Hills-Beaver Creek
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 01, 2025Students and staff will move into the new Hills-Beaver Creek Elementary School in November. An Oct. 7 public hearing will officially close the current school building in Beaver Creek. The state-required public hearing begins at 2 p.m. in the H-BC Secondary School commons in Hills. Attorney Steve Rutzick will conduct the hearing that gives district residents an opportunity to voice concerns of…
September 24, 2025
By Mavis FodnessSeptember 17, 2025Claire Knobloch and Micah Bush were crowned as the 2025 Hills-Beaver Creek Secondary School Homecoming queen and king Monday night in the secondary gym in Hills. Other members of the homecoming court include Abigail Harris, Ella Sammons, Mya Erickson, Eduardo Wegener and Gavyn Leuthold. Abby Olson and Jacob Wallin were the masters of ceremonies. Class attendants included freshmen Ivy Scott and…
By Mavis FodnessSeptember 10, 2025Hills-Beaver Creek Secondary School celebrates homecoming with a week full of activities next week, Sept. 15-19. Under the theme of “Once Upon a Homecoming,” dress-up days are scheduled for each of the five days that culminate in the homecoming football game at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19. The Patriots take on Westbrook-Walnut Grove. Coronation of a homecoming king and queen takes place at 7 p.m.…
By Mavis FodnessAugust 27, 2025Unfinished construction projects have prompted Hills-Beaver Creek School District officials to make adjustments as the 2025-26 school year begins Tuesday. Preschool- through fifth-grade students will begin classes in what school officials now call the “old elementary” in Beaver Creek. “We’ll start just like we have in the past,” said Superintendent Todd Holthaus. Students and staff plan to…
By Mavis FodnessAugust 27, 2025Four new licensed staff will be in the Hills-Beaver Creek School District when the 2025-26 school year begins on Tuesday. Starting at H-BC in their first full-time positions as educators are Justine Sandbulte, Calvin Erickson, Taryn Rauk and Court Anderson. Justine Sandbulte is the school guidance counselor and school social worker. “I am eager for this new chapter,” she said. “I am looking…
By Mavis FodnessJuly 16, 2025Hills-Beaver Creek Secondary teacher Isabel Sylvanie spent three days last week getting students excited about art. Sylvanie conducted “Summer Art Adventure,” her first class offering through the school’s community education program. “The district wanted to offer more activities other than sports,” Sylvanie said. “Students get creative experiences through the school year, and now they can get…
By Mavis FodnessJuly 02, 2025Ten Hills-Beaver Creek middle school students recently returned from Massachusetts where they competed in a national robotics event June 13-15. They earned the runner-up Motivate Award trophy at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Annual First LEGO League Event June 13-15. “They were shocked to hear their team’s name called as a finalist for the Motivate Award,” said H-BC team adviser Lexi…- By Mavis FodnessJune 04, 2025Interest rates to finance $11.475 million in facility improvements in the Hills-Beaver Creek School District were below pre-sale expectations at the Wednesday morning, May 28, bid opening. School board members received the sale results from the district’s financial adviser Matthew Hammer of Ehlers Inc. Wednesday night, May 28. He said all five bids received at the sale were below the presale 4.…
By Mavis FodnessMay 28, 2025An unusual color was chosen by the Hills-Beaver Creek Class of 2025 at Friday night’s commencement. The lime green ribbons worn by the 28 graduating seniors were in memory of classmate Ethan Erickson. Erickson was a seventh-grader at Hills-Beaver Creek Secondary School when he lost his battle to cancer in 2019. In subsequent years, the students were active in demonstrating character traits…
By Mavis FodnessMay 28, 2025Kindergarten through fifth-grade students at Hills-Beaver Creek Elementary School participated in a special field trip on the last day of the 2024-25 school year Wednesday, May 21. The 155 students and staff members boarded buses for the short trip across town to the east edge of Beaver Creek where they toured the new elementary school and child care center currently under construction.…
By Mavis FodnessMay 28, 2025First-grade teacher Kala Bush is the 2025 Hills-Beaver Creek Teacher of the Year as selected by her peers. Bush received the honor during the H-BC commencement Friday night. The nomination form for Bush as Teacher of the Year simply read, “Kala is a rock star.” Haley Tollefson with the H-BC Education Association presented the award. She noted that the 2024-25 school year was a challenge for…
May 21, 2025Seniors in the Hills-Beaver Creek Class of 2025 received some special congratulations Thursday morning, May 15, at the elementary school in Beaver Creek. The 28 seniors were invited to walk through the halls of their alma mater where the current preschool through fifth-grade students and staff lined the hallways in the graduates’ honor. Applause and high-fives greeted the seniors whose graduation…
By Mavis FodnessMay 21, 2025Hills-Beaver Creek FFA Chapter conducted its annual FFA banquet May 10 at the Steen Reformed Church. Members were honored for their group as well as individual accomplishments during the 2024-25 school year. Annual corn drive is a success Chapter members hosted the annual corn drive, where students solicited grain and/or monetary donations. The group raised $5,200 for Game Plan 4 Hope,…
May 21, 2025Eight graduating seniors from Luverne and Hills-Beaver Creek high schools participated in separate Future Educator Signing Day ceremonies conducted recently for the seniors who plan to pursue education majors in college. The ceremonies were conducted by the respective Luverne and H-BC education associations. Each student signed a Letter of Intent that encourages students to return to their home…- By Mavis FodnessMay 14, 2025The second of two bond sales for the Hills-Beaver Creek School District will take place May 28 and will complete the sale of $29.975 million approved in a 2023 referendum vote. Board members approved the sale of $11.475 million Monday night after consulting with financial planner Matthew Hammer with Ehlers Inc. Hammer anticipates good sale results despite the recent volatility in the bond…
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