TOP HEADLINES

  • Sweetheart Sweepstakes entries due today
    02/02/2023 - 10:37am

  • Conference rematches continue for NI basketball
    Conference rematches continue for NI basketball
    01/31/2023 - 3:32pm
  • Wrestlers split matches at Garner
    01/31/2023 - 3:24pm

  • Staff at MercyOne Buffalo Center Family Medicine has been informed the local clinic will close at the beginning of spring, with patients and staff transitioning to the MercyOne Forest City clinic.
    MercyOne plans to close Buffalo Center clinic
    01/31/2023 - 3:19pm

  • Sales are underway for the annual Daffodil Days fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, and the National Honor Society at North Iowa High School is calling people to take their orders. In addition to daffodils, people can also order hyacinths and tulips this year. From left are: Daffodil Days volunteer Betsy Goetz and National Honor Society members Elizabeth Olson and Gage Lawson.
    Daffodils and more for this year’s cancer fundraiser
    01/31/2023 - 3:16pm

  • Sam Smidt works her way around a tough Forest City defense last Friday night, Jan. 20 in a home conference game.
    Basketball teams down against Panthers and Indians
    01/24/2023 - 11:42am
  • Girls win matches at Okoboji
    01/24/2023 - 11:37am
  • Wrestlers 2-1 at St. Ansgar quad
    01/24/2023 - 11:33am

  • Buffalo Center native Derrick Elman is a Class 3A Regional Football Coach of the Year, after guiding the Humboldt Wildcats to a 3A District 2 title last fall. Derrick is the son of Terry and Joyce Elman of Buffalo Center. (Photo by Phil Monson, Humboldt Independent)
    Elman named Regional Coach of the Year
    01/24/2023 - 11:31am

  • Andrew Hofmann pinned both of his opponents from GHV and Algona during the middle school wrestling season opener at Forest City on January 12.
    Middle school wrestling season underway
    01/24/2023 - 11:27am

  • Bella Langfald pulls down a rebound, which she capitalized on with a two-point shot in the eighth grade basketball game with Bishop Garrigan last Tuesday.
    Middle school girls’ teams open the year 1-1
    01/24/2023 - 11:23am

  • A group of rising basketball stars demonstrated their free throw shooting skills on Sunday, Jan. 15, during the annual Free Throw Contest sponsored by North Iowa Betterment and Farmers Trust & Savings Bank. Winning medals and ribbons during the afternoon event at the high school gym were, front from left: Brynlee Engelbarts, Hudson Hanna, Mya Ostermann, Oakley Haisman, Levi Berggren, and Wesley Kenny. Second row: Amelia Price, Alaina Hagedorn, Paxton Bengtson, Simon Potter, Owyn Ostermann, Bailey Newton, Fiona Potter, and Tate Engelbarts. Back row: Isla Potter, Maddie Newton, Kayla Heyer, Rock Hughes, Skylar Lopez, Kingston Mathahs, Archer Winter, Jasper Wirth, Henry Schaefer, and Jayden Hagedorn.
    Annual free throw champions named
    01/24/2023 - 11:20am

  • Carol Jo Smidt took part in an opening reception at the Arts North International 28 show in Hopkins, MN on Saturday, Jan. 14, where her painting “Angry Clouds” is among 161 works selected for display.
    Smidt part of international art exhibit in Minnesota
    01/24/2023 - 11:09am

  • Robert Ruby, center, receives an honor quilt from Cheryl Steinberg, left, and Karen Kiewiet of the American Legion Auxiliary on January 15.
    Four Army veterans are honor quilt recipients
    01/24/2023 - 11:04am

  • Front from left are: Owen Haukoos and Ayden Boekelman. Back row: Josh Harmon, Kamden Knudson, Chase Ad- ams, Bradlee Laugen, and Tyler Stark.
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    From left are: Sophia Hagen, Madison Berg, Alana Thompson, Kylee Thompson, and Lisa Heyer.
    Bowling teams win at Pocahontas
    01/17/2023 - 1:02pm

News

02/02/2023 - 10:37am
Sweetheart Sweepstakes entries due today
There’s still time to enter the sweetheart of your choice in the Buffalo Center Tribune’s annual Sweetheart Sweepstakes. Businesses are invited to sponsor a child for a chance to be the 2022 Sweetheart, and entries are due today, Thursday, Feb. 2....
MercyOne plans to close Buffalo Center clinic
Daffodils and more for this year’s cancer fundraiser
Smidt part of international art exhibit in Minnesota
Four Army veterans are honor quilt recipients
Iowa farmland values hit all-time high

Opinion

12/26/2022 - 3:03pm
The Idyllic Life - Imagine Magic
Most weekends in my studio, especially as winter settles in, I offer art and craft activities designed for kids. Parents can bring their littles in, and I have a project or two all lined up and ready to go. All supplies are ready, and I’ve done a...
The Alternative - Extreme weather conditions
What’s Representative Stone hiding?
The Idyllic Life: Think Big, Small Towners – It’s Never Too Late
Welcome to your outdoors - Lichens
Welcome to your outdoors - Spring prairie burns

Sports


Conference rematches continue for NI basketball
01/31/2023 - 3:32pm
Conference rematches continue for NI basketball
  The North Iowa basketball teams each had a pair of conference games last week, as the regular season is quickly winding down. The teams traveled to Britt on Monday, Jan. 23 to face West Hancock. In the girls’ match, North Iowa climbed out of an...
Wrestlers split matches at Garner
Basketball teams down against Panthers and Indians
Girls win matches at Okoboji
Wrestlers 2-1 at St. Ansgar quad
Elman named Regional Coach of the Year

Obituaries

02/01/2023 - 9:50am
Anne Berberich
Anne Christine (Halvorson) Berberich of Rochester, MN passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022 in Santa Cruz, CA. A memorial gathering will be hosted by Anne’s family at the Plummer House, 1091 Plummer Lane SW, Rochester, MN from 1-5 p.m. Saturday,...
Lois Holst
Marilyn Peters
Arvilla Smidt
Susan Schoning
Gary Carlson

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