
Saints lose by 2 against #7 ranked TMB
With the season winding down all the games left for the Saints girls basketball team is preparing them for playoffs that are around the corner. Over the week they played two teams who showed them what they need to work on to prepare for playoffs.

3 from St. James compete at state’s first all-girls section tournament
Saints Grapplers started their postseason contests this past week with Team Sections and Girls Individual Sections. Team Sections The #8 seeded Saints squared off with the #9 seeded Springfield Tigers this past Thursday at Jackson County Central high school.

Sparring with a Snowy Owl
Mid-February, Rob met with Olivia, a 6-year-old female snowy owl, in Northern Minnesota. Rob: Thank you for chatting with me.

Emergency triangles
Question: Sometimes while I am traveling, I’ve noticed a set of reflective triangles out behind a semi? Can I use those on my personal passenger car if it were to break down? Any advice is appreciated.

Journalists have dreams
Every journalist has dreams and aspirations for their career. Having started my career in college, I had some small dreams, two of them being an editor at St. Cloud State’s University Chronicle newspaper, the other one was writing an article that was good enough to make it to the Minnesota Newspaper Association Better Newspaper Contest.

Jerome Becker
Jerome Becker, age 84 of Truman, MN passed away Wednesday Feb 16, 2022, at Mayo Health Systems, Mankato. Services will be held Monday Feb 21st, 10am at St. John’s Lutheran Church South Branch. Visitation will be Sunday, Feb 20th, 4-7pm at Zaharia Funeral Home, Truman.

Alberta Mable (Mogensen) Elvin
Alberta (Bobbie as she was known by all who loved her) Mable (Mogensen) Elvin was born May 26, 1929 in Tenhassen Township, Martin County, Rural Ceylon, MN to Floyd and Caroline (Bassett) Mogensen. She was received into God’s Kingdom thru Holy Baptism in March of 1939 at the Kansas Lake Lutheran Church in rural St. James, MN. She was married to Walter Eugene Elvin in St. James, MN on March 17, 1949. Together they moved to Worthington, MN in 1950 and settled there for the remainder of their lives together. This union was blessed with five daughters: Sandra, Wanda, Lois, Vida and Arlene.
Community Health Improvement Plan update
Watonwan County Public Health, community members, and Statewide Health Improvement Partnership staff worked together to create and work on the Community Health Improvement Plan. CHIP is a long-range systematic effort used to address the health of all Watonwan County residents.
St. James City Council met last Tuesday
The St. James City Council held its meeting last Tuesday. During the meeting members heard from Adam Jacobs from Bolton & Menk about the Second St. South Project, they also went over a request sent in to purchase the old St. James airport land.

Women of Today deliver Valentine’s Day cupcakes
St. James Women of Today members delivering cupcakes to Pleasant View as a part of their Valentine’s Day cupcake sale. They sold over 90 orders of cupcakes and made cupcakes for each resident at the Good Samaritan Society. SARAH BUNICH