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By Jason Berghorst, reporterAugust 09, 2022A few weeks ago, my 11-year-old television quit. My first course of action was to ask two tech-savvy friends for TV advice. Both suggested a “smart” TV. One specifically suggested an Amazon Fire TV that he had purchased online earlier this year. Being a middle-aged, traditional shopper, I wasn’t quite ready to purchase a TV online. So, off to Best Buy I went. No doubt the young salesperson saw…
By George Bonnema, Luverne HorticulturalistAugust 09, 2022Marvelous rain this weekend, and I am so very grateful! I’ve been able to water enough to keep my gardens producing quality produce, but that seems such a futile effort considering the size of the gardens coupled with heat … rain changes the whole picture! It is August, and if you have fern leaf peonies, you’ll notice they are turning yellow because they have finished their growing cycle for the…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistAugust 09, 2022I was sitting in my garage the other night with a couple of guys who had just finished up shooting on their trap league for the week. They are both avid hunters and both have hunting dogs of differing ages. It seemed like only about an hour had passed when in fact more than four hours had turned off the clock. Outdoor lifestyles and passions have always been my most vivid memories. As I recalled…
By Lori Sorenson, editorAugust 02, 2022Matt and I recently met friends near Hill City, South Dakota, for our annual ATV ride on the trails of the Black Hills National Forest. As always, the four-day getaway included campfire conversations, relaxing picnics on scenic overlooks, and — best of all – abundant wildflowers. We have wildflowers in Rock County, but there’s nothing like rounding the curve of a wooded trail that opens into…
By George Bonnema, Luverne HorticulturalistAugust 02, 2022Dwarf reblooming daylilies have finished their first and main flush of flowers for the summer. Some of those stalks have developed seed pods and others have just dried up. We want to encourage those daylilies to rebloom, which they will do, but cutting out the stems with seed pods will encourage them to develop new flowering stems sooner. The flower stalks that have dried up can usually be pulled…
By Mavis Fodness, reporterJuly 26, 2022When I was growing up and doing chores around the family farm, a radio would often be heard in the dairy barn. WNAX out of Yankton, South Dakota, frequently broadcast the play-by-play of the Minnesota Twins games. Through the mid- to late 1970s I heard the names of future Hall of Famers Tony Oliva, Rod Carew and Bert Blyleven as they came to the plate or played a great defense. Hearing those…
By Rick Peterson, general managerJuly 26, 2022It’s the last weekend of July, and after Sunday you might possibly have heard a citywide collective sigh of relief. We started the month with the Fourth of July celebration at The Lake complete with fireworks lighting up the sky to bring the day to a close. Next was the Terry “Butch” Connell memorial ride July 9. Hundreds of folks in cars, motorcycles, UTVs and even a bus participated in the…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianJuly 26, 2022The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group that began in the January 7, 1943, issue of the Rock County Star Herald. Members of this group consist of persons of age 75 and older. This article appeared in the March 25, 1943, edition of The Rock County Star Herald. When Edward Byrne, Luverne, came west from Iowa to settle, South Dakota was still a part of Dakota…
By George Bonnema, Luverne HorticulturalistJuly 26, 2022Well, this has not been my favorite year gardening! It seems like every pattern of weather was messed up, and the consequences were and are enough to make me wonder why I work so hard to “make it work.” Of course, my expectations belong to me, and what you see is what you see, not the picture in my mind of what I carefully envisioned and planned. I’m reminded of that so often when I’m working in…
By Brenda Winter, columnistJuly 19, 2022I’ve seen flooding on TV and pitied the poor people who had to clean up after it, but I’ve never personally had to clean up after a flood. That changed July 5 when 6 inches of rain falling in less than an hour washed the gravel, garbage and grime off Cedar Street into the basement window of a small apartment building that my husband, Jim, and I own. We were made aware of the situation when one…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistJuly 19, 2022I moved to Worthington at the age of 13 and after my folks bought me a new bike, I was the traveling fisherman and hunter. I would ride my bike to the local lake in my town almost every day. When I reached the age of 14, which is when you can hunt without an adult, I would ride my bike about six miles out to the Lake Ocheda Waterfowl refuge and try to shoot a Canada goose. I would often ride home…
By Jason Berghorst, reporterJuly 12, 2022Twenty-five years ago last month I graduated from Luverne High School. It will be five years ago next month that I returned to Luverne High School as a social studies teacher. Needless to say, it was fun and interesting to return to my alma mater 20 years later in a new role. So many things had changed obviously. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, so much had stayed the same. Sometimes exactly the…
By Rick Peterson, general managerJuly 12, 2022It’s a big weekend for Luverne starting on Thursday with the 60th annual Hot Dog Night. It’s estimated that well over a half million hot dogs have been served up over those years. Nearly 60 businesses have signed up to give away somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 hot dogs this year alone. It’s not just free hot dogs that draws the large crowds to town. There is a corn hole tournament at the…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianJuly 12, 2022The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group that began in the January 7, 1943, issue of the Rock County Star Herald. Members of this group consist of persons of age 75 and older. This article appeared in the February 18, 1943 edition of The Rock County Star Herald. To the average reader of this article, a covered wagon is a kind of wagon described in stories about the Old…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianJuly 05, 2022The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group that began in the January 7, 1943, issue of the Rock County Star Herald. Members of this group consist of persons of age 75 and older. This article is continued from last week about William Everett. Lived on Milk Five Days From there he went back to LeMars where he worked for Dr. Foster, the man who, according to Everett, imported…
By Brenda Winter, columnistJune 28, 2022As you know, when I write these columns, I usually take a humorous look at an everyday situation. I start with the premise, “The column must be about something funny.” Sometimes, what’s funny is that I wait until the very last minute to write my column and turn it in to the dear editor at Tollefson Publishing. She has an obsessive focus on something she calls “deadlines.” After waiting too long…
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