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  • The city of Hardwick is working with DGR Engineering out of Rock Rapids to develop an access road to the seven-acre Scott Addition. Stakes mark the entrance through a tangle of trees that the city will remove to clear the way for access to the future fire hall and the newly purchased commercial and residential tracts by the VanDerBrink family for future businesses and homes. Mavis Fodness/Rock County Star Herald Photo
    VanDerBrink businesses and family to develop lots in Hardwick
    By Mavis Fodness
    October 18, 2023
    Hardwick City Council members agreed to sell property in the city’s new Scott Addition to Steve and Yvette VanDerBrink, according to action during the council’s regular monthly meeting Oct. 10. They approved the VanDerBrinks’ offer of $124,100 for 4.26 acres, which is more than half of the seven acres the city purchased from Bullerman/Scott family earlier this year for $88,000. The Scott…
  • 1942: All businesses close Saturday at same time
    By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical Society
    April 27, 2021
    The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on Jan. 9, 1942.   9 P.M. Saturday Closing Advised   Civic And Commerce Executive Committee Holds First Meeting Holding its first meeting in the Luverne National bank, the new executive board of the Luverne Civic and Commerce association recommended Monday evening that all retail businesses in this city close promptly at 9 p.m. on Saturday nights.…
  • 1889: Businesses begin to locate in Hills
    By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical Society
    June 09, 2020
    The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911.   Rock County Village of Hills, continued from 6-4-20 edition of the Star Herald.            In April the store building of Jacobson & Sexe was moved across the fields from Bruce, and early in May that firm opened a general store one block north of the Thompson store. The same month A. T. Sexe moved his lumber yard from Bruce and installed P…
  • 1965: Three businesses celebrate grand opening days
    By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical Society
    July 09, 2019
    The following appeared in the Rock County Star Herald on June 10, 1965.   Three Stores Hold Grand Openings New Fronts Give Main St. New Look          Grand opening days will be held this week at three Luverne businesses with more than a thousand dollars in free merchandise prizes to be given away Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Along with this issue of the Star-Herald is a special commemorative…
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