Magnolia
Rock County and developers of the future Elk Creek Solar Farm near Magnolia signed a development agreement Sept. 7.
Commissioners were the last entities to sign on to the agreement for the 700-acre solar farm located between Vienna and Magnolia townships.
Officials of both townships reviewed the...
Myron Edward Smook, 68, Magnolia, died Wednesday, March 3, 2021, at the Sanford Luverne Hospice Cottage in Luverne.
Per Myron’s request, no services will take place.
Myron Smook was born on May 19, 1952, to Harold and Marjorie (Donth) Smook in Luverne. Myron lived in Magnolia all his life except...
Kim Gottfried Kimmel, 73, Magnolia, died Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, at Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital in Rock Rapids, Iowa.
A funeral service was Tuesday, Feb. 9, at Peace Lutheran Church in Rock Rapids. Burial followed at the Riverview Cemetery in Rock Rapids.
Kim Kimmel was born April 23,...
The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911.
Rock County Village (continued from 11-25-20 edition of the Star Herald.)
School
A completely equipped, nine grade school is maintained in Magnolia. It is conducted in a two-story building, erected in 1893 at a cost of several...
The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911.
Rock County Village (continued from 11-19-20 edition of the Star Herald.)
The proposition was carried by a majority of four votes, there being twenty cast in favor of the project [to create a municipality] and sixteen against. The...
The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911.
Rock County Village (continued from 11-12-20 edition of the Star Herald.)
Within two weeks after the plat was recorded, Gov. Yale had sold ten lots in the new town, more were sold a little later, and the promoters predicted a lively...
The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911.
Rock County Village (continued from 11-05-20 edition of the Star Herald.)
During the summer of 1884 an event occurred which resulted in the death of one proposed town and the birth of another. The victim in this case was Drake. That...
Thomas “TK” Wilfred Klein, 57, Luverne, died Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Luverne.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at St. Adrian Catholic Church in Adrian. Visitation will also be from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. Friday, Nov. 13, at the Dingmann Funeral Home in Adrian. A funeral Mass...
Six months after starting as program director, Morgan Herda is still wondering what a “normal” day looks like at Southwestern Youth Services in Magnolia.
She started in April just as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the Department of Corrections and prompted new operating procedures for SYS.
“We...
The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911.
Rock County Village (continued from 10-29-20 edition of the Star Herald.)
Magnolia
Magnolia, an incorporated village of eastern Rock county, is a station on the Worthington-Mitchell branch of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &...