Hills 1921 time capsule contents revealed Saturday
Various handwritten documents and a half dozen newspapers were among the items extracted from the 1921 Hills High School time capsule Saturday morning.
Four fire departments compete in Hills Friendship Days Water Wars
The Hills Area Fire Department repeated as Water Wars champions Saturday afternoon, defeating five other volunteer firefighter teams for the title.
Students looked up to Hansen, who retires from teaching after 35 years
At 6 feet, 5 inches, Gordie Hansen was a center on the Luverne High School basketball team, an experience that brought the 1984 graduate back to his alma mater to teach for 35 years
Teaching provides purpose, support during Christensen's 25 years in classroom
Lots of tears were shed on the last day of the 2024-25 school year in third-grade teacher Pam Christensen’s classroom.
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March 12, 2025Kadhim is a native of Iraq and in 2008 began classes at Washington High School in Sioux Falls, graduating in 2013. He attended the University of South Dakota in Vermillion from 2018-2022, receiving a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice/sociology. Kadhim was hired as a Rock County deputy sheriff in August, after graduating from Minnesota West Community and Technical College in Worthington. He…
By Mavis FodnessMarch 12, 2025Twelve residents at Tuff Memorial Home in Hills prepared more than 1,000 meals in a volunteer activity that left them feeling a sense of purpose. Representatives from Then Feed Just One, a mobile food-packing organization based in LeMars, Iowa, traveled to Hills Feb. 22. They coordinated the assembly-line filling of plastic bags containing soy, dried vegetables, rice, vitamins and minerals.…- By Mavis FodnessMarch 12, 2025The Luverne High School speech team secured two team trophies from invitational tournaments on March 1 and 8. Redwood Valley Cardinal Invitational Nine LHS students earned awards at the Redwood Valley Cardinal Speech Tournament in Redwood Falls March 1. The team finished sixth out of 22 teams with 42 points. Russell-Tyler-Ruthton won the event with 136. LHS students earning recognition…
March 12, 2025Kindergarten through second-grade students at Luverne Elementary School spent last week as “Mitten Makers,” a residency program through the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. The residency was sponsored through a KAHR Foundation grant. Guided by a museum representative, the students used the engineering design process (ask, imagine, plan, create, improve) to conduct tests on a variety of…
March 11, 2025Jennifer Nelson celebrates 6 years at the Star Herald office on March 11. She answered a few questions about her time at the Star Herald. 1. How did your journey with the Star Herald start? A good friend of mine saw the ad in the Announcer for the position and it was a perfect time in my life for me to apply. 2. Can you make a comparison between then and now? What was your role in the…
By Lori SorensonMarch 09, 2025Luverne Initiatives for Tomorrow will host a community gala Friday night, March 21, to share information about current local initiatives. Jane Lanphere of the Luverne Chamber is helping to coordinate the event for LIFT. “We’re putting together a program we think people will be interested in,” she said. The gala at Big Top Event Center will start at 5 p.m. with a social hour. A Bluestem catered…
March 05, 2025The Blue Mound Figure Skaters competed at the Brookings Prairie Polar Blast this past weekend and brought home the second-place trophy, placing behind the home team. Pictured are (front, from left) Aliyah Tiesler, Braelinn Papik, Olivia Schneekloth, Lydia Jarchow, Ellianna Kopp, Remme Henning, Afton Nuffer, Madison Van Santen, Aida Nath, (back) Emma Schneekloth, Josalyn Hiebert, Madilyn Wenzel,…- March 05, 2025Minnesota’s 1,776 townships will host their annual meetings on Tuesday, March 11. These annual meetings occur every year on the second Tuesday in March, known as Township Day, and set townships apart from other forms of local government. At these meetings, residents of the townships will voice their opinions about local issues with other township residents and vote directly on their annual tax…
By Mavis Fodness, reporterMarch 05, 2025John Berdahl said a decision he made as a Hills-Beaver Creek student in the early 1990s set his life on a better path. Berdahl was the second speaker in H-BC’s National Blue Ribbon Alumni Talks series Feb. 20 in Hills. He told students he considered the potential costs of drinking the summer before his junior year. “An addiction won’t happen if you don’t have the first drink — that I was lucky…
By Mavis Fodness, reporterMarch 05, 2025LHS senior Brianna Kinsinger knew immediately she wanted to attend Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall after a single campus tour. “It just felt like home,” the 17-year-old said. “Their education program is amazing.” On Feb. 21 she was surprised with a full-ride scholarship to attend SMSU over the next four years. She received the news upon entering the elementary school commons…- By Mavis Fodness, reporterMarch 05, 2025The addition of 10 students to the Hills-Beaver Creek School District since September improved the district’s general fund by $100,000 in state aid. However, the increase was quickly negated by increased expenditures. The district’s enrollment is now 350 K-12 students. The $100,000 boost in the general fund was offset by salary increases of $20,000 and a $40,000 repair to the elementary school…
- By Mavis Fodness, reporterMarch 05, 2025The Luverne American Indian Parent Advisory Committee (AIPAC) delivered a “vote of nonconcurrence” to Luverne School Board members at their Feb. 27 meeting. Nonconcurrence, by definition, means “refusal or failure to concur.” With its vote, the group asserts that the Luverne School Board does not ensure American Indian students are receiving culturally relevant and equitable education…
- By Lori SorensonMarch 05, 2025The former Vinnie’s property on South Highway 75 in Luverne will soon be demolished. The property owner, Peter Dikun, applied for a $5,000 commercial demolition grant through the Luverne Economic Development Authority, which approved the request at its Feb. 10 meeting. In the grant request, Dikun Properties LLC reports that the property at 704 S. Kniss is substandard and dilapidated. Dikun…
By Mavis Fodness, reporterMarch 05, 2025Thirty girls in preschool through second grade attended the FCCLA’s fourth-annual “Princess Gala” Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 25, in the Luverne Elementary commons. All the girls, dressed as their favorite princesses, were pampered by Luverne High School members of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America. The high school girls, who also dressed up for the occasion, painted nails, applied…- By Lori SorensonMarch 05, 2025Luverne City Council members took action at their Feb. 25 meeting related to the 2026 Highway 75 road construction in Luverne. The State of Minnesota, through its Department of Transportation (MnDOT), wants to purchase portions of city property at the intersection of Highway 75 and Main on the south side of Main Street. The construction project will make the turning lanes wider at the…
- By Lori SorensonMarch 05, 2025Federal budget cuts through the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), are hitting home, especially in Rock County agriculture offices. “It’s been chaos,” said Doug Bos, assistant director of the Rock County Land Management. “We were ramped up for a big conservation program rollout and now we’re scrambling to know what to do from here.” He said he and his colleagues were in the…
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