
April 7, 2026
Edged at home to perennial power New Ulm Cathedral 6-5 in a season-opening see-saw battle last Monday followed a one-bad-inning 7-3 loss to host Mankato Loyola a day later, the va...

April 7, 2026
At the end of a 10-second countdown, dozens of kids who had been buzzing with excitement behind the starting lines of the new gym on Saturday morning were off like Olympic sprinte...

April 6, 2026
Showing who's boss in the recently combined Tomahawk and Valley Conferences, both Mankato Loyola/Cleveland/Mankato Christian Academy boys and girls track and field team’s earned f...

April 6, 2026
When New Ulm Cathedral came to town on Monday for the softball season opener, the Clipper girls were hoping for a repeat of last year, when they upset host Cathedral 3-2. But t...

March 30, 2026
A huge thank you to EveryMeal, the Cleveland Food Shelf, and FOCP of Mankato for your generous donations this round of distribution! Cleveland began it's own version of the backpa...

March 29, 2026
Without a ton of time spent on the basketball court during the off season, every outing for the varsity girls this year was progress along the learning curve. “We literally watc...

March 26, 2026
Over half of 25 Cleveland athletes on this year’s version of Loyola/Cleveland/Mankato Christian Academy track & field team did not participate in the sport last year. While a few...

March 26, 2026
Barrett Vogel’s dad likes to bake. His specialty is sourdough bread, but making it is a longer and more complex process than what’s required for a typical loaf. Thus, keeping t...

March 25, 2026
Jazz musician Kirk Garrison isn’t a Cleveland native, but, as he is from small-town Southern Minnesota—Truman to be precise—and is married to CHS graduate Tracy Koppelman , he’s ...

March 23, 2026
Still thawing out after a winter that is going down swinging, the baseball and softball fields, thanks to the volunteers and financial supporters of the Cleveland Baseball & Softb...

March 11, 2026
Perkins farms, the Cleveland FFA and the school’s “lunch ladies” came together today (Tuesday) to serve fresh and locally produced farm-to-school carnitas to school students, staf...

March 10, 2026
Section 2A top seed Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton was too much for the Cleveland boys on Thursday, ending the Clipper season in the quarterfinals with a 92-65 win. The game was pl...

March 5, 2026
Carson Lyons only had two fouls, but that was enough for head coach Mike Meyer to sideline the Clippers’ leading scorer for all but 4 minutes in the first half at Sleepy Eye S...

March 3, 2026
According to statewide test scores, half of Minnesota students can't read at their grade level. Three years ago, the state legislature took that as a lesson and overhauled the sta...

March 2, 2026
The season abruptly ended for the varsity girls on Monday when they lost to host Nicollet 63-46 in the first round of the section 2A tournament. The fourth-seeded Raiders, who ha...

February 26, 2026
Had the Clipper varsity boys survived the overtime when Mayer Lutheran came to town on Thursday for the regular season finale, they likely would have had a higher seed in the sect...

February 23, 2026
One of 25 spellers from south central Minnesota competing in the South Central Service Cooperative Regional Spelling Bee on Tuesday (February 17), sixth grader Ruby Page took se...

February 23, 2026
Had another minute or two been available to the sixth-grade basketball girls on Saturday, they might have entirely erased an 11-point deficit, beaten United South Central and won ...

February 23, 2026
Snapping a seven-game losing streak and finishing their regular season on a high note, the varsity girls defeated visiting New Ulm Cathedral 62-38 on Tuesday. Cathedral came in w...

February 19, 2026
With five seniors on the varsity boys team, picking a starting lineup for Cleveland vs. visiting New Ulm Cathedral for Tuesday’s Senior Night was an easy task for head coach Mike ...
