Tonight, the Girls’ Basketball team plays at home against Princeton, looking for its second eight-game win streak this season. The team is 18-3 this year. They started off strong with a 8 game win streak and had a couple games where they couldn’t pull it together. They’ve been as high as 4th in the state earlier in the year, but they lost to ranked Wayzata, number 8 Minnetonka and number 9 STMA. Senior Molly Muntifering is leading the…

Forty-five degrees and mostly sunny, that describes how this week will be. With Spring on its way and temperatures rising, Minnesotans went out and about this weekend to rid those Winter blues. This weekend students found themselves at concerts, spending time with distant family members, washing their cars inside and out and spending plenty of time with their friends. The burst of sunshine has got everyone smiling this weekend. “I spent my Sunday afternoon cleaning…

Junior Jade Dietz blew the audience away with his performance Saturday February 5 at the Buffalo variety show. Dietz sang a song entitled “Two Hands” in which he also wrote, while he played the acoustic guitar. “Two Hands” was written by Dietz with the help of Frannie Pearson. “It took me about a week to write the song then Frannie added some lyrics and tuned it up a bit” stated Dietz. The two have been good friends for about…

Last Friday took third place at the Minnesota State Music Listening competition, with a score of 83 points. Pine Island took first place with 85 points, beating Buffalo by 2 points. Montevideo took second place with 84 points. Representing buffalo at the state Music Listening competition were Seniors Anna Huff, Sam Bergstrom, and Elizabeth Thompson. Buffalo had been in the top two teams at the competition until the last round, when Montevideo pulled into second…

Former Media Center Specialist Todd Manninen is now teaching Minorities and Social Problems, filling the place of retired Social Studies Teacher Gerald Bakke. Mannenin officially filled the spot at the beginning of the second semester, after Laurie Raymond retired.  Social Studies Teacher Dan Dehmer taught Minorities and Social Problems during first semester. “I did my undergrad in sociology and I taught social studies before coming to Buffalo High School as the Media Specialist,” said Manninen.…

The Buffalo Bison wrestling team defeated Big Lake at home Thursday night 36-32. With this win, the Bison finishes their regular season with a 4-14 record, the team’s first win since December. The match came down to the wire in the last match as seventh grader Adam Treptau reversed a pinning predicament into a pinfall of his own. Treptau sealed the win for the Bison on Gerry Bakke Night, despite scoring fewer points in his…

“I loved when you get a good discussion going,” said Gerry Bakke, “you get both sides of the room really going at it. It is one of my best memories as a teacher.” Thursday marked the final retirement celebration for long time Social Studies teacher and wrestling coach Gerry Bakke. After 30 years of teaching, his retirement was finalized on October 25. Bakke greeted friends, family, and fans in the cafeteria from 5-7, when the…

It was too little, too late for the Boy’s Hockey team last night when they played against Hopkins. The Bison lost 1-5. The game started out slow, and eventually gained some speed when Hopkins scored the first goal of the game with three minutes left in the first period. The Bison didn’t give up and made several good shots at the goal but ended the first period with a score of 0-1. The second period…

Swimmers step up, take your marks, GOOOOOOO. And they’re off. On Thursday night, Buffalo hosted 5 Teams at the JV championships. Teams that were involved were Cambridge-Isanti, Monticello, Princeton, St. Michael, and Buffalo. They hosted this championship for those who didn’t make it to sections. Overall the Buffalo’s JV team fell short a few points and got 2nd overall. Cambridge won the meet. The meet started off very well. Buffalo’s A Medley Relay team got…

The Buffalo Boys’ Basketball team entered the 11th Annual Pat Sonju Memorial basketball game against the Moorhead Spuds on Saturday afternoon riding a 13 game winning streak. The Pat Sonju game is played on the first Saturday in February every year, in honor of Pat Sonju who died in October 1999. Pat was a former player, and was the Head Coach of the Bison at the time of his death. Each year, two high school…