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As has been my wont over the past few summers, I’m taking some time off from pontificating to write some fiction. I asked my 8th graders to provide me first and last lines for potential stories, and it’s my job to fill in the middle. I hope you enjoy! This week’s inspiration comes from Jacob...
The second annual Ride for Heroes event started on time from the Pour House in Clarks Grove. With over 80 participants, they raised $4,000 from donations and a silent auction on Saturday, June 21, 2025. Star Eagle photo by Ben Revermann
By Ben Revermann
Staff writer
For the second year in a row, the Ride for Heroes event started and ended at the Clarks Grove Pour House on Saturday, June 21. With a free meal upon everyone’s return and silent auction, this fundraiser was for the benefit of veterans. In total they raised $4,000...
From left: Deb, Paul, Brandon, daughter Chloe, and wife Christina Wallace were helping out for the Brandon Wallace Benefit, silent auction, and raffle at the Geneva Community Center on Saturday, June 21, 2025. Star Eagle photo by Ben Revermann
The Benefit Fundraiser for Brandon Wallace was held at the Geneva Community Center on Saturday, June 21. A free lunch of spaghetti and meatballs was served with a free will donation accepted. The food for today’s event was purchased out of pocket by the Wallace family. All this was accompanied by...
Elizabeth Magyer proudly left her dad, Shaun's, high-five hanging, so she could pose for the camera at the Pour House's Bean Bag Tournament in Clarks Grove on Saturday, June 14, 2025.Star Eagle photo by Ben Revermann
A small crowd gathered the morning of June 14 outside the Pour House in Clarks Grove. Teams took part in informal bean bag competition, bounce houses were set up for children; raffles, door prizes and free popcorn were offered.
Bennett Schlaak organized the event on behalf of Farm Bureau...
From left: Josh, Jazz, C.J. and Allie Touchton were at the Geneva Cancer Run on Saturday, June 14, 2025, in support of Allie's mother, who passed away in 2016 from cancer. Star Eagle photo by Ben Revermann
By Ben Revermann
Staff writer
Beautiful weather accompanied nearly 100 riders at the fourteenth annual Geneva Cancer Run on Saturday, June 14. The emcee for the day was DeeAnn Randall and brother Jake Jensen, who started this annual ride in honor of his best friend Matt Felt, who lost his...
Denise Carlson McGowan and Sorenson's Appliance and TV employee Karter Sletten were at the Clarks Grove Historical Society's monthly meeting on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
The Clarks Grove Historical Society met on the evening of June 12. Karter Sletten, guest speaker and employee for Sorenson’s Appliance & TV, was also there to discuss Sorenson’s history. Kathy Carlsen too was present with an authentic television tube repair kit from the 1960s and 70s used by...
ONLY A NUMBER - Doris Beckmann (front) was surrounded by friends and family to celebrate her birthday. In the back, from left to right are Beckmann’s five daughters, Charlene Chevalier, Valerie Giles, Kayla Root, Eileen Borchert and Joleen Oterson.Pioneer photo by Amelia Roessler
Doris Beckmann of New Richland marked birthday number 100 on Saturday during a celebration with family and friends.
Born June 12, 1925, Beckmann grew up in Waseca County and went to school in Freeborn, graduating in 1942. Although she is now 100, Beckmann said she still feels 99.
The trick to...
SADDLE UP - Todd Edon rides into the arena for his turn to compete with his team.
Families and teams competed among neighs, snorts and shouts in the Yaunt-2 organization’s first ranch rodeo of the year on June 7 and 8.
The rodeo, which takes place on the Yaunt-2 organization’s property in the southeastern part of Waseca County, involved skills that people would genuinely...
Matt Petsinger is pictured with district manager Jennifer Balage, receiving American Family Insurance’s 2024 Impact Award.
Waseca business owner Matthew Petsinger received American Family Insurance’s Minnesota Community Impact Award during an April ceremony held in Chaska. Petsinger, 47, has operated his Matthew Petsinger Agency in Waseca since 2018.
Matthew, a 1997 graduate of NRHEG and 2001 graduate of MSU...
Jack Pogones was with Jenna Hansen at the New Richland Public Library's Storyland Crafts on Saturday, June 7, 2025.Star Eagle photo by Ben Revermann
What started out with nine children and six moms quickly turned into 25 kids, ten moms, two grandmas and an aunt or three at the New Richland Library’s Storyland Crafts event on Tuesday, June 3.
The rain was coming down pretty hard outside, a full twenty degrees cooler than the day before. It...