Big Stone County, Minnesota - Living Rural and Loving it!
It was a beautiful evening at Lakeside Park along Big Stone Lake for this year’s annual DREAM for Kids & Someplace Safe’s old-fashioned family picnic! This is their third year – and has been a hit with the kids from the first. Hills family brings …
Sheila Smith (Executive Director of Minnesota Citizens for the Arts and Chair, Creative Minnesota) presented the Big Stone County Report on March 22nd at the Ortonville Community Center. Creative Minnesota, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, Big Stone Arts Council, Big Stone Area Growth and the Ortonville …
The Big Stone Arts Council “Music On Main” continues its twice-monthly jam sessions! Next session will be Tuesday, April 3rd at 6:30, in the lower level of the Community Center (on the corner of Third & Monroe in beautiful downtown Ortonville!) They are also meeting …
It was an awesome weekend at the Sports & Leisure Show! We’ve put together a few highlights from the show – starting with a quick video to see a few of the vendors as they were completing their set-up before the start of the Show. …
Fun to see all of the interest! We’ll post links & latest information on this page as we get teams organized and ready to start. Would you like to be connected with a team in your community? Please complete this short form & we’ll match …
Sandy Hanson with her “A Camel’s Story Trilogy” and now Michael Larson’s “Easter Sparrows” have been translated in both Russian and Ukrainian and published in Ukraine! They shared their story at a celebration hosted by Living Hope Fellowship Assembly of God in Ortonville and during …
Dr. Yang Song’s NDSU Landscape Architecture Program students along with Brian Leaders of the National Park Service were in Ortonville on Monday (February 12th) presenting the work they’ve done so far to the Ortonville Park Board along with providing an overview of what they found …
They are busy… and adults are so busy making sure that their kids are where they need to be for their next activity that sometimes we forget to stop. Take a breath… and celebrate their accomplishments and all that they are involved in! Take this …
So many are offering to help that we thought we’d share a post with links to the various avenues that you can help this family! Note from Becky Stattelman’s Facebook page: (and much help from Amanda Tatro on the post with information!) I’ve taken a …
We take our youth sports seriously – and enjoy a good Saturday morning basketball tournament! After watching the older teams play with serious reffing, it was fun to watch the refs taking their time and giving some great teaching/coaching pointers to the players… and they …