Hardwick celebrates annual Jubilee Days
Hardwick residents and visitors celebrated the town’s annual Jubilee Days Saturday and Sunday.
Rock County among 21 included in presidential disaster declaration
Rock County is among 21 counties included in a major disaster declaration approved Friday by President Biden.
Local Soil Health experts brainstorm for options as farmers consider next steps for flooded fields
As the realities of flood damage to crops come into focus, area producers are considering options for soil that was supposed to grow corn and soybeans.
Carson's Cause Truck Meet and Classic Car Cruise attracts over 120 and raises $27,000 Saturday
The second annual Carson’s Cause Car and Truck Meet at the Verne-Drive-In attracted more than 120 vehicles and raised $27,000 for local efforts to improve brain he
Disaster declared in Rock County
Preliminary estimates are over $2 million in public infrastructure damage as a result of the June 21-22 flood event.
Some areas receive 12+ inches of rain
Multiple rounds of torrential rain in Rock County and the tri-state area created significant flooding over the past week, wreaking havoc on properties and public infrastructure.
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- By Lori SorensonNovember 05, 2019Generations president George Bonnema cheered out loud after organization members voted unanimously to purchase the next-door lot for their new building construction. “Wow! I get to stay on as president!” he exclaimed from the front of a crowded senior dining room Monday afternoon. “I was going to resign if you said no.” Bonnema and a handful of other volunteers have been working tirelessly over…
- By Mavis FodnessNovember 05, 2019Luverne Elementary fifth-graders kicked off a new art education program with last week’s artist-led projects. Mary Petersen of Luverne, who recently retired from teaching in the Hills-Beaver Creek School District, spent three 45-minute sessions introducing the 79 fifth-graders to watercolor painting. The project took place over three days within the four classrooms’ regular schedules. Principal…
- By Lori SorensonNovember 05, 2019Surrounded by mounds of coats, some in bags and some on racks, Destiny Ripka marvels at the generosity of strangers in Rock County. She volunteers for SHARE — Sharing Hearts Are Reaching Everyone — the local organization that helps families stretch their resources through the holidays. Part of that effort includes the One Warm Coat project, which has been collecting donated coats over the past…
- By Lori SorensonNovember 05, 2019When Kyler Hartz was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, he spent time at the Children’s Hospital in Sioux Falls and noticed kids without hair due to cancer treatments. “He asked us about them and later decided he would grow his own hair and donate it,” said Kyler’s dad, Paul Hartz, rural Luverne. That was a year ago, and Kyler’s hair was already shoulder length, but since then it grew past his…
- November 05, 2019
- November 05, 2019
- By Glenda McGaffeeNovember 05, 2019The Hills Christian School hosted Fine Arts Night Monday, Oct. 28, for a program that included audience and students singing, student poetry and more. Students in grades 3-5 who read poems included Anne Van Dyken (pictured reading “Messy Room”), Jordan Hartz, Gunnar Bork, Suzie Feucht and Jessa Vanden Bosch. Grades 6 through 8 shared stories about their grandparents. These students were Shelby…
- By Mavis FodnessNovember 05, 2019Fourteen area band students will perform Saturday in Sioux Falls as part of the Augustana University Band Festival. Now in its 62nd year, the band festival brings in high school students from a five-state area to participate in two full days of ensemble and clinic work before the Saturday night public performance. Students are selected for one of three bands: Honor, Blue and Gold. “Usually…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 29, 2019Luverne Middle School students completed their annual highway cleanup Friday under clear, sunny skies. For the past two decades eighth-graders have walked the 10 miles of ditches along South Highway 75 picking up garbage each fall and spring. About half the class walks in the fall, and the other half walks in the spring. “Every eighth-grader does it at some time,” said middle school principal…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 29, 2019Second-year play director Shawn Kinsinger noticed something special about students at Luverne High School and for the future of performing arts in Luverne. “I knew they were capable of handling a larger production,” he said. “This, along with the generosity of voters in approving a new performing arts center, was the driving factor behind the decision to go bigger.” Kinsinger chose “Footloose…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 29, 2019Forty-three oceangoing vessels are headed from the Netherlands to the East Coast with specialized equipment for Luverne’s former IBP plant. Premium Iowa Pork is investing $30 million to retrofit the 50-year-old facility for pork processing, and the company has developed a preference for certain manufacturers. The Netherlands provides harvest line equipment that PIP prefers, and additional cut…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 29, 2019The Rock County Library will host Halloween Scary Stories on Oct. 31 at the Verhey Pumpkin Patch on East River Road. From 7:30 to 8 p.m. children’s librarian Bronwyn Wenzel will read Halloween-themed picture books to little ones, ages 2 to third grade, in the pumpkin patch at sunset. Then, as the moon comes up and darkness settles in, Scary Stories for big kids will start around 8 p.m. Without…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 29, 2019For more than four decades in education, Luverne social studies teacher Jerry Benson collected books and keepsakes of historic figures. Benson retired in 2017 due to cancer, and more than 6,000 books in his collection are now finding new homes, thanks to former LHS history teacher Keith Erickson. Family members and former school colleagues began moving books on Oct. 17 to Erickson’s garage at 746…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 29, 2019Hills-Beaver Creek teachers, staff and school board members gathered around Glenda Kuehl in the high school library Friday afternoon to celebrate her retirement. Kuehl has been with the district for 25 years, first in the elementary library and since 2001 as business manager. She said it’s been hard to let go of a job she’s cared about for so many years. “It’s my baby,” she said Friday, sporting…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 29, 2019The second in a series of monthly sessions on Brain Health will be at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4, at Luverne Community Education. The series started Oct. 7 as an effort by local advocates with #Luv1LuvAll to end stigma and encourage conversations about mental health — like physical health — toward improved quality of life. The first one addressed depression, and the next one is about “Basics of Brain…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 29, 2019The Luverne Area Chamber and participating businesses will host the 18th annual Trunk N Treat on Thursday, Oct. 31. Participating merchants will hand out Halloween treats from 4 to 5:30 p.m. from the backs of decorated cars, SUVs and pickups. “This is a great time for kids of all ages to make their way up and down the street seeing each other and collecting candy,” said Chamber Director Jane…
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