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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- April 13, 2021Greg Dalbec, site superintendent with ICS, clicks a picture Monday of the school logo set in the new terrazzo flooring at the Luverne Middle-High School’s commons area. Workers with Wisconsin Terrazzo spent the weekend bending the metal for the design before adding the red terrazzo mixture to cure. Once ready, workers will add the other flooring colors before sanding the floor to reveal the rock…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 13, 2021Recent COVID-19 vaccine availability is allowing Rock County departments to resume walk-in transactions on May 1. County administrator Kyle Oldre told commissioners at their April 6 meeting that county employees met the previous week and supported the reopening plan. At that meeting, each employee was encouraged to receive the first of two vaccinations at a public health clinic on March 30. The…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 13, 2021A new business, The Barn on 60th Salon and Spa, is emerging south of Hills. The business also brings career ambitions full circle for owner Tammie Leuthold, who expects to be open next month. “Right now, it seems surreal,” she said. “I definitely didn’t plan this two years ago.” She did, however, have thoughts of becoming a beautician 30 years ago. Instead she met Kelly Leuthold at South Dakota…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 13, 2021Hills-Beaver Creek Board of Education will choose a new member to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Dan LaRock from the board. On a voice vote Monday night, board members passed a resolution declaring a school board vacancy by resignation. LaRock did not attend the meeting. Members Renee Knobloch and Tim Bosch were also not at the evening meeting. The resolution established a process…
- April 13, 2021Like the start of a big race or the beginning of a championship game, many farmers in northern Iowa are ready to begin full-scale field work as soon as field conditions are fit for planting. Most farm operators across the region reported almost ideal soil conditions; however, rainfall and cooler weather from April 7-12 in most areas delayed the initiation of major fieldwork. It appears that the…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 13, 2021“Blessed” was uttered on several occasions this weekend as Living Rock Church celebrated 10 years in Luverne. The church’s first and only minister, Pastor Billy Skaggs, referenced how God was instrumental in getting the church off the ground. “He has blessed us in the past with blessings upon blessings upon blessings,” Skaggs said. “He has blessed us for 10 years.” The initial blessing came in…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 13, 2021Under a new virtual format, Luverne High School claimed the Sub-Section Championship trophy, and all 17 students earned the right to compete in the Section 3A Championship on Saturday. “Generally there are three sub-section meets, but due to COVID-19, the virtual format and fewer participants, students were combined into two sub-sections this year,” said Caroline Thorson, who coaches the Luverne…
- April 06, 2021Luverne Area Chamber volunteers spent five hours filling 1,500 brightly colored plastic eggs for Saturday morning’s Easter egg hunt on the lawn of the Courthouse Square. The event attracted roughly 100 children who filled baskets, pails and bags with the eggs that contained candy and stickers. The mild temperature and sunny skies were ideal egg-hunting weather for the activity sponsored by…
- By Lori SorensonApril 06, 2021Local teens with Rock the Edge Youth are seeking projects for their 2021 Service Over Self mission week June 21-25. Rock the Edge is a group of youth leaders and teens from Rock County in Minnesota that gather for service and fellowship. The summer work for residents and organizations in Rock County is their primary shared mission. Projects in the past have included painting, repairing, gardening…
- By Lori SorensonApril 06, 2021Staff and volunteers at the Rock County Food Shelf will soon move to their new location at 209 West Maple Street once building renovations are complete. Food Shelf board member Katie Baustian shared architect drawings of the building showing how it will be utilized. “It will be like having a storefront where people can enter with dignity,” she said. “We won’t be tucked away in a church basement…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 06, 2021Sixty years after three bison arrived north of Luverne, a new herd of the wooly mammals is starting in another Minnesota location. The Zollman Zoo in Olmsted County near Byron joins Minnesota’s Bison Conservation Herd. The long-term goal of the program is to build a conservation herd of 500 purebred bison to ensure its long-term stability in Minnesota. Currently the program consists of 130 bison…
- By Lori SorensonApril 06, 2021Scott Buchanan took over the reins at the Minnesota Veterans Home in Luverne in January amid a pandemic that had upended nursing home operations everywhere. But the new director took it in stride, having come from the Minnesota Veterans Home in Fergus Falls where the same pandemic procedures had been implemented. “COVID has been difficult for nursing homes everywhere, and the team here in Luverne…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 06, 2021To Cathy Shearer ice-skating is not for the faint of heart. “Hard work always pays off — eventually,” she said last week. “Kids get jumps, then lose them. Sometimes for weeks or months they can’t land them anymore, then they get them back and learn that they have to fight to keep them.” Shearer has dedicated herself to instructing youth how to skate for the past 35 years — 17 of those years with…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 06, 2021There were no April Fool’s jokes at the April 1 ribbon-cutting ceremony for Shawna Marshall and Jesse Booker, owners of the Vasshaus Candle Co. Luverne Area Chamber members greeted and congratulated the new business owners on Main Street Thursday morning at the Mall on Main. It marked the first day of in-person sales for the couple who started their business last September online. The couple said…
- April 06, 2021Minnesotans who received an extension because of COVID-19 and have not yet renewed their driver’s license or ID card need to do so right away. Their licenses are invalid as of April 1. No testing is required as long as a driver’s license is expired less than one year and was in good standing prior to expiring. Legislation extended the expiration date on all Minnesota driver’s license or ID cards…
- By Lori SorensonApril 06, 2021The city of Luverne and the Luverne School District are teaming up on a joint project to improve streets around the school that have been torn up because of the school construction project. The city project consists of mill off and overlay of both West Adams and North East Park Streets. An alternate project would put a new sidewalk or trail connector from the bus barn area to the Luverne Loop to…
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