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The Initiative Foundation has awarded 17 grants totaling $740,000 through the Otto Bremer Trust’s Community Responsive Fund, supporting Central Minnesota nonprofits that are improving lives and strengthening communities. The Community Responsive Fund distributed $3 million to 64 organizations in Greater Minnesota. The Initiative Foundation helped administer the funding across Greater Minnesota to ensure resources reached local organizations that understand their community’s

The Wadena County Sheriff’s Office has taken measures to transition our CodeRED emergency system following a recent cyberattack and data breach that has impacted hundreds of agencies nationwide. CodeRED is a critical notification system used to deliver time-sensitive alerts during severe weather events, public safety threats, and other emergencies. CodeRED has reported the impacted dataset may contain contact information of CodeRED users such as: name, address, email addre

Wadena County Attorney Kyra Ladd was presented with the Minnesota County Attorneys’ Association (MCAA) Johnson Distinguished Service Award at the 48th Annual MCAA meeting held in Bloomington on December 3.  The award is presented to a county attorney who has demonstrated a history of significant leadership, strived to improve the quality of justice, and whose activity has increased and enhanced public awareness of the office of county attorney at the state and/or national le

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Girls’ Basketball lost a pair of games last week to tough opponents in Menahga and Wadena. On Tuesday, they hosted Menahga and found themselves down early by 20 to start the game. Still, the Bears played strong late in the first half and early in the 2nd half, keeping it a 20-point game for most of the way before Menahga pulled away even more at the end to make it a 40-77 loss for the Bears... Subscribe to get the rest of the story...

The boys’ Basketball team played one game last week, thanks to yet another lovely winter storm this past Tuesday. So on Friday night, they headed to Menahga for a conference match with the Braves. Unfortunately, it was not a good start to the weekend for the Bears, who fell 40-72 to the Braves. Subscribe and get more of your high school news!

Girls Wrestling Results vs. UNC and Wadena The Browerville-Eagle Valley girls wrestlers competed against United North Central (UNC) and Wadena, turning in a mix of wins and losses across the lineup. Against UNC, several wrestlers picked up wins by fall, including Olivia Brown, J’Lyn Owens, Brielle Flan, Kelsey Schmitt, Charlee Line, and Brynn Sudbeck. Lily Tolifson and Ellie Haloren suffered losses in their matches. In the dual against Wadena, Olivia Brown earned another w

Wolves Fall Narrowly to UNC, 32-29 The Wolves came up just short in a tightly contested match against the UNC Warriors, losing 32-29 in a battle that went down to the wire. The Wolves started strong, winning the first seven matches. Matthew Bosl (107 lbs, win by pin), Hayden Hiebert (114 lbs, 12-0), Benelli Johnson (121 lbs, 6-4), Hunter Katterhagen (127 lbs, win by pin), Evan Flan (133 lbs, 7-5), and Brodie Pachan (145 lbs, 17-4) all contributed key points for the team. U

The Browerville-Eagle Valley TIgers shot 55.9% from the field on Saturday, using a dominant inside game to score 56 of their 74 points in the paint in a 74-56 win over Battle Lake. The Tigers built a strong first-half lead, going into the locker room ahead 39-26... Subscribe to get the rest of the story...