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- November 25, 201910 years ago (2009) •Starting Dec. 1, Luverne residents can bring their old light bulbs to Luverne City Hall and exchange them for new battery-efficient bulbs. The light bulb exchange is part of the city’s goal to reduce residential energy consumption through the state’s Conservation Incentive Program. Switching to compact fluorescent light (CFL) saves energy and money. According to Luverne…
- November 19, 201910 years ago (2009) •Yields are good, but test weights are down. That’s the report so far on the 2009 corn harvest, at least from one part of the county. According to Brad Berkhof, western area manager for New Vision Coop, Hills, the local corn harvest was about 35 percent complete as of Monday. In a normal year Rock County’s harvest season is wrapping up by now. “The corn didn’t mature in the…
- November 12, 201910 years ago (2009) •The man found guilty last summer of murdering Luverne’s Carrie Nelson is appealing his conviction. Randy Swaney, now 38, is serving a life sentence in prison for the May 20, 2001, murder of 20-year-old Nelson in the Blue Mounds State Park. In August last year, a jury found Swaney guilty of all seven murder charges, and he was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of…
- November 05, 201910 years ago (2009) •The H1N1 flu virus continues to make its rounds through local families, and the numbers of affected victims are reflected in student attendance records. In Luverne Public Schools, absenteeism due to illness has remained high over the past couple of weeks. “Last week was really awful,” said school nurse Deb Vander Kooi. All last week we were over 110 (absent) in K-12.” She…
- October 29, 201910 years ago (2009) •Heartland Express drivers, administration and buses moved into their new building near the Highway Department Monday. The 5,300-square-foot building includes about 1,700 square feet of office space, and the remainder is garage space. Heartland Express has four buses, but the new building has room for eight. This would accommodate growth and plans for an indoor wash bay, if…
- October 22, 201910 years ago (2009) •Eastern Farmers Cooperative is moving dirt and pouring cement for a new 10,000-ton dry fertilizer storage facility west of Magnolia. Eastern Farmers purchased 15 acres of land from John Bowron and his sister, Judy Bowron, for the purpose of consolidating its agronomy operations on the site. Plans are to centralize crop nutrient, crop protection products and seed business that…
- October 15, 201910 years ago (2009) •There was a lot more than frost on the pumpkins over the weekend and into Monday. With winter weather Friday night into Saturday, and Sunday night into Monday, several inches of snow had accumulated on lawns, trees, shrubs, patio decks and, yes, on the pumpkins. After an unseasonably warm September, area residents wondered if they’d slept right through fall after Friday night…
- October 08, 201910 years ago (2009) •The Rock County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a trio of break-ins that occurred last week in Luverne churches. According to Sheriff Even Verbrugge, break-ins were reported on Thursday, Oct. 1, by the American Reformed Church and Grace Lutheran Church. … On Friday, Oct. 2, First Baptist Church on Jackson Street in Luverne reported a similar break-in. At Grace Lutheran…
- October 01, 201910 years ago (2009) •The Rock County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a string of mailbox vandalisms in the Kenneth, Luverne and Magnolia areas. Damage reports came in from Wednesday, Sept. 16, to Friday, Sept. 18, and during those three days, 16 mailboxes were vandalized. On Wednesday, Sept. 16, seven mailboxes were vandalized: four in Luverne, two in Magnolia and one in Kenneth. Thursday,…
- September 24, 201910 years ago (2009) •First- and second-graders at Luverne Elementary have unearthed a stone in the playground that has even the grownups scratching their heads. Elementary boys were playing with trucks and tractors in the dirt along the fence line where the playground slopes downhill to the west. At first, the top of the stone surfaced, and the students noticed it was carved like a book with a…
- September 10, 201910 years ago (2009) •The weekly Star Herald now has a daily online presence, thanks to its improved Web site launched this week. With a smoother format for uploading stories and photographs, Star Herald news and sports reporters are posting information to the Web site as they cover events. … With the old Star Herald Web site, news was uploaded weekly, and there were fewer options for photos or…
- September 03, 201910 years ago (2009) •Dozens of firefighters from five area departments responded to a barn fire Saturday morning near Hardwick. According to Hardwick Fire Chief Dan Kindt, a tin pole barn at the Barry Kracht farm was fully engulfed in flames when he and his crew arrived. ... Kindt said the pole barn was completely destroyed, along with two sick calves being treated and housed in the structure.…
- August 20, 201910 years ago (2009) •Lieutenant Com-mander James Bond has a life story that’s interesting on many levels. Not only does his name match the famous Holly-wood character, he himself is an intelligence officer for a U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wing. What separates him from the big screen character, though, is that Bond completes real-life Naval missions. … Most recently, he served nine months in…
- August 13, 201910 years ago (2009) •A remarkable $4.5 million was disbursed among 12 local nonprofit groups this week, thanks to the generosity of the late Harvey Allison Ordung. Several beneficiaries gathered in the commons of Luverne Public Schools Wednesday for a gifting ceremony. By the time it was over, more than $4,566,000 was awarded to 12 different charities, fulfilling Ordung’s final wish. Ordung, a…
- August 06, 201910 years ago (2009) •The Luverne Community and the Blue Mounds State Park will be promoted in Minnesota during the upcoming airing of the new Ken Burns documentary, “The National Parks, America’s Next Idea.” The six-part series, which starts in airing on public television nation-wide in September, will highlight the politics and construction of the national parks system in America. 25 years ago…
- July 30, 201910 years ago (2009) •An estimated 500 people attended the Rock County Talent Show Thursday night in the grandstand of the fairgrounds. The following are the top finishers in each division from the Rock County Fair Talent Show. … Pre-teen division–1st place: Madilyn Oye (“See You Again”); 2nd place: Spotlight Dance (Let’s Get Crazy); 3rd place: Spotlight Dance (Bad Case of Loving You). Teen…
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