time capsule

  • Hundreds of spectators gathered Saturday morning around the trailer holding the cornerstone and time capsule discovered in April at the former Hills High School. H-BC School Board Chairman Arlyn Gehrke opened the time capsule using three different tin snips. Mavis Fodness/Rock County Star Herald Photo
    Hills 1921 time capsule contents revealed Saturday
    By Mavis Fodness
    June 18, 2025
    Various handwritten documents and a half dozen newspapers were among the items extracted from the 1921 Hills High School time capsule Saturday morning. H-BC School Board Chairman Arlyn Gehrke spent five minutes and used three different tin snips to open the 4-by-6-inch metal box. Hundreds of people gathered on Main Street Hills after Saturday’s Friendship Days parade. The Hills-Beaver Creek…
  • Hills’ first fire truck.
    Hills to celebrate Friendship Days this weekend
    By Mavis Fodness
    June 11, 2025
    Traditionally fire trucks lead parades, but in the case of Friendship Days in Hills, firemen are the 2025 parade marshals. “We chose the Hills Fire Department because it’s a big anniversary of 120 years in Rock County,” said Joey Streeter. Streeter is president of HBCS (Helping Build Community Stronger), the volunteer community organizers of Friendship Days. The Hills Area Fire Department has…
  • Brad McColley with the Litchfield-based demolition company DRC places his hand where he excavated a time capsule inside an unknown cornerstone from the former Hills High School on April 15. The time capsule, a sealed 4-by-6-inch metal box will be open by school district officials at a later date. Mavis Fodness/Rock County Star Herald Photo
    Century-old time capsule found in Hills demolition
    By Mavis Fodness
    April 23, 2025
    A time capsule was discovered April 15 during the last stages of the former Hills High School demolition. Brad McColley with DRC of Litchfield was operating the excavator and had a partial wall left to remove in the southeast corner of the 32,808-square-foot building. He was cautious since the wall abutted the current Hugo Goehle gymnasium, which is undergoing renovations and is not part of the…
  • Britton Stratton (left) and Beth Capistran pose with the materials placed in the time capsule when the current Luverne Elementary School opened in November 1998. Stratton was a kindergartner 25 years ago and Capistran has been a music teacher until her retirement this year. Most of the materials sealed in a plastic tub and placed in the stone bench were ruined by moisture. Submitted Photo
    Time capsule fails to preserve 25-year-old Luverne Elementary materials
    By Mavis Fodness
    June 05, 2024
    Instructions written 25 years ago by the Luverne Elementary School Time Capsule Committee were simple. “It is our wish from the Time Capsule Committee that this time capsule will help explain what life was like in the year 1998. “We hope it is a goal of the Luverne School District to include meaningful things depicting the life in 2024 added to the time capsule, and every 25 years thereafter…
  • Return to classroom opens video time capsule
    By Jason Berghorst, reporter
    September 15, 2020
    Last 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…
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