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  • Clippers blow out Hawks

    Clippers blow out Hawks

    The Watkins Clippers hosted the Eden Valley Hawks Sunday afternoon, June 26. As usual, the Clippers scored early, but this time they scored in all but one inning of play. The game was called early, in the middle of the seventh inning, with the mercy rule. The Clippers won, 17-1. Matt Geislinger hit a pair…

  • Kimball students attend Stearns County Sheriff’s Youth Safety Camp

    Kimball students attend Stearns County Sheriff’s Youth Safety Camp

    Kimball Area Public School District’s Resource Officer Deputy Sheriff Brian Theisen, facilitated the free Stearns County Sheriff’s Department Summer Youth Safety Camp Tuesday, June 21, at the Warner Lake County Park in Clearwater. Kimball had 13 students attend the educational camp. Members from the Stearns County Sheriff’s Department, the Clearwater Fire Department and the Department…

  • Junker is Valley Daze grand marshal

    Junker is Valley Daze grand marshal

    It has been a bittersweet past few months for Ernie Junker. He has known his retirement date, June 30, for years. But packing up his office of 30 years has made it real. Junker was selected by the Valley Daze board to be this year’s Grand Marshal. Not only because he is retiring as Police…

  • Meet Evan Borscheid, the new Eden Valley Police Chief

    Meet Evan Borscheid, the new Eden Valley Police Chief

    The Valley Daze parade on Saturday will be led by the brand-new police chief, Evan Borscheid. Ernie Junker, who retires next week, will be riding a bit back in the parade, in a convertible, as this year’s Grand Marshal. Borscheid has been a Meeker County Sheriff’s Deputy for the past five years, and has worked…

  • Valley Daze event line-up

    Valley Daze 2022, celebrating Eden Valley’s “Past, Present, Future”, kicks off with Music in the Park Thursday night and wraps up with a fishing contest Sunday. Both Friday and Saturday are jam-packed activities. Harper’s Chord, a four-piece country/folk/Americana band, will perform in Friederichs Park from 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, June 23. Bring your lawn chairs and…

  • Kimball 14U White undefeated

    Kimball 14U White undefeated

    Kimball 14U White played hard and came out undefeated in the Kimball 14U Tournament Saturday, June 11. The team started out the day playing Royalton and won 10-5, they then played Kimball Blue and won 2-0 and, after a short break, the team came back and beat Maple Lake 10-2, and Plymouth-Wayzata 10-6.

  • U of M Medical School received grant to provide AEDs across Minnesota

    The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust announced an $18.8 million grant to the University of Minnesota Medical School. The grant aims to provide law enforcement officers and first responders across Minnesota with more than 8,300 automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to improve cardiac arrest survival rates. The three-year project aims to equip every…

  • MnDOT shares progress on Main Street in Kimball

    MnDOT shares progress on Main Street in Kimball

  • State Champions!

    State Champions!

    It was a spectacular showing for the Eden Valley-Watkins/Kimball track and field girls’ team and individuals on Thursday, June 9, and Friday, June 10, in the MSHSL State Track and field Championships at St. Michael-Albertville. The girls shined throughout the tournament and won the team championship. Here are results of EV-W/K competitors: Boys’ 4×100-Meter Relay:…

  • Express steam over Lakers

    Express steam over Lakers

    The Kimball Express traveled up the road to the Pearl Lake Lakers Sunday afternoon, June 12. The Lakers scored first, in the bottom of the first inning, but that would be their only run on the day. The Express scored 12 runs later in the game to win, 12-1. Scott Marquardt hit a three-run home…

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