Meetings 

Parkinson’s Disease Support Group will meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 21, at Poplar Creek Estates, 201 Oak Drive, Luverne. All who want to learn about Parkinson’s Disease can attend. Call 507-935-8173. 

I attended an important meeting while I was at the 2026 National Pheasant Fest and Quail Classic a few weeks back in Minneapolis.  There was a lot going on in the Minnesota metro area over the past few months, but it did not seem to interfere with the attendance greatly. The Minneapolis location

The Star Herald has received a number of suggestions for “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” mentions in recent weeks. They include: 

It’s nearly April! Spring is officially here. We’re all going to pretend there’s no possibility of any surprise snowstorms. 

I was on Day 4 of Gramma duty. 

I had just finished logging my Kentucky granddaughters into their online Zoom class. 

With swiftness and confidence, I signed them in, adjusted their cameras and renamed them in their participant profiles. 

The weather and basketball have dominated conversations at the office, at coffee and just about everywhere else. This column is about a little bit of both. 

The past week to 10 days has been one for the record book as far as the weather is concerned. 

The Rock County Sheriff’s Office issued the following information Tuesday afternoon regarding its involvement in the investigation of the case of the Sioux Falls 14-year-old McKenna Wendel: 

Local emergency responders were dispatched to a personal injury crash Tuesday morning on Highway 75 in the area of the Luverne Public Schools. 

Dispatch report 

March 11 

•Complainant on S. Kniss Avenue reported an outage. 

•Complainant reported an accident with property damage on Highway 23 and 111th Intersection near Beaver Creek.