Letters to Editor
- April 17, 2024Smith: Thank you mail carrier Noel Benjamin To the Editor: We hear a lot about our mail delivery and some of the delays in service, but I would like to present a favorable instance that could have been very serious if not for the action of our mailman, Noel Benjamin. On Tuesday, April 9, I was taking the garbage to the container in the garage to be picked up the following day. I had to move…
- August 08, 2023Keitel: 'Our water has become tainted' Letter to the Editor: I grew up in rural Luverne and understood crops, birds, rivers, streams, beaver, muskrat, snapping turtles, river bottoms and sand pits. I utilized the spring water that flowed out of the earth like a gift from God. My first spring water was from the Blue Mounds where a pipe came out of the side of a hill and filled glass…
- March 21, 2023Brooks: 'What's your better idea?' To the Editor: If you try to make everyone happy, you will lose as a community. You’re a town of 5,000 people, with perhaps 2,000 or so homes. Are a thousand of them, or even a 500, complaining? What happens is CAVE-rs (Citizens Against Virtually Everything) complain and it might be as many as 50 people (typically it’s more like ten) and then you…
- October 11, 2022Fick wants comments on controlling weather To the Editor: So NASA now has sent machinery into outer space, targeting toward an asteroid, in fact striking it, attempting to send it into a different orbit. Controlled from earth? Why then can’t they send a rocket into the eye of a developing hurricane over the center of the ocean, igniting an explosive, destroying or lessening its strength before it…
- July 05, 2022Fick: "Is it time the time NRA speaks up and out against these murders?' To the Editor: Another shooting, more deaths, more injuries, even children. I don’t understand why high-powered automatic military weapons are allowed in society today. Yes, a single shot or double barrel in every home is okay to use when a skunk wanders on your lawn or a coyote spooks your cattle and your cattle…
- May 03, 2022To the Editor: First, we want to thank everyone who put so much time and effort into providing a safe and fun prom experience for our Luverne youth. A lot of work goes into planning this special day and it takes many to pull it off. With the rain predictions for prom this year, everyone was fortunate to have a facility where indoor photos could be taken. What was disheartening was to see…
- April 26, 2022Wilde: May is Mental Health Awareness Month To the Editor: May is Mental Health Awareness Month. As a volunteer and advocate with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, this month I am asking everyone to join us and demand #MoreForMentalHealth. I am doing more by calling on my legislators at the federal and state levels to support legislation that will fund the implementation of 988 and…
- March 01, 2022Kracht: 'When we got to vote in November, do some research on the people running ...' To the Editor: What is happening in Ukraine is a terrible thing, but let’s not let it distract us from the things going on in our own country. As I follow the stories on the Russian collusion hoax, Covid-19, and the Biden administration, it reminds me of the song by Miranda Lambert, “White Liar.” You…
- February 22, 2022Krueger: Township residents should attend annual meeting To the Editor: Township Day is Tuesday, March 8 All township residents have a direct voice and a direct vote with their localgovernment. On Tuesday, March 8, townships will hold their annual meetings on“Township Day.” Make sure to attend to make your voice heard! The tradition of a town meeting has roots in colonial America. New Englandtown…
- February 08, 2022Fick: 'We can disagree and still be friends' To the Editor: My opinion, as I see it. Is lack of knowledge and misinformation costing our country thousands of lives? How many lives have died from the Covid vaccine? Never heard. A vaccine is not 100 percent effective, but lessens the seriousness of a disease. Where has our respect for our authorities gone? What are we teaching our youth…
- January 25, 2022Vink: 'Thank you, Luverne' To the Editor: Luverne — Love the Life! I am grateful for a small city the size of Luverne, yet with its many amenities. As young parents it was good to raise our children in quality schools and recreation, and soon more child care is coming. Now as aging people we appreciate its many advantages — the Generations meals, the public wheelchair transportation,…
- December 14, 2021Kracht: ...you have to realize why the signs are there' To the Editor: This letter is in response to the thumbs down on political signs on South Freeman Street. First, I would like to thank this newspaper for bringing attention to them. There have been a lot more people driving by and looking at them. Also, I would like to thank the people for the overwhelming support for the signs since it…
- August 31, 2021‘Out of the Darkness’ walk coming Sept. 18 To the Editor: The Luv1LuvAll team members with the Brain Health Initiative have teamed up with Luverne schools and Sanford Luverne to bring suicide survivor Kevin Hines to the community on Sept. 1. He’ll be there at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1, in the school’s new performing arts center. (It will be the first event to be held in the new auditorium.)…
- August 17, 2021Preventative steps needed through increased trade To the Editor: I’m not sure if hypersonic missiles or Iran’s drones have a chance of first strike capability. If so, or if some countries will think so, and/or don’t fear a second strike, then we need to take preventative steps. The same applies to nuclear weapons (with or without these), and perhaps likewise even poison gas. If there is a chance…
- July 06, 2021'Thumbs down' to Star Herald for 'snarky comment' To the Editor: A big thumbs down to the Star Herald June 24 edition for their thumbs column. Why did you feel the need to publish the snarky comment about the covid shot? Do you really believe it’s your heroic efforts that have allowed things to open up? Would you vilify someone who opted not to receive chemo for the cancer…
- June 15, 2021Norberg: "... hope is on the horizon' To the Editor: After complaining about the appearance of MaplewoodCemetery last year, I'm compelled to say THANK YOU to the cemeteryassociation for the excellent condition I found the grounds to be in this year. As I drovedown the main entrance, the flags were beautifully flyingwith a backdrop of tall green trees which was an awesome sight. (…
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