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Gold Dusters are headed to state tournament

Over the weekend, the Section 3A Dance tournament was held in Montevideo with 11 teams competing. The Gold Dusters scored 3rd place in the Jazz Division with sixteen points, and third place in the High Kick division with 15 points to earn a spot in the State Class A High Kick and Jazz tournaments. The state jazz tournament takes place on Friday at 11:30 a.m. at the Minneapolis Target Center, while the high kick tournament takes place Saturday at 11:30 a.m. in the same location.

Let’s Talk Crops: Session talks soybean modeling to help farmers make better decisions

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.

Montevideo School board hears updates on grant applications, course offering process

At Monday evenings meeting of the Montevideo School District’s Board of Education, Superintendent Wade McKittrick gave a report to the board, noting that the district has submitted two significant grant opportunities to the Minnesota Department of Education in the last week. The first opportunity is for a MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) grant that would provide $180,000 to cover expenses while the district continued to build its MTSS system. The second grant, an ADSIS grant, would allow the district to renew two behavior interventionist positions that are currently being funded through ADSIS funds, and ad a SEL interventionist in the elementary, as well as a math interventionist in the middle school. The application is for approximately $120,000 to cover wage and benefits for those positions.

New organization in Montevideo looks to provide access to essentials

Two community members with a shared vision recently opened a new opportunity for those in need to have access to essential hygiene and cleaning products. The idea began in October when Angie Kveene asked a question on social media about whether there was any kind of organization that offered this specific access in Montevideo. “The food shelf has food and some other things but there’s not really a place you can go to just get hygiene and cleaning essentials,” says Kveene.

Local students make dean’s list at Alexandria Tech

Sara Fier, Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs at Alexandria Technical & Community College, recognizes individual students for academic excellence. The following students were named to the Dean’s List for achieving a GPA of 3.5 or higher while enrolled in 12 or more credits Fall Semester 2024:

Colder, drier weather pattern for the month

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.