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Osakis The Eagles baseball team wasted little time jumping on the Osakis Silverstreaks, scoring five runs in both the first and second innings to take a 10-1 lead. The Eagles never looked back in an eventual 15-2 home win via ten-run rule in five innings on April 11. The Eagles scored five runs in the…

The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office is excited to announce the addition of a new bloodhound to our K9 division. K9 Porter was born July 4, 2024, and was acquired directly from the Georgia K9 Center in Canton, Ga. Deputy Fischer and K9 Porter completed a two-week certification and training course at Edisto Island, S.C., focusing…

The Kimball girls’ basketball team held their annual banquet Sunday afternoon, April 13, at the Pizza Ranch in Waite Park. Team awards were first on the agenda as the varsity team celebrated five-game and four-game winning streaks at different points in the season. The team led the conference in three-point shooting percentage, three-point makes, and…

Bernie Miller invents the “Thermo-disc” Look around you right now: most of what you see was likely invented by somebody. Bernie Miller, owner of Miller’s Sewage Treatment Solutions (MSTS), recently invented something that changes the septic game forever. Miller has always liked helping people; this time around he has surely actualized the “solutions” in Miller’s…

Clay Anderson is a 1982 graduate of Northfield H.S. and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Exercise Studies from St. Olaf College in 1986, and his Masters in Education from St. Mary’s University in 2008. He began his coaching career in Northfield as a junior high coach in 1987. From 1989-1996 he was defensive…

As part of the Minnesota FoodShare March campaign, from March 1 to April 6, food shelves across the state turn in what they’ve collected – dollars and products – and a formula is used, based on those donations, to give extra dollars to these food shelves. Kimball Area Food Shelf participated in this effort, drawing…

Luxemburg Feed Services Inc. received a blessing by Fr. Erik Lundgren and held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday, April 10, for the opening of their new store and warehouse. Luxemburg Feed Service is making a commitment to the future feed and seed business with their passion for the ag industry in providing the best quality feeds…

The cast of Kimball Area Theater’s spring play “Clue” brought the show to life on the stage of the Kimball Area High School cafetorium Friday, April 4. The show ran four times April 4-6, with the two April 5 shows featuring a dinner theater option. Kenzie Traurig directed the production, with Isabelle Miller serving as…

Watkins farm boy Josh Streit was coming out of the tunnel at Amica Mutual Pavilion in Providence, R.I., with his headphones on watching the Kansas and Arkansas men’s basketball teams play – the game before his fifteenth-seeded Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks team took the floor versus second-seeded St. John’s University in the opening round of the Division…