•Katie Elenberger receives the American Advertising Federation’s highest honor Katie Elenberger, founder of Spark27 Creative, was recently named the 2024 Silver Medal Award recipient by the American Advertising Federation of North Dakota (AAF-ND).  The Silver Medal Award is the highest honor awarded to an individual by AAF-ND. The award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to… Read More

MAS students earn recognition at state MBA conference Sixteen students from Minnewaska Area Schools  participated in the annual Minnesota Business Professionals of America (BPA) State Leadership Conference held March 14-16, 2024 at the Minneapolis Hyatt Regency with more than 1,100 members competing. During the school year, 1,800 Minnesota BPA student members took part in the organization’s… Read More

Montevideo — Last week at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) PowerXchange  gathering, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) use of Farmer Benefit Plans for Empowering Rural America (New ERA) and Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) program funded clean energy projects. Farmer Benefit Plans are essential to… Read More

The National Weather Service issued a Red Flag Warning for 41 counties in central and southern Minnesota effective Saturday, March 16, from 1 p.m. through 8 p.m. due to extreme fire risk conditions. Pope County was included.   Affected counties include Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Hennepin, Jackson, Kandiyohi,… Read More

It was nearly 19 years ago that Elitta Gouge mentioned to other newly elected members joining her on the Upper Sioux Community’s tribal board that they should seek the return of the land where her great-great-grandfather Mazomani lies and that she knows as “a land of memories and spirit.” “Who is crazy enough to do that?… Read More

A recap of the February 20 regular meeting Our February meeting we had 9 board members in attendance which included our new board members. Jodee Lund, Jennifer Tolifson and Kristie Taffe are our new board members. We also had three guests in attendance. Guest Rita Larson gave us an update on 1st dollar presentations and certificates…. Read More

•City hears annual report from Starbuck Police Chief By Kris Goracke Reporter The City of Starbuck Council conducted three public hearings at its regular monthly meeting on March 11.   The first hearing involved a variance request from Michael and Andrea Nadeau to install a single-family home well and septic system on the 14.05-acre parcel #27-0590-600. With… Read More

The Pope County Board of Commissioners met last week in a work session to hear an update from the county extension office as well as the announcement of this year’s farm family, and a presentation on the sheriff’s department’s drone program. This year’s farm families are Brad and Greg Vold and Dorrich Dairy. The farm family… Read More

American Solutions for Business welcomes Gordon Klepec Regional VP of Strategic Operations Support (SOS).  In this role, Klepec will be responsible for supporting ASB sales associates in business development and strategic sales opportunities. He will work on a regional and national level to help qualify opportunities, prepare for large customer presentations, provide consultation in business planning,… Read More

The Morris Wetland Management District in Morris, MN is accepting bids for farming 49 acres in 2024 at Lubenow WPA and grazing opportunities in six counties of west central Minnesota.  The 22 grazing units range in size from 28 to 374 acres and are available for 2 to 3 years. Producers must follow all federal and… Read More