Feb. 7 event features two local authors
After her brother died in 2013, Jennifer Radtke started journaling to get through the grief.
Jarvie's book promotes Midwest beauty in photos
Rock County Librarian Calla Jarvie will sign her books, “No Coast: Midwest Photography,” from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Take 16 Event Center in Luverne.
Work begins on final courthouse remodel phase
Demolition began last week on the final remodeling phase at the Rock County Courthouse.
Star Herald earns multiple awards at MNA conference
The Rock County Star Herald brought home nine awards from the 2026 Minnesota Newspaper Association Annual Convention, topping seven awards from last year’s event.
Mary Jane Brown-Good Sam celebrates activities professionals, Groundhog Day
Good Samaritan Society – Mary Jane Brown nursing home residents celebrated Groundhog’s Day Monday by making ‘pop-up Groundhog cupcakes with Oreos.
Luverne Music Boosters host Winter Carnival
Luverne music students, families and volunteers hosted their 44th annual Winter Carnival Saturday night in the Luverne High School gym.
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- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 12, 2016Six educators from Luverne Public Schools took advantage of a four-day workshop to further use technology as a teaching tool. Tom Lanoue, Doug Dooyema, Jan Olson and April Wallace from Luverne Middle School, as well as Elaine Harms and Tony Johnson from Luverne High School, participated in BestPrep’s Technology Integration Workshop (TIW) The professional development opportunity, courtesy of the…
- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 12, 2016Luverne’s Dallas Bowron predicted last year’s volleyball season would be his last as a spectator. Last week he cheered his great-granddaughter, Madison Crabtree, on to a home season opener win. Wednesday, Sept. 7, was his 102nd birthday and Bowron sat with a group of family and friends who predicted he would see his 103rd birthday next year. It was a statement he quickly dismissed and something…
- By Lori SorensonSeptember 12, 2016When hair stylist Deb Halverson started her career in 1975, afros were trending. “I remember my friends and I putting perm rods in our hair to get that afro look,” Halverson said, rolling her eyes. “Now smooth, sleek hair is in.” In the 40 years since graduating from Stewart’s school of cosmetology, she said keeping up with hair fashion is one of the challenges she’s enjoyed about the job. “Going…
- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 12, 2016The 82 members of the Luverne High School Marching Band packed into the gymnasium Friday morning, the third out of four mornings in the past week that rain has forced the group to practice indoors. “It’s frustrating,” said director Richard Owen of the morning rain showers. “We’ve learned some practice etiquette we don’t normally do.” While practicing the four songs from the “Phantom of the Opera…
- By Lori SorensonSeptember 12, 2016Commissioners from nine state agencies met with businesses and community leaders in 11 southern and western Minnesota towns during a three-day bus tour Sept. 7-9. Their mission was to hear firsthand how state policies are affecting outstate Minnesota — particularly with regard to water, energy and agriculture. A common theme at the Luverne stop Wednesday, Sept. 7, was that overlapping…
- By Lori SorensonSeptember 12, 2016Saturday’s wedding reception for Lexi Burmeister and Ben Aukes was the first one on the books for Mike and Wanda Jarchow’s Grand Prairie Events Center. Construction on the former Family Dollar building piqued public interest through the summer, so by Friday afternoon, wedding decorators discovered they had an audience of curious onlookers. For example, those who have booked the facility for…
- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 12, 2016Luverne School Board members met in special session Friday morning to accept the resignation of longtime teacher Jane Cote, who submitted her resignation Aug. 31. School began Sept. 6. Cote began as a teacher in Magnolia in 1981 and became part of the Luverne elementary teaching staff when the two districts merged. Cote was working with the school’s response to intervention programs when she…
- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 12, 2016Rock County Opportunities Director Beth Bartels is asking for community support to lobby against a proposed rate change by the Minnesota Department of Human Services. Bartels brought the issue to Rock County Commissioners Sept. 6 after state officials were not able to assist in lobbying to stop the change in funding. The local day training and habilitation center in Luverne, along with other…
- By Lori SorensonSeptember 12, 2016Another downtown business has been approved for Luverne’s Historic Façade Improvement Program. The program offers free technical assistance for architectural design services as well as financial assistance in the form of loans and grants. On Monday the Luverne Economic Development Authority approved an application from Mark and Annie Opitz for a facade improvement of their Quality Printing…
- By Brenda Winter, columnistSeptember 12, 2016I’ve begun attending a cancer support group. For a pre-group warm-up, the kind and soft-spoken instructor tells the room full of cancer survivors and their caregivers to “shrug our shoulders” and “reach to the left” and “reach to the right.” We all have permission slips from our oncologists allowing us to do this. Group members in various stages of cancer and remission moved from the light…
- September 12, 2016Minnesota 4-H’ers from 86 counties arrived with more than 2,800 animals for the 2016 Minnesota State Fair 4-H livestock encampment Aug. 25-28 in St. Paul. Rock County had 39 livestock exhibitors who could show one animal at the State Fair and could earn ribbons in individual classes as well as overall species champion and reserve honors. Exhibitors could also earn showmanship honors in the…
- September 06, 2016
- September 06, 2016With rain predicted in the weekend forecast, Magnolia farmer Chad Nelson was busy hauling silage to the concrete bunker on his farmyard. “This (today) seems like a pretty ideal time for us,” Nelson said. Nelson hopes by late Saturday night that he, his brother Corey, dad Jim and chopper operator Jeff Ahrendt will have the 90-acres of corn chopped, packed and sealed under plastic. For Nelson’s…
- By Lori SorensonSeptember 06, 2016There will be no shortage of things to do in the coming days with several events and activities slated in Luverne and Rock County. The Take 16 Block Party will be Thursday night, Sept. 8, with live music, local food, free games and beer in the Take 16 Brewery parking lot on East Main Street in Luverne. The annual Cardinal Gold’n Bowl will be Friday night, Sept. 9, at Cardinal Field during the…
- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 06, 2016Jason Waltman from G & D Viking Glass, Sioux Falls, stands in the window opening as Nate Carlson puts the new window frame into place Aug. 29 at the former power plant on East Main Street in Luverne. The city of Luverne is investing $200,000 this year and next to tuck-point and install new windows. The building houses the city’s electrical department equipment and a generator to be used by…
- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 06, 2016According to former Rock County resident Carol Poppenga, everyone should do three things during their lifetime: follow their dreams, learn something new each day and forget about the housework. The last piece of advice garnered laughter during last week’s phone interview from Poppenga’s summer home in Lennox, South Dakota. One of her own dreams was realized recently when she became a published…
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