Guilty plea entered in vehicular homicide case
Twenty-three-year-old Jayson Delfs, Hardwick, entered a guilty plea Monday morning in Rock County District Court to the charge of criminal vehicular homicide.
Murder case proceedings on hold
Legal proceedings for Luverne murder suspect Melvin Frazier are suspended following a Rule 20 motion that was granted in Rock County District Court Monday.
Administrator announces retirement
After 33 years on the job, Rock County Administrator Kyle Oldre officially submitted his notice of retirement during the Aug. 18 county board meeting.
Oldre’s final day of service will be Feb. 28, 2027.
Charter amendment measure advances
Luverne voters will be asked in the Nov. 3 general election if they support an amendment to change their city’s government charter.
Peterson wins election for county commissioner
Rick Peterson won the special election for Rock County’s District 3 and is set to join the county board of commissioners early next week.
PowerOn Midwest narrows routes
PowerOn Midwest has narrowed its preferred route for a proposed high-voltage transmission project, and one of its choices would cut through Rock County within one mile of the Blue Mounds State
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- By Lori SorensonOctober 27, 2020Luverne City Council members toured a vacant building on West Maple Street last week as a possible new home for the Rock County Food Shelf. The brick building at 202 W. Maple decades ago served as a dental office and in recent years fell into disrepair. The city of Luverne purchased the property in 2017 for $36,000 and the blighted lot next door (on the corner near NAPA Automotive) for $32,500.…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 27, 2020Rock County residents have one more option to do their part in slowing the pandemic thanks to a pilot program for at-home saliva testing. Through a mail order program, residents can order a saliva test online to be shipped to their home. The point, according to public health’s Jason Kloss, is to find and quarantine positive cases in order to slow the spread of the virus. “We know that there are…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 27, 2020Local volunteers loaded hundreds of surplus school desks, chairs and tables into two semitrailers headed south for use in other schools. More than 50 students and adults with Rock the Edge youth group and Southwestern Youth Services spent three hours Saturday morning loading the 80-foot trailers with the furniture stored in the district’s bus garage and the former Luverne Kawasaki building. The…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 27, 2020Minnesotans are shattering records for early voting in the 2020 presidential election, and Rock County is on pace to do the same. Auditor-Treasurer Ashley Kurtz is Rock County’s chief election official, and she said voter activity is truly historic. “I anticipated that we would have a larger amount of people absentee voting but the actual number has exceeded my expectations,” she said. “It's…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 27, 2020Tuesday, Nov. 3, is Election Day, and nearly 40 percent of Rock County’s registered voters have already cast their ballots in early voting. Those who haven’t returned their mail ballots are advised to do so soon or in person, since there are competing messages about accepting mail ballots that come in after the Nov. 3 post mark. In addition to voting for president, Rock County voters will choose…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 27, 2020Friday was Senior Day at Luverne High School. For the first time in seven months since the coronavirus pandemic started, the 92 seniors in the Class of 2021 attended a full day of classes together. At the end of the day, in their honor, Luverne elementary students lined the school parking lot for a senior parade. “The purpose was two-fold,” said High School Principal Ryan Johnson. “Give the…
- October 27, 2020The U.S. Small Business Administration continues working with lenders nationwide on the Paycheck Protection Program and processing PPP loan forgiveness. To help, the SBA Minnesota District shares five PPP loan forgiveness tips small business owners should know: PPP loan forgiveness is applied for through a lender, not the SBA •Borrowers can download PPP loan forgiveness applications from SBA’s…
- October 27, 2020The 165 pre-K through fifth-grade students at Hills-Beaver Creek Elementary lined the west side of the school in Beaver Creek Friday afternoon in a show of school spirit while parents, friends and family members paraded by in vehicles. Friday was the last day of Homecoming Week, and in honor of the night’s football game, students and staff chanted cheers like “Go Big Blue” and “Go Pates” at…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 27, 2020A $1 million grant to the city of Ellsworth will help to replace a building destroyed in a January 2019 fire. The project was among hundreds of construction and renovation projects in the $1.9 billion bonding bill Gov. Tim Walz signed Oct. 21. Ellsworth’s grant will fund a multi-purpose community center to be added to the city hall currently under construction on the city’s main thoroughfare. “We…
- October 27, 2020A dedicated group of volunteers gathered in the lower level of the Luverne Chamber Office Monday morning to fill individual bags with donated candy for families who will participate in Friday’s Halloween “Street of Treats.” The event involves costumed participants lining the one-way street at the high school where families will drive through and collect bags of candy from fire department…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 20, 2020Walleye Wind Farm developers have assured Rock County Commissioners they will not abandon the renewable energy source at the end of its life expectancy. A decommissioning agreement states that they will remove turbines and related equipment. Mike Weich, project manager for NextEra Energy and owners of Walleye Wind Farm, based out of Juno Beach, Florida, addressed county commissioners via phone…
- October 20, 2020Rock County and most of Minnesota experienced a first round of winter weather Tuesday as temperatures lingered in the low 30s and steady precipitation dropped a mixture of snow and rain with only modest accumulations. While it was cold, it could have been worse. Much of central, northern and eastern parts of the state saw upwards of 4 inches of snow throughout the day.
- October 20, 2020Three recent easements within the wellhead protection area that supplies 75 percent of Rock County with drinking water are expected to result in the biggest drop in nitrate levels in decades. At 294 acres, the John and David Piepgras’ Minnesota Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (MN CREP) enrollment accounts for more than 10 percent of the highly vulnerable wellhead protection area…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 20, 2020Renee Edmundson’s sixth-graders didn’t travel far from the Hills-Beaver Creek High School Wednesday, Oct. 14, to experience a history lesson they won’t soon forget. The 25 students and three chaperones traveled a mile west of Hills to the Eugene “Pucky” and Shirley Sandager farm, where Pucky assumed the persona of his great-great-grandfather, Haaken Moen. “They really enjoyed how he got into…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 20, 2020Russell and Doris Wenzel have a treasure collection of sorts at their farm in Springwater Township near the Touch the Sky Prairie. The first treasure was unearthed two years ago when their son, Kurt, was installing drainage tile in a nearby farm field. The large gray-colored stone wasn’t like the common red Sioux quartzite outcroppings that dot the area. “Right away, when they said they found an…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 20, 2020The Rock County ballots for the 2020 election include candidates for District 22 Minnesota Senate and District 22A Minnesota House of Representatives. Shawna Marshall, rural Luverne, is the DFL candidate challenging incumbent Bill Weber (R-Luverne). DFL candidate Chris Baumberger, Slayton, is challenging Republican incumbent Joe Schomacker, Luverne, for the District 22A seat in the Minnesota…
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