Contributed by Rita Larson, secretary of Starbuck Chamber of Commerce   Our November meeting attendance included 6 board members and 3 visitors. Please note that we are old dogs, but we can learn new tricks.  We sent all business reports plus the evening’s agenda out to the board’s directors before our meeting, asking that any questions be… Read More

Two-and-a-half weeks remain in the Red Kettle Campaign. The red kettle campaign is scheduled to run through December 23. “The pandemic has come and gone for the most part, but now high prices and higher unemployment means that more people are relying on The Salvation Army for help,” said Lt. Colonel Randall Polsley, Salvation Army Northern… Read More

Christmas weather yet to arrive From the Pope County Tribune, Thursday, December 13, 1923. The Flaten Beauty shop, personally managed and operated by Gertrude Genevive Schreder, graduate, DeGuile School of Cosmetology, Minneapolis, offers the residents and vacationists of Glenwood and vicinity a complete beauty shop service, specializing in marcel and water waving, shampooing, scalp treatment, hair… Read More

State’s minimum wage to increase in the New Year Dec. 19, 1963 – Area residents were getting used to the acrobatic stunts necessary to drive cars on the county’s roads when the second half of winter’s onslaught, a plummeting thermometer, hit. Temperatures dropped to 14 and 16 degrees below zero. The highest temperature recorded in a… Read More

100 YEARS AGO From Dec. 14, 1923 A three day poultry and crop show was held at Starbuck this last week and was very well attended. That 10¢ admission charge brought in $52.40, more than four times as much as was taken in at Glenwood at their poultry shows. A total of 259 birds were displayed, including… Read More

Glacial Hills Elementary School in Starbuck was one of three Minnesota School districts to be named a 2023 Minnesota Grown Farm to School District of the Year by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s (MDA) Minnesota Grown Program. This first-ever statewide contest recognizes schools for their exceptional efforts to serve and promote foods grown in the… Read More

Glacial Hills Elementary School (GHES) was awarded a Healthy Meals Incentives grant in the amount of $146,289 from Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) to support its efforts to provide nutrition education, update the school’s kitchen and make homemade meals with the use of local produce.  The Healthy Meals Incentives grant is part of an allocation of… Read More

• Leven Township requested support for grant to improve 210 Ave. from CHS to County Road 28 By Tim Douglass tdouglass@pctribune.com After a long discussion led by Leven Township Supervisor Brian Wildman, Glenwood City Commissioners last week decided to support that township’s application for a state grant to improve 210th Ave. from County Road 28 and extending… Read More

Following a cold snap after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and once the winds died down on Monday night, Lake Minnewaska was completely ice covered on Tuesday, Nov. 28.  Pelican Lake was also completely ice-covered on Nov. 28, according to a lakeshore resident there.  At right are the ice-on dates for Lake Minnewaska, recorded since 1958.  

By Tim Douglass tdouglass@pctribune.com The board and staff of the Minnewaska Lutheran Home in Starbuck are redoubling efforts to raise funds for needed repairs to the iconic Clock Tower that sits near the facility on Starbuck’s Main Street. Fundraising for the clock tower started in 2020, and about $13,649 has already been raised, but each year the… Read More