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I doubt anyone who sees this picture will recognize it without looking at the words etched at the bottom. Shown is the Brooten school building (1st grade through 12th grade) taken between 1912 and 1933. What can be seen is the west-facing wing, with the "high school" wing in the background. The high school wing was a wooden structure built in 1898 and torn down in 1934. The brick "elementary" wing was built in 1912 and stood until 1994. In 1934, when the wooden high school structure was torn dow...
Strong ground games for Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz helped them take first and second place, respectively, in Minnesota’s presidential preference ballot held on Tuesday night this week. With over 70 percent of precincts reporting, Rubio had 35.4 percent of the vote (25,407) to Cruz’s 29 percent (20,858). The third-place finisher was Donald Trump, who had 21.8 percent (15,665). Republicans in Kandiyohi County put Ted Cruz on top with 356 votes. Rubio was in second place (282), followed by Trump (165) and then Dr....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Pep Band traveled to Morris on Monday, Feb. 29 to follow the B-B-E Jaguars boys' basketball team to the sub-section finals. Director Rachel Tessier made a point to have the band perform during timeouts, which drew many nice compliments from the crowd. From left, percussionists Santos Sorenson, Isaac Vliem, Damon Evens, Abby Eickhoff, Nick Steinhofer during the pre-game pep band songs....
Over 50 people attended a town hall meeting in Willmar on Saturday at Cornerstone Coffee in the Skylark Mall. Senator Lyle Koenen (Clara City) and Representative Dave Baker (Willmar) led the meeting, in which the issue of child care unionization spurred the most discussion. Beyond that topic, transportation and the Appleton prison also brought ample feedback from the crowd. To read the full story, grab a copy of the March 3 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
SAUK RAPIDS - The final minute of the game was not for the faint of heart. After trailing for nearly the entire game against Kimball Area, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa girls' basketball team had their backs to the wall with 36 seconds left in the Sub-Section 5A-South semifinals on Saturday, March 5. Their defense, battered and bruised all game by a strong post and interior game plus a few key three-point shots by sharp-shooting Cubs guards, shined when it mattered most in the final minutes....
Here's video from the Sub-Section 5A-South championship game held one year ago (March 10, 2015) at New London-Spicer high school. The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars girls' basketball team squared off with conference rival Kimball Area and led 48-46 heading into the final minute. The Cubs tied it at 48-48, but senior Kinlee Swanson hit a game-winning bucket for a 50-48 lead before junior Ashley Trustheim iced the win with two late free throws in the closing seconds. The sub-section title was the first for the Jaguars since 2005, when B-B-E...
The world belongs to those who show up, and that is no more true in politics. For citizens of Minnesota, precinct caucuses is a true grassroots-level event where someone can show up and make a difference. Locally the Republican and Democratic-Farmer-Labor parties will hold caucuses at these locations on Tuesday, March 1 at 7 p.m. Stearns County area: Republican Party Brooten-Belgrade-Elrosa High School, Belgrade Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Sauk Centre High School, 903 State Rd, Sauk Centre. Pope County area: The DFL will caucus at the...
Four members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team earned trips to the Class 1A state tournament this past weekend. From left: Colby Schramel (152-lb. section champion), Tyler Bents (113-lb. section runner-up), Canon Swanson (106-lb. section champion) and Ben Thompson (195-lb. section champion). They begin state competition on Friday in St. Paul at Xcel Energy Center. See more coverage from the section tournament beginning on page five of this week's Bonanza Valley Voice. Top to bottom,...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa speech team earned their second first-place team trophy of the season this past Saturday at the New London-Spicer meet. With just 11 members participating, the team was placed in the medium-school division. Results are as follows - Third-place winners: Alyssa Dalen (original oratory) and Austin Meyer (prose). Fourth-place winners: Riley Schumann (drama), Isaac Vliem (extemporaneous speaking) and Courtney Brandt (extemp. reading). Fifth-place winners: Austin Meyer...
Shown is video from the senior high lunch period on Wednesday, February 24 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, when the B-B-E FFA chapter hosted milk drinking contests. For senior high students, they were to drink three cups of milk to qualify for the contest....
Four members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team battled in the opening round of the Class 1A state tournament this afternoon (Friday, Feb. 26) at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. At 106 pounds, Canon Swanson defeated Taylor Ludwig of Eden Valley-Watkins by fall (4:53) to improve to 28-5 on the season. He advances to the state quarterfinals, which begin tonight at 6:30 p.m. Swanson's opponent will be freshmen Jeron Matson (41-1) of Kenyon-Wanamingo. At 113 pounds, Tyler...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's senior Colby Schramel has forged a 2-0 record in the early stages of the Class 1A individual state wrestling tournament after outstanding performances today at the Xcel Energy Center. (Friday, February 26) Schramel, seeded No. 8 in the 16-member bracket, trailed 4-0 in the first minute of his state opener after giving up an early takedown and then two near-fall points with 50 seconds left in the first period. Schramel picked up three near-fall points with 30 seconds to...
Riding a strong second-half performance in Saturday's Sub-Section 6A-South semifinal round game in Morris, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars came out on top of a 17-win Hancock Owls team to earn their second straight trip to the subsection finals and third in the last four years (13th overall). Trailing for most of the first half, the Jaguars got key shots from Derek Wiener and Tanner Heinsius in the last 30 seconds. Heinsius knocked down a three-pointer standing three feet beyond the arc...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's senior Ben Thompson, a wildly talented three-sport athlete, earned a bronze medal with a third-place finish at the Class 1A state wrestling tournament this weekend. Thompson, seeded seventh in the 195-pound division, went 1-1 on the first day of the tournament and had to get to the third-place match "the hard way". On Saturday at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul in the wrestlebacks, Thompson started with a win by a 1-0 decision over junior Kieran Johnson (27-16) of...
Here's Fabienne Verhoeff, foreign-exchange student at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, singing the National Anthem prior to the home boys' basketball playoff game on Thursday, Feb. 25....
For the 13th time in the program's history, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys' basketball team will play for a subsection championship after they defeated third-seeded Hancock 58-49 on Saturday, Feb. 25 at the University of Minnesota-Morris. The Owls, champions of the Pheasant Conference, went 0-2 with two close losses to the Jaguars this season and finish 17-7 overall. The Jaguars take a 15-12 record into the Sub-Section 6A-South championship against a formidable opponent: ninth-ranked Battle...
Below is a press release from the Speaker of the House in Minnesota, Representative Kurt Daudt, about today's ballot counting that resulted in AFSCME's day care unionization scheme failing by a huge margin. The final tally: 1,014 to 392. For day care business owners, the option to join AFSCME is still there. This election does not change the ability of a day care business owner to join the "Child Care Providers Together MN CCPT" union which has been in existence for a number of years in Minnesota. This week's print edition of the Bonanza...
Funeral services for Rick L. Thonvold, age 47 of Brooten, will be on Monday, March 7 at Hope Lutheran Church in Sunburg at 11 a.m. He was owner and co-owner of Brooten Auto with Scott Vogel since 1998, when the purchased the business from Charlie Baker. Rick has been an integral part of the Brooten business community while being a friend to everyone he knew throughout the Brooten and Sunburg communities and the surrounding area. Rick Thonvold, 47 of Sunburg, died on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, at...
Every year the Central Minnesota Conference gives four Distinguished Service awards to individuals at the eight member schools who display outstanding volunteer service for activities offered by CMC schools. This year, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa has one recipient of the award. Mr. Jerry Lindstrom started his local teaching career at Brooten high school in 1976 and served as an assistant varsity football coach as well as junior high girls' basketball coach while teaching junior high social studies....
Foreign-exchange student Fabienne Verhoeff sang the National Anthem prior to the Paynesville girls' basketball game on Monday night, February 15. Verhoeff has also given her talents to the choir, theater department, dance team and currently is part of the speech team....
Senator Lyle Koenen (DFL-Clara City) will host a town hall meeting with Representative Dave Baker at Cornerstone Coffee in Willmar's Skylark Mall on Saturday, Feb. 27. "I look forward to meeting with constituents to discuss the upcoming legislative session and the issues that matter most to Minnesota families and businesses." said Sen. Koenen. "Meetings like this afford me the opportunity to listen, learn, inform, and work with constituents toward a shared objective: making our communities the...
Since her eighth grade season, Hailey Braegelman has been a force on the basketball court for the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars. Now a junior, Braegelman has done something few high school athletes can in their careers: join the 1,000-point club. Braegelman entered the home game against Maple Lake with 995 career points. She scored two field goals early in the first half, and at the 11-minute mark she hit a 10-footer in the lane against traffic to surpass the 1,000-point mark. The game was...
Dr. Felix Blanco, M.D., (far left) and other staff members at Glacial Ridge Health System in Glenwood took the plunge into the icy waters of Lake Minnewaska on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 6) during the annual Glenwood Winterama festivities. Overall the event had about 40 brave souls take part in the Polar Plunge. The Winterama event raises funds for Glenwood and Beyond as well as Waterama. See video and the photo gallery from the event at www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com....
The Sno-Daze pep fest games got fairly creative on Friday at the high school. Shown in the photo, Nick Steinhofer, in the pink t-shirt, and Dawson Bitzan, in the blue sweatshirt, hold still while their partners toss cheesy popcorn pieces on their faces after they were covered in Cool Whip....
A discussion of issues ran the gamut of what’s on the minds of rural Minnesota citizens at a town hall meeting on Saturday in Glenwood. Hosted by State Representative Paul Anderson (District 12-B, Starbuck) at Central Square Civic Center, about a dozen individuals showed up to speak their mind. Anderson began by outlining the three big topics that will be the focus of the 2016 Legislative session that begins on March 8: a tax bill, a transportation bill and a bonding bill. “The tax bill is sitting in a conference committee where it was lef...
