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- January 31, 2024Dispatch report Jan. 20 •Complainant on W. Gabrielson Road reported a miscellaneous public assist. •Complainant on S. West Park Street reported a miscellaneous public assist. •Complainant on S. Second Street reported a miscellaneous public assist. •Complainant on S. Church Avenue, Hills, reported a public nuisance. •Complainant on N. Estey Street and W. Adams Avenue reported an accident…
- January 24, 2024LSS meals at Generations Monday, Jan. 29: Pepper steak with gravy, mashed potatoes with gravy, peas and carrots, wheat bread, cinnamon apples. Tuesday, Jan. 30: Orange chicken, mixed vegetables, rice pilaf, wheat dinner roll, pineapple tidbits. Half-Price Day in memory of Julie by Volunteers. Wednesday, Jan. 31: Chili, corn, pears, bread, dessert. Half-Price Day sponsored by Christian…
- January 04, 2022Maybe it’s the promise of a new year, or maybe we really do live in a great community, but this round of Star Herald “thumbs” are all pointed up. Thumbs up — to the city workers who combed the field east of Blue Mound Avenue to pick up all the recycling that blew out early Monday morning. Thumbs up — to the city of Beaver Creek for approving new “Welcome to Beaver Creek” signs at the city’s…
By Lori Sorenson, editorJanuary 04, 2022A young family stopped in the Star Herald office just after Christmas to inquire about a subscription to the newspaper. The newsroom was busy sending pages to press, so I didn’t greet them at the counter, as much as I would have liked to. From across the room, I could hear our front office staff take down their address and subscription information while small talk unfolded. “So, you’re new to…- January 25, 2021Democracy has prevailed To the Editor: At his inauguration last Wednesday, President Biden spoke thesewords: “Democracy has prevailed.” Only two weeks after the assaultupon the Capitol. The only previous assault on Washington, D.C., was in 1812 when theBritish attacked and burned the White House. Also in 1812 Francis Scott Key penned the words to “TheStar Spangled Banner,” our national anthem,…
By Jason Berghorst, reporterJanuary 14, 2020“There’s a lot of psychology in that.” That’s one of my favorite and most used sayings, at least according to my students and the coworkers that I eat lunch with. Paul Harvey had “the rest of the story.” Al Roker has “here’s what’s happening in your neck of the woods.” My signature saying, it seems, is “there’s a lot of psychology in that.” I’ve been teaching psychology for quite a few years now…
January 07, 2020Growing up, I often heard the phrase “Keeping up with the Joneses.” Now, I didn’t have any neighbors named Jones, but I knew the saying referred to buying something just because someone else already had the same item. By owning the item, you were at the same high social level, and those who didn’t have said item were somehow at a lower socio-economic scale. Decades later the “Keeping up with the…- January 15, 2019To the Editor: Human trafficking often conjures images of girls in Bangladesh or Hong Kong, drugged and incoherent, being sold for sex and being raped by men. While this statement is absolutely true, the face of human trafficking can also represent a “homegrown” commodity here at home. In 2015 a CBS news report, KELO’s Leland Steva reported on sex trafficking in South Dakota and interviewed a…
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