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June 12th, 2013

Brewers give up 29 hits, 26 runs in two-game slide

Submitted by editor on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 10:40am

After earning the first two wins of the season against Arlington and Mayer, the Glencoe Brewers have lost two straight to the Waconia Lakers and Gaylord Islanders.
In the last two games, the Brewers have given up 29 hits, and allowed 26 runs to score.
Glencoe has 19 hits in the same span, but only seven runs scored.
The Brewers currently sit in fifth place in the North Division of the Crow River Valley League with a 2-8 record.


Blue Jays: second loss, second ejected player

Submitted by editor on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 10:35am

After defeating the Cologne Hollanders 10-6 on Tuesday, June 4, the Plato Blue Jays traveled to Green Isle for a South Division matchup with the Irish.
Plato lost 5-1 as they could not get on base effectively after jumping out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning.
Pitcher Jacob Bratsch was ejected after the sixth inning for arguing the strike zone with the umpire.
A Blue Jay player has been ejected in each of the two Plato losses this season.


Panther baseball comes to an end

Submitted by editor on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 10:32am

The 2013 Panther baseball season came to an end at the hands of a former Wright County Conference team, the Watertown-Mayer Royals, after an entertaining regular and post-season that resulted in a 17-4 record.
After losing for the first time in the section tournament to the St. Peter Saints, the Panthers lost 3-1 to Watertown-Mayer in Belle Plaine on Tuesday, June 4, ending what looked to be a run at the state tournament.


3 senior boys medal at state

Submitted by editor on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 10:08am

Three seniors on the Glencoe-Silver Lake track and field team capped off the 2013 season with a state medal this past weekend at Hamline University.
Ryan Kuester (sixth in the 100-meter dash), Greg Ober (eighth in the 400-meter dash) and Tanner Konen (eighth in the pole vault) each medaled in their final event as high school athletes.
Konen was the first to place on Friday, with a vault of 13-6, a personal best, that earned him eighth place; but not before scaring head coach Josh Metcalf into thinking that he had scratched out at a lower height.


Foreclosure - Larsen

Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 9:18am

 


Another referendum? GSL Board eyes 3rd try

Submitted by editor on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 8:02am
By
Rich Glennie

“If you don’t succeed at first, try, try again,” is an old adage. The Glencoe-Silver Lake School Board is following that advice and looking at another referendum attempt to get a building bond passed, possibly in November.
On Monday night, minus two members — Clark Christianson and Anne Twiss — the School Board took a look at the latest option for a building bond, but the price has gone up considerably.
Instead of an $18.6 million bond of two years ago, this next attempt will call for a $25 million bond.
Why?


Legislature 'punished' the hard-working

Submitted by editor on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 7:56am
By
Rich Glennie

Despite the Minnesota Legislature being in recess, the passions about the last session for state Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen, R-Glencoe, have not cooled much since adjournment in May.
Gruenhagen, sitting in his Glencoe insurance office, was getting wound up about the DFL-controlled Legislature that “punished hard-working people” by imposing nearly $3 billion in new taxes and fees.
“We were just a speed bump, that’s about it,” Gruenhagen said of fellow Republicans, who were in the minority in both the House and Senate.


GSL Board hung up on RiT specialist position

Submitted by editor on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 7:51am
By
Rich Glennie

It took two votes Monday night before the Glencoe-Silver Lake School Board, minus two members, approved most of the recommendations for staff changes the 2013-14 school year.


Lukes among St. Mary’s spring graduates

Submitted by editor on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 7:47am

Jessika Lukes, daughter of Frederick and Josephine Lukes of Lester Prairie, was named to the 2013 spring graduates list at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota.


St. Cloud announces honors lists

Submitted by editor on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 7:46am

Saint Cloud State University named the following area students to its 2013 spring semester dean’s list: Brownton: Liana Mickolichek; Glencoe: Jonathan Boesche, Jacob Burr, Brian Dose, Daniel Witte and Courtney Woods; and Lester Prairie: Bethany Briggs.