Contributed photo On Friday, Feb. 13, the New York Mills speech team competed in Detroit Lakes. Payton Lausten (third from right) placed second in Prose Interpretation and Brienna Honer (second from left) earned an Excellence rating in Extemporaneous Reading. In this event, Honer drew a random excerpt and has 30 minutes to craft a written… Read More

Contributed photo Placing second out of 21 teams at the Fergus Falls knowledge bowl meet on February 11 were Aubrey Barthel, Lucy Wallgren, Brienna Honer and Isaac Geiser. New York Mills had 17 students competing in senior high knowledge bowl at the last regular season event. Another NY Mills team took fifth place overall. 

Contributed photo Last Saturday the New York Mills speech team competed at a large meet at Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton. Payton Lausten in her “picket fencing” — speech jargon for earned a score of one in each of her preliminary rounds, and secured the prose championship.

Eagles to wrap up regular season Friday against Rockets By Chad Koenen Publisher The New York Mills Eagles wrapped up Park Region Conference play last week with a pair of wins over Henning and Bertha-Hewitt by scores of 67-54 and 57-49. The two wins came on the heels of a 63-43 loss to Park Rapids on… Read More

NYM to host NCE/UH on Thursday night By Chad Koenen Publisher New York Mills hit a bit of a rough patch of games last week as the Eagles went 1-3 against some of the top teams in the Park Region Conference. After falling to Park Rapids Area in dramatic fashion on Monday night by a score… Read More

Contributed photos New York Mills senior Finn Roder signed his letter of intent to play baseball for the Legends at Alexandria Technical & Community College last week, where he will study Pre-Engineering. Roder said he is excited to continue learning and playing the sport he loves and wants to thank the baseball community of New… Read More

Individual tournament set for Friday By Chad Koenen Publisher Sixth seeded New York Mills narrowly fell to third seeded Bertha-Hewitt/Verndale/Parkers Prairie by a score of 37-30 on Friday night. The loss ends the Eagles season with a record of 12-11 as they will gear up for the individual section tournament on Friday at Wadena-Deer Creek High School…. Read More

Contributed photosThe New York Mills third grade (above) and fifth grade (below) boys basketball teams took first place in their home basketball tournament over the weekend. 

The New York Mills speech team recently competed in their first speech meet of the season, which was held in Underwood.  Payton Lausten advanced to the final round (top six) in Prose and placed fourth with her interpretation of All the Rage by Courtney Summers, which follows a high school student’s journey toward healing after a… Read More

NYM freshman is first female wrestler to advance to state By Chad Koenen Publisher Freshman Shauna Geiser has become the first female wrestler in New York Mills School history to advance to the state wrestling tournament. Geiser advanced to state after taking second place at 112 lbs. in the Section 6 wrestling tournament in Shakopee over… Read More