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One Act Play actors gathered in the NRHEG media center for practice.
The NRHEG contest one-act play for 2024 is a comedy piece titled “Bad Auditions by Bad Actors.” In the play, NRHEG sophomore Winter Pederson is casting director for a community theater production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. She has promised to fill the cast by the end of the day, resting...
Pastor Michael Mathews has been the pastor of First Lutheran Church, Waldorf, and St. John's Lutheran Church, Danville Township, for 24 years.
The dual parish of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Danville Township, and First Lutheran Church, Waldorf, held a shared service on January 7 to say good-bye to Pastor Michael Mathews, who has served them since 1999. After the service, members of the congregations shared a pot-luck meal, during which...
Dwayne, “Whitey” Hagen speaks during the 40th annual Geneva Cancer Auction. Below, Whitey and his son, Keith, holding up a pie for auction.
As Dwayne "Whitey" Hagen was about to begin the 35th Annual Geneva Cancer Auction five years ago, he said "Everybody thinks that the cancer auction is about me. It isn't. This cancer auction is about each and every one of you who comes through the door and shares their care and concern for those...
The Wagner Family
There's a giant void in the New Richland area that in no way can be filled.
Hurricanes are, after all, extremely rare here on the prairie.
No longer will Jane Wagner be there to brighten the day of most anyone she encountered. The area's favorite basketball mom died suddenly last...
Shelly Moxon waves to the crowd during the Farm and City Days parade Saturday in 2022.
Jan. 4, 2024
After many years as a postal carrier for the New Richland post office, Shelly Moxon has retired.
Moxon’s career spanned parts of five decades, beginning as a part-time mail carrier in 1981. In 1986 she moved to full time.
After a tenuous ‘22-’23 fighting medical issues...
MANKATO, Minn. (December 11, 2023) - Minnesota State University, Mankato awarded 1,772 degrees to 1,617 students at the end of the fall 2023 semester during commencement ceremonies at 9 a.m. and noon Saturday, Dec. 9 in Taylor Center's Bresnan Arena on the Minnesota State Mankato campus.
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2015 NRHEG Graduate, Hartland author Sarah Riecke.
Jan. 4, 2024
The Letters of Lily and Moons is a new book written by S. M. Sage, better known to locals as 2015 NRHEG graduate Sarah Riecke. Riecke published her book September 12, 2023. Her family includes her mother Tami, father Dale, step-father Gordy, and sister Anna, all of whom live in...
Thanksgiving Day, 2012 in Little Falls, Minnesota, two teenage cousins break into a residence on Elm Street, and a true-life horror story unfolds. Little do they know that the retired homeowner has set a sinister trap to catch whoever was burgling his home.
More than twenty-four hours after...
NOT JUST FOR FISHERMEN - Lucas Hanna fell victim to a stray snowball as kids and adults enjoyed the warm weather on Saturday.
In the past year, the Star Eagle has covered many exciting stories worth remembering. Here is a look back at the best highlights from the year that was 2023.
January
- Larry Otto of Ellendale died unexpectedly at his home Saturday night. He was 73.
Otto was elected in July as chaplain...
NRHEG Secondary Principal Grant Berg is greeted by the school cheerleaders and the entire student body as he discovers a surprise party celebrating his recent completion of a degree earned through Concordia College of St. Paul.
NRHEG secondary principal Grant Berg received surprise congratulations from about 500 students and school staff members on the last day of school prior to the holiday break.
Berg, who was a teacher in the district for 18 years before becoming principal last spring, had completed the final...