Mortgage foreclosure sale
set for Aug. 31 
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage:
DATE OF MORTGAGE: March 3, 2004
ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $42,800.00
MORTGAGOR(S): Steven K. Baumgard and Rosalia H. Baumgard, Husband and Wife
MORTGAGEE: First Premier Bank
DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: 
Recorded: March 16, 2004, Rock County Recorder
Document Number: 158299
ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE:
And assigned to: Washington Mutual Bank, FA
Dated: March 3, 2004
Recorded: March 16, 2004, Rock County Recorder
Document Number: 158300
And assigned to: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association
Dated: December 23, 2021
Recorded: December 27, 2021, Rock County Recorder
Document Number: 201638
And assigned to: Community Loan Servicing, LLC
Dated: December 23, 2021
Recorded: December 27, 2021, Rock County Recorder
Document Number: 201639
And assigned to: Nationstar Mortgage LLC
Dated: June 28, 2022
Recorded: June 28, 2022, Rock County Recorder
Document Number: 202740
Transaction Agent: Not Applicable
Transaction Agent Mortgage Identification Number: Not Applicable
Lender/Broker/Mortgage Originator: First Premier Bank
Residential Mortgage Servicer: Nationstar Mortgage LLC
COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Rock
Property Address: 109 S. Cottage Grove Ave, Luverne, MN 56156
Tax Parcel ID Number: 20-0855-000
LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: The S 1/2 of Lot in Block 3 in Kniss 
Park Addition to the City of Luverne, Rock County, Minnesota
AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE: $31,275.57
THAT all pre-foreclosure requirements have been complied with; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; that this is registered property;
PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above-described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:
DATE AND TIME OF SALE: August 31, 2023, at 10:00 A.M.
PLACE OF SALE: County Sheriff`s office, in the lobby of the Rock County Law Enforcement Center, 1000 N. Blue Mound Avenue, Luverne, Minnesota
to pay the debt secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any, on said premises and the costs and disbursements, including attorney fees allowed by law, subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.
If the Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on February 29, 2024, or the next business day if February 29, 2024, falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.
Mortgagor(s) released from financial obligation: NONE
 
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 
 
THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.
 
THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR'S PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.
 
DATED: July 5, 2023
MORTGAGEE: Nationstar Mortgage LLC
 
Wilford, Geske & Cook, P.A.
Attorneys for Mortgagee
7616 Currell Boulevard, Suite 200
Woodbury, MN 55125
651-209-3300
File Number: 050335-F2
(07-13, 07-20, 07-27, 08-03, 08-10, 08-17)

The National Newspaper Association announced winners of the 2023 Better Newspaper Contest this week, and Rock County Star Herald editor Lori Sorenson is among the winning journalists.
She penned the Sept. 22, 2022, editorial, “Suicide note from a grieving mother,” following the Sept. 13, 2022, suicide death of her 21-year-old son, Carson Ehde.
The editorial received second-place honors among weeklies in the national contest that was judged by the Wyoming Press Association.
“This is a stunningly important message for a world of young humans bent on hero worship for those who take their own lives,” judges wrote of Sorenson’s editorial, which thanked supporters but warned of glamorizing suicide victims.
Uvalde Leader-News, Uvalde, Texas, won first place for its editorial, “Delay may be darkest hour ever,” about the Uvalde school shooting on May 24, 2022.
There were 1,312 entries in the National Better Newspaper Editorial Contest and winners were named at papers in 33 states.

The Minnesota Department of Revenue announced this week the process to send 2.4 million one-time tax rebate payments to Minnesotans.
This rebate was part of the historic 2023 One Minnesota Budget, signed into law by Governor Tim Walz on May 24, 2023.
“This rebate will help millions of Minnesotans pay for everyday expenses such as groceries, school supplies, rent or child care,” said Revenue Commissioner Paul Marquart.
“We know it will be very valuable to a lot of people, and we look forward to sending payments out in early fall.”
The rebates amount to:
•$520 for married couples filing a joint return with adjusted gross income of $150,000 or less. 
•$260 for all other individuals with adjusted gross income of $75,000 or less. 
•Another $260 for each dependent claimed on your return, up to three dependents ($780).
Taxpayers will not apply for this rebate payment. The department will use tax year 2021 individual income tax or property tax refund returns to determine eligibility and distribute these tax rebate payments in the early fall.
Eligible recipients who have not changed their address or banking information from what was on their 2021 income tax or property tax refund returns do not need to take any action.
Taxpayers who are eligible for the rebate and need to update their address or bank information should visit a new online portal at taxrebate.mn.gov to update that information before 5 p.m. CST on Friday, July 28, 2023.
There is no application for the one-time tax rebate payment. Only eligible rebate recipients who need to update their information need to use the secure online portal.
When will rebate payments go out? Eligible recipients of the one-time tax rebate can expect to get their rebate payment in the early fall.
Who is eligible for the one-time tax rebate? You are eligible if you meet all of the following requirements:
•You were a Minnesota resident for part or all of 2021.
•You filed one of the following returns by Dec. 31, 2022: 2021 Form M1, Minnesota Individual Income Tax or a 2021 Form M1PR, Homestead Credit Refund (for Homeowners) and Renter’s Property Tax Refund.
•Your 2021 adjusted gross income (line 1 of Form M1 or Form M1PR) was $150,000 or less for married joint filers or $75,000 or less for all other filers.
•You were not claimed as a dependent on someone else's 2021 Minnesota income tax return.
Taxpayers who died before Jan. 1, 2023, are not eligible.
Where can Minnesotans find more information on other tax-related legislation?
The Department of Revenue is reviewing other legislation recently signed into law and is working to update the state tax filing systems to reflect changes made to Minnesota’s tax laws.
For more information on other tax law changes, visit revenue.state.mn.us.

Quiet title action
STATE OF MINNESOTA IN DISTRICT COURT
COUNTY OF ROCK                                                          FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
Case Type: Quiet Title Action
                      Court File: 67-CV-23-145
 
Allen Fick and Dennis Hanson and Bernice Hanson,
Plaintiffs,
vs.
Marlin Fick, Marilyn Doppenberg, and all heirs, known and unknown, of Florence E. Fick
a/k/a Florence Fick, and all other persons unknown claiming any right, title, estate,
interest or lien in the real estate described in the complaint herein,
                                                Defendants
 
SUMMONS
 
THE STATE OF MINNESOTA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS.
 
You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon Plaintiffs’ attorney an Answer to Complaint, which is filed in the office of the Court Administrator of the above-named county, within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons upon you, exclusive of the day of service.  If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.  This action involves, affects, or brings in question real property situated in the County of Rock, State of Minnesota, described as follows: 
 
Parcel 1:  The West Two (2) Rods in the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW 1/4 of SE 1/4) in Section Twenty (20) in Township One Hundred Two (102) North of Range Forty-six (46) West of the 5th P.M., Rock County, Minnesota, except for that portion of said West Two (2) Rods contained within Parcel 2 described below.
 
Parcel 2: A tract of land in the West One-Half of the Southeast Quarter (W1/2 of SE 1/4) of Section Twenty (20), Township One Hundred Two (102) North, Range Forty-six (46), West of the 5th P.M., described as follows: commencing at the Southeast corner of said Southeast Quarter (SE 1/4), thence going in a Westerly direction on the South side of said Southeast Quarter (SE 1/4) 2,311.5 Feet to the point of beginning; thence going in a Northerly direction parallel to the East side of said Southeast Quarter (SE 1/4) 663 Feet; thence going in a Westerly direction parallel to the South side of said Southeast Quarter (SE 1/4) 328.5 Feet, more or less, to the West line of said Southeast Quarter (SE 1/4); thence going in a Southerly direction along the West line of the subject Southeast Quarter (SE 1/4) 663 Feet, more or less, to the Southwest corner of the subject Southeast Quarter; thence going in an Easterly direction along the South line of the subject Southeast Quarter (SE 1/4) 328.5 Feet, more or less, to the point 
of beginning, subject to easements, restrictions, and encumbrances, if any. 
 
The object of this action is to remove, terminate and quiet any interest of the defendants to this action and to the real estate described above. 
 
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN THAT NO PERSONAL CLAIM  is made against any of the Defendants.  If any Defendant unreasonably defends the action, the Plaintiffs are requesting an order of the Court directing that said Defendant shall pay full costs to the Plaintiffs.
Civil cases are subject to Alternative Dispute Resolution processes as provided
in Rule 114 of the General Rules of Practice for District Courts. Alternative Dispute
Resolution includes mediation, arbitration, and other processes set forth in the rules. You
may contact the Court Administrator for information about these processes and about
resources available in your area.
The undersigned hereby acknowledges that sanctions may be awarded pursuant
to Minnesota Statutes 549.211.  
 
Dated: June 27, 2023 /s/ Paul A. Vis 
Paul A. Vis, Attorney at Law
130 E. Main
Luverne, MN 56156
507-283-4828, FAX 507-283-9188
Attorney ID No. 297550
(07-13, 07-20, 07-27)

To remind motorists to drive safely, law enforcement partners are participating in a statewide extra speed enforcement and awareness campaign through the end of July. Officers, deputies and troopers will be looking for speeders endangering their own lives and the lives of others.
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety coordinates the campaign with funding provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The campaign includes extra patrols and advertising in support of the Toward Zero Deaths traffic safety program.
“The 100 days between Memorial Day and Labor Day have a deadly reputation on Minnesota roads,” said OTS Director Mike Hanson.
“During the first 25 days of the current 100 days, preliminary figures show 46 people have lost their lives in crashes. That’s the highest in that timespan in the last 10 years. Minnesotans can help change this deadly trajectory with smart choices such as slowing down.”
While getting a ticket may be a primary concern when speeding, drivers should worry about far more dangerous consequences:
•In 2022, 129 motorists died in speed-related crashes (preliminary).
•During the 100 deadliest days in the past five years (2018-2022), preliminary numbers show that 231 people lost their lives in speed-related crashes.
•Speed contributed to an average of 85 deaths per year from 2013-2017, but an average of 122 deaths per year from 2018-2022.
Through June 25 this year, preliminary numbers show speed-related deaths are lower so far than the past two years, but even one death is one too many.
Reducing speed reduces chances of a crashes. It gives drivers more vehicle control. It allows drivers to respond more quickly to road situations. It decreases the severity of the impact during a crash.
Motorists should keep a three-second following distance to allow for safe stopping and reaction to other vehicles. It takes more than the length of a football field to stop when traveling at 60 miles per hour.

Because my husband and I no longer have children of our own to subject to long, unbearable car trips, we borrowed a niece and a nephew for a drive to Denver to visit our daughter and their cousin.
Technology has lessened the misery of car trips considerably, but even technology has its limits.
We were nine hours into the 10-hour drive back home. Both kids, ages 12 and 8, had traveled like rock stars.
But …
The tablets and iPods and iPads and pod pads and pad pods had all worn thin.
It was time to go “old school.”
We started with state capitals. My niece was shocked and amazed to learn I was the 1974 girls’ champion “state capital knower” of Mrs. Mulford’s Luverne Elementary School fifth-grade class.
“Vermont?”
“Pfft. Montpelier.”
 “Delaware!”
“Duh. Dover.”
 “Massachusetts?”
(yawn) “Boston.”
We moved on to math problems which piqued the interest of the math whiz nephew.
“What’s 12 times 12?”
Pausing briefly, he replied with the correct answer. Again and again, he stunned his aunt and uncle with his brilliance.
The game ended when his sister revealed that he was using a calculator.
We moved on to singing cowboy songs, some of which were sung in this spring’s school concert. At the top of our lungs we belted out the American classics, “Home on the Range,” “Red River Valley” and “You Are My Sunshine.”
We moved on to “Stupid Songs on Spotify” (which we did not have 20 years ago, by the way.)
“Elvira! Elvira! My heart’s on fire for Elvira!”
“Me and Charlotte Johnson on the front porch on a swing - just a swingin’!”
I watched the plains of South Dakota flash by the windows as we traveled through the beautiful rolling hills and thought, “It doesn’t get any better than this.”
Before we knew it, we were at the Luverne exit and then driving north on Highway 75.
Parked in their driveway I turned to the children to say, “Gosh, that was fun…”
But they were gone. They’d run into the house faster than a pair of South Dakota jackrabbits.
“…we’ll have to do it again sometime?”

We don’t have a lost and found department here at the Star Herald office, but from time to time someone might stop in the office and drop off a set of keys or maybe a glove that someone apparently accidently lost outside on the sidewalk.
Up until last week the items turned in as lost have been of the smaller size. Well, not anymore.
Monday morning when I pulled up to the back door at the office, I noticed a wheelbarrow pushed up against the back wall of the building. The black Truper wheelbarrow isn’t new, but the tire has air and the handles are in good shape, so it’s certainly in working condition.
The question is how and why did it end up behind our building?
On more occasions than I can remember, I have lost a few items over the years. After the frustration of misplacing said items, I kind of like the challenge of finding them.
The first search for the lost item is generally a waste of time because you’re in a hurry and still a little PO’d because you can’t find it right away.
If the second search ends up unsuccessful, it’s time to take a timeout.
For me, the third search is done a little bit more under control. Search No. 3 is a stationary search, done completely in my head with my eyes closed. Back-tracking my steps and movement, with my eyes closed seems to provide me with a clearer picture of the search. Search No. 3 usually works if the lost item is in the last place I put it.
If search No. 3 is about as successful as the Vikings trying to win the Super Bowl, then it’s on to search No. 4.
Search No. 4 is when you look in all the places where the lost item may have fallen out of sight – between the seat cushions, under the desk, in your pants pockets … if you’re looking for your glasses, check the top of your head.
Sooner or later hopefully you’ll find the lost item, and that sense of relief is such a great feeling.
So, if you misplaced a wheelbarrow and you’re back-tracking your steps, you won’t find it where I found it. I moved it indoors.

Harrison on this year's legislative session: 'Is this what you voted for?'
To the Editor:
If you haven’t heard about what has happened in our Minnesota Legislature this year, it is important that you know.
We are now a sanctuary for abortions that can occur up to the moment of birth, a “privilege” allowed only in six other nations (China and North Korea included). If a baby is born alive after the procedure, life-saving care can be refused. The positive alternatives act that provided assistance and support to pregnant women and new mothers was repealed.
We are also a sanctuary state for sex change surgeries, as well as puberty blockers for minors without the knowledge or consent of their parents. And we expect God to bless America?
Most know that recreational marijuana has been legalized. The $19 billion surplus was spent as well as $10 billion more, and new taxes were placed on us to cover the huge spending spree.
Senator Weber and State Representative Joe Schomacker, as well as many other conservative members, tried to block or at least make amendments to this madness, but the left was in control.
Is this what you voted for? The pace that our country is headed in the wrong direction takes my breath away and makes me so very sad. Please pray for our nation.
Shirley Harrison,
Luverne

Dispatch report
June 30
•Complainant east-bound on Interstate 90, mile marker 10, Luverne, reported a driving complaint.
•Complainant on Highway 75 and Interstate 90 requested assistance from another department.
•Complainant west-bound on County Road 4 reported a pedestrian.
•Complainant south-bound on Highway 23, mile marker 22, Jasper, reported a driving complaint.
•Complainant on Evergreen Drive reported a fire.
•Complainant eastbound on Interstate 90, mile marker 10, Luverne, reported a driving complaint.
•Complainant on E. Warren Street reported lost property.
•Complainant on Railroad Avenue near Jasper reported disturbing the peace.
•Complainant on County Road 4, Beaver Creek, reported trespassing.
•Complainant on N. Kniss Avenue reported an open door.
July 1
•Complainant on Edgehill Street reported suspicious activity.
•Complainant westbound on Interstate 90, mile marker 19, Magnolia, reported a fire.
•Complainant on N. Linden Street reported a theft.
•Complainant on 74th Avenue and 101st Street, Beaver Creek, reported a theft.
•Complainant on Barck and Blue Mound Avenue reported suspicious activity.
•Complainant on N. Spring Street reported a fire.
•Complainant westbound on Interstate 90, mile marker 17, Luverne reported a driving complaint.
•Complainant on S. Cedar Street reported theft.
•Complainant on Highway 23 and 121st Street, Garretson, South Dakota, reported suspicious activity.
•Complainant westbound on Interstate 90, mile marker 49, reported a driving complaint.
•Complainant on Highway 75 and Fletcher reported debris.
•Complainant on U.S. Highway 75 and County Road 8, Luverne, reported fleeing.
•Complainant on Kniss Avenue and James Street reported a driving complaint.
July 2
•Complainant on U.S. Highway 75 and 131st Street, Luverne, reported a pedestrian.
•Complainant on 80th Avenue, Luverne, reported a civil issue.
•Complainant west-bound on Interstate 90, mile marker 12, Luverne, reported a fire.
•Complainant on E. Main Street requested assistance from another department.
•Complainant on N. McKenzie Street reported disturbing the peace.
•Complainant on N. McKenzie Street reported disturbing the peace.
•Complainant on W. Hatting Street reported theft.
July 3
•Complainant on N. Kniss Avenue reported a disorderly.
•Complainant on W. Edgehill Street reported suspicious activity.
•Complainant on E. Church Avenue, Steen, reported disturbing the peace.
•Complainant on Britz Drive reported disturbing the peace.
•Complainant on Fairview Drive reported disturbing the peace.
•Complainant on Linden Street reported disturbing the peace.
•Complainant reported curfew violation.
•Complainant westbound on Interstate 90, mile marker 3, Beaver Creek, requested assistance from another department.
•A weather alert was reported.
July 4
•Complainant on W. Main Street reported theft.
•Complainant on Edgehill Street requested extra patrol.
July 5
•Complainant reported an outage.
•Complainant on E. Barck Avenue reported theft.
•A weather alert was reported.
•Complainant on Crawford Street and Freeman Avenue reported a parking issue.
•Complainant southbound on Highway 23 and County Road 5, Beaver Creek, reported an assault.
•Complainant northbound on Highway 23, mile marker 11, reported a driving complaint.
•Complainant westbound on Interstate 90, mile marker 20, Magnolia, reported a driving complaint.
•Complainant on W. Warren Street reported suspicious activity.
•Complainant on Harrison and Kniss reported suspicious activity.
July 6
•Complainant westbound on Interstate 90, mile marker 15, Luverne reported a driving complaint.
 
In addition, officers responded to 2 motor vehicle accidents, 3 deer accidents, 1 transport, 8 ambulance runs, 1 paper service, 3 animal complaints, 3 burn permits, 1 alarm, 4 purchase and carry permits, 4 stalled vehicles, 51 traffic stops, 5 abandoned 911 calls, 1 test, 3 welfare checks, 1 report of cattle out, 1 curfew check and 3 follow-ups.