Columns
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianOctober 18, 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. The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on May 20, 1943. Lycurgus N. (Coge) Merkel, Beaver Creek, one of Rock county’s pioneer settlers, is this week’s Diamond Club member. Mr.…
By George Bonnema, Luverne HorticulturalistOctober 18, 2022It is Monday and the wind has been and is making short work of our beautiful fall color. That is not unusual for this part of the plains. That is why I encourage those of us who live here to take a picture or two of how amazing the fall color can be on a sunny day before it is demolished by the weather! And speaking of the weather, a couple of weeks ago I mentioned the importance of your…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistOctober 18, 2022Open day of 2022 pheasant hunting season was Oct. 15. I hosted Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in Worthington that weekend. It was quite an event. There were media outlets of all kinds in town for the event. Many of those hunted on the public lands of southwest Minnesota. Finding a good hunting spot on opening weekend is not possible. The weather is usually pretty good, and this weekend probably…
By Lori Sorenson, editorOctober 11, 2022Carson has been gone for a month. It’s been one of the hardest parts of grieving his loss — knowing that with each passing day he’s slipping farther into the past. There will be no new social media posts, no new Christmas card photos with his smiling face among our own, and no new milestones in his life to celebrate. What we have of Carson’s 21 years is the current sum of all we’ll get. But we’re…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianOctober 11, 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. The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on May 13, 1943, and is continued from last week’s issue. (Continued from last week, featuring Mrs. Sarah Scott.) She remembers how two small boys who…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistOctober 11, 2022This is the fourth installment of the do-it-yourself obedience training for your own dog. Prior columns have covered the basics of getting the sponge in the obedience bucket level of obedience outcome when training in your own dog. The steps covered in the first three articles should have taken about 4-5 weeks to get really ingrained in your dog to the point where their compliance to known…
By Mavis Fodness, reporterOctober 04, 2022Debuting this week is the inaugural “Seen Through Horses,” a national awareness and fundraising campaign sponsored through Horses for Mental Health coalition. Fifty charity partners throughout the U.S. are the recipients of funds raised this week. Rock Ranch near Hills is one of them. Rock Ranch operates an equine-assisted counseling program along with its beginner horsemanship classes. It’s not…
By Rick Peterson, general managerOctober 04, 2022In today’s Star Herald you will find my column among the Ag Mag pages. I am not usually a columnist for our many special sections, but the topic of my column in the Ag Mag is about an ag job I had on a farm outside of Brewster when I was in high school. I tried to recap that experience in the words that I used back in the day nearly 50 years ago. With harvest well underway, it’s time to really…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianOctober 04, 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. The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on May 13, 1943, and is continued from last week’s issue. The Biblical prophecy “there shall be wars and rumors of wars,” may be just another…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistOctober 04, 2022We are working our way into the third installment of a four-part series in the subject of training your own dog. We started with owner commitments and expectations and moved into how easy it is to get your dog to go for a relaxing walk with you or another member of your family. Today we start with the most basic command of “sit.” You can do “sit” first and “heel” second, but all of them need to…
By Brenda Winter, columnistSeptember 27, 2022Rock County voters have a difficult decision to make on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. Two really nice guys are running to represent Minnesota District 21A. The Republican incumbent Joe Schomacker and the Democratic-Farmer Labor challenger Pat Baustian are both really nice guys. Both live in Luverne. Both are graduates of Luverne High School. Joe has held the office of state representative since…
By Sgt. Troy Christianson, Minnesota Highway PatrolSeptember 27, 2022Question: Is it legal for farmers to load hay on a state highway? Our neighbor bales several miles of state highway ditches. To load the round bales, he drives down the highway with a pickup and bale wagon. His son is in the ditch with a tractor and loader. The son gets a bale on the loader and driving perpendicular to the road drives up the ditch and puts the bale on the bale wagon. The son with…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County HistorianSeptember 27, 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. The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on May 6, 1943. This is continued from last week’s issue of Mrs. Charles Brauer’s story. After living there six years, the Brauers moved to Missouri, in…
By George Bonnema, Luverne HorticulturalistSeptember 27, 2022We are in late September, and if you have had house plants “vacationing” outdoors for the summer, I have a few tips to help them acclimate to their indoor location. First, make sure there are not hitchhikers coming in with the plant. Insect pest populations are kept in check to a degree by outdoor weather and predator insects. That potential is eliminated indoors. Three primary pests to eliminate…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistSeptember 27, 2022In a recent edition of the Star Herald, I shared what the dog owner needs to be prepared to start a formal obedience training program. If you missed that column, try to look back and read that one first. If you can’t find it, reach out to me and I will send it to you. It sets the proper foundation for the work you will begin today to start training your own dog. The most basic of training tools…
By Jason BerghorstSeptember 20, 2022My day job is teaching world history and psychology classes to high school students. Each year in the second or third week of the school year, I teach about cultural diffusion in world history. Simply put, cultural diffusion is when one group shares its ideas, technologies and/or ways of life with another group. We study how this process happened in the earliest civilizations and how it is still…
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