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Lori Sorenson
May 21, 2025

The Kids Rock! Child Care Center will host a ribbon-cutting and open house next week to celebrate the community’s solution to a decades-long child care shortage.

“This new center represents…

May 21, 2025

The Luverne Optimist Club sponsored its annual Bike Rodeo Saturday, May 17, at the Blue Mound Ice Arena in Luverne. Young bicyclists traveled through an obstacle course, heard bike safety tips from deputies Troy Wenzel (above) and Austin Christensen and had their bicycles…

By
Mavis Fodness
May 21, 2025

Magnolia Township received approval Monday night from the Rock County Planning and Zoning Commission to build a township meeting hall/shop facility west of Magnolia.

The proposed 60-by-60-foot building, located…

By
Mavis Fodness
May 21, 2025

Each spring, area students in the Southwest Minnesota CEO program debut individual businesses inspired from nine months of business visits, guest speakers, mentor discussions and working together in a class business.

By
Lori Sorenson
May 21, 2025

Two registered nurses at Sanford Luverne were recently honored with the Florence Nightingale Award during a Nurse’s Week Celebration May 6 in Sioux Falls.

 Each year Sanford employees are…

Columns

By
Brenda Winter, columnist

When Marcella Prokop, co-owner of The Cidery at Blackshire Farms near Beaver Creek, called and asked if I, Brenda Winter, could judge a rhubarb contest at the Cidery on Saturday, June 7, I said I could not, but I knew who could – Marlene and Darlene.

May 21, 2025
By
Scott Rall, Outdoor Columnist

There seems to be a new sheriff in town when it comes to operating a boat or personal watercraft in Minnesota waters.

There are new regulations starting July 1, 2025. These new rules require both youth and younger adults to be certified in watercraft safety if you were born after 2004.…

May 21, 2025
By
Lori Sorenson, editor

There once was a little candle whose flame was beginning to dim.

Her light is dimmed by clouds of hardship: a D-minus in math, social media bullying and the recent loss of her grandmother.…

May 14, 2025
By
RIck Peterson, general manager

This is the second installment in my four-part series of columns on how I feel we have too many choices. My last column dealt with the onslaught of choices regarding barbecue sauces. This week I was overwhelmed by the choices in the world of paint.

May 14, 2025

Obituaries

May 21, 2025

Rosemary “Rosie” Moerke, age 73, of Luverne, died Monday, May 19, 2025, at the Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

A time of fellowship will be from 4-7 p.m. Friday, May…

May 21, 2025

Alida Ver Burg, age 90, of Brandon, South Dakota, passed away peacefully on Thursday, May 15, 2025, at her home, surrounded by her family.

A funeral service was at 3 p.m.,…

May 14, 2025

Carol Lou (Roberts) Stroh was born October 28, 1940, to J.W. “Buddy” Roberts and Elizabeth Ann (Wright) Roberts at St. Paul Hospital in Dallas, Texas.  She graduated from Sunset High School in Dallas, and worked at Dallas Title, Titche Goettinger, Republic…

May 14, 2025

Audrey Madison Greene, age 82, passed away on Sunday, April 27, 2025, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Audrey was born on Aug. 4, 1942, in Luverne, Minnesota.

How many graduation parties have you been invited to this year?

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