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By Lori Sorenson, editorSeptember 22, 2020My kitchen smelled amazing Saturday. The stovetop was a happy place of simmering aromatic good stuff from the garden. Not from my garden. I don’t have a garden. But you wouldn’t know it judging by the abundance of garden produce that accumulates regularly on my countertops and in my fridge. Cucumbers and green beans in the spring. Potatoes and tomatoes midway through summer. And squash in the…
By Rick Peterson, general managerSeptember 22, 2020The combines are rolling, pumpkins are showing up on front porches, and hopefully the lights will once again light up Cardinal Field. All this points to one thing – Tuesday is the first day of autumn, my favorite season. Even the name autumn sounds better than the other seasons. Spring and summer are probably tied for second place in the favorite name game, and of course winter is dead last.…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietySeptember 22, 2020It was while these conditions prevailed that Beaver Creek became an incorporated village. In the summer of 1884 the residents petitioned Judge Severance of the district court for an order declaring the village incorporated. The court heard the petition August 27 and on September 19 issued the necessary order. Colonel Harrison White, J. M. Park and Abram Osmun were named a committee to call the…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistSeptember 22, 2020The temperatures are sure showing that the fall season is soon to be upon us. It is without a doubt my very favorite season of the year. For thousands of other hunters and outdoor enthusiasts I am sure they feel the same. I hunt almost every day of the season for some quarry. Most of those days are just the last 90 minutes before the sun sets each day. When I leave the house or office, I always…
By Jason Berghorst, reporterSeptember 15, 2020Last week I stepped back in time. I only went six months back in time, but it felt like so much farther. As we started the new school year, I turned on my classroom flat-panel display. It’s a large TV/computer screen that I use to teach every day. When I turned on the screen for the first time this school year, I was surprised what I saw. The same Internet tabs that I used on March 16, the last…- By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistSeptember 15, 2020It was almost 35 years ago that I attended my first Pheasants Forever volunteer meeting on a Thursday night in January. I was about 26 years old. I had twins at home that were about a year old. It was mainly a bunch of older white guys all talking about what they could do to increase the number of pheasants so hunting them would improve. I spent my first 15 years with that outfit in the generic…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietySeptember 15, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village continued from 9-10-20 edition of the Star Herald. Beaver Creek For a few months the youthful village was the terminus of the railroad and it at once came into prominence as one of the most lively communities in this part of the state. Being the end of the railroad, it became the distributing point for the…
By Rick Peterson, general managerSeptember 08, 2020If you are like me, the events of Sept. 11, 19 years ago, will be at the forefront of your thoughts Friday. Officially the day is now called “Patriot Day” as a national observance to honor the memory of those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It was first observed in 2002 after the proclamation by President George W. Bush. In 2009, president Barack Obama rededicated it as “Patriot Day and…
By Brenda Winter, columnistSeptember 08, 2020Seventy-some years ago our grandparents would not have thought it was possible. We were at a fundraiser for a community member who’d received a discouraging diagnosis. Standing in the shade, we reflected on who we were and from where we had come. The Norwegian shared stories his mother told of German-occupied Norway. Her childhood memories included hiding in the house listening to the footsteps…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietySeptember 08, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village continued from 9-3-20 edition of the Star Herald. Beaver Creek Hardly had the location of the site been announced in September when preparations were made by several persons to engage in business in the prospective town. Colonel Harrison White, who was destined to play such an important part in the history of the…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistSeptember 08, 2020I recently welcomed home my new puppy Ghost, a 7-week-old black Labrador puppy who is the son of my oldest dog, Tracer. Many people told me just how bad the first few weeks with a new puppy are. They are not totally off base. A new puppy that has spent the past seven weeks with his six other brothers and sisters now has to find out what being all alone is like. The reason that most puppies are…
By Mavis Fodness, reporterSeptember 01, 2020As reporters, we routinely convey stories on a wide variety of topics. This week I’ve chosen to tell a high school classmate’s story. However, this one doesn’t have a happy ending, but maybe you can help write a positive chapter in the story. Doctors told Curt Thorson on Aug. 10 that the sharp abdominal pain he has suddenly begun to experience was the Stage IV pancreatic cancer spreading through…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietySeptember 01, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village continued from 8-27-20 edition of the Star Herald. Beaver Creek On the banks of the “roaring” Beaver creek, eight and one-half miles southwest of the capital city of Rock county, is the little village of Beaver Creek, a village which has played an important part in the history of Rock county. Excepting Luverne,…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistSeptember 01, 2020When I wrote about this subject matter 15 years ago for the first time, I almost got my head ripped off. Letters to the editor were a regular occurrence. Minnesota had not had a morning dove season for many decades, and in 2014 that opportunity was made available again by the Minnesota legislature. I had watched my dad hunt these plentiful birds in South Dakota as a kid, and I made a great bird…
By Lori Sorenson, editorAugust 25, 2020My grade school report cards surfaced during a recent cleaning at my childhood home. The yellowed paper told the story of a good student, with mostly As and some Bs, but she had trouble following instructions. In the section for teacher observations, the line, “Listens well to instructions,” sometimes was noted with a minus sign rather than a satisfactory plus sign. It used to annoy me, but it…
By Sgt. Troy Christianson, Minnesota Highway PatrolAugust 25, 2020Question: I was told the fine for passing a school bus, when the red lights are activated and the stop arm is extended, had recently increased. Answer: State law requires all vehicles to stop for school buses when the bus driver activates the flashing lights and has the crossing arm fully extended. Red flashing lights on buses indicate students are either entering or exiting the bus. In 2017, the…
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