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To the Editor:
I am writing this letter to encourage all voters in the first and third county commissioner districts to be sure to vote in the upcoming primary. It is very important that those of us in agriculture maintain a balanced county board.
Everyone in Rock County is affected by agriculture...
To the Editor:
Luverne where were you? I attended the Badlands House Band concert Friday night, July 29, at the Rock County Fair. The band was awesome, and I met some people I haven't seen in a long time. I had a great time.
But I was very disappointed with the attendance for a band of this caliber...
To the Editor:
I attended the meeting with Governor Dayton last Thursday at the Worthington Fire Hall. I was very impressed with him. Several in the room thanked him for his stand on education and the Lewis and Clark project. Also in attendance was local legislator Senator Bill Weber.
I was very...
My college son spent some time over his Easter weekend volunteering for the Rock County Historical Society. It was an assignment for school, and he was grateful that Betty Mann had some work at the museum that he could help with.
Somewhere in the process of clipping and filing information at the...
To the Editor,
We want to recognize the excellent family physicians and their colleagues in Luverne who have graciously and effectively served as teachers for medical students from the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth campus over the past year.
The Rural Medical Scholars Program (RMSP...
To the Editor:
In a couple of months, from May 17 to May 31, the filing period opens for individuals to announce their candidacy for local government positions. I will not be filing again. This is the last year of my term, and after serving on the council for 12 years it’s time for me to step down...
For Christmas we gave Matt wireless headphones to listen to the TV without interference from, well, us, essentially.
Carson can practice percussion or play the piano and I can be on the phone or clattering dishes and the xBox downstairs can play at full volume without interfering with Matt’s hockey...
Newspaper offices were at one time fascinating places to visit — with noisy presses, oversized rolls of paper and ink by the barrel.
In my time at the Star Herald, we’ve never printed on our own presses, but there were lots of other interesting things to see and do.
Tourists were photographed at...
I love snow.
There I said it.
(Pause here for boos and hisses from snow haters).
Sure — it results in shoveling work, driving hazards and public expense for road clearing.
But there’s a lot to love about snow.
In a Minnesota winter, the landscape is pretty drab after grass goes dormant and trees...
Minnesota's economic experts have spoken, and they are projecting agreeable fiscal news for the state according to State Representative Joe Schomacker (R-Luverne). If the estimates hold, Minnesota could expect to see a surplus of $1.871 billion for the 2016-17 budget cycle.
"We're seeing a...