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.
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.
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.
Students from your coverage area, listed below, have earned Dean’s List honors at Bemidji State University for the Fall 2024 semester.
Drawing inspiration from the United Way Tele-a-thon of yesteryears, UWSWMN is ecstatic to announce a partnership with Marshall Radio for the first ever RADIO-A-THON. The event will be held February 19th. Join United Way of Southwest Minnesota from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM for a day packed with heartwarming stories and inspiration from community partners, board members, and special guests.
Isaac Olevson, of Granite Falls, was named to the Hamline University College of Liberal Arts Dean’s List for the Fall 2024 term.
It was a cold start to the week. Most locations in central, west central, and northern Minnesota fell from 15 below to 25 below zero Monday night into Tuesday morning. Thankfully the winds were light, but there was still a Cold Weather Advisory posted for some locations in the region.
Last Thursday, the Yellow Medicine East High School Pep Band performed with the sixth graders joining the action to play their favorite tune from their previous concert alongside the Middle School Band.