cedar Creek Gospel Band from the Kandiyohi/Willmar area led a music-filled worship service on Sunday, August 24 at the Brooten Pavilion. The worship was organized by Big Grove-Crow River-Grace Lutheran Parish and held as a joint worship with the Trinity/West Lake Johanna Lutheran Parish of Brooten. The attached video features the full worship service, start to end. It began with a presentation of local youth who traveled to the Christikon Bible Camp in Montana from July 19-27. It was led by...
The High 48s and The Skally Line will be featured at the annual Bluegrass Festival on Sunday, September 7 at the Historic Terrace Mill. Gates open at 11 a.m., with food and craft beer served by Minnewaska House Brewing Co. and Grill, and food by The Bark 'n Pig. An farmers/artisan market will also be featured. The Terrace Mill Foundation will serve dessert from the Terrace Mill Kitchen. Platinum sponsors of the Bluegrass Festival are American Solutions for Business and American Diversity...
On Thursday, September 4, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa volleyball team hosted Kimball Area in the Central Minnesota Conference opener for both teams. The Jaguars won by a 3-1 margin to improve to 2-1 overall. They prepared for the Southwest Minnesota Challenge the next day, which featured a trip to Marshall for a two-day invitational. The attached video features action late in game three against Kimball....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa football team opens the 2025 season with New York Mills in a non-district game. The Jaguars are coming off a successful 8-2 season that began a year ago with 8 returning starters in last year’s total group of 15 seniors. Two of this year’s seniors, linemen Noah Kampsen and Nate Geer, return as third-year starters. The team has a total of 8 seniors, including Cameron Loe, Kameron Hiltner, Toby Hanson, Ian Szczesniak, Jesse Niklaus and Eli Wold. With those 15 sen...
The B-B-E Jaguars volleyball team defeated visiting New London-Spicer in four sets on Tuesday, August 26 to begin the new season. The attached video features action early in game two against the Wildcats....
Big Pharma could be in big trouble. In the wake of the trans maniac shooting that took place at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday, August 27, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced that the federal government will study the link between puberty blockers and other drugs pushed by Big Pharma on children in America and violence that some of those youth have inflicted on society. One of these drugs is known as SSRI, which is an anti-depressant....
Lincoln's Bar and Restaurant will be open on Thursday, Friday and Saturday (August 7, 8 and 9) this weekend from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. with the bar and grill open in the front bar. The front bar features a full menu of food in addition to premium spirits, craft cocktails and fine wines. The back dining room will open as they add more staff. The local phone number for the restaurant is 320-346-2323. Also, Lincoln's is still looking to hire additional staff with positions of a prep cook, servers and...
It's not a boom, but K-12 enrollment numbers for the opening week of school at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa were surprisingly good compared to projections across the past 3 years that this figure would dip below 600 for the first time ever this fall. After graduating 55 students last May and projecting an incoming kindergarten class of about 40, B-B-E's projection was almost certain that K-12 enrollment would dip below 600. Fortunately, a surge of new (and some returning) students in the elementary...
Difficult, gut-wrenching decisions for Norway Lake-area pioneers in the early 1870s paid off for generations who followed them as the original Norway Lake Lutheran log church was the forerunner of East and West Norway Lake Lutheran churches. In the period of time in the 1870s when a mass exodus of Norway citizens flooded parts of the United States, including central and western Minnesota, the Lutheran faith community in Norway Lake experienced massive growth from 1865 to 1875. On the heels of th...
The High 48s and The Skally Line will be featured at the annual Bluegrass Festival on Sunday, September 7 at the Historic Terrace Mill. Gates open at 11 a.m., with food and craft beer served by Minnewaska House Brewing Co. and Grill, and food by The Bark 'n Pig. An farmers/artisan market will also be featured. The Terrace Mill Foundation will serve dessert from the Terrace Mill Kitchen. Platinum sponsors of the Bluegrass Festival are American Solutions for Business and American Diversity...
The Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team faced Windom in the Class C state tournament opener on Saturday, August 16 in Hutchinson. The Pirates took an early 2-0 lead and later broke a 2-2 tie on their way to a 6-2 win. Pitching for Elrosa were Ethan Vogt, Weston Gjerde (Norway Lake-Sunburg draftee) and Will VanBeck. Attached is a video from the top of the fourth inning that afternoon....
The Brooten Farmers Market, which still invites vendors to join, continues the 2025 season on Thursday, August 21 at the city park on Highway 55. The Brooten Farmers Market runs from 4 to 7 p.m. It features a wide array of garden produce, baked goods and even some incredible hand-drawn/hand-painted art work! The art work has been brought by Robert Anderson, a 1968 Brooten high school graduate. Available on the 21st are baked goods by the Zimmermans (breads, pies, cookies, cinnamon rolls,...
The Public Safety Night in the Park held in Elrosa on Monday, August 18 drew an outstanding crowd of people across the three hours it took place. Hosted at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church, the event included Emergency First Responders and local law enforcement officials, including the Stearns County Sheriff's Office and the Elrosa Fire Department. The attached video shows some of what was taking place. Additional coverage was in the August 21 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice...
The Belgrade August Fest parade took place on a sunny Saturday afternoon on August 9. The attached video features the final set of units in the parade as they passed by Belgrade Steel Tank and later the Belgrade VFW....
Lincoln's Bar and Restaurant will be open on Thursday, Friday and Saturday (August 7, 8 and 9) this weekend from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. with the bar and grill open in the front bar. The front bar features a full menu of food in addition to premium spirits, craft cocktails and fine wines. The back dining room will open as they add more staff. The local phone number for the restaurant is 320-346-2323. Also, Lincoln's is still looking to hire additional staff with positions of a prep cook, servers and...
The Belgrade August Fest parade was held on Saturday, August 9 on a picture-perfect day for a town celebration. The attached video features the first units of the parade finishing the route at the Belgrade VFW. Additional coverage of August Fest appeared in the August 14 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
Gig Noonan performed live music at the Stearns County Fair that was held in Sauk Centre last week. In the attached video, you can watch Gig Noonan performing at the Herald bandshell on Friday, August 8. The county fair drew strong crowds across all five days of activities, August 6 to August 10. Additional county fair coverage was published in the August 14 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
