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Attending the annual Minnesota Society of Professional Journalist Page One Awards ceremony, from left Tracie Rosacker, Eli Lutgens, Deb Bently, and Jim Lutgens.
Star Eagle Publisher Eli Lutgens was named Minnesota’s Young Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists during the Minnesota Chapter’s 2024 Page One Awards ceremony held June 18, 2024 at the Lowlands in St. Paul. More than 500 entries were received from media outlets of...
The family of Samuel Houle, an NRHEG senior who died by suicide March 21 of this year, spoke forcefully during the June 17 school board meeting asking for “a total and complete overhaul” of the secondary school’s leadership.
Samuel’s parents, Glenn and LeAnn Houle, and maternal grandparents...
A group of cattle wade in and drink from a pool of standing water on a patch of land that is normally grassy pasture.
According to records kept at the University of Minnesota Southern Research and Outreach Center (SROC), this past May was the third wettest since record-keeping began in the county.
May of 2024 delivered 7.5 inches of rain; in 1991 the area received 7.76 inches. The all-time record-setter...
New Richland residents Kelly Delacruz and Robert Shaw made the choice to become foster parents last fall.
Last fall, New Richland residents Kelly Delacruz and her partner Robert Shaw recognized a gap they were willing to help fill.
“There’s a desperate shortage of foster homes,” Delacruz comments. “And we knew about someone who needed some help.”
After checking with the four children of...
The New Richland Area Foundation invites the public to join them in honoring the United States Flag during Flag Day, Independence Day, and every day.
Flags can be purchased for $1, or any amount a person wishes to donate. You can then write your name, and/or a comment on the flag and it...
NRHEG Panther Press Overview of the 2023-2024 SchoolYear:
Clara Buendorf: One of my favorite things from this past year was getting to learn Spanish. I love learning a different language. Another favorite thing from this school year is I got to go to Maui, Hawaii. It was such a fun trip!...
Christopherson
Waseca County Commissioner Doug Christopherson is in his third and final year as chair of the six-member joint powers board which oversees the Minnesota Prairie County Health Alliance (MNPrairie). The alliance is the result of a cooperative venture among Waseca, Steele and Dodge counties to...
Bikers prepare to ride.
Beautiful weather accompanied nearly 100 riders at the thirteenth annual Geneva Cancer Run Saturday, June 8.
The ride began around 11 a.m. at the Geneva Bar and Grill. Riders left east on Highway 35 on their way to Kensett, Iowa. Awaiting them was a pulled pork lunch in the city park...
NRHEG’s longtime secondary school secretary, Teri Kormann.
Teri Kormann’s last day as “the place to start” at NRHEG Secondary School was Wednesday, June 5. Since 2012, Kormann has been the face at the office service window where people would come with questions, drop off forms, or simply stop by in search of a sympathetic ear.
“If they didn’t know...
St. Olaf Lake
Have you ever observed what appeared to be pink lemonade colored water under the ice in your local lake? Have you observed a brown/pink layer of 'scum' on the surface of a lake? This may indicate a harmful bloom of Cyanobacterium Planktothrix rubescens. A couple reports of this have been...