Sports

Sauk Centre seizes long-awaited chance

Jacob Drevlow embraces Sauk Centre cross-country head coach Jim Metcalf after running in the Minnesota State High School League Class A Boys & Girls Cross-Country Running State Meet Nov. 2 at the University of Minnesota Les Bolstad Golf Course in Falcon Heights. Drevlow earned the top spot on the team with an 18th-place time of 16 minutes, 39.3 seconds.
It has been rare for the Sauk Centre boys cross-country team to enter a competition as an underdog, but that is exactly what they were when they arrived at the Minnesota State High School League …
Junior Julia Wehrman passes up to a setter during the Streeters section final match against Albany Oct. 31 in Sauk Rapids. Sauk Centre lost the match in five sets.

No regrets through one final run

Sports can be cruel.   The Sauk Centre volleyball team played to the level it needed to to match up with the best Oct. 31, stringing together impressive scoring runs and coming up with a …
Kahlen Suelflow gets down a hill and approaches the finish line at the Minnesota State High School League Class A Boys & Girls Cross-Country Running State Meet Nov. 2 in Falcon Heights. The sophomore completed her state debut with a 42nd-place time of 20 minutes, 11.9 seconds.

Promising duo make splash at state

Even before they approached the starting line to participate in the Minnesota State High School League Class A Boys & Girls Cross-Country Running State Meet, Tori Linscheid and Kahlen …
Opinion

Wild bringing early-season excitement

I would like to consider myself an optimistic individual, but I was far off on the trajectory of the Minnesota Wild to this point. Off the back of a 2023-24 season that saw the Wild …

Life Hack

If you need to put a screw or bolt into wood where a hole too large in diameter already exists, simply hammer a golf tee into the hole and snap or cut it off. Now, your screw will bite and have …

Inconvenient advice

Hello, Son No. 3. Let me begin by apologizing for the rather impersonal name I’ve given you for the moment. Firstly, it is a designation I bestow with pride because I, too, am a third …

Quick decision

Election season is over. Wednesday at 12:20 a.m., Fox News called Pennsylvania for former President Donald Trump and, at 12:48 a.m., they called Wisconsin and projected the presidential race for …
Obituaries
Herman R. Hendrickson
Herman Robert Hendrickson, 87, of Sauk Centre passed away Oct. 25, 2024. He was living at the time at Knute Nelson Grand Arbor in Alexandria. He was born in a cabin on Mud Lake in Kandota Township …
Vicki T. Beilke
Vicki T. Beilke, age 62, of Sauk Centre, passed away unexpectedly in her sleep Oct. 23, 2024, at her home in Sauk Centre. A Celebration of Life was 4-7 p.m. Oct. 29 at the Patton-Schad Funeral …
Jerome T. Schoumaker
Jerome T. “Jerry” Schoumaker, age 85, of Sauk Centre, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family Oct. 24, 2024, at the St. Cloud VA Medical Center in St. Cloud. Private …
Steven M. Kollman
Steven Mathew Kollman, age 59, of Becker, passed away peacefully with family by his side Oct.27, 2024. He was born in Sauk Centre to Ronald and Lorraine (Lindemann) Kollman. Steve lived his life …
Leora F. Sunderman
Leora F. Sunderman (nee Kortan), age 82, of Sauk Centre, passed away peacefully Oct. 22, 2024, at Timber Pines Memory Care in Pine City. Leora was born April 14, 1942, to Charles and Ann Kortan …
Denise M. Clifton
Denise M. Clifton, age 59, of St. Cloud, died peacefully of natural causes with her puppy dog companion, Vida, by her side Oct. 28, 2024, at her home in St. Cloud. A Mass of Christian Burial …
Birth Announcements
Julian Michael Schmidt
Noah and Nicole Schmidt, of Sauk Centre, are happy to announce the birth of their son, Julian Michael Schmidt, born at 4:19 p.m. Sept. 19, 2024, at the St. Cloud Hospital.   He weighed 7 …
Adaline Ann Groetsch
Matthew and Christine Groetsch, of Albany, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Adaline Ann, April 17, 2024, at the St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud. She weighed 9 pounds, 4 ounces. …