Little Cardinals take to the gym
Luverne High School varsity gymnastics coach Phoebe Flom, along with current and former high school gymnasts, opened a four-day fall gymnastics camp Monday through Luverne Community Education.
Kwik Trip under construction, opening planned for January 2024
Construction is underway on the Kwik Trip building on South Highway 75 in Luverne.
Nearly 400 walk for suicide prevention Saturday
Nearly 400 people circled the Luverne City Park Saturday morning for the third annual Out of the Darkness Suicide Walk.
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By Mavis FodnessSeptember 13, 2023The soybean harvest in Rock County is starting ahead of the state average, as early-maturing varieties are becoming ready for the 2023 harvest season. Soybeans are turning color, with 67 percent of the state’s crop showing signs of maturity five days ahead of last year and two days ahead of the state average. The USDA Minnesota Field Office reported on Monday that 31 percent of the state’s…
By Mavis FodnessSeptember 13, 2023Victoria Frahm worked to create the perfect starter mix to use in sourdough breadmaking. For 18 of those 24 months, Frahm failed. “The first two times I tried to make my own starter, I killed it,” she said. “But the third time was successful.” On Thursday, Sept. 7, Frahm debuted her cottage business, “Baked from the Heart,” at the Luverne Farmers Market. Frahm specializes in organic…
September 13, 2023Lush green grass suddenly appeared on the boulevard of the parking lot on West Main Street near the library last week. The installation of sod, Sioux quartzite boulders and landscape vegetation is part of the city’s overall aesthetic improvements of downtown corners and streetscapes. The new greenspace also houses one of six artist-created 7-foot-tall nutcrackers in downtown Luverne. This one was…- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 13, 2023Rock County will not be home to the Nature Energy biogas plant that considered expanding locally earlier this year. Nor will any other place in the United States after Shell Petroleum purchased the Denmark-based Nature Energy company. Nature Energy officials visited Luverne and Rock County in January seeking a location for one of 15 renewable natural gas refineries they planned to build in…
- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 13, 2023Luverne and Hills-Beaver Creek school districts will continue to be served by a school resource officer (SRO), according to the Rock County Sheriff’s Office. In recent weeks, as Minnesota schools opened for the 2023-24 school year, several law enforcement agencies withdrew the SROs working in the local school districts. The agencies were at odds with recent legislation that changed how SROs can…
- By Lori SorensonSeptember 13, 2023The third annual “Out of the Darkness” suicide awareness and prevention walk will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 16, in the Luverne City Park. The event raises money for research to end and prevent suicide and to show community support for those who have lost loved ones to suicide or have struggled personally with suicide. It coincides with similar walks nationwide during September,…
September 13, 2023Workers with Dave Niessink Superior Caulking have been tuckpointing deteriorating spots of the Palace Theatre’s exterior over the past week. It’s among a long list of maintenance that needs to be performed on the 100-year-old building as needs arise. The Palace Theatre was constructed in 1915 by architect W.E.E Greene. The Palace, a 550-seat theater first owned by Herman and Maude Jochims, was…
September 13, 2023The Luverne Fire Department appropriately displayed an oversized American Flag from its extended ladder truck on Monday, Sept. 11, on South Highway 75 in observation of Sept. 11, 2001, when the United States was attacked on home soil by terrorists. The 15-by-26-foot flag could be seen from both ends of Highway 75 in Luverne as it billowed in the breeze.
September 13, 2023As drought conditions continue to expand in Minnesota, some areas of the state are now experiencing exceptional drought conditions for the first time since 2021 (portions of Freeborn and Mower counties in southeastern Minnesota, as well as in portions of Aitkin, Carlton and Pine counties in east-central Minnesota). At this time, the U.S. Drought Monitor classifies more than half of the state in…
September 13, 2023- September 13, 2023V&M Locker celebrates 50 years, grand reopening Saturday V&M Locker in Leota will celebrate its 50th anniversary and grand reopening from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16. The event includes a free supper and tours of V&M’s new 48-by-88-foot retail store and sausage room addition. Owners Chad and Julie Ruiter purchased V&M Locker in 2019 from Chad’s parents, Verlyn and Barb…
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September 06, 2023Students in the Luverne High School Class of 2024 gathered Tuesday morning on the football field to watch the sunrise on their last first day of school. The annual event, organized by student council members, was open to all seniors to attend the early morning gathering. Sunrise on Tuesday was 6:52 a.m.
By Mavis FodnessSeptember 06, 2023Last week’s home build on Manfred Drive in Luverne was a high school reunion of sorts for five LHS graduates. Jake Guy, LHS Class of 2013, is the licensed general contractor with G3 Homes LLC, a business established in 2020 with his brother, Joe (Class of 2018), and dad, Tim. Recruited with the Guy brothers to complete the construction were Matthew Sterrett (Class of 2013) and Dalton Jacobsma (…
By Mavis FodnessSeptember 06, 2023Rock County boasts 563 volunteers, according to the recently released A.C.E. of SW Minnesota annual report. “I am really honored to work with all the volunteers of Rock County,” said program manager Linda Wenzel. “We have the best group in the whole state of Minnesota.” Wenzel presented the report to commissioners Aug. 27. Volunteers will be honored Sept. 7 at the annual appreciation dinner…
By Photos and Text by Lori SorensonSeptember 06, 2023The Blackshire Farms Pumpkin Patch near Beaver Creek is now open for the season with nearly two acres offering 50 different pumpkins, squash and gourds, many of them heirloom varieties. The patch, owned by Sean and Marcella McFarland, is open from noon to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday (every day except Monday) at 953 74th Avenue. “We stretch the boundaries of what goes into a pumpkin patch,”…