By Rich Larson The Caledonia Agriscience Education and FFA activities continue to be more hands-on and engaging for our Caledonia area students. Those areas of focus are within the Agribusiness Systems, Animal Sciences, Environmental Services, Food Products and Processing, Natural Resources Systems, Plant Systems and Power, Structural and Technical Systems. Our middle school … [Read more...]
Mabel-Canton Celebrate Agriculuture and FFA
By Carlena Gallagher The Mabel-Canton FFA chapter has been busy helping around the community and is now preparing for the activities we are doing during FFA week. Every year officers choose fun dress up days for kids to do every day and this year they are; Tuesday: battle of the brands (Carhartt vs. Wrangler), Wednesday: Country music singer day, Thursday: Fleet Farm dads … [Read more...]
Busy and Fun Year for Grand Meadow FFA
By Wyatt Garten The GM FFA has been pretty busy so far this year. We built a chick pen for the Mower County Fair barnyard, had a float in our homecoming parade, and had our annual fruit sales where we sold over $10,000 in fruit, meat and cheese, and other items. So far this year we have had three teams compete in Career Development Events (Livestock Judging, Fish and … [Read more...]
Spring Valley-Wykoff Chapter – Leading in Fields, Leading in Life!
By Kristal Brogan The Spring Valley-Wykoff FFA Chapter is successfully completing various activities with its numerous members in the 2024-2025 school year. With members actively participating in these activities it makes it easy to be successful in everything the chapter has accomplished. This chapter has hard working members who are willing to take on any task handed to … [Read more...]
Chatfield FFA Continues Level of Excellence
By Stacy Fritz Chatfield FFA continues its level of excellence through leadership, academics and community service. This past year, we had 11 FFA members who received their MN State FFA Degree. This brings us to a total of 100 members who have received this degree in Chatfield FFA history. As a chapter we were awarded the 3 Star Chapter Award for the eighth year in a … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Grand Meadow’s girls beat Houston 65-30 and L/P 57-19 to run their win streak to 11. Gracie Foster had a triple-double (12 pts, 14 rebs, 10 asts) versus the ‘Canes, 22 points versus the Athletics. Spring Grove beat Decorah 62-51 for the Lions’ 12th straight win. Via a SG loss to Lanesboro, GM (10-2, 19-2) leads SG (9-2, 17-4) in the SEC. R-P’s girls hit 17 threes in beating … [Read more...]
Basketball (2/17)
Basketball: Warrior Teams Each Top R-P, Secure TRC-East Titles, 20 Wins With a little school synergy, Caledonia’s basketball teams each secured out-right TRC-East basketball titles versus Rushford-Peterson. The boys game saw the visiting Trojans (8-3, 15-3) lead the #3 in AA Warriors (10-0, 19-2) late in the first half, 24-20. But Cal senior guard Mason King then hit three … [Read more...]
Gymnastics (2/4 & 2/8)
Stewartville/Chatfield 113.8500, Caledonia/Spring Grove/Houston 133.900 (In the final dual meet of the season, the Warriors earned their season-high team score while sweeping the top four all-around rankings, each with a personal-best all-around score: Vivian Kittleson 34.5500, Harper Myrah 33.9750, Tyla Halverson 33.0750 and Madelyn Foellmi 32.3000. The team’s top individual … [Read more...]
Wrestling (2/17)
Girls Wrestling: Ferrie, Eickhoff and Steinkamp Earn State Trips at 1/2 Meet Area girls teams GMLOS, Chatfield, FCLMC and LARP were among those taking to the mats at Rochester-Century High School for the Section 1/2 individual wrestling meet. Nine Bulldogs, eight Gophers, three Wolves, and two Screamin’ Eagles competed to try to make state. In a tough meet featuring two of … [Read more...]
Lanesboro Schools Hires Own Business Manager
At their regular meeting February 12, the Lanesboro School Board approved the hiring of Garrett Stadsvold as its full-time business manager beginning February 16. Stadsvold will work four days a week on site and remotely the remaining day. This approval came immediately after the board cancelled a contract for such services with School Management Services (SMS) which originally … [Read more...]
Chatfield School Board Approved Revised FY 2025 Budget
At the February 12, 2025, meeting school board meeting, board members David Sowinski, Josh Thompson, Tom Keefe, Jill Harstad and Mark Johnsrud were present. Katie Priebe was not present. Also present were Superintendent Ed Harris, high school principal, Eric Nelson, elementary principal, Shane McBroom and student senate representatives Ella Lane and Kyla … [Read more...]
Houston School Board Considers Changes
As the Houston School Board considered the proposed calendar for next school year at their regular meeting February 6, the often mundane item led to good discussion. Superintendent Mary Morem suggested moving advisory to the end of the school day and altering the beginning of the day to 8:15 a.m. and the end to 3 p.m.. Students often need to leave early at the end of the day … [Read more...]
Basketball (2/10)
Boys Basketball: #3 Warriors Win Three Non-Con Affairs, Up Streak to Eight Caledonia boys basketball posted a trio of non-conference wins on the week to continue their excellent season. At La Crosse Central, Brad King’s group annulled a 25-24 halftime deficit by out-scoring the Riverhawks 37-17 in the second half for a 61-42 win. Reid Klug (24 pts) and Garrett Konz (22 … [Read more...]
Wrestling (2/10)
Wrestling: #1 Gophers Sweep GMLOS/PEM, Sweep to TRC Title For a second straight year, Chatfield wrestling is the dominant TRC champions. The Gophers wrapped up their regular season dual-schedule by hosting GMLOS and PEM. Chatfield surrendered just three matches the entire night. Matt Mauseth’s group took out GMLOS 72-6. Jameson Priebe (107), Logan Pearson (114), Javier Berg … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
Spring Grove’s girls beat Lanesboro 72-49, L-O 61-18, and New Hampton 66-47 to run their win streak to nine. Siri Konkel had 16 (pts) and 11 (asts) versus the Burros. Taylor Elton’s Lions (7-1, 14-3) lead the SEC over Grand Meadow (7-2, 14-2). Jensyn Storhoff had 22 points in the Burros’ loss to the Lions. Jorja Meyer scored 23 as Houston topped AC/G-E 68-51. The … [Read more...]