Turkey hunters have through Friday, Feb. 21, to apply for turkey hunting permits for the A spring hunting season in Carlos Avery or Whitewater wildlife management areas. There will be 30 permits available for Carlos Avery WMA and 150 permits for Whitewater WMA.
Over the weekend, the Section 3A Dance tournament was held in Montevideo with 11 teams competing. The Silhouettes scored 2nd place in the Jazz Division with eight points, and second place in the High Kick division with eight points to earn a spot in the State Class A High Kick and Jazz tournaments. The state jazz tournament takes place on Friday at 11:30 a.m. at the Minneapolis Target Center, while the high kick tournament takes place Saturday at 11:30 a.m. in the same location.
During one of the colder, iciest and foggiest days on the Lower Sioux Reservation in southwest Minnesota in mid-January, a team of four Anishinaabe men from the White Earth Nation in northwestern Minnesota created an ideal green marriage of hemp and solar. There, 8th Fire Solar brought a solar thermal panel to install on a recently built hempcrete house – perhaps the perfect housing material of the future.
On February 8th, the Quad County youth wrestlers took first place at the Marshall K-3rd grade tournament.
The Lions Buck Tournament was held at the Rock Dining and Events during Ole & Lena Days. The winners are (Left to right) 2nd Taylor and Sue Tollefson; 1st Jon and Bob Thoma; 3rd Todd Mathei and Mark Grannes. There were a total of 34 teams that played in the annual tournament.
Minnesota state parks and trails will host candlelight events across the state this winter, including one at Lac qui Parle State Park on Saturday, February 15th, 2025. Drop by any time between 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm for hiking as stars twinkle overhead and candles flicker in the snow.
At Monday evening’s meeting of the Yellow Medicine East Board of Education, Bert Raney Elementary Principal Lisa Hansen provided the board with updates from the elementary. In her report, Hansen noted that February is national Random Acts of Kindness month. “Our social workers have been busy working on projects. Our staff members fill out what they call a ‘kindness catcher card’ and the students get to share their random acts of kindness with the class, and then those cards are hung up around the school,” Hansen said. “I really appreciate the social workers doing that. It’s definitely a day brightener.”
Question: Can you talk about railroad crossing safety and the laws that cover it?
Connor Michael Fagen of Granite Falls has been named to the Deans’ List at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the fall semester of the 2024-25 academic year.
On January 29, Seth Naeve, University of Minnesota Extension soybean agronomist and Anibal Cerrudo, a visiting professor for the last 3 years in the Naeve lab joined UMN Extension crops educator Angie Peltier for a discussion about how using crop modeling can help soybean producers in Minnesota gain important insights into how their management choice could impact yield. This was the fourth weekly episode of the 2025 Strategic Farming: Let’s talk crops! webinars. The series runs through March.