News
A glance at the Star Herald headlines in 2015 shows Rock County residents enjoyed a relatively stable year in terms of breaking news.
There were highlights of a bumper harvest, new school superintendent and the Palace turning 100, but the story of 2015 unfolded in recurring themes.
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A white Christmas arrived in Rock County Friday evening, Dec. 25, blanketing the area with roughly 7 inches of fresh snow.
Just to be thorough, Mother Nature followed up with another 6.5 inches Monday night into Tuesday morning, prompting a whole new round of cleanup.
The combined 13.5 inches in...
Drivers in the east- and westbound lanes of Interstate 90 may have been startled by a two-story house being transported over the bridge between Luverne and Magnolia Wednesday morning, Dec. 23.
No one was more apprehensive of the travel than the home’s new owners, Scott and Lisa Remme of Luverne.
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A Sioux Falls couple received non-life-threatening injures in a rollover accident on Interstate 90, three miles east of the state line at 1:42 p.m. Friday, Dec. 25.
Fred Bryner, 87, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was driving westbound in a 2014 Mercedes when it traveled into the median and rolled,...
More than 70 handmade cards decorated this year’s winner of the Carnegie Cultural Center Festival of Trees contest.
Winner Lorraine Stoel earned the first-place award of $50 for her tree design called “Got Mail.” Her tree displayed her handmade paper cards using iris folding, a paper folding...
"As one person, I cannot change the world, but I can change the world for one person.”
Greta VanDerBrink said this quote by Paul Shane Spear captures the essence of her work matching volunteers with people who need help.
“This has been one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever made,” said VanDerBrink...
The first-place winner of the Light ’Em Up contest sponsored by the Hills Lions Club in Beaver Creek is Sterling Shaffer who lives at 402 East 1st Ave.
Shaffer, 76, describes himself as one of the elite seniors in the town of Beaver Creek. He has a passion for Christmas and decorates both the...
Luverne Area Chamber and the community celebrated Southwestern Mental Health Center’s ribbon-cutting and open house Friday afternoon.
In late October, SWMH staff moved into the 9,700-square-foot facility just off East Main Street in Luverne on South Spring Street. The $1.2 million renovation of...
This spring readers in Rock County will have four additional locations to pick up or drop off a book.
Each will be a part of the Little Free Library program that allows people to take books and return them once they’re read.
The Rock County Early Childhood Initiative is coordinating the project...