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When you need flowers for a funeral, wedding, or other special occasion, Chris Browen at Chris’ Country Store in Grey Eagle is a full-service florist who has been serving the community for 25 years.
In addition to flowers, Chris’ Country Store is the only place offering tuxedos to rent for proms,...
Professional sports have their transfer season and drafts. The employment market is open year-round as people seemingly chase a color of grass that’s more to their liking. School Districts, and its resident students, apparently are no different.
Open enrollment is not a new thing. The hard and...
For more than the past 30 years, Dan and Nedda Zetah have either taught in the classroom, coached from the bench, or been officials on the court and the field.
This dedication to students and athletics has led them to become the first husband-and-wife team to officiate a Minnesota State High...
The Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Elementary School robotics team has seen a meteoric rise in competition since its inception.
Within just a year’s time, the team went from its development stage, to qualifying for the state competition after just two competitions to qualifying for the VEX Worlds...
Dr. Kevin Wentworth has joined the Lakewood Health System’s emergency medicine team.
Originally from Fergus Falls, Wentworth received his undergraduate degree from St. John’s University and his medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School.
As an emergency medicine provider,...
“It was called Mosquito Park back then (in the 1970s) until Reta took a hold of it and transformed it,” long-time community member Jane Olson said of Riverside Park located on Riverside Drive of Long Prairie.
When the Olsons moved to town in 1979, a young couple, Orvis and Reta Dahlen, reached out...
Racers lined up at the start of the annual Grey Eagle/Burtrum Lions Club Race on Trace snowmobile races. This year’s 18th Annual Race on Trace attracted 126 racers from across seven states and Canada. A total of 386 race entries were made and around 550 people attended the event.
Area high school wrestling teams have seen an influx in interest in recent years due to high levels of success at the varsity levels. This has led to increased interest at the youth levels, further feeding the high school programs. While success in itself is a good thing, there are byproducts of it...
When Taylor Lunemann left the Long Prairie Leader, we knew he would be moving on. What we didn’t know was just how far up he would be going.
In the late summer of 2019, Lunemann took a chance on a career change. He had been the Sports Editor for the Long Prairie Leader for many years before. In...
Steam rises through the bars of Kennedy Lemke’s helmet as her breath pumps in and out, but the pale mist gives way to black—the black of a hockey puck screaming her way.
It’s a vision seen by her probably more than anything else on the ice rink.
Hockey’s fast-paced environment, brutal physical...
