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The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys' basketball team is riding a three-game winning streak, and they are playing their best ball of the season as winners of 5 of their last 6 games. On Tuesday, February 18 in a border battle at their neighbors to the south, New London-Spicer, the Jaguars had an outstanding second half in a 61-54 win to cap a four-game road swing. Last Friday at Maple Lake, the Jaguars held the Irish to just 16 first-half points in a 68-34 win. B-B-E is currently in 5th place in...
The headline says all that really needs to be said here. The ways that the Swamp in Washington D.C. has dreamed up to frivelously spend U.S. taxpayer dollars is breathtaking. Here's a short list: $25 million dollars to promote the following: biodiversity, conservation and "licid" livelihoods by developing "socially responsible" behavior in the country of Colombia. $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. $42 million for Johns Hopkins to research and drive...
The National Basketball Association (NBA), which has undergone massive transformations in its messaging and its operations across the past 5 years while the "woke mind virus" has infected its leadership, continues to slide into irrelevance in the professional sports stage. One recent example of its slide into the abyss was on display with the All-Star game on February 16. Television ratings for the All-Star game were its second-lowest in the league's history. It did not help the NBA that the...
For the first time in many years, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa speech team hosted a home meet at the high school with the first annual Jagtastic Speech Invitational this past Saturday, February 15. Year to year, the speech team occasionally hosts either conference or subsection meets, but this year the team gets two meets at home (subsections are in Belgrade on April 4). In the attached video, B-B-E seniors Tia Nelson and Kora Martinez were recognized during the awards ceremony that afternoon....
After Alpha News provided scrutiny in the form of old-fashioned journalism, DFL State Senator Omar Fateh recently withdrew his bill that would have directed $15 million in taxpayer money to the WE WIN Institute. This comes on the heels of Senator Fateh's shepherding of $3.5 million to WE WIN via the state legislature and Governor Tim Walz during the 2023 legislative session. The 2025 legislation supporting the WE WIN Institute would have directed $15 million for "culturally specific programming...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team sent 12 athletes to the Section 5A individual wrestling tournament at Yellow Medicine East high school on Saturday, February 22. Out of those 12, three of them earned first or second place finishes to advance to the Class 1A state tournament at Xcel Energy Center on February 28 and March 1. They are Noah Jensen (107 pounds), Brett DeRoo (160), Carson Gilbert (215) and Hunter Laage (285). Results are as follows by weight division. 107: Noah Jensen...
Have you read The Art of the Deal by President Donald Trump? If you haven't read it, you should! If you are Ukrained President Volodymyr Zelensky, then you clearly have not read that book....
During the lunch periods on Wednesday, February 19 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school, the FFA chapter hosted a Milk Relay competition. The attached video features the Milk Relay taking place that afternoon. Additional National FFA Week coverage will be published in the February 27 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. The FFA hosted turkey bowling on Friday. Click over to the Jaguars Sports extended coverage blog to see a video featuring that event: https://bbejag...
Governor Tim Walz spoke at the 158th annual Minnesota Newspaper Association convention on Friday, January 31. The MNA convention was held at the Minneapolis Marriot Northwest hotel in Brooklyn Park that week. The attached video features Walz speaking at the Friday afternoon banquet that day on topics such as the 2025 state legislative session as well as ideas the government can work with on helping the health and well being of newspapers across the state. Walz's appearance was followed by a...
A deranged, lunatic Democrat in California has called on the public to resort to using violence in the fight against Elon Musk's war on fraud, waste and abuse in the United States federal government. The attached Sky News Australia video on YouTube spells out what happened. From Sky News Australia, Democrat Representative Robert Garcia is under fire for controversial comments surrounding billionaire Elon Musk. During his interview on CNN, Garcia said that Americans should "bring actual weapons...
Bitter cold has gripped the Bonanza Valley area this week. Temperatures plunged to 20 or more below zero on Monday night, February 10, with the temperature before school began shown in the attached photo on Tuesday, February 11. By 11:30 a.m. it rebounded to a "balmy" negative one degree. Negative 22 is in the forecast for Wednesday night. It's a great time to have wood heat, which is more and more rare today....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team concluded their regular season with a 7-12 overall record. In the Central Minnesota Conference, they finished in third place with a 4-2 record behind Holdingford and Paynesville Area. On Monday, February 10, the Section 5A seedings were released for the upcoming playoffs. The Jaguars earned the No. 5 seed and open with a quarterfinal match at Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg high school on Thursday this week (February 13) at 7 p.m. They face the No. 4-seeded...
Coming to the Bonanza Valley area on Friday, February 14 Tom and Anne Kampsen and the friendly staff of the KaDe Shack in Brooten invite everyone to their Valentine's Day supper. They will serve from 5 to 9 p.m. at just $12 a person with a menu including shrimp, chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy plus salad. Heidi's Bar in Sedan has a big act coming for Valentine's Day, with Dana Robinson and the Bottle Rockets playing on Friday, February 14 from 8 p.m. to midnight. No cover charge! Brink's...
On Thursday, February 13 in Washington, D.C., U.S. Senator Rand Paul provided examples of wasteful spending during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing titled "Waste by the Foreign Aid Bureaucracy." The attached video features Senator Paul speaking during this committee hearing. Senator Paul said, "The U.S. should not be the world's sugar daddy, especially towards countries and organizations who act contrary to our nation's beliefs. Our country is 36 trillion dollars in debt, yet we...
On February 12, Congresswoman Fischbach (MN-07) introduced the Investing in Rural America Act to provide critical capital resources to rural communities through improvements to the Community Facilities Loan and Grant Program. "Rural communities across the country are struggling to retain population, much less attract future generations. One way Congress can support them is by eliminating unnecessary regulatory barriers to capital investment, particularly on critical community facilities like hos...
Consolidation in agriculture and restrictions on farmers’ rights when it comes to repairing their own equipment will be the focus of a Land Stewardship Project (LSP) town hall meeting featuring Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Tuesday, March 4, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., at 57002 180th Street in rural Donnelly. Farmers and other rural residents are invited to take part in this discussion, but space is limited. To reserve a spot, see https://bit.ly/Ellisontownhall or contact LSP western M...
This is gold. In a rare act of journalism, CNN's Jake Tapper asked Senator Tim Kaine why the Democratic Party is so "staggeringly unpopular with the American public" than it has been in over a generation. This is featured early in the attached video, which also features a highlight reel of numerous examples explaining why the Democrats are in trouble....
Near the southern side of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's coverage area, a mecca of countrywestern and rural America values has been built in the form of Smilin' D Arena. This facility hosts a wide variety of entertainment events and also serves as an indoor location for equine sports and equine sports training. It is located in the heart of Colfax Township in northern Kandiyohi County. During the final hours of January 2025, Hell Country Truckers performed live music at Smilin' D Arena....
Would it shock you to learn the United States government has sent $797 million to Guatemala via a laundry list of Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and criminal organizations such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has turned Guatemala into the Child Kidnapping Capital of the world? Yes, U.S. tax dollars funneled through USAID has led to over 190,052 Guatemalan children being kidnapped from Guatemala and trafficked into America. During the current fiscal year of 2025...
During the first day of the month of February last Saturday, the Smilin' D Arena held the Wild Henke Youth Day, which was dubbed as a "day for kids" at the arena. Youth of various ages competed across 10 different equine competitions. The attached video features Teagan Jenniges and Jack Anderson competing in the ages 11-14 category during the Bell Boot race that morning. Anderson nailed it during his run with at time that beat the 10-second mark. He is a seventh grader at B-B-E middle school....
Here's an entertaining 82-second long video courtesy of the John Talks 2 channel on YouTube. The best is yet to come...just wait until "DOGE" digs into the Pentagon and the Department of Defense spending! Buckle up, because we've got a wild ride ahead of us. "Extra butter on my popcorn, please!...
Minnesota Farmers Union (MFU) President Gary Wertish spoke against across-the-board tariffs during a Friday morning (February 7) press conference hosted by Minnesota’s senior Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. They were joined by Minnesota State Building and Construction Trades Council President Dan McConnell. President Donald Trump has imposed an additional 10 percent tariff on China and has stayed for 30 days a 25 percent additional tariff on Canada and Mexico. Energy resources from Canada will h...
Valentine's Day is coming, and it's just over two weeks away. Jana Mae's Inc., in Brooten, wants to help make your Valentine's Day special for your special someone in your life! Jana Mae's website features all of their Valentine's Day specials, where you can place an order online. Offering: flowers, cookies and pies. The staff at Jana Mae's will have your order ready for pickup or delivery (if it qualifies) on Valentine's Day. If you have special instructions, please indicate them in the order....
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school's Olson Auditorium was the site of a terrific Sno-Daze coronation program on Tuesday, February 11. The coronation officially kicked off the 35th annual Sno-Daze week in Jaguar Country with students in grades 9-12 plus staff members, family and friends helping fill the seats as games were played along with the crowning of the King and Queen. The 35th annual B-B-E Sno-Daze King and Queen are Jack Lundberg and Emery Halvorson. The video attached here features...
On Wednesday, Jan. 22, State Senator Torrey Westrom (R-Alexandria) met with constituents from Douglas and Stearns counties who came down to the Minnesota State Capitol for the 2025 MCCL March for Life. Hundreds of Minnesotans participated in the event, advocating for the protection of the unborn and the sanctity of life. Senator Westrom expressed his gratitude to those who traveled to St. Paul to take part in the march, commending their dedication to this important cause. "It was inspiring to...
