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by Matt Uselman The Staples-Motley-Verndale girls’ golf team kicked off the season on April 13th at Crosswoods Golf Course. The team finished in 5th place with a score of 409. Mara Uselman, an 8th grader from Verndale, finished in 13th place with a score of 95. Mara also carded her first-ever eagle (2 under par for the hole) on a 385-yard par 5. Mara said, “I hit my driver off the tee and then hit a 6 iron, and the ball ended up about 6 inches from the hole for a tap-in eagl

News from Verndale's Past 40 Years Ago, April 30, 1986 • Two bids were received from local contractors for the repair of a section of the school roof over the home ec and band rooms. D.J. Construction of Wadena bid $3114 for materials and labor, and Mason Construction of Verndale submitted a bid for $2760 according to the specs and an alternate bid of $2510 for a variance. The board policy is to table the bids on the night opened until the next meeting. • Four interested pe

News from Verndale's Past 40 Years Ago, April 23, 1986 • Receiving trophies for having the fastest cars on the track at the annual Cub Scout Pinewood Derby held recently in the school cafeteria were Wayne Koons and Craig Madsen. All boys competing in the derby built their own cars from a block of balsa wood which was presented to them in a kit at the annual Blue and Gold birthday banquet held in February. The cars cannot weigh more than five ounces or be more than seven inch

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News from Verndale's Past 40 Years Ago, April 16, 1986 • Kim Trosen, daughter of Dave and Rita Trosen, was named Miss Verndale in the 1986 pageant held last Saturday evening. Pauline Colby was first runner-up and Jennifer Ninneman, second runner-up and also Miss Congeniality. Pauline is the daughter of Dan and Beth Colby and Jennifer is the daughter of Sylvia Ninneman. Held in conjunction with the Miss Verndale pageant was the competition for Little Miss Petite. Lori Johnso

News from Verndale's Past 40 Years Ago, April 9, 1986 • Marylu McClure, president of the Verndale Historical Society, is the first to place her name on the roster of local volunteer names being collected for the Regional Volunteer Fair to be held at Wadena on April 23. John Tulk, county coordinator for Volunteers Working Together, was looking on in the photo. Pictured is but one portion of a backdrop puzzle to be used at the fair. All volunteers are asked to stop at the bank

Noah Coughlan, 41, is an ultra runner, marathoner, and filmmaker from Vacaville, California. In October 2025, he began his fifth and final Run across America, which will total 5,500 miles across 20 states. This journey serves as a tribute to highlight the American spirit and the stories of the 350 million American people, meet families affected by rare diseases, and interview some of the 70,000 remaining World War II veterans. When Noah completes his final run on America’s

The Verndale School is hosting seven foreign exchange students this school year. Most came at the start of the school year, one came for the latter half. Daan Vos I live in Hoogeveen, a small town in the province of Drenthe (in the Netherlands). The big difference is that in my country everyone will travel with their bike or public transportation. Here, almost everybody has a car, and you cannot bike everywhere because of the distance. Something I think is really fun is h

News from Verndale's Past 40 Years Ago, March 24, 1986 • A good sized crowd was on hand last Thursday night at the Staples AVTI for the first public hearing in six years on the Highway 10 project. They were told, barring unforeseen difficulties, the final legs in the Highway 10 project on this area should be completed in 1989, with the exception of city by-passes. • Publication of last week’s issue of The Sun was delayed somewhat while pressmen were ironing out the wrinkle

News from Verndale's Past 40 Years Ago, March 26, 1986 • Newly enlisted Privates Mike Iverson of Nimrod, Terrance Ackerman of Verndale, Kevin Lillquist of Sebeka and Robert Mackay, Jr. of Menahga, got a brief rundown on the capabilities of one of the Minnesota Army National Guard’s M-60 Tanks from Staff Sergeant Jeffrey Packer of McGregor. These citizen-soldiers were among the 160 newly-enlisted Guard members at the Basic Training Orientation Course at Camp Ripley March 15-1