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Stensland retires after teaching 33 years
By Mavis Fodness
August 21, 2024
A childhood experience with her younger brother led to a 33-year career in education for Luverne’s Lynette Stensland. Stensland retired from Luverne Public Schools at the close of the 2023-24 school year after spending 21 years in the Luverne School District. Her interest in education was sparked by a favor to her mother. “One summer my mom asked me to tutor my younger brother, which I really…
Rofshus retires from 34 years of teaching
By Lori Sorenson
August 07, 2024
When Luverne Elementary School students return to classrooms this fall, one of their favorite familiar faces will be missing. Lucinda Rofshus retired this spring after 34 years of teaching, and she said she’ll miss her students and co-workers as much as they’ll miss her. “I’ll miss joking around and being in students’ lives,” she said. “You go to their hockey games or their t-ball games. ……
Raising a glass to a colleague who disappeared as the coronavirus appears
By Mavis Fodness, reporter
June 16, 2020
Since the first cases of the coronavirus hit Minnesota in March, one of my colleagues went missing. Gone. Poof. Vanished. In the past three months only a handful of sightings of former sports editor John Rittenhouse have been passed on to the newsroom, but none of these by me, this former colleague. Three months ago, as the newspaper was scrambling to understand the new health rules, John quietly…