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  • By Lori Sorenson
    February 12, 2025
    More than 600 heart-shaped cookies were baked, iced and packaged at B’s Bakehouse in Luverne over the past week in time to distribute Thursday for Friday’s Valentine’s Day holiday. The project was a fundraiser for the local non-profit Luv1LuvAll group, and it was organized through the Luverne Area Chamber. Community members were encouraged to order the large heart-shaped cookies for $5 apiece…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    February 12, 2025
    Organizers of the local Get Hooked Fishing Derby announced this week that plans are moving forward for the Feb. 22 event on The Lake in Luverne. A stretch of mild January weather and open water on The Lake prompted officials to put a hold on the 2025 tournament. However, colder temperatures in the last couple of weeks have frozen The Lake’s ice to nearly 10 inches thick. Weather permitting,…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    February 12, 2025
    Three lots for more twin homes will be developed in Luverne, thanks to a grant through the Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership. According to discussion at Monday’s meeting of the Luverne Economic Development Authority, three twin homes (six units) will be constructed on three lots in the Reisch Addition. The addition is located near the newly developed Lopau Housing Addition near the Mary…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    February 12, 2025
    Work on Kids Rock! Child Care Center in Luverne continues to progress toward opening this spring, according to discussion at Monday’s meeting of the Luverne Economic Development Authority. EDA Director Holly Sammons updated the board on construction. For example, inspections are underway, with the kitchen and fire systems passing inspections. Flooring is in place, window coverings are hung, and…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    February 12, 2025
    School lunch debt continues to increase at Luverne Public Schools, and the current amount may affect the district’s longterm budget. Luverne students owe $31,000 to the school’s food service fund, an amount accumulated over the past three years. Pleas to middle and high school parents for payment of their student(s)’ meal debt are going unanswered due to the misinterpretation of the state’s…
  • February 12, 2025
    The Hills-Beaver Creek Elementary School Student Council hosted a roller-skating party Friday night in the elementary school gym where district students and families enjoyed skating, food, games, drawings for prizes and more. An estimated 120 students and their families participated in the event, which was a fundraiser for the H-BC Student Council.
  • By Mavis Fodness
    February 12, 2025
    Students in Family, Career and Community Leaders of America chapter will represent Luverne High School at the state FCCLA leadership conference March 28-30 in Bloomington. “We are really excited for the state conference this year because of the great showing we had in the area contest as well as all the work our students have been putting into planning a great conference,” said adviser Carmen…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    February 12, 2025
    Sixteen area schools competed Saturday in Luverne for the speech invitational at the Luverne High School. As hosts, LHS did not earn a team placing, but individual speakers were eligible for awards. “But since it was our home meet, we could not place,” said assistant adviser Morgan Van Holland. “We would have placed fourth as a team.” The invitational originally had 17 teams registered, but…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    February 12, 2025
    The Hills Area Volunteer Fire Department was paged to a hog barn fire Wednesday morning, Feb. 5, in Clinton Township north of Steen. This is the second fire at a hog facility in Rock County in just over a two weeks period. The Luverne Fire Department assisted at the site at 1153 41st St., where the barn fire was reported at 7:08 a.m. According to Hills fire chief Jared Rozeboom, smoke was…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    February 12, 2025
    Luverne Elementary students learned key engineering skills last week when the Science Museum of Minnesota spent a five-day residency at the school. Sponsored by the KAHR Foundation, the instructor in residence divided her time over five days spending an hour with each of the 12 third- through fifth-grade classes. Emilie Stallnick was the instructor. She walked the students through a hands-on…
  • February 12, 2025
    A group of local volunteers is organizing a co-ed volleyball tournament on March 8 to support a scholarship fund at Discovery Time Preschool. The school has a fund to help families who can’t afford the full tuition for Discovery Time Preschool. However, it’s not always enough to cover all families who apply. When the local Women’s Giving Circle learned of the Discovery Time need, member donors…
  • By Greg Hoogeveen
    February 12, 2025
    The Luverne girls’ hockey team took down Fairmont 6-1 in section semifinal action at home Saturday, Feb. 8. The Cardinals took a 3-0 lead in the first period with two goals from freshman Ellie Van Batavia and one from junior Greta McClure. In the second period Van Batavia completed a hat trick, scoring the lone goal in the period, bringing the score to 4-0. In the third period Luverne tacked…
  • February 10, 2025
    Rick Peterson celebrates 20 years at the Star Herald office on February 10. He answered a few questions about his time at the Star Herald. 1.     How did your journey with the Star Herald start? My newspaper career started at the Worthington Daily Globe in the mid-1980s. Louie Seesz was the publisher of the Globe at the time and our newspaper careers crossed paths a number of times over the…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    February 05, 2025
    Pastor Lori Bonkoski’s call to Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Hills brings the Mountain Lake native closer to home in more ways than one. The move to Hills this month ended what she called an extended journey from Christ the King Lutheran Church in Sumner, Washington. “I served there for 38 years and the congregation (numbers) ebbed and flowed,” she said. “It finally became too small to keep…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    February 05, 2025
    Sophie Gehrke is a sixth-grader at Hills-Beaver Creek Secondary School and will undergo open heart surgery later this month. As a get-well gift, the H-BC student council wants to collect 365 Slinkys during the Thursday night, Feb. 13, volleyball games at the school in Hills. For each Slinky turned into the concession stand, a free bag of popcorn will be given as part of the “Slinkys for Sophie…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    February 05, 2025
    The Rock County Star Herald brought home seven awards from the Minnesota Newspaper Association Annual Convention last week. The Star Herald was recognized for excellence in seven categories of the MNA Better Newspaper Contest, conducted annually to recognize the talent of news and design staff at newspapers statewide. “We have always been an award-winning community newspaper,” Star Herald…
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