By Lori Sorenson
October 26, 2015
Sealed bids were opened Oct. 20 for Phase 1 of the Luverne Loop bike bath, and Henning Construction, Adrian, submitted the low bid of $439,694.50.
The only other bid was from Duininck Inc., Prinsburg, for $597,223.60.
City Council members took action at their Tuesday night meeting to award the bid to Henning for Phase 1 of the Loop.
This portion of the trail will start at the pond behind the…
October 26, 2015
By Mavis Fodness
October 26, 2015
Luverne Public School District officials are seeking to renew one of two operating levy referendums set to expire at the end of this year.
To help voters understand the levy’s impact on the district for the past 10 years, school officials will conduct a public meeting tonight (Oct. 29) at the elementary school commons.
The meeting will begin at 8 p.m.
Currently, the existing levy generates $763.…
By Mavis Fodness
October 26, 2015
Ten years after setting Rock County’s highest average corn yield, area producers are confident the record will be broken once the 2015 growing season is wrapped up. How much the average could be raised is yet to be determined.
Meanwhile, local farmers have enjoyed 24 days of rain-free weather from Sept. 29 to Friday, when .89 inches was recorded.
It has been those timely rains throughout the 2015…
By Lori Sorenson
October 26, 2015
The Luverne High School marching band members are finished with fall competition, and director Richard Owen is reflecting on what he considers a successful season.
“As a director it seemed to me that this season went really fast,” said Owen, who was in charge of 54 band students.
There are 19 woodwinds, 17 brass, nine battery percussion and nine pit percussion.
That’s not counting the 19 color…
By Mavis Fodness
October 26, 2015
Luverne High School students will perform their annual fall play — about a play being conducted in a high school auditorium — in the Luverne High School auditorium next week.
“Paranormal High School,” written by Andrew Ross, is set in Bram Stoker High School, home of the Fighting Tarantulas.
Its drama class wants to perform William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” and as the students begin rehearsals,…
By Mavis Fodness
October 20, 2015
Tucked inside a spare bedroom in Bruce “Buzz” Anderson’s Eagan home is a little remembrance of growing up in Hardwick during the 1950s and ’60s.
Resting on top of a 4-by 8-foot antique table, the miniature town started with an N-scale train 18 months ago.
“It sounds like a real diesel engine,” he said of the 1:160th scale locomotive.
The sound reminds the Luverne Class of 1966 graduate of when he…
October 20, 2015
By Lori Sorenson
October 20, 2015
Photographs from veterans and their families have been submitted from Luverne and throughout the United States to be displayed at the Carnegie Cultural Center during the month of October for the first-ever Veteran Photo Show.
The show was developed to complement military photographer Stacy Pearsall’s Oct. 2 program, “Combat from Behind the Camera.”
As part of her Veterans Portrait Project,…
By Mavis Fodness
October 20, 2015
Three Enel Green Power employees spent Friday morning, Oct. 16, sprucing up areas around the city of Hardwick.
“Green Up Our Community Day” is a companywide effort to help clean up communities where Enel Green Power North America (EGP-NA) has its offices and where renewable energy plants are based.
Enel Green Power operates Prairie Rose Wind Farm and has offices in Hardwick.
Site manager Tony…
October 20, 2015
By Mavis Fodness
October 20, 2015
In keeping with his school year initiative, “Be Great,” Luverne Public School Superintendent Craig Oftedahl is challenging his teaching staff to write “LUV Notes.”
Oftedahl unveiled his idea Thursday night, Oct. 8, to board members as he passed each one of them a white envelope. Inside was a white thank you card that read “Luverne Cardinals” and the mascot image. Inside he included a personal…
By Mavis Fodness
October 20, 2015
Luverne Elementary fourth- and fifth-graders will get some extra help this fall understanding whole numbers, rounding to the nearest tenth and other general math concepts.
Math Corps tutor Jessica Quissell, Jasper, works with 24 select students in groups of two for 90 minutes a week on various math interventions with one purpose in mind.
“I want to make math fun,” she said.
The district hired…
By Lori Sorenson
October 19, 2015
Luverne city leaders have been busy this summer preparing industrial lots for sale and development.
At their Monday morning meeting, members of the Luverne Economic Development Authority approved a resolution that sets the sale price of various lots in Luverne’s industrial neighborhoods.
For example, prices for the three lots in the Walnut Industrial Subdivision were set at $25,000 apiece. These…
By Mavis Fodness
October 19, 2015
Keeping Rock County’s private well water safe to drink will be the focus next year under the state’s Targeted Township Nitrogen Testing Program.
Private well owners in seven Rock County townships can voluntarily have their wells analyzed for nitrate levels in a joint effort by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and the Rock County Land Management Office (LMO) in Luverne.
Townships…
By Lori Sorenson
October 19, 2015
Luverne City Council members put the wheels in motion at their Oct. 13 meeting to condemn a residential property for eventual acquisition by eminent domain.
The large yellow house at the corner of Highway 75 and Lincoln Street has been in disrepair for years, and city building inspector Chad McClure has declared it uninhabitable, in addition to a dangerous nuisance.
At a public hearing Tuesday…