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  • B-B-E Resistance Robotics endures adversity, finds success in Grand Forks (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Mar 14, 2024

    The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team was one of 56 teams at the Great Northern regional competition in Grand Forks. The regional was held on March 6-9 at the Alerus Center. B-B-E's team pulled off a thoroughly impressive comeback on Friday and Saturday as they endured tremendous adversity. While competing in North Dakota for the third straight year, the robotics team had to contend with unforeseen and nearly impossible-to-predict mechanical failures that cost them a smooth...

  • It is all falling apart - Thank God (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Mar 14, 2024

    This was an exciting video to take in. It is absolutely PRECIOUS and PRICELESS to watch the mainstream media goons lose their minds on national television. All throughout 2023 they sounded so confident...look how things have changed. It gives me great joy to see this happening. That could not happen to more deserving people....

  • A handful of college students I can agree with (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Mar 7, 2024

    It's easy to find videos on YouTube of young people being asked questions related to either American history, geography or modern politics. Generally, many of these videos show that young people just simply are not well-informed. In the attached video, a handful of young people are asked about who they believe is the dumbest person in the government today. There's a recurring theme with their answers......

  • Minnesota's townships to hold annual meetings on Township Day, Tuesday, March 12, 2024

    Randy Olson|Mar 7, 2024

    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 this meeting, residents of the townships will meet to voice their opinions about local issues with other township residents and also vote directly on their annual tax levy -- direct democracy in action. Citizens attending annual meetings also often discuss and vote on other local issues. In...

  • Township legal notices

    Randy Olson|Mar 7, 2024

    Raymond Township Notice of Annual Meeting and Election of Officers: Notice is hereby given to qualified voters that the Annual Township Election and Meeting for Raymond Township will be held at the Padua Pub Reception Hall, 33945 Co. Rd. 18, Sauk Centre, MN on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. The election polls will be open from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for the following purposes to elect: One Supervisor (3 Year Term) and One Clerk (2 Year Term). The Annual Town Meeting will commence at 8:05 p.m. after polls close to conduct necessary business as prescribed...

  • B-B-E wrestling team third at state, Hanson claims second gold medal (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Mar 7, 2024

    The attached video features Maximus Hanson in his state championship match on March 2 in St. Paul. The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team's final dual at the Class 1A state tournament was not for the faint of heart. With their backs truly to the wall in the third-place match of the Class 1A state tournament on Thursday, February 29 at Xcel Energy Center, the Jaguars came alive with a full-throated roar in the upper weights after trailing 31-12 through the 152-pound match against No....

  • B-B-E Resistance Robotics competing at Great Northern Regional

    Randy Olson|Mar 7, 2024

    This is a big week for the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team, as they are competing in their only regional of the 2024 season. They are in Grand Forks this weekend (March 6 to March 9) for the Great Northern Regional at the Alerus Center. This year's F.I.R.S.T. (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) competition is titled "Crescendo" with a playing field set up with a nod to music. The theme's description says the purpose is to "Orchestrate engineering skills...

  • When your taxes are paid, but you still owe Ukraine (MEME)

    Randy Olson|Feb 29, 2024

    All you can say at that point is: "What the heck!?!?!?" Ukraine is the bottomless pit that keeps on taking from the American taxpayer. It's gone far north of $100 billion with no end in sight....

  • Five Jaguars advance to state individual tournament (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 29, 2024

    Five members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team earned spots in the upcoming Class 1A state individual tournament, which runs Friday and Saturday this weekend (March 1-2) at Xcel Energy Center. Three Jaguars have earned Section 5A titles at the individual tournament that was held on Saturday at Canby high school: Ryan Jensen at 139 pounds, Maximus Hanson at 172 and Carson Gilbert at 215. Earning section runner-up finishes with state berths were Tanner Viessman at 145 and Brett DeRoo...

  • Moderna booster jab renders Canadian woman quadraplegic (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 29, 2024

    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 jab caused it. Kayla Pollock, a 36-year old in Canada, was discharged from Lyndhurst hospital after suffering acute transverse myelitis in February 2022 following her third dose of a COVID-19 jab. Her first two jabs were manufactured by Pfizer, and...

  • B-B-E elementary school volcano project (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 29, 2024

    Here's follow-up coverage of Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary's volcano project in the fourth and fifth grade classes. An attached video features one of the fourth grader's volcanoes erupting in the cafeteria with an audience that included second grade students....

  • New nickname coined for California's governor (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 29, 2024

    In his press conference near the U.S.-Mexico border this week, President Trump coined a new nickname for the governor of California. He also made a great point: perhaps it's more important to care for U.S. citizens, especially our veterans, before we pour out an endless list of freebies to illegal aliens? The attached video, lasting just 40 seconds, spells it out....

  • Township, city legal notices

    Randy Olson|Feb 22, 2024

    PUBLIC NOTICE TO CROW RIVER TOWNSHIP VOTERS: Notice is hereby given to the qualified voters of Crow River Township that the annual meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at the town hall (604 School Street). In case of inclement weather, the meeting will be postponed until the following Tuesday, March 19, 2024. The annual meeting will convene at 8:00 p.m. to conduct all necessary business as prescribed by law. /s/ Lisa Mastey, Crow River Township Clerk 02/22 - 02/29 NOTICE OF PUBLIC TESTING OF VOTE TABULATING AND OMNI-BALLOT EQUIPMENT...

  • Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Donatus Church in Brooten (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 22, 2024

    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 community of faith had a packed house that night for the Poor Souls in Purgatory Mass. The attached video features part of Mass that evening....

  • The trans movement is fully out of control (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 22, 2024

    The push to allow boys who think they are girls to play competitive, contact sports with real girls has reached a new low and continues to break the realms of all human decency. Beyond the incidents where boys who think they are girls are discovered in girls' locker rooms, the world has now been made fully aware of a shocking game that took place in Massachusetts. In a junior varsity girls' basketball game, a boy who thinks he is a girl who stands 6 feet tall (complete with facial hair) was...

  • B-B-E Resistance Robotics gears up for Week Zero (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 22, 2024

    The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team is in the midst of their 2024 build season in preparation for two regional competitions in March. They travel to Willmar high school this Saturday (February 24) for what is dubbed Week Zero, where the team can scrimmage other schools' robots on the competition field. B-B-E's team is part of the nationwide network of high school robotics teams working under FIRST, which stands for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, a...

  • B-B-E holds 34th annual Sno-Daze coronation (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 15, 2024

    For the 34th year dating back to 1990, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school has hosted the annual Sno-Daze coronation. In the early years, this was held at B-B-E senior high school in Brooten, and after 1995, it has been held continuously at the B-B-E high school in Belgrade. Sno-Daze was not held in the winter of 2020-2021 due to the pandemic, but it resumed in February of 2022. This year's coronation was held for the third straight year in B-B-E high school's Olson Auditorium, where the Sno-Daze royal court games were played, dress-up day themes...

  • The Deep State is in deep trouble!

    Randy Olson|Feb 15, 2024

    The jig is up for the Deep State players in America who are, without question, public enemy No. 1 of American citizens. It's now coming to light that the United States Intelligence Community (IC), including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), illegally mobilized foreign intelligence agencies to target advisors to President Donald Trump long before the summer of 2016. Sources with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HSPCI) have stated that the United States Intelligence...

  • Sunday worship at West Lake Johanna Lutheran (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 15, 2024

    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 services held this week at most area churches on February 14. Worship that evening at West Lake Johanna was cancelled due to poor road conditions that night. Throughout the day on February 14, the Bonanza Valley area received around 5 inches of snow to...

  • B-B-E wrestlers advance to state! (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 15, 2024

    After two outstanding team performances in the Section 5A wrestling Final Four on February 17 in Minneota, the No. 3-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars are heading to the Class 1A state tournament for the fourth year in a row. The attached video features action from the championship match between B-B-E and top-seeded Canby, who the Jaguars defeated 39-21 to earn the state berth. Individual results from the Canby dual are posted below. The Jaguars avenged one of their two regular season...

  • Used book fair at Grace Lutheran Church

    Randy Olson|Feb 15, 2024

    The Grace Lutheran Church Women are hosting a used book fair that started on Tuesday, February 13. There are hundreds of books! Adult, fiction, non-fiction, children's, reference, cookbooks ,etc. Free-will offering. You may browse and purchase books whenever the church is open. Open Wednesday morning through 1:30 p.m. on February 21, and Sunday morning, February 25. The sale will also be open Saturday, February 24 from 8:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Rolls and coffee will be served. If you have...

  • Letter to the editor: the Butterfly Effect in Minnesota's public education

    Randy Olson|Feb 8, 2024

    Have you heard of the Butterfly Effect? While you've been busy living your life, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been quietly changing the future of education in all Minnesota schools, public and private. His self-appointed licensing board is embedding Marxist principles and practices such as critical race theory, fluid sexual identity, and gender politics into teacher licensing requirements that will usher in radical ideologies. These changes will impact new teachers earning their teaching licenses as well as all current teachers renewing...

  • Boys' basketball Jaguars earn back-to-back wins (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Feb 8, 2024

    The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys' basketball team took it on the chin against visiting Paynesville Area last Thursday, February 1. After playing a mostly strong first half as they were attempting to avenge a 79-30 loss on December 15, the Jaguars fell cold just before halftime. The Bulldogs capped the Central Minnesota Conference series sweep with a 74-51 win as they kept pace with No. 4-ranked Eden Valley-Watkins. The Eagles are 8-0 in the league, while the Bulldogs are one game back at 7-1....

  • Mystery clotting in a post-COVID jab world (VIDEO, UPDATE)

    Randy Olson|Feb 8, 2024

    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 cons of joining future class action lawsuits against Pfizer. In the attached video, Dr. John Campbell speaks with Major Tom Havland, United States Air Force, who is a data scientist and an engineer mathematician. He and Dr. Campbell have a conversati...

  • Minnesota Republican Delegation condemns effort to make Minnesota a Sanctuary State

    Randy Olson|Feb 8, 2024

    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 with federal immigration enforcement and banning state government officials from enforcing civil immigration laws. Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach (MN-07), Congressman Brad Finstad (MN-01), Majority Whip Emmer (MN-06), and Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) voiced strong opposition to the legislation:...

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