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 SorensonJuly 05, 2022Fareway Stores Inc. is remodeling the former W-2’s Quality Meats store at the intersection of Main Street and Highway 75 in Luverne to open a meat market this fall. The company is also requesting an option to purchase property and is seeking a loan to facilitate the new store opening. If the business goes well with the small meat market, Fareway officials have told city leaders they would like to…
- By Lori SorensonJuly 05, 2022Luverne City Council members acted on a series of agenda items relating to Take 16 Brewing Company at their Tuesday, June 28, meeting. In May the state lawmakers passed legislation that allows small brewers (producing 7,500 barrels or less) to sell up to 128 ounces of beer per customer per day that could be packaged in any approved container to go. By statute, cities need to amend their…
- July 05, 2022Anthony Bly, SDSU Extension Soils Field Specialist, received the 2022 Friend of Soil Health Award at the 2022 Soil Health Conference. “This award is a great honor for me,” said Bly, a Hills-Beaver Creek graduate. “I am trying to carry on the legacies of my mentors in my life through science and the conservation of natural resources.” Bly received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in…
- July 05, 2022Deborah Luethje Mariya, Luverne High School Class of 1971, was honored on May 21 for her service as a Navy chaplain at a ceremony in Coronado, California. The city of Coronado raised a banner bearing her picture and acknowledging her wartime service in Operation Desert Storm. It will be publicly displayed on Fourth Street for six months following Memorial Day. The Hometown Banner Program was…
- By Lori SorensonJuly 05, 2022Members of the Luverne Economic Development Authority approved a request for a $3,000 demolition grant at their Monday morning meeting for a property at 311 N. Oakley. John Connell submitted an application for funding through the city’s Residential Demolition Program to tear down both the house and three-stall garage on the lot. LEDA director Holly Sammons worked with Connell on the request and…
- July 05, 2022Fourteen local youth participated in the first of three 4-H day camps at the Rock County Fairgrounds in Luverne Friday, June 10. Five 4-H ambassadors and Rock County 4-H intern Samantha Moser led the event, “A Magical 4-H Morning.” Participants spent three hours completing various magical activities such as making fizzy glitter potions, competing in crown hockey relays and building Rapunzel’s…
- By Lori SorensonJune 28, 2022Luverne City Council members toured the new arrival and departure building at the municipal airport Tuesday night, June 21. The previous structure was damaged by a fire in the fall of 2020 and was rebuilt using most of the steel girders of the existing structure, which includes the fixed base operation shop. Because of the building’s age (about 30 years) much of the electrical wiring and…
- By Mavis FodnessJune 28, 2022Hardwick’s sanitary sewer lagoons received long-overdue maintenance last week, thanks to a combination of funding resources to pay the $68,000 bill. Workers with Reker Construction and Aggregate of Adrian spent last week adding riprap on the north and east dikes, primarily on the second of two lagoons located east of Hardwick. Reker workers also extended tiling around a section of the lagoons’…
- June 28, 2022A black Lab named Finn is now known as “Lucky” after surviving a 30-foot fall into a rock crevasse at the Blue Mounds State Park quarry Sunday afternoon. Finn and his 17-year-old companion, Jaxon Bliss, were hiking atop the quarry around 3 p.m. Sunday when the black Labrador slipped and fell in a gap between Sioux quartzite boulders. “When I knew I wouldn’t be able to get to him, I called 911,”…
- By Mavis FodnessJune 28, 2022When Luverne Public Schools’ 2021-22 school year ended in late May, seven seasoned educators decided it was time to retire. Altogether, they spent 233 years in Luverne classrooms. Deb Ward, 45 years Deb Ward was Luverne’s most senior educator, having been hired in the district in 1977 as a K-12 special education teacher. She’s never worked anywhere else. The Pipestone High School graduate found…
- By Mavis FodnessJune 28, 2022A ceremonial groundbreaking Wednesday morning, June 22, signified the official start of construction on the Walleye Wind Energy Center in western Rock County. The ceremony took place in the middle of a soybean field in Section 3 of Beaver Creek Township where one of 40 wind turbines will be built. About 50 landowners, city, state and county officials, representatives from NextEra Energy and the…
- By Lori SorensonJune 28, 2022“Free and fun” is on tap for the Fourth of July celebration at The Lake in Luverne Monday, according to Chamber Director Jane Wildung Lanphere. “The committee has put together a fun day, and most all of the events are free, except Bingo, which has a 100-percent payout,” she said. “The fireworks show will be spectacular, and we’ll have bleachers this time.” The day starts with the Davis Lake…
- By Mavis FodnessJune 28, 2022A resignation request by Luverne School Board member Jeff Stratton was accepted Thursday night, June 23, during the board’s regular monthly meeting. Stratton, who joined the school board in 2021, is set to become the district’s first school resource officer this fall. He said that working for the district and serving on its board would be a conflict of interest. Board members are expected to…
- June 28, 2022The Luverne community members gathered Friday night at Take 16 on Main Street Luverne to share a picnic box meal, comradery, music and fundraising for Relay for Life, a Rock County event to fight cancer. The evening also featured a fun zone (pictured), trivia contest and a glow run. According to chairman and cancer survivor Lisa Ehlers, the annual event raised $6,500.
- June 28, 2022Lions of 5M3 members delivered 219 edge tie blankets to the Sanford Castle on Tuesday, May 10. Pictured (from left) are Sanford staff Paula Erck, Carrie Kindrop, Cassidy Pollema, Taylor Muller, Pat Glaubitz, 5M3 District Governor Gordon Mulder, Lion Lois Mulder (both of Luverne), and 5M3 Childhood Cancer Blanket Chair Lion Diana Kuehl. At the February Lions midwinter convention in Marshall about…
- June 28, 2022Anglers with fishing questions can find answers on the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources fishing page (mndnr.gov/Fishing). The page answers questions like: •For which species can I fish? •What kind of bait is legal? •What kind of fish can I keep? It also is a mobile-friendly destination for information on when, where and how to fish. Users will find links to LakeFinder, which provides…
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