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- By Rick Peterson, general managerMay 21, 2019When you start to age, that’s different from getting older — at least I differentiate between the two. Getting older has more plusses than minuses. On the plus side, as you get older, you get your driver’s license. A few years older you can vote. Tack on a couple more years after you’re old enough to vote and you can enjoy an adult beverage, and so on. With aging, the minuses outnumber the…
By Rick Peterson, general managerMay 07, 2019If you have wondered about the purpose and cost of that cable that Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has installed between the east- and westbound lanes on Interstate 90 from the South Dakota border to Worthington, you’re not alone. The Star Herald reported on the project prior to the start of cable installation, and we even did stories as the work progressed. The project was…
By Rick Peterson, general managerApril 22, 2019I hope everyone had a nice Easter this past weekend. The weather was spectacular for a change so we were able to enjoy a variety of outdoor activities. The Petersons actually hosted two Easter family gatherings, one on Saturday and the other on Sunday. Why two gatherings, you ask? Family work schedules dictated the weekend get-together. As mentioned earlier, the weather allowed us the opportunity…
By Rick Peterson, general managerApril 09, 2019After one of our weekly Monday morning advertising meetings, the ever-popular bag phone, for whatever reason, was the topic of our post-meeting conversation. I was a proud bag phone user and would still be today if it was up to me. If memory serves me, it was a Motorola. I did check on eBay and found one just like the one I had for $14.99 plus $11.99 for shipping. Anyway, this brings me to the…
By Rick Peterson, general managerMarch 26, 2019It would seem the month of March, or at least this third week of March, is birthday week for the Peterson family. First, our son Nate turned 40 last week Tuesday followed by Mary celebrating her birthday on Saturday, the 23rd. Then our youngest grandson, Owen, lights eight candles on his cake later this week. As a family we have hit a few of those milestone birthdays this year. Ellie, the…
By Rick Peterson, general managerMarch 12, 2019In my last column I mentioned a guy leaving Bomgaars with a new shovel he had just purchased, and the thought had occurred to me that it was a little late in the season for a new shovel. Boy, was I wrong! It seems I find myself in the market for a new shovel even this late in the snow-shoveling season. Not unlike you, I too have done more shoveling of the white stuff than I have in the past year…
By Rick Peterson, general managerJanuary 15, 2019I am sure many of you experienced date confusion over the recent holidays. By that I mean it was difficult at best during the weeks of Christmas and New Year to keep track of what day of the week it was. It seemed for two weeks in a row we had two Mondays each week, and to kind of balance that out, it also seemed like it was Friday twice a week. You probably found yourself asking others what day…
By Rick Peterson, General ManagerJuly 31, 2018Tuesday of last week I got to take my granddaughter Brooke to day care. I was called into day care delivery duty because Brooke’s mom and dad were taking Brooke’s sister Ellie to the hospital early in the morning to have tubes put in her ears. Side note here: We had tubes put in our kids’ ears over 35 years ago, and back then they made us and the kids suffer through a number of ear infections —…
By Rick Peterson, General ManagerJuly 17, 2018Another great Hot Dog Night has come and gone. You’re probably thinking summer has hit the midway point and you’re wondering, “Where did the summer go?” But then you realize there’s a lot more to come before we close the book on the summer of 2018. The Rock County Fair gets underway next week. There is a full slate of activities starting with 4-H exhibit judging Monday afternoon. Wednesday also…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing General ManagerOctober 09, 2017October is here and as far as I’m concerned, it’s the best time of the year. If you want, you can get a football fix five nights a week at some level. Harvest is underway, cooler days and nights are the norm, and best of all, pheasant season opens this Saturday. With the good, there is always a little bad, and that is where shorter daylight hours, Asian beetles and flies come in. With the…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing General ManagerSeptember 26, 2017If you haven’t bought your ticket to The Rock County Pheasants Forever banquet, time is running out. The 33rd annual banquet is next Thursday night, Oct. 5, at Grand Prairie Events. Note the new location. For years the annual banquet flip-flopped back and forth between Sharkee’s and the Blue Mound Banquet Center. Both Dave Halverson and Glen Gust were longtime supporters of Pheasants Forever and…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing General ManagerSeptember 12, 2017It’s been a productive summer around here. By that I mean it’s been a productive few months in the baby department here at the office as well as in my family. Abbe, our production manager here at the office, had her second son at the end of July. My daughter Jenna had daughter No. 2 on Aug. 10. Our circulation manager, Jenn, had her second child, a daughter, on Aug. 22. Abbe had her first child a…- By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing General ManagerAugust 15, 2017As you can tell, we have a drastically different front page this week for Minnesota Newspaper Week and the Minnesota Newspaper Association’s 150th anniversary. The whole idea behind the mostly blank front page is to offer a sense of what it would be like without a local newspaper. I suspect a few readers will pick up the paper and look at the blank front page and think we had screwed up in some…
By Rick Peterson, Star Herald General ManagerNovember 07, 2016A couple of weeks ago a few of my hunting buddies and I spent a few days out in Winner, South Dakota, hunting pheasants. I’ve been making my way to Winner at least once a year for the past 20 years. Over the years a number of things have changed. We have always hunted the same land and have experienced the good years and the not-so-good years as far as bird count goes. The last dozen or so years…
By Rick Peterson, Star Herald General ManagerOctober 11, 2016Just a second while I strap on my spurs because I am about to get on my high horse. A year ago on this page I wrote about the rising cost of health care because of the Affordable Healthcare Act, otherwise know as Obamacare. Well, affordable health care is anything but affordable. Premiums are skyrocketing beyond belief and at the same time deductibles are reaching five figures in an effort to…
By Rick Peterson, Star Herald General ManagerSeptember 26, 2016My last column was about buying a new alarm clock. This one is going to be about time. More precisely, the following is more about the word “time” than how to tell time. I figured there is no better time to write about time than now, so I suppose you could say it’s about time. We have part time, full time and vacation time. Some people consider vacation time as party time or just leisure time. If…
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