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Mavis Fodness
March 27, 2024

Last week’s Farm Week at the Library culminated Friday with Story Time with Bronwyn Wenzel and special animal guests.

Library patrons met Franklin (a donkey), Darla (a lamb) and Opal and Olive (chickens) Friday…

By
Lori Sorenson
March 27, 2024

threw pies at high school students Friday morning in Beaver Creek after winning a “penny wars” fundraiser $459.68 to $314.47.

The penny challenge followed H-BC High School’s suicide awareness campaign observing…

March 27, 2024

Baking batches of cookies means a cookie exchange is imminent as sung by Luverne Elementary second-graders Friday afternoon in a production of “Cookies! The Musical!” in the performing arts center. Eighty students took to the stage under the…

By
Mavis Fodness
March 27, 2024

Years of persistence paid off for Rock County Rural Water (RCRW) when the local system’s project made the federal congressional directed spending list for Minnesota.

RCRW…

By
Mavis Fodness
March 27, 2024

New feedlot construction and expansions in Rock County slowed to just a handful per year over the past few years.

However, county officials remain optimistic that growth will…

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Lori Sorenson, editor

Friday started cold and gray, but inside the elementary school gymnasium in Beaver Creek, the atmosphere was bright and festive.

It was Pie Day (not the math day for pi), the day Hills-Beaver Creek Elementary…

March 27, 2024
By
RIck Peterson, general manager

Last month, February had an extra day, yet it always is the shortest month every year. March has its regular complement of 31 days as always, but for some reason it seems to have gone on forever.

One thought as…

March 27, 2024
By
Mavis Fodness, reporter

Next week the Star Herald will publish its annual Home, Lawn and Garden special section.

For this year’s feature in that edition, I interviewed Madison Ziegler who recently…

March 20, 2024
By
Greg Hoogeveen, sports editor

Have you ever heard the saying, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks?”

Well, try reteaching an old(er) dog, (young)er tricks.

After years and years of not playing golf, I (the older dog), have joined the Luverne Country Club and taken up golf (the younger trick) again.

March 20, 2024

Obituaries

March 27, 2024

David Leon Feauto, age 76, of Shellsburg, Iowa, passed away peacefully at his home on March 17, 2024.

Dave was born in McNary, Arizona, on July 31, 1947. He was the eldest of…

March 27, 2024

Joyce Ellen McClure, age 66, died peacefully at Ava’s Hospice House in Sioux Falls on Friday, March 15, 2024.  

March 27, 2024

Merideth (Meri) Joy Thomas, 51, passed away peacefully in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Saturday, March 23, 2024, with her brothers Tom and Dan by her side.

A visitation will be on Tuesday, April 2, from 9:30-10:…

March 27, 2024

Joan Boeve, age 93, of Hills, Minnesota, passed away on Friday, March 22, 2024, at the Tuff Memorial Home in Hills, Minnesota.

Visitation will be held on Thursday, March 28,…

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