The Rock County Star Herald brought home seven awards from the Minnesota Newspaper Association Annual Convention last week.

ISD #2184 School Board

meets Dec. 19

MINUTES OF THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING OF

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2184,

ROCK COUNTY, LUVERNE, MINNESOTA

Luverne volunteer firefighters were called to a grass fire Monday afternoon, the third in the past eight days.

Twelve local businesses are serving up specialty drinks for February’s “Rock County Battle of the Beverages,” a new Chamber initiative similar to recent Burger Battles.

The American Reformed Church will host classes for Equipt, a K-5 income-based tuition Christian school starting in Luverne.

Rock Veterinary Clinic has another veterinarian on staff after Dr. Jaden Austin recently started in the Luverne clinic.

Next week is Valentine’s Day, and Friday, Feb. 7, is the deadline to sign up for a giant frosted heart cookie for the lovers and loved ones in our lives.

The key to successful New Year’s resolutions is to make them so vague that success is ensured no matter the effort.

Which is why, after six weeks, I’m keeping all of my New Year’s resolutions for 2025.

I never considered myself much of a hat guy. That was until I was searching for a column idea, and as I looked around in my garage, I counted 13 hats and four more in the house … 17 hats in all, so that might make me a hat guy.