Football/Volleyball: Gridiron Battle Highlights R-P/Caledonia Series It has been a while since multiple Caledonia and Rushford-Peterson teams did battle in the fall. Since football turned to districts, the teams’ gridiron squads have not played. But to open the first full week of the 2025 season, Warrior and Trojan volleyball and football squads did battle the same … [Read more...]
Hot Shots
The volleyball season got started. Mabel-Canton, ranked #4 in Class A, went 5-0 and won the Floodwood Tourney, topping the 8th-ranked hosts in the finals 2-0. Senior Kinley Soiney had 62 kills hitting .505 in the 10 sets played (6.2 kills per set). New setter Gwen Rein had 99 assists. Fillmore Central, ranked #3 in Class A, topped AAA John Marshall 3-0. Caledonia, ranked #6 in … [Read more...]
Volleyball (9/1)
Southeast Conference Volleyball (9/21) Spring Grove 3, Lyle/Pacelli 1 > 25-17, 25-27, 25-16, 25-15 (C. Sherburne 4 kills, 36 assists, 9 digs, 22 for 22 serving, 4 aces; Brinley Middendorf 12 kills, 48% efficiency; Hailey Normann 15 kills; Madison Lile 10 kills; I. Kaufmann 20 digs; Jada Strinmoen 7 kills, 20 digs. The Lions served 94%; L/P only 78%. SG > 1-0, … [Read more...]
2025 Prep Football Preview
The 2025 season starts with both district and section changes. The 9-Man South-East sub-district remains largely unchang-ed with LeRoy-Ostrander/Lyle-Pacelli, Grand Meadow, Mabel-Canton, Kings-land, Houston, Spring Grove, Lanesboro, and Alden-Conger/Glenville-Emmons staying. However, Wabasha-Kellogg drops down from 11-man and swaps in for Southland, which moves up to 11-man. … [Read more...]
2025 Prep Volleyball Preview
The 2025 area volleyball season notably starts with some section changes. As it relates to Journal-covered teams, Rushford-Peterson has moved up to Class AA. Everybody else stays where they were (though there are changes elsewhere for both Section 1A and 1AA). Two teams (Fillmore Central, Chatfield) return looking for encores to state seasons a year ago. Squads from Caledonia, … [Read more...]
2025 Prep Cross Country Preview
The 2024 cross country season for teams from LARPH, Chatfield, LFC, GMLOS, and Kingsland was highlighted by LARPH boys going to state for a sixth straight year while gals Autumn Rakosnik (LFC) and Lexi Kivimagi (Chatfield) made state individually, each (at least) repeating doing so. LARPH returns a large group from its state team. Rakosnik and Kivimagi are also back, as said … [Read more...]
Rushford-Peterson Postpones Decision on Referendum
At their August 18 regular board meeting, the Rushford-Peterson School Board approved an addendum to the already submitted review and comment document that moves the date of a possible referendum vote from November 4 to February 10, 2026. Also changed was the cost of the project to $24,015,000 due to inflation and price increases. This addendum became necessary when the … [Read more...]
Rushford-Peterson Plans for Increasing Enrollment
Superintendent Ben Bernard presented enrollment data as usual at the Rushford-Peterson School Board meeting on July 21. Bernard shared that one or two families a week have been calling the school to enroll for next year. Commenting, “The data is inaccurate as of the last 72 hours,” Bernard reported that another family had just enrolled. One way the school has dealt with the … [Read more...]
R-P Sends Review and Comment to State
Rushford-Peterson School Board held a special meeting July 7 at 7:30 a.m. in order to take action on the review and comment document regarding a possible referendum to be held in the fall. The Wednesday prior to the board’s last regular meeting a question arose whether a daycare addition would qualify for the disaster relief funding from the state. Before taking any further … [Read more...]
R-P School Waiting for Clarification on Building Financing
The June 23 Rushford-Peterson School Board meeting had a certification of the proposed building referendum on the agenda. This certification needed to be sent to the state for review and approval. Last week a question concerning whether a daycare addition would qualify for the disaster relief funding from MDE came up. R-P has an email from an MDE official stating that it would … [Read more...]