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 SorensonAugust 16, 2022Summer road construction hit Luverne and Rock County this week as several major projects convened simultaneously. Main Street in Luverne was closed to parking Monday morning for crews to mill off the surface as part of repaving County Road 4 from Highway 75 to the Nobles County line. Also on Monday, lane closures began on I-90 for a concrete pavement overlay between Luverne and the South Dakota…
- By Mavis FodnessAugust 16, 2022Area children will bring the Brothers Grimm fairytale, “Hansel and Gretel” to life on the Palace Theatre stage after six days of auditions and rehearsals. Acting coaches Tyler Olson and Liz McRae lead this year’s production for Missoula Children’s Theatre. “It’s one of (Missoula’s) funnier plays,” Olson said. During Monday’s auditions for 43 roles, Olson and McRae offered advice to the budding…
- By Lori SorensonAugust 16, 2022Communities in Rock County are taking action to ban the sale of edible THC products after the state legalized them this summer. The Rock County Board took the lead last month with a moratorium on the sale of hemp-derived THC food and beverages in non-municipal areas of the county. Luverne City Council members mirrored the county ordinance at their Tuesday evening meeting, and Beaver Creek City…
- By Lori SorensonAugust 16, 2022On Thursday, Aug. 11, the Luverne Area Chamber and community members celebrated two ribbon-cuttings on East Main Street. One was for the new Wildflowers Coffee Boutique mobile beverage and lunch trailer, which will operate in the community in addition to its downtown restaurant location. The other ribbon-cutting celebrated the completion of the new Plaza shelter building in the lot west of the…
- By Lori SorensonAugust 16, 2022Fifteen candidates have filed for four open seats on the Luverne School Board, and three more filed for one unexpired term. Several of those threw their hats in the ring just before the 5 p.m. filing deadline Tuesday after the Star Herald went to press. The four-year terms of Katie Baustian, Reva Sehr, Jodi Bosch and Eric Hartman for up for election, and only Hartman filed. In addition, Michael…
- By Mavis FodnessAugust 16, 2022Luverne business owner Jen Wipf is asking Rock County Commissioners to change their year-long moratorium on the sale of hemp-derived THC food and beverage. She opened her Rock River Apothecary store in Luverne last year. Since the county’s moratorium went into place in July, Wipf said she’s lost 50 percent of her hemp product business from the Luverne location. She would like to be grandfathered…
- By Lori SorensonAugust 16, 2022Republican Brad Finstad won the Aug. 9 special election in Minnesota’s First Congressional District to fill the remaining term of GOP congressman Jim Hagedorn, who died in February of cancer. Finstad, a former legislator and USDA rural development director, received 51 percent of votes to defeat DFL nominee and former Hormel CEO Jeff Ettinger who garnered 47 percent of votes. Finstad will serve…
- By Mavis FodnessAugust 16, 2022When voters approved Luverne School District’s $23.3 million bond referendum in 2017, a state enhancement credit program kept $405,000. At a special meeting Thursday night, board members voted to take the money back from the Department of Education. “Statute language held that money from us,” Superintendent Craig Oftedahl said. “Since that time, there have been legislative changes to the statute…
- By Mavis FodnessAugust 16, 2022The Hills-Beaver Creek School Board may add an electric bus to the district’s transportation fleet. At their Aug. 8 meeting the board supported a recommendation from the district’s transportation committee to apply for a 2022 Clean School Bus Rebate. If chosen for a rebate, board members will make a final decision whether or not to accept the electric school bus through the EPA office of…
- August 16, 2022Almost three dozen first- through fifth-grade students learned about teamwork and engineering while playing with Legos last week. Luverne Elementary teacher Molly Carbonneau led the first-time three-day Lego Camp through Luverne Community Education. “I wanted them to learn how to work as a team,” she said. “And I wanted to get them off their screens.” During the camp, students were divided into…
- August 09, 2022The 110-megawatt Walleye Wind Farm in western Rock County is taking shape with below-grade work to prepare foundations for the 40 turbines that will soon start appearing above grade. To prepare for incoming turbine blades, shoulders at multiple intersections are being widened and reinforced. NextEra is building the wind farm on a 49-square-mile (31,000 acres) footprint, bringing more than 200…
- By Mavis FodnessAugust 09, 2022North Highway 75 is on the state’s to-do list for improvements from Luverne to Trosky by 2028. That’s according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Sam Parker who met with a skeptical Rock County Board in July. Parker, acting principal planner for District 7 (which comprises 13 counties in the south half of the state including Rock County) said that stretch of highway would be past…
- By Lori SorensonAugust 09, 2022ATLAS of Rock County is adding another tool to its arsenal of ministries to serve the community. Workers broke ground last week on a 20-by-30-foot detached building on the northwest corner of the existing building that will house a clothing baler to more efficiently process donations. The ATLAS location (in the former Luverne Kawasaki) houses the Redeemed Remnants thrift store, which sells…
- By Mavis FodnessAugust 09, 2022Emmett Woodley’s artwork is displayed prominently on a South Highway 75 billboard in Luverne. The Luverne Elementary student completed the artwork for the Sioux Valley Energy billboard as a fourth-grader and as part of the electric cooperative’s annual contest. “The safety billboard contest is a great way to showcase the students’ creative artwork and lifesaving electrical safety messages,” said…
- By Mavis FodnessAugust 09, 2022Luverne High School band director James Jarvie is looking forward to the 2022 marching season only due to its normalness. The fourth-year director at LHS has persevered through a move from Ellsworth High School, a Luverne construction project and two years of the coronavirus pandemic that has left the program membership at half its normal size. “That really hurt us,” Jarvie said of the…
- By Lori SorensonAugust 09, 2022The filing deadline is Tuesday, Aug. 16, for local leaders interested in running for office. So far, two new candidates — Zach Nolz and Scott Wessels — and incumbent Eric Hartman have filed for five open seats on the Luverne School Board. The open seats are held by Katie Baustian, Reva Sehr and Jodi Bosch — all three of whom have indicated they will not seek re-election. A fifth seat on the…
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