Tuff Home residents experience 'A Night on Mount Olympus'
The day after Hills-Beaver Creek High School hosted a junior-senior prom for students, residents from Tuff Memorial Home donned dresses and suits Saturday afternoon for their first
State offers info on 2026 Hwy 75 work
Minnesota Department of Transportation personnel were in Luverne Tuesday, April 23, to discuss the 2026 Highway 75 construction project.
'Marlene and Darlene without George'
“Marlene and Darlene” will return to the stage next week for another comedy performance to raise money for Generations.
Emerald ash borer officially reported in Rock County
Infestations of the destructive emerald ash borer have been spreading across Minnesota over the past 15 years, and on Monday the Minnesota Department of Agriculture confirmed the first sighting
LHS competes in world robotics
The Luverne High School robotics team earned a Judges Choice Award at last week’s FIRST Robotic Competition World.
Sled hockey comes to Blue Mound Ice Arena
The Siouxland Sled Hockey Association brought on-ice practice to the Blue Mound Ice Arena in Luverne for the first time April 7 in honor of their newest member.
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- By Lori SorensonApril 28, 2015The Luverne Instrumental Music Department presented its 2015 Spring Concert Friday night, April 24, in the Cardinal Gym. The annual event included performances by the fifth-grade band, under the direction of Angie Swenson, and by the sixth-grade, seventh- and eighth-grade and high school bands, all under the direction of Richard Owen. New to this year’s spring event was a combined performance of…
- By Lori SorensonApril 28, 2015Father Tom Jennings and the Wednesday afternoon students at St. Catherine Church, Luverne, celebrated Earth Day April 22 with trees, flowers and other living things. The city of Luverne is planting 70 new trees on city boulevards for Arbor Day, and Jennings and the children blessed one of them with Easter water. The tree is a flowering crab apple tree, which grows berries that feed birds and…
- By Lori SorensonApril 28, 2015Highway 75 (Kniss Street) in Luverne will be under construction from May 11 to early September with a short in-town detour at the start of the project. To prepare business owners and residents along that route, the city of Luverne hosted a preconstruction meeting Tuesday night, April 21, in Luverne City Hall. The meeting, which attracted about 30 people, addressed the staging of the project,…
- By Glenda McGaffeeApril 28, 2015Summer vacation will begin a day earlier for students attending Hills-Beaver Creek schools. The H-BC School Board decided on Thursday, April 16, to move the last student contact day to Monday, May 18. The last high school staff day is Tuesday, May 19, and the last teaching staff day at the elementary school is a half day Wednesday, May 20. The originally approved school calendar put the final day…
- April 28, 2015Hills-Beaver Creek art teacher Mary Petersen applied for and received an Artist in Residence Grant from the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council (SMAC). Anne Krocak, a teaching artist, spent time in the H-BC classroom April 7 through April 16. Art students completed a mural that was revealed Monday, April 13. Pictured are the art students who created the mural, which is on display in the commons area…
- By Glenda McGaffeeApril 28, 2015During a city council meeting April 14 the Hills Volunteer Fire Department attended to discuss increasing their retirement. They proposed increasing the benefit from $750 per year of service to $1,000 per year of service. The council approved an increase of $850 per year of service. In other city business on April 14, building permits were approved to: •Larry and Linda Sanow at 704 Elizabeth…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 28, 2015Luverne’s Parents Partners in Education (PPIE) completed a unique fundraiser Friday, April 24, in a fun run around the Luverne Public School’s ball fields. This was the first year the group organized the event that had kindergarten through fifth-grade students request pledges from community members and then run a half-mile to a two-mile course. “Cardinal Dash: Keeping Cardinal Kids Running”…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 28, 2015Completing an outstanding supervised agricultural experience or SAE is only one requirement for the Luverne-Adrian FFA Chapter’s Star Farmer Award, one of the chapter’s top awards. For this year’s recipient Andrea Severtson, a Luverne High School senior, it was a matter of more than one experience. Her adviser, Dennis Moritz, could have selected her most recent SAE in goat production. Severtson…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 28, 2015The Luverne Public Schools Instrumental Music Department conducted its 2015 Spring Jazz Concert Tuesday, April 21, at the American Reformed Church in Luverne. According to director Richard Owen, the groups first performed at the church last year and returned because of the facility’s excellent acoustics for audience members to better hear the small group of performers. Students performed seven…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 28, 2015Costs of assisted reproduction vary greatly from state to state, depending on the procedure and the type of agreement. According to surrogate law expert Steven Snyder, the Midwest is the most economical location for a surrogacy agreement, with total costs ranging from $80,000 to $120,000, if results are successful the first time. Snyder, an attorney in Maple Grove, has overseen 300 surrogate…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 28, 2015Area school districts lost a testing day when the Minnesota Department of Education temporarily suspended use of the state’s online testing website. On Tuesday, April 21, Commissioner Brenda Cassellius announced in a press release that the testing site would be shut down until technical problems within the testing system were resolved. No timeframe was given on how long the test company, Pearson…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 28, 2015Four Rock County residences received more than $5,000 in tax credits and another property is under consideration after Rock County Commissioners approved recommendations from Tom Houselog, county land records director. Houselog has been conducting local board of appeal and equalization meetings, where residents can question the upcoming property tax assessments or request disaster credits.…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 28, 2015Thanks to a local woman, a New York dad is able to raise twin sons as his own, a life event he didn’t even think was possible until only a few years ago. Michael Melcher compares life before his children’s births to that of the main character in “The Wizard of Oz” movie. “Dorothy said the first part of her life is black and white,” he said. “Then she wakes up in Oz and it’s all in color.” On…
- By Lori SorensonApril 23, 2015It was a record-breaking night for volunteers and fundraising coordinators at Sanford Luverne Hospice Saturday, April 11. The Blue Mound Banquet Center in Luverne accommodated a packed house of 400 people for the Annual Hospice Charity Dinner and Auction fundraiser, which featured a New Orleans and Mardi Gras theme. According to Sanford Luverne Hospice volunteer coordinator Helen Saum, a gross…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 21, 2015High school speech is the competitive public speaking activity offered through the Minnesota High School League (MHSL). There are 13 speech categories with each falling into a genre of informing, influencing or entertaining audiences. Luverne High School senior Spencer Schacht has been a speech team participant for the past six years and is a three-time state speech qualifier in storytelling, one…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 21, 2015Improvements to the Rock County Community Library were unanimously supported by the Rock County Board of Commissioners and were added into the county’s Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) for completion this year. Prior to Tuesday’s meeting, the board toured the current library facility with library director Clint Wolthuizen who laid out the proposed $175,000 in facility improvements. Wolthuizen…
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