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Lori Sorenson
December 09, 2025

Luverne’s annual Winterfest Celebration featured all the classic holiday activities over the weekend, along with an appropriate dose of winter snowfall Saturday afternoon.

“There was just a ton of stuff going on around town, and it went really well,” Chamber Director Kenzi Klein said…

By
Mavis Fodness
December 09, 2025

Paul Aukes held up a piece of quarter-inch angle iron Tuesday night, Dec. 2, at the public input meeting about rifles vs. shotguns for deer hunting.

Pierced through the angle iron were two perfectly round bullet holes from a rifle.

“This is what a 30-06 does,” he said of the…

By
Lori Sorenson
December 09, 2025

A manufacturing company has expressed in 15-acres of Luverne’s industrial park, according to discussion at Monday’s meeting of the Luverne Economic Development Authority.

EDA director Holly Sammons said the city engineer is developing preliminary concepts for road and utility…

By
Lori Sorenson
December 09, 2025

Housing continues to be a priority for the Luverne Economic Development Authority, which met Monday to assess progress and future direction.

LEDA director Holly Sammons explained the city’s participation in the Southwest Minnesota Housing Institute.

“It’s been a good resource,…

By
Mavis Fodness
December 09, 2025

Rock County Commissioners accepted the sale results for a 10-year $2.5 million bond conducted Tuesday, Dec. 2. 

TD Financial Products LLC of New York submitted the lowest bid at an interest rate of 3.074 percent. Two other bidders submitted bids at 3.103 percent and 3.131 percent.

Columns

By
Brenda Winter, Columnist

It was Christmas 1967, or maybe '68. My four-year-old eyes were wide with wonder as I cradled the new Christmas doll. 

Locks of beautiful synthetic chestnut hair curled around her angel-like face. Eyelids with long, thick lashes blinked for real when she reclined and sat up again. Awake…

December 09, 2025
By
Rick Peterson, General Manager

There are only about three weeks left in the 2025 pheasant hunting season, and due to some mobility issues, I haven’t hunted once this season.

However, I have hunted vicariously through other hunters’ Facebook posts and watching YouTube videos.

By all accounts from the locals, I…

December 09, 2025
By
Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist

 As soon as Thanksgiving has come and gone, it is the Christmas shuffle that creeps up on me. I do not wait until the last day or two, but I am never way ahead of time. I get a bad taste in my mouth when I must default to a gift certificate when all else fails or the procrastination overcomes me…

December 09, 2025
By
Calla Jarvie, Rock County Library Director

Like it or not, the holidays are upon us.

Are you a “Christmas tree-goes-up-on-Nov. 1” kind of person? Or are you a “Christmas-tree-goes-up-after-Thanksgiving” kind of person? 

I’m more of a “What Christmas tree?” kind of person, because I have cats.

If you’re the first…

December 09, 2025

Obituaries

December 09, 2025

Eunice Ruth Bartels, age 91, passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 3, at the Luverne Hospice Cottage.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, at Hartquist Funeral Home in Luverne. Funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Dec. 15, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Jasper. Interment…

December 09, 2025

Mary Ann Davis (McDowell), age 97, of Arden Hills, Minnesota, passed away peacefully on Nov. 26, 2025.

Born on Oct. 18, 1928, to Leslie and Ruby McDowell, in Luverne, Minnesota. She graduated from Luverne High School and attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Mary Ann…

December 09, 2025

Robert “Bob” Iverson, age 76, husband of Sharon, of Glencoe, Minnesota, passed away on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, surrounded by his family at Cedar Crest Estate in Silver Lake, Minnesota.

Memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday…

December 09, 2025

Edwin "Ed" Elbers, age 86, of Luverne, Minnesota, died on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, at Sanford Luverne Hospital in Luverne.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, with a prayer service at 6:30 p.m. at Hartquist Funeral Home - Luverne Chapel. Funeral service will be at 10:30…

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