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The Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office said a man is dead following a shooting in rural Alden Wednesday evening. The sheriff’s office said it responded to the shooting at 5:12 p.m., following a “disturbance.”
Authorities say once they arrived, they found a 45-year-old man with two gunshot...
WAFFLE UP - John Morgan, owner of Dad's Belgian Waffles catering, armed with 12 waffle irons, was busy serving Alex and Monty at the New Richland All Saints Fall Festival on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025. Star Eagle photo by Ben Revermann
All Saints Catholic Church in New Richland held its annual all-you-can-eat Dad’s Belgian Waffles breakfast during its 2025 Fall Festival on Sunday, Sept. 28. God made sure to send them a light wind and plenty of sunshine for their celebration. Nancy Rudau, volunteer for the day, observed...
COLLECTION - A few of the 40-some people who attended Roberta Walker's presentation this past week chose to wear their own hats. Pictured here are (seated, from left) Wilda Smith, Roberta Walker, Jean Slattery (back row, from left) Linda Griffin, Sheila Morris, Jan Ross and Merrily Wagar. Star Eagle photos by Deb Bently
Until this past Saturday, Roberta Walker had shared her collection of more than 150 hats mostly only one at a time.
“I wear them to church on Sundays,” she explains.
Not that no one ever sees her collection. She describes display cases in the Ellendale area home where she and her...
Continuing Chapter II
Lost on the Prairie
“After dinner Mr. Sutlief wanted me to go with him and look for a suitable place to cross the river. We went to the river, and, finding no desirable crossing, concluded to cross further up, near what seemed, by the appearance of the timber, to be...
Emma Gillis of Medford Go Getters earned champion Market Beef Showperson Senior Division
Reserve Grand Champion:
Finn Loveless, Meriden Meadowlarks – Market Lamb.
Champion:
Miley Ahrens, Owatonna Victory Boosters – Goat Senior Meat Breeding Doe Kid; Callie Arndt, Pratt Commandoes – Dairy Goat Sable Dry Yearling Doe; Jeffrey Bruns, Merry Lane – Dairy Milking Shorthorn...
The members of LeSueur River Lutheran Church northeast of New Richland have been working about five years toward replacing their steeple, which was blown down by a tornado. Now that the replacement structure is built, a particularly large crane is scheduled to come soon to lift it into place.
Members of LeSueur River Lutheran, a rural church located northeast of New Richland, can still tell you when the steeple was blown off their house of worship by a tornado: 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 2, 2020.
Various circumstances have stretched the process out, but members are thrilled to know their...
CHANGES - Members of the school board voted recently to purchase the property located at 302 S. Broadway Avenue, which connects with the northeast corner of the secondary school parking lot. Part of the garage associated with the property (blue building at far left) extends about 12 feet onto land owned by the school district. It is intended that the garage will be removed sometime this fall. Star Eagle photo by Deb Bently
After five of the seven school board members voted in favor at their Sept. 15 meeting, the NRHEG school district plans to spend $70,000 to purchase property located at 302 S. Broadway in New Richland. The lot abuts against the northeast corner of the largest secondary school parking lot, and...
SHOWING HOGS - FFA members Hadley (in grey) and Presley Roeker (far right) introduced elementary students to show hogs Dorothy and Opal. Star Eagle photo by Deb Bently
“It’s important to be safe around animals,” says Makenna Reeder, who first proposed the idea of an FFA “Ag Safety” event for NRHEG elementary students. “Children could get hurt, or accidentally spread disease if they don’t understand some important things.”
Among those, she suggests, are...
During their Sept. 15 meeting, school board members were informed contract negotiations with district teachers have been completed, leading to an eight-percent “total package” increase over the two years of the contract. The term “total package” indicates the increase is spread across numerous...
Members of the New Richland City Council tabled discussion of the preliminary budget and tax levy and heard department reports during their regular city council meeting Tuesday, Sept. 2.
A resolution adopting the 2026 preliminary budget and tax levy was brought to the council, but due to...