The Blooming Prairie girls basketball team didn’t allow Bethlehem Academy to score its 10th point until the second half and never let the Cardinals get closer than 16 points in the second half, cruising to a 46-28 win on Saturday, Jan. 16.
The Awesome Blossoms got off to a fast start and led 20-8...
Making a big life decision is never easy and finding the right university for academics and athletics makes it even harder, but despite those obstacles Owatonna girls basketball star Sarah Kingland has found the right school for both of her passions. She recently announced she’ll be continuing her...
The Owatonna football team has won five straight section championships and recently the Huskies’ coaching staff members have started to receive recognition for their team’s success.
A couple seasons ago, Head Coach Jeff Williams was named the Minnesota High School Coach of the Year, and this...
The Blooming Prairie City Council will hold a public hearing on the proposed annexation of land for a Dollar General store for Monday, Feb. 8.
The proposed annexation has become a hot button issue because not everyone is on board with a national corporation coming to Blooming Prairie.
During last...
Bars and restaurants across Minnesota opened their doors to the public last week after a mandated six-week pause due to COVID-19 restrictions.
“We’ve been ready to open for weeks,” Torey Statlander, owner and head chef at Torey’s Restaurant and Bar in downtown Owatonna said. “We had a little...
The Rev. Michael Wilker, senior pastor at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Washington, D.C., was upset Friday afternoon.
Wilker, a 1982 graduate of Owatonna High School, had just received word that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and his local bishop were asking churches not to meet in their...
What a difference a drive-thru experience makes in the battle of COVID-19.
On Jan. 13, about 110 people rolled through a drive-thru vaccine clinic at the Steele County Public Works Building in Owatonna in an effort to prevent contracting the coronavirus, a deadly killer that has taken thousands of...
Even during a shortened season, the play of Blooming Prairie’s Micalyn Trihus and Sierra Larson stood out to opposing Gopher Conference volleyball coaches who voted them Second-Team All-Conference and Honorable Mention All-Conference, respectively.
Trihus was awarded Second-Team All-Conference in...
By all accounts, the Owatonna wrestling team had a very successful 2019-2020 season, winning the section championship via a dramatic last-period pin and winning fourth place at the team state tournament. Now, the question this season’s team will have to answer is: Can they achieve the same level of...
Newly elected Mayor Danny Thomas is counting on teamwork – from the council, from city employees and from city residents – to get the city through the controversial Main Street project, the search for an administrative director of operations and a projected 2020 deficit in the city’s municipal...