New Hills pastor moves closer to home
Pastor Lori Bonkoski’s call to Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Hills brings the Mountain Lake native closer to home in more ways than one.
Wanted: Slinkys for Sophie
Sophie Gehrke is a sixth-grader at Hills-Beaver Creek Secondary School and will undergo open heart surgery later this month.
Star Herald earns state awards
The Rock County Star Herald brought home seven awards from the Minnesota Newspaper Association Annual Convention last week.
Fire officials fight grass blazers, warn of dry conditions
Luverne volunteer firefighters were called to a grass fire Monday afternoon, the third in the past eight days.
ARC to host Christian school startup in Luverne
The American Reformed Church will host classes for Equipt, a K-5 income-based tuition Christian school starting in Luverne.
New veterinarian starts in local clinic
Rock Veterinary Clinic has another veterinarian on staff after Dr. Jaden Austin recently started in the Luverne clinic.
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- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 12, 2016Rock Veterinary Clinic has sold its Minn-I-Kota building on East Main Street and plans to expand at its South Highway 75 location. On Sept. 28 clinic officials will close the Minn-I-Kota Veterinary Clinic purchased in June 2015 from Dr. Marlen Van Otterloo. Minn-I-Kota focused on pet care, grooming and boarding. “We tried to make a good go of it at the Minn-I-Kota location,” said veterinarian Dr…
- By Lori SorensonSeptember 12, 2016Luverne residents will have a voice in future city development by attending a Sept. 26 open house about Luverne’s Comprehensive Plan. The document provides the city leaders with a community vision for the next 20 years, and it’s reviewed and updated every 10 years. The last update was in 2004. “It’s a crucial document to have as a roadmap, and you can tell which communities don’t have a plan,”…
- By Lori SorensonSeptember 12, 2016The Greater Minnesota Regional Parks and Trails Commission recently designated the Luverne Loop and Blue Mounds Trail as “regionally significant.” This means the local trails are eligible for Legacy Grant funds, and local leaders aren’t wasting time applying for those dollars. Luverne Economic Development Authority Director Holly Sammons updated city officials on funding options at the Monday…
- September 12, 2016Luverne High School junior Maddie Dinger is the 2016 Tri-State Band Festival designer. The Tri-State Band Festival partners with the Luverne High School art classes to develop individual designs for each year’s competition. The design represents the creative spirit and energy of Luverne Public School. It is selected in the spring of the year by the Band Festival Committee from art submitted by…
- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 12, 2016Six educators from Luverne Public Schools took advantage of a four-day workshop to further use technology as a teaching tool. Tom Lanoue, Doug Dooyema, Jan Olson and April Wallace from Luverne Middle School, as well as Elaine Harms and Tony Johnson from Luverne High School, participated in BestPrep’s Technology Integration Workshop (TIW) The professional development opportunity, courtesy of the…
- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 12, 2016Luverne’s Dallas Bowron predicted last year’s volleyball season would be his last as a spectator. Last week he cheered his great-granddaughter, Madison Crabtree, on to a home season opener win. Wednesday, Sept. 7, was his 102nd birthday and Bowron sat with a group of family and friends who predicted he would see his 103rd birthday next year. It was a statement he quickly dismissed and something…
- By Lori SorensonSeptember 12, 2016When hair stylist Deb Halverson started her career in 1975, afros were trending. “I remember my friends and I putting perm rods in our hair to get that afro look,” Halverson said, rolling her eyes. “Now smooth, sleek hair is in.” In the 40 years since graduating from Stewart’s school of cosmetology, she said keeping up with hair fashion is one of the challenges she’s enjoyed about the job. “Going…
- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 12, 2016The 82 members of the Luverne High School Marching Band packed into the gymnasium Friday morning, the third out of four mornings in the past week that rain has forced the group to practice indoors. “It’s frustrating,” said director Richard Owen of the morning rain showers. “We’ve learned some practice etiquette we don’t normally do.” While practicing the four songs from the “Phantom of the Opera…
- By Lori SorensonSeptember 12, 2016Commissioners from nine state agencies met with businesses and community leaders in 11 southern and western Minnesota towns during a three-day bus tour Sept. 7-9. Their mission was to hear firsthand how state policies are affecting outstate Minnesota — particularly with regard to water, energy and agriculture. A common theme at the Luverne stop Wednesday, Sept. 7, was that overlapping…
- By Lori SorensonSeptember 12, 2016Saturday’s wedding reception for Lexi Burmeister and Ben Aukes was the first one on the books for Mike and Wanda Jarchow’s Grand Prairie Events Center. Construction on the former Family Dollar building piqued public interest through the summer, so by Friday afternoon, wedding decorators discovered they had an audience of curious onlookers. For example, those who have booked the facility for…
- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 12, 2016Luverne School Board members met in special session Friday morning to accept the resignation of longtime teacher Jane Cote, who submitted her resignation Aug. 31. School began Sept. 6. Cote began as a teacher in Magnolia in 1981 and became part of the Luverne elementary teaching staff when the two districts merged. Cote was working with the school’s response to intervention programs when she…
- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 12, 2016Rock County Opportunities Director Beth Bartels is asking for community support to lobby against a proposed rate change by the Minnesota Department of Human Services. Bartels brought the issue to Rock County Commissioners Sept. 6 after state officials were not able to assist in lobbying to stop the change in funding. The local day training and habilitation center in Luverne, along with other…
- By Lori SorensonSeptember 12, 2016Another downtown business has been approved for Luverne’s Historic Façade Improvement Program. The program offers free technical assistance for architectural design services as well as financial assistance in the form of loans and grants. On Monday the Luverne Economic Development Authority approved an application from Mark and Annie Opitz for a facade improvement of their Quality Printing…
- By Brenda Winter, columnistSeptember 12, 2016I’ve begun attending a cancer support group. For a pre-group warm-up, the kind and soft-spoken instructor tells the room full of cancer survivors and their caregivers to “shrug our shoulders” and “reach to the left” and “reach to the right.” We all have permission slips from our oncologists allowing us to do this. Group members in various stages of cancer and remission moved from the light…
- September 12, 2016Minnesota 4-H’ers from 86 counties arrived with more than 2,800 animals for the 2016 Minnesota State Fair 4-H livestock encampment Aug. 25-28 in St. Paul. Rock County had 39 livestock exhibitors who could show one animal at the State Fair and could earn ribbons in individual classes as well as overall species champion and reserve honors. Exhibitors could also earn showmanship honors in the…
- September 06, 2016
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