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By Mavis Fodness, reporterSeptember 28, 2021Friday night I pinned a large, light blue-colored ribbon on my home office bulletin board. I had won the ribbon hours earlier at the WSCA Championship Show at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds for horsemanship, placing 10th. Receiving the ribbon marked the end to what I dubbed the “Big Adventure” I embarked in earnest back in January. The ribbon brings forth a lot of emotions and a lot of people I…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietySeptember 28, 2021The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on Feb. 9, 1923. Public Health Nurse For Luverne Schools Board of Education Votes to Add Trained Nurse to Regular Staff of Luverne Public Schools Action Hastened by Big Epidemic of Bad Colds Mrs. Clara Herm Engaged to Fill Position and Will Enter Upon Duties Early Next Week In order to further safeguard the health and physical welfare of…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistSeptember 28, 2021The public lands in Minnesota are the heart and jewel of the Minnesota way of life. Many people move to Minnesota to immerse themselves in this way of life. Others wouldn’t consider living anywhere else because of it. Minnesota has great hunting, fishing, bird watching, canoeing and a lengthy list of other outdoor pursuits. At the heart of this lifestyle is our public lands. I call them citizen-…- By Pastor Andrew Palmquist, Bethany Lutheran Church, LuverneSeptember 28, 2021For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. (2 Corinth. 4:6) When the author and poet, Robert Louis Stevenson, was 12 years old, he found himself one evening looking out into the dark from his upstairs window, watching a man light the streetlamps. When his governess…
By Brenda Winter, columnistSeptember 20, 2021Our homeschool, 1994-2012, was not without its shortcomings. We had a school shooting the day a rabid raccoon climbed a tree outside our son’s bedroom during math class. Blam. We had a stabbing the day one student became so blazing furious with her brother that she plunged the tip of her pencil into his arm. Strife among the staff (Mom), the administration (Dad), and the student body (the…
By Rick Peterson, Star Herald general managerSeptember 20, 2021You may or may not be aware that Page One in Slayton is where we print the Rock County Star Herald and Luverne Announcer. We send our pages online to the Slayton printing plant, and a driver delivers our papers to the post office for mail distribution and to our office for news stand distribution. Last week a fire broke out in the warehouse area of Page One, where many of the advertising inserts…- By Scott RallSeptember 20, 2021I have been so looking forward to this week. For about the last 10 years I have wanted to head west to hunt a very unusual bird called a sage grouse. These are big birds that live in the sage brush country of Wyoming, Montana and other places west. The season is only three days long, and bag limits are very low. Like many other open lands species, the sage grouse has been having a hard time…
By Lori Sorenson, editorSeptember 14, 2021Don’t tell anyone, but I miss our old sports guy. By old, I mean he was the only one left there who’d been there longer than I had. I’ve been at the paper for 28 years if that tells you how old he is. I used to tell people we were like an old married couple. Our desks were next to each other with a short divider wall between us. He could hear me munching on snacks, and I could smell cigarettes…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietySeptember 14, 2021The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on Aug. 12, 1892. Everything Booming This is The Condition of Things Generally In Luverne And The County at Large The present year will go into history, if present indications may be trusted, as the most prosperous ever known in the county. The fame of this county as the richest agricultural country in the west, has steadily been reaching…- By Pastor Walt Moser, First Baptist Church, LuverneSeptember 14, 2021Thankful thoughts and godly thoughts will change your day. “Oh give thanks to the LORD; call upon His name; make know his deeds among the peoples.” 1 Chronicles 16:8 “Complaining not only ruins everybody else’s day, it ruins the complainer’s day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.” (Dennis Prager) The focus of our thoughts will affect our day and those around us. When you slip…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistSeptember 14, 2021Most hunters pay little attention to protecting their hearing from the loud blast of a shotgun. Rifle hunters, on the other hand, almost always wear substantial hearing protection. Some will even spend north of $1,200 to adapt their rifle to a suppressor, which is quiet enough not to require hearing protection. It the past I never wore hearing protection while hunting. I did not shoot enough…
By Mavis Fodness, reporterSeptember 07, 2021Poultry roaming around our farm is a common sight. Over the years there have been ducks, geese, chickens and guineas. Of all the poultry, guineas by far exhibit the strangest behavior. They scamper silently from location to location. Frequently they come up behind you in the yard or in the barn and utter a noise that I can only describe as a well pump in need of oil. If you’re not prepared, the…
By Rick Peterson, general managerSeptember 07, 2021I would imagine every one of us remembers exactly where we were when we first heard the news of the attacks on the World Trade Center building. I was walking down Second Street in Redwood Falls on my way to the Redwood Gazette office. It was about 9:30 in the morning, and from across the street Jay Eykyn yelled over, “Hey, Rick, did you hear about the plane that flew into the World Trade Center…
By George Bonnema, Luverne HorticulturalistSeptember 07, 2021This summer has been one of the more frustrating summers for gardeners in recent years. Persistent drought, heat, and pests have presented challenges than were not encouraging. I am grateful for the abundant rain we have been blessed with in the past week because going into winter with limited top and sub soil moisture can be a critical factor for survival of many of our trees, shrubs, and…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietySeptember 07, 2021The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on May 20, 1932. Raccoons are Latest Addition to Park Zoo Alderman Peschon Secures Pair from Arnold Schoon to be Exhibited with Deer and Bear at Park An important addition to the zoo annex at Luverne’s public park was made the first of the week by Park Commissioner Frank Peschon, when he secured a pair of raccoons, which are now on exhibit…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistSeptember 07, 2021Minnesota’s pheasant opener this year is Oct. 16, a week later than the normal opening weekend, cutting the season short by seven days. I have attended the Minnesota Governor’s Pheasant Hunting Opener for the past 10 years or so, but the jury is still out as to whether this is actually going to happen in 2021, so I made other plans. My Pheasants Forever chapter and I are now hosting a ladies-only…
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