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Family members public plea for return of missing quilt
By Mavis Fodness
December 04, 2024
A social media plea for a missing quilt is entering its eighth month without a response. Whitney Lafrenz posted the message about the lost quilt made from T-shirts garnered the past 40 years by her mother, Faye Bremer of Luverne. The quilt went missing more than a year ago. “It was possibly left behind at a sporting event or marching band competition,” Lafrenz wrote. “Mom did travel to…
Here kitty, kitty, kitty
By Mavis Fodness, reporter
June 04, 2019
A “Tale of Two Cats” unfolded recently on social media involving mystery, mistaken identity and, best of all, a happy ending. The tale opens May 17 with Luverne’s Martha Nowatzki posting that her 18-year-old cat named Shamus “has gone on a walkabout” and had been gone for several days. It’s not unusual for the black cat with a cloudy left eye to cross people’s paths in the area of Freeman Avenue…