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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....
The Belgrade-Brooten police department finished 2022 with a total of 1,837 incident complaint reports (ICRs) on the book. This represents about a six percent increase from 2021, when the total was 1,731 between the two towns. Belgrade-Brooten Police Chief Casey Jansky reported to the BB police board that new Automatic Electronic Defibrillators (AEDs) are in service. They both come with five-year bumper to bumper warranties including pads. Two additional AEDs were donated to B-B-E schools. The full police story was published in the January 26...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa/Paynesville Pirouettes dance team hosted a six-team meet on Thursday, January 19 in Brooten. The Pirouettes JV Jazz squad took first place with a hard-fought win. Led by B-B-E Class of 2015 graduate and head coach Katie Boie, the Pirouettes went through what was a not-so-easy transition in mid-December to split up their 13-person roster into varsity and JV squads. This created an extra layer of work and especially teamwork to pull off. The team was thrilled to earn...
It's a little late, but here's worship service video from West Lake Johanna Lutheran church on Sunday, January 15 in Gilchrist Township....
On Friday, January 13 at the Paynesville Invitational at the Paynesville Area Community Center, the No. 5-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team emerged as champions in an 11-team field. Other tournament notes: Wyatt Engen earned his 100th career win in the championship round win where he claimed the 138-pound title. Video of him winning his tournament opener is embedded below. Ethan Spanier improved to 17-1 this season while pinning his way through three matches and earning the...
On Saturday, January 14, two members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa middle school band attended a one-day band camp at Elk River high school. To conclude the day's activities, students gathered there for the Central Minnesota Band Association honors band performed a concert at Elk River high school's George Zabee auditorium. A lengthy video clip from the first song performed is posted below. Keep in mind: all of these band members here are between 11 and 14 years old. They were magnificent! The...
Cozy up with a good book and challenge yourself to read more this season with the Winter Reading Program! "Read for a Better World," the 2023 Winter Reading Program begins Monday, January 2, 2023, and runs through Tuesday, February 28th at the Belgrade Myrtle Mabee library on the north end of Main Street. The program provides fun incentives for readers to settle into cozy winter reading habits. It is designed primarily for teens and adults and is open to anyone in the 6th grade or older. Each...
A special prayer was provided by Pastor Ron Knutson on New Year's Day, January 1, 2023, towards the end of Sunday worship at Sunburg Free Lutheran church in Norway Lake Township. This was published in the January 12 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper and is also featured in the video below....
The No. 16-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa girls' basketball team picked up a key Central Minnesota Conference win last Thursday at home by a 74-63 score over Kimball Area. The Cubs, who tied for the CMC title last year with Holdingford, then lost one night later to the visiting Huskers 59-46 to fall to 1-3 in the league. The Jaguars picked up a 72-33 win on Friday at Maple Lake to move to 2-1 (third) in the CMC. On Tuesday at Minnewaska, the Jaguars won 55-41. Now 6-2 overall, the Jaguars...
In 1965, American radio host Paul Harvey gave an immense warning to the American people about the fate of the nation. "We Were Warned: Freedom to Chains" is a short film about the parallels between the warning Harvey gave over fifty years ago, and today with the socialist influences in government and society. This video is an edit of the short film created to provide only the audio without the visuals seen in the original. Harvey's speech lasts about 9 minutes. He was born in Tulsa, OK on September 4, 1918 and passed away on February 28, 2009...
On Saturday, January 14, two members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa middle school band attended a one-day band camp at Elk River high school. To conclude the day's activities, students gathered there for the Central Minnesota Band Association honors band performed a concert at Elk River high school's George Zabee auditorium. A short video clip from the first song performed is posted below. Additional coverage of this event will be published in the January 19 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice...
Sugar beet harvesting has become a time-honored tradition each fall across the Bonanza Valley area and beyond. The method used consists of two separate machines, one that cuts the top off the plant and the other that digs them up and lifts them into a storage hopper for transport. Hence the phrase, "It's time to lift beets" muttered by farmers across central Minnesota and beyond. The need to use two machines creates an extra layer of cost for equipment and labor, not to mention the necessity...
