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‘Their chance to shine’­

MARSHALL Marshall High School senior Rachel Thomsen, wearing a blue and gold dance outfit, knelt down at a far corner of the basketball court inside the Southwest Minnesota State University PE gym. As the music to “Jealous of the Angels” blared throughout the gym, the large crowd ...

Planes, drones and copters

MARSHALL Wearing an Academy of Model Aeronautics cap, John Gullickson intently looked straight ahead, his fingers resting on the controls. “There it goes again, I really did a number on that one,” Gullickson said. His airplane just crashed, but it will be OK. The airplane was flying on a ...

Always a Mustang

MARSHALL The music stopped for just a moment inside the Southwest Minnesota State University Ballroom Monday evening. That’s when Ross Anderson put down his saxophone and made an announcement. “We would like to dedicate these next two tunes to President (Connie) Gores,” Anderson ...

Kindness is catching on

MARSHALL Looking around the room filled with more than 50 Holy Redeemer School students working on this month’s Kindness Crew project April 8, program visionary Amy Sauter was amazed. “When we started the Kindness Crew in November, there were 18 kids and we’re getting close to 60 ...

Do play with your food

MARSHALL High school students from around the region had plenty of opportunities to learn and compete recently at the 2019 Schwan Culinary Skills Challenge at Southwest Minnesota State University. More than 200 students attended the 15th annual event, either challenging themselves in the ...

A day to dabble

MINNEOTA A celebration of art took place recently as high school students and visual arts teachers representing six different schools came together for an art integration day experience in Minneota. Nearly 200 students from Canby, Dawson-Boyd, Lakeview, Minneota, Renville County West and ...