Kandiyohi CEO students display their varied businesses at spring trade show
Members of the Kandiyohi Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities class each start a new business during the class. They put them on display at their annual trade show last week. 6:50 pm, May 18, 2021 ×
Jace Neal of New London-Spicer High School, left, speaks May 14, 2021, at the MinnWest Technology Campus in Willmar with Nancy and Gary Geiger about his business called Neal Acoustics. He participated in the seventh annual trade show that showcases the new businesses created by local high school students in the Kandiyohi Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities program.
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Zach Nelson, who has coached at BBE, leads the Bulldogs. 12:58 am, Apr. 30, 2021 ×
PAYNESVILLE Zach Nelson was hired just before the season to be Paynesville’s softball coach.
He’s got a lengthy background in youth baseball and softball and helped coach at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa more than a decade ago.
While he has a son on the baseball team, he’s learning a lot about his softball team.
“How are we going to be this year?” he asked, repeating a question. “It’s tough to say.
“Basically, it comes down to how we all come together. Everybody’s in the same boat.”
Hundreds of west central Minnesota school employees have been vaccinated in the past month
School districts in the area have had students in their buildings most of the school year, and many employees have been vaccinated in the past month. School leaders say the vaccine has eased people s minds and should help keep kids in schools. 5:11 pm, Mar. 5, 2021 ×
The Kandiyohi County Public Health Department administered 300 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to individuals 65 and older during a recent clinic. Carolyn Lange / West Central Tribune
Hundreds of school employees in west central Minnesota have received their COVID-19 vaccines in the past month.
As the state high school winter sports season begins to grind into action, a number of proven local wrestlers find themselves ranked about the state s elite. Time will tell if they get a full state meet opportunity to challenge the rest for a spot on the medal stand. Six Owatonna wrestlers are in the top ten of the latest
Guillotine rankings. The team is rated No. 6AAA. Medford boasts six individually ranked grapplers as well. However, the team is only among the Lean and Mean category. NRHEG has one ranked wrestler.
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