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The Belgrade Commercial Club Easter Egg hunt event has been moved back to 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 1. The event is at the B-B-E high school northeast parking lot in Belgrade. Please pass the word! The Bonanza Valley area received over 6 inches of snow between 7 p.m. and midnight on Friday, March 31. A long, long time ago...150 years ago in fact, winter in central Minnesota lasted from October through May (1872-1873)...this year winter began in November, and hopefully we will see it conclude in April!...
The Brooten Activities Club, the Brooten Fire Relief Association, RJ's Mini Mart and an assortment of local businesses and volunteers invite area youth to come to Brooten to the B-B-E elementary parking lot on Saturday, April 8 at 1 p.m. for the annual Easter Egg Hunt and meet-and-greet with the Easter bunny! The event was originally set to take place at the Brooten city park, but the park continues to be blanketed by two to three feet of snow (or more) as winter refuses to relinquish its grip...
The Brooten Ambulance Service and Glacial Ridge Health System is thrilled about the huge turnout at their recent spring pancake breakfast held on Sunday, March 19 with over 400 served. The event was held at the Brooten American Legion hall. A photo of the volunteers working at the pancake feed was published on page one of the March 23 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
Two years ago, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa girls' basketball team made history by becoming the first girls' squad to play in a state championship game. On Saturday, March 18 the girls' basketball team made more history for the program by becoming the first girls' squad to finish the season with a win in the Jaguar athletics era. Facing the Class 1A state tournament's No. 2-seeded Hayfield, the No. 5-seeded Jaguars held the lead for the majority of the game at Concordia University-St. Paul...
Note: for the sake of brevity and simplicity for the newspaper publisher, match times will be posted using Army time. Also, this web article is being updated throughout the afternoon on Saturday, March 25 to feature results from individual matches. Sunday afternoon update: a playoff web article can be viewed by clicking on the following link: https://bit.ly/40H7TgJ. The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team started with two alliance wins in their first three matches at the Minnesota N...
Minnesota Farmers Union and the Kandiyohi County Farmers Union organizations will host a unique and informative session dubbed "Challenging Monoply Power, an Evening of Trustbusting" on Wednesday, April 12 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Goat Ridge Brewing Co. in downtown New London (17 Central Avenue West). At this event, they will discuss how to take powerful anti-monopoly action right in your local area. This will be led by MFU Antimonopoly Director Justin Stofferahn....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team made history on Sunday, March 26 at La Crosse, Wisconsin, as they were selected to advance to the playoffs of the North Star regional competition. They finished the regular matches in 17th place overall with a 7-6 record. Their third playoff match started at about 14:50, and they are paired with Rocori and a team out of St. Charles, Illinois. At this point of the playoffs, B-B-E's alliance is 1-1 with a win in the first playoff match and then...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team headed into the 53-team Great Northern Regional competition in Grand Forks last week with a head of steam and an ocean's worth of confidence. The region competition took place between March 9 and March 11. With a successful build season and a brand-new robot working at full form, the robotics team felt they were in great shape after a successful Week Zero trip to Willmar on February 18 and then a terrific finish to the practice day on...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys' basketball team earned the program's 19th sub-section championship berth in school history with a 58-42 win against Hancock on Monday, March 13. The No. 11-ranked (Minnesota Basketball News) Jaguars held Hancock over 21 points below their scoring average. The Sub-Section 6A-South championship game was held on Wednesday, March 15 back at Minnewaska Area, where the Jaguars faced fellow Top-20 team Border West for a section finals berth. The No. 14-ranked (No. 18...
At Maturi Pavilion on the campus of the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis on Thursday, March 16, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa girls' basketball team used an incredible second-half display of defense to win going away by a 60-44 score against No. 4-seeded Underwood. The win improves their season record to 26-4 overall. They have shattered the school record for most wins in a season, which was 24 (set in the 2018-2019 season when they finished 24-6.) The Jaguars held Underwood to just 11 points...
Herman "Hermie" TeBrake, 72, of Brooten, passed away on Monday, March 13, 2023, at the Belgrade Nursing Home. A celebration of life for Herman was held from 2:00 for 4:00 pm on Sunday, March 19 at the Brooten Community Church basement. Herman Jan TeBrake was born on June 7, 1950 in Glenwood, MN, the son of Herman and Jeanette (Zylstra) TeBrake. He grew-up in the Brooten area, was a lifelong member of the Brooten Community Church (Brooten Christian Reformed Church) and graduated from Brooten...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team travels to the Great Northern Regional competition at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota on Thursday through Saturday, March 9-11. This year's competition is called "Charged Up" with a nod towards the fact that countless modern-day devices (necessary or just amenities) rely on battery power. The basic regional schedule has the robotics team in an inspection and practice day today followed by two days of competitions on Friday and...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys' basketball team advanced to the second round of playoffs after dismantling Ortonville 88-57 on the home floor on Wednesday, March 8 in Brooten. Altogether, 10 Jaguars found the scoring column and 13 saw the floor. The game was moved up by one day due to the potential for severe weather that was forecast for Thursday the 9th. At halftime, the Jaguars led 53-23 after initially trailing 12-6. Ortonville (1-27) went the entire regular season without a win before...
Video was added to this web article on March 14 from the post-game medals ceremony at Collegeville. The No. 10-ranked (Minnesota Basketball News) and No. 4-ranked (QRF) Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa girls' basketball team has earned a seed for next week's state tournament. The Jaguars (25-4) are the No. 5 seed and will play at 1 p.m. at Maturi Pavilion on the campus of the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis on Thursday, March 16 in the Class 1A state quarterfinals. Heavily-favored Mountain Iron-Buhl...
A marvelous half-hour long ventriloquist show was performed by James Wedgwood on Sunday, February 19 at the Belgrade Municipal Hall as entertainment to conclude the B-B-E Cub Scouts Pack No. 667 Blue Gold awards banquet. Video from the show is below....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team, ranked No. 5 in the last Guillotine poll of the season, stormed their way into the Class 1A state tournament as No. 3 seed out of eight teams. The Jaguars faced Medford in the quarterfinals on Thursday, March 2 at Xcel Energy Center and won the final six matches of the dual. Final: B-B-E 42, Medford 22. With a 21-5 overall record, the Jaguars had blazed their way into the state final four round. In the semifinals, they suffered a tough 33-27 loss to...
Everyone is invited to an exciting upcoming Craft and Vendor Show at the Ben Franklin building in downtown Glenwood on Saturday, March 11 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. (physical address is 2 East Minnesota Avenue, Glenwood, 56334) Some local downtown businesses will be having events this day as well!...
ANNOUNCEMENT for residents of Brooten: West Central Sanitation has announced that regular recycling pick-up will take place as scheduled on Friday, February 24 (tomorrow)...but the garbage pick-up for Friday has been postponed one day to Saturday due to the weather. Please pass the word!...
The No. 5-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team has advanced to the Class 1A state tournament for the third straight year after claiming their third straight Section 5A title. The Jaguars, seeded No. 3, defeated higher-seeded Canby and Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg in the section semifinals on Saturday, February 18 at Benson high school. They take a 20-5 record into the state tournament, which opens with the 9 a.m. quarterfinals round on Thursday, March 2 at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul....
For the 33rd year dating back to 1990, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school 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 second straight year in B-B-E high school's Olson Auditorium, where the Sno-Daze royal...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools had the privilege of hosting Taher's very own corporate Chef Brian Renz on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, January 25-27 at both the high school and elementary. For 26 years, Chef Brian has traveled to numerous countries, experienced world-renowned foods and a vast variety of cultures. Chef Brian has shared his knowledge with the students to create new food from his world travels. With the students' help, the schools enjoyed chicken tinga tostada, calzones and...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa girls' basketball team picked up double-digit wins on back-to-back nights to improve to 15-3 overall. Last Friday at Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City high school, the Jaguars built a huge halftime lead on their way to a 53-34 win to improve to 8-2 (second) in the Central Minnesota Conference. On Saturday in a girls/boys doubleheader in Belgrade, the Jaguars defeated Section 5A rival Browerville 69-35 while handing the Tigers their fourth loss in five games. The No....
The current winter has given central Minnesota and a greater portion of the upper Midwest a few rounds of blizzard-like snow storms. Such storms have been part of life since pioneers first settled the area in the mid-19th century. Carolyn Mankell Sowinski, who grew up in Lake Andrew Township near the Norway Lake Parish churches, has written extensively about one of the major blizzards that wreaked havoc in central Minnesota: the blizzard of January 7, 1873. In the fall of 2022, Sowinski...
The No. 8-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team finished up last week with a flurry of action after three straight days of practice. On Thursday at Kerkhoven, the Jaguars went 1-1 with a loss to the host Fighting Saints and a win over Benson. On Friday at Minneota, the Jaguars suffered a 37-27 loss to No. 12-ranked Canby but defeated state-ranked Minneota and Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted. In other results at Minneota on Friday, HL-W-W edged Minneota 30-29 and Canby beat neighboring...
Here's a special Paul Harvey video found on YouTube at the official Paul Harvey Archives channel....
