Border battle tonight (*updates)

The B-B-E Jaguars boys' basketball team has one of their biggest games of the season coming tonight when they travel down Highway 55 to Paynesville Area. The Jaguars (3-1 Central Minnesota Conference) are in a virtual tie for first place with Eden Valley-Watkins (4-1), and they both trail front-runner Paynesville (9-5 overall, 3-0 CMC).

In other news...the Belgrade Lions has tentatively set a date of Sunday, March 6 for the annual Family Fun Day at B-B-E high school. Additional information about the event is forthcoming.

Tomorrow (Friday), the wrestling team is at the New London-Spicer invitational, and the girls' basketball team has a key conference game at Holdingford. The boys' basketball team has their second game in two nights as they host Pine River-Backus.

The latest COVID numbers are in from the state...read more at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website (short link): https://bit.ly/3qOhcfK.

I may post game updates tonight on this blog post or a new one. It's time to get ready for the big game at Paynesville! 

**Update: with 7 minutes left in the first half, the Jaguars hold a 23 to 16 lead at Paynesville.

Halftime: B-B-E 40, Paynesville 31.

The Jaguars are running away with it in the second half. More to come in a new blog post.

Apparent carbon monoxide leak at Paynesville Area Middle School prompts emergency help

At around 10:20 a.m. on Tuesday morning, December 18, mutual aid was called out for ambulance response from Melrose and Sauk Centre First Responders to the Paynesville Area Middle School.

Apparently, students are being taken out of the building with symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. The suspected reason is that CO leaked down inside the building from roof vents and cold air intakes.

Last night at a choir concert at the Paynesville school, some people passed out and fainted. It is undetermined why this happened again this morning.

*Update at 11:07 a.m.: all students have been released from school in Paynesville. A large number of ambulances have responded to the emergency calls.

More information will be posted as this comes in.

(Can schools catch a break? This is crazy.)

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