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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- By Lori SorensonOctober 01, 2019Flood cleanup in the Luverne City Park, Riverside Park and Redbird Field was complete in time for Saturday’s Tri-State Band Festival Saturday. Luverne City Administrator John Call updated council members at their Tuesday night meeting on flood cleanup, costs and details. The Sept. 11 flooding caused about $77,000 worth of damage in the parks, considering fence repair, extra labor costs, some…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 01, 2019Luverne’s Dolly Talbert received the Advocate for Choral Excellence Award from the American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota. “Dolly has given of her remarkable gift of music to many throughout our community,” said Luverne choral director Seana Graber, who nominated Talbert for the award. “Dolly is certainly the heart and soul of our choirs and I am so grateful I have the opportunity to…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 01, 2019Homecoming is a fall ritual in our local school districts and Hills-Beaver Creek and Luverne public schools are each celebrating their homecomings next week. Each school celebrates homecoming week with daily dress-up days and other activities leading up to the Friday night football game. H-BC activities begin Monday with coronation ceremonies slated for 7 p.m. in the high school gymnasium. Master…
- October 01, 2019Students at both Luverne Elementary and Luverne Middle-High School met at the flagpoles of their respective schools Wednesday morning, Sept. 25, along with thousands of other students around the country for a national “See You at the Pole” time of prayer. The student-led grass-roots movement, which started in the 1990s, encourages students to gather briefly before classes on the fourth Wednesday…
- By Lori SorensonSeptember 24, 2019Hardwick City Council members conducted a public meeting last week to hear potential concerns about an ordinance that could have a noticeable affect on property taxes. The ordinance, which was approved after the Sept. 18 public hearing, creates a tax system that considers benefits for city dwellers using city services versus agricultural landowners in city limits who are not benefiting from city…
- September 24, 2019Denny Reese (left) and Chuck Egland chop silage Monday afternoon east of Hardwick where yield is reported to be lighter than normal. Several times this summer corn stalks and leaves were bent and/or shredded from high winds and heavy rains. According to the USDA crop progress and condition report released Monday, area crops continue to lag behind last year and the five-year average. Corn maturity…
- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 24, 2019A strong desire for success grips two Hills-Beaver Creek High School friends as they venture into a business together. Jim Susie and Brad Schoneman opened S & S Locker Service on Main Street in Hills this spring after purchasing the Hills Meat Locker from Tedd and Diane Larson. Susie and Schoneman see themselves as different from other meat processors. “There is nobody young doing this…
- By Lori SorensonSeptember 24, 2019Uithoven Addition lots are shaping up on the city’s west side with curbs being poured Tuesday morning. The future twin home subdivision is on the west edge of town on the south side of Dodge Street. Three cul-de-sacs will provide 15 lots for twin homes to provide a total of 30 residences. Henning Construction submitted the low bid at $851,744.15 for 1,200 linear feet of sanitary sewer line, 2,000…
- By Lori SorensonSeptember 24, 2019Linda Wenzel started July 1 as the new “aging and volunteer services coordinator” for the Rock County office of A.C.E. of Southwest Minnesota. That’s her job title, but to Wenzel, the position is more of a calling. “I just feel like I’m serving the Lord through this,” she said. “It’s a joy.” That’s a predictable response from the one who greets each day with gratitude. “Every morning I recite…
- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 24, 2019Luverne Schools Superintendent Craig Oftedahl received passing grades during his annual evaluation by School Board members. Each of the seven board members rated Oftedahl on four performance and two professional development goals set last year. Each goal was rated as 1 for unsatisfactory, 2 for satisfactory, 3 for excellent or 4 four distinguished. The four professional goals and the board…
- September 24, 2019Signup is ongoing for the Market Facilitation Program (MFP), a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) program to assist farmers who continue to suffer from damages because of unjustified trade retaliation from foreign nations. Through MFP, USDA will provide up to $14.5 billion in direct payments to impacted producers, part of a broader trade relief package announced in late July. The sign-up…
- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 24, 2019Hills-Beaver Creek School Board members took action at their Monday meeting to set the district’s preliminary levy at $1.462 million for taxes payable in 2020. It amounts to an increase of 3.61 percent over the current levy, but by statute, the board can revise the levy downward (not up) between now and the end of 2019. “With the sale of the bonds — refunding of the bonds — this will be adjusted…
- September 24, 2019Workers lifted the foot bridge in place over Mound Creek at the Blue Mounds State Park north of Luverne Sept. 10 in preparation for the next day's rain showers. On Sept. 12, more than five inches of rain placed the creek out of its banks. The bridge is part of a major renovation of what used to be the Lower Mound Lake and dam at the state park.
- By Glenda McGaffeeSeptember 24, 2019Lisa Boehlke saw the special effect music has on Alzheimer’s patients after her dad, Jim Roning, died of Alzheimer’s in 2012. Now, she wants to bring that experience to her hometown of Hills with an Alzheimer’s music program at the Tuff Memorial Home. “Those of you who knew him know what an amazing person he was,” Boehlke said about her father. “He enjoyed music, but he enjoyed visiting people at…
- By Lori Sorenson, editorSeptember 19, 2019Uithoven Addition lots are shaping up on the city’s west side with curbs being poured Tuesday morning. The future twin home subdivision is on the west edge of town on the south side of Dodge Street. Three cul-de-sacs will provide 15 lots for twin homes to provide a total of 30 residences. Henning Construction submitted the low bid at $851,744.15 for 1,200 linear feet of sanitary sewer line, 2,000…
- By Lori Sorenson, editorSeptember 17, 2019Bomgaars is under contract to purchase the former Shopko building for expansion south of I-90. “We’re too small for what the community needs,” said Luverne store manager Darrel Nielsen. “We need a bigger building to serve our customers better.” In Luverne, the move will more than double the space for Bomgaars, which operates out of 22,000 square feet in its current West Hatting Street location.…
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