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Bison fall 10-9 to Elks; Toussaint nets 50th   Trailing 6-2 at halftime, Head Coach Krista Crandall had a heart-to-heart speech with her Buffalo girls’ lacrosse team. Crandall’s words nearly inspired a Section 8 semifinal upset in a 10-9 road loss Tuesday, June 6, at No. 1 seed Elk River. It was a...
James hits grand slam in walkoff win   Baseball often uses terms related to eating. Runs Batted In, better known as RBI, often is referred to as a “ribeye” steak. Batters that reach base any way possible for the heart of the lineup are called “table setters.” A grand slam is referred to as a grand...
Bradley Taylor, 64 Bradley P. Taylor, age 64, born November 26, 1958, and died June 4, 2023, after a brave and valiant fight against cancer. Brad was born in Minneapolis, MN, to Jim and Ardys Taylor. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Faith. Brad graduated from Delano High School and...
Father’s Day is on Sunday, June 18, and I want to wish all the dads out there a happy Father’s Day. The first Father’s Day celebrated in the United States was on June 19, 1910. However, it was not an official holiday until 1972. Father’s Day is celebrated around the world, but some other countries...
Birthdays   ElVera Cronk-Farniok-Gustafson 100th Birthday   OPEN HOUSE   ElVera Cronk - Farniok - Gustafson, of Delano, will be turning 100 years old. Please join us in celebrating ElVera’s 100th Birthday with an Open House on Sunday, June 25, 2023, from 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m., at Knights of...
The nation’s first Father’s Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910, in the state of Washington.  However, it was not until 1972 - 58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official, that the day honoring fathers became a nationwide holiday in the United States. Happy Father’s Day! Let...

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I often find it difficult to keep focused, pun intended, on what I need to be doing. I mean, nature is filled with so many cool and interesting subjects that distract me from the task at hand. Every...
Student crashes into exam office during driver’s test A 17-year-old Monticello driver ironically crashed into the exam office in downtown Buffalo, while taking her driver’s exam. (Submitted photo)  ...
1 Delano Boys Hoops Led by point guard Calvin Wishart, the Delano boys’ basketball team won the school’s first-ever basketball state championship with a 65-61 victory over Columbia Heights in the...
The Buffalo boys’ hockey team will be the only Mississippi 8 squad yet to play a conference game when the calendar flips to January 2019. While some teams have played as many as five conference games...
Having only three divers on this year’s Buffalo boys’ swim/dive team has its plusses and minuses. For Bison diving coach Heather Peterson, she’s focusing mostly on the positives. “Last year we had...
With only one game scheduled over a 13-day span, the Buffalo girls’ hockey team has had plenty of practice time. For head coach Dave Carothers, practice in the offensive zone is still a work in...
On Wednesday, December 12, Wright County community members banded together in Buffalo to usher in the holiday spirit on 5th Street Northeast, where the the Canadian-Pacific Holiday Train rolled into...
Harv Graczyk, 67, was a youth hockey coach for STMA for more than 30 years. He recently passed away from a traumatic brain injury sustained while coaching on Nov. 26. The Star Tribune reports that...
The 12th Annual Festival of Trees is now on display at the Wright County Heritage Center on Highway 25, just north of Buffalo, during regular center hours. Special hours are this Sunday, December 23...
The 2019 levy for the City of Buffalo will be $8,027,464, an increase of $120,741 or 1.5 percent over last year. The Buffalo City Council set the levy, as well as adopted the city budget, on Monday,...

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