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Cheering on success

COTTONWOOD — It was halftime of the Lakeview High school football game against Canby. All of sudden more than 20 little cheerleaders in gray shirts and black leggins stood facing the varsity cheerleaders sitting down in front of the grandstand. With arms twirling around, both squads began ...

Deployed soldiers ‘not forgotten’

TRACY — It’s been three months since a group of 70 National Guard soldiers got a deployment send-off in Marshall. While National Guard members have been gone, they haven’t been forgotten, Kala Jacob said. During Tracy’s Box Car Days celebration, people were coming up to write words ...

I believe in, and love this job’

MARSHALL — Carmen Brunsvold sat at the dining room table in her Marshall home and took a break from answering emails and text messages from the families of deployed soldiers who had questions. She had personal and work cell phones nearby that continually “dinged” and occasionally ...

A life at the library

MARSHALL — Mary Beth Sinclair said she’s always liked books. But children were the real reason she decided to become a librarian instead of a teacher. “You see different kids every day,” Sinclair said. “At the school library or in school, you see the same kids every day for nine ...

Watching out for bluebirds

MARSHALL — If someone wants to learn about birdwatching, one of the best people to talk to is Cindy Sabinske. She spoke Tuesday morning at the Adult Community Center in Marshall. Her talk focused on the Eastern Bluebird, a bird found throughout the eastern United States, including ...

‘Something that came from the heart’

MARSHALL - Days are brighter for residents of Avera Marshall’s Morningside Heights Care Center thanks to 60 donated suncatchers. Members of the Beta Sigma Phi sorority, which is locally called Xi Beta Epsilon, donated the suncatchers as a May Day project. Nursing home activity coordinator ...