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By Rick Peterson, general managerJuly 26, 2022It’s the last weekend of July, and after Sunday you might possibly have heard a citywide collective sigh of relief. We started the month with the Fourth of July celebration at The Lake complete with fireworks lighting up the sky to bring the day to a close. Next was the Terry “Butch” Connell memorial ride July 9. Hundreds of folks in cars, motorcycles, UTVs and even a bus participated in the…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianJuly 26, 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. This article appeared in the March 25, 1943, edition of The Rock County Star Herald. When Edward Byrne, Luverne, came west from Iowa to settle, South Dakota was still a part of Dakota…
By George Bonnema, Luverne HorticulturalistJuly 26, 2022Well, this has not been my favorite year gardening! It seems like every pattern of weather was messed up, and the consequences were and are enough to make me wonder why I work so hard to “make it work.” Of course, my expectations belong to me, and what you see is what you see, not the picture in my mind of what I carefully envisioned and planned. I’m reminded of that so often when I’m working in…
By Brenda Winter, columnistJuly 19, 2022I’ve seen flooding on TV and pitied the poor people who had to clean up after it, but I’ve never personally had to clean up after a flood. That changed July 5 when 6 inches of rain falling in less than an hour washed the gravel, garbage and grime off Cedar Street into the basement window of a small apartment building that my husband, Jim, and I own. We were made aware of the situation when one…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistJuly 19, 2022I moved to Worthington at the age of 13 and after my folks bought me a new bike, I was the traveling fisherman and hunter. I would ride my bike to the local lake in my town almost every day. When I reached the age of 14, which is when you can hunt without an adult, I would ride my bike about six miles out to the Lake Ocheda Waterfowl refuge and try to shoot a Canada goose. I would often ride home…
By Jason Berghorst, reporterJuly 12, 2022Twenty-five years ago last month I graduated from Luverne High School. It will be five years ago next month that I returned to Luverne High School as a social studies teacher. Needless to say, it was fun and interesting to return to my alma mater 20 years later in a new role. So many things had changed obviously. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, so much had stayed the same. Sometimes exactly the…
By Rick Peterson, general managerJuly 12, 2022It’s a big weekend for Luverne starting on Thursday with the 60th annual Hot Dog Night. It’s estimated that well over a half million hot dogs have been served up over those years. Nearly 60 businesses have signed up to give away somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 hot dogs this year alone. It’s not just free hot dogs that draws the large crowds to town. There is a corn hole tournament at the…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianJuly 12, 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. This article appeared in the February 18, 1943 edition of The Rock County Star Herald. To the average reader of this article, a covered wagon is a kind of wagon described in stories about the Old…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianJuly 05, 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. This article is continued from last week about William Everett. Lived on Milk Five Days From there he went back to LeMars where he worked for Dr. Foster, the man who, according to Everett, imported…
By Brenda Winter, columnistJune 28, 2022As you know, when I write these columns, I usually take a humorous look at an everyday situation. I start with the premise, “The column must be about something funny.” Sometimes, what’s funny is that I wait until the very last minute to write my column and turn it in to the dear editor at Tollefson Publishing. She has an obsessive focus on something she calls “deadlines.” After waiting too long…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianJune 28, 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. This article is continued from last week about William Everett. Survives “La Grippe” Siege It was in about 1878 when there was a siege of “la grippe,” then a very rare disease. He recalls that he was…
By George Bonnema, Luverne HorticulturalistJune 28, 2022The battle with the bugs continues. … I am seeing damage on the lower leaves of purple dome asters. The leaves are getting a speckled yellow color, and if you look on the underside of the leaf, you will notice very small gray-colored spots that look like little bits of ash dust. Those are the critters causing the damage. The bug is called a psyllid, and they suck the sap out of the leaf, causing…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistJune 28, 2022How much are Minnesota’s natural resources worth to you? To me they are priceless, but when it comes to those who steal or abuse those resources, the laws in Minnesota must not think so. I have followed many different prosecutions regarding gross violations of Minnesota’s game and fish laws, and in every case I’ve researched, the penalties for violators are not even high enough to be a measurable…
By Lori Sorenson, editorJune 21, 2022Seven longtime teachers are retiring from the Luverne School District this year, and it brought to mind a column I wrote several years ago about school teachers. As a child, I idolized my teachers, so it’s not surprising that I spent many long afternoons playing school with my sisters in the stairwell of our home near Kenneth. My older sister, Lisa, and I would line up our younger three sisters,…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistJune 21, 2022I often wonder what life would be like without a dog or dogs in it. I have written many times about my four Labradors and how much they mean to me and my outdoor way of life. Tracer is going on 11, Sarge is almost 9, Raider is pushing past 6 and my little guy, Ghost, was 2 in March. When you hunt as much as I do, it is more work than one dog can handle, especially if the temperatures are high and…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianJune 21, 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. March 11, 1943 “Can’t agree with you that Luverne’s as good a place as any,” declared William Everett, when someone commented that this part of Minnesota was a pretty fine spot for a home. “I’ll take…
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