Articles from the December 25, 2025 edition


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  • B-B-E holds high school winter Christmas concert (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Dec 25, 2025

    Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa hosted a winter Christmas concert featuring the choirs and bands in grades 6-12 performing at Olson Auditorium on Tuesday, December 16. During the 7th-8th grade band concert, they performed Up On a Haunted Housetop by Scott Watson, narrated by science teacher Erin Koshiol. This song is featured in the attached video. Additional coverage with band students was published in the December 25 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....

  • Trinity-West Lake Johanna Lutheran Christmas program (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Dec 25, 2025

    The God Squad students of Trinity and West Lake Johanna Lutheran churches of Brooten held their Christmas program on Sunday, December 7 at Trinity. The attached video includes video from the program that morning. The parish God Squad students performed Christmas carols on Saturday, December 6 as part of the Brooten Santa Day events. They were featured on one of the units in the Brooten lighted Christmas parade that evening....

  • Norway Lake community hosts Christmas Jingle Bell Jubilee (VIDEO*)

    Randy Olson|Dec 25, 2025

    Here's a video from the upper deck of East Norway Lake Lutheran church in Arctander Township on Saturday, December 20. The ENL church hosted the Sunburg Community Players, who performed an hour's worth of Christmas songs. They were directed by Joyce Rudningen. This video begins with the song We Three Kings being performed....

  • "Silent Night," The Carol that Paused a War

    Randy Olson|Dec 25, 2025

    The power of the song Silent Night was demonstrated in one of the most destructive wars in world history just 98 years after written in 1816 and within miles of where written. by Father Joseph Mohr, while he was serving in Mariapfarr, Germany. It was famously associated with sparking the unofficial Christmas Truce on December 25, 1914, in World War I along the Western Front. No song had ever paused a war. During the early months of WWI, in frozen trenches near Ypres, Belgium, German soldiers...

  • B-B-E girls' basketball splits in recent border battles (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Dec 25, 2025

    It was not pretty, but the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa girls' basketball team survived a late comeback attempt by host Melrose Area after building a 17-point lead in the second half. A buzzer-beating three-pointer by the host Dutchmen made the final score 59-56 on Friday, December 19. In another border battle on the road, the Jaguars traveled to Swift County on Monday, December 22 to Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg. The Fighting Saints (5-2) entered the night averaging 72.6 points per game. In spite of a...

  • Live music is Saturday at Lincoln's Restaurant in Brooten (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Dec 25, 2025

    Saturday, December 27 is the big day in Brooten! Lincoln's Bar and Restaurant is excited to have live music at the Main Theater dining room with the Tanner Stark Band. Doors and the kitchen open at 4:30 p.m., and the live music kicks off at 7:30 p.m. The dance floor will be open! Restaurant and bar open all night. Just a $10 cover charge unless you're dining in. A full steak and seafood menu plus craft cocktails will be served. Walk-ins are welcome. For groups of 6 or more, Lincoln's staff...

  • Christmas Eve worship at South Lake Johanna Lutheran (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Dec 25, 2025

    A cozy group of over 70 children and adults gathered in the warm confines of the South Lake Johanna Lutheran church sanctuary on Wednesday, December 24 for a Christmas Eve worship. The service was led by Pastor Ron Knutson, who currently preaches at Sunburg Free Lutheran and Scandia Lutheran churches. The attached video, which begins while worshipers are singing It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, features most of the worship service. Pastor Ron graduated from Brooten in 1958. This is his 55th year...