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 Mavis FodnessJune 27, 2016After 16-year-old Chris Ashby was killed in an auto accident July 5, 2006, his parents, Barb and Gene Ashby, established a scholarship in his honor. The first Christopher Martin Ashby Memorial Scholarship was awarded the following spring in honor of their only child. In 2008, the year Chris would have graduated, the couple said they found it difficult to select one student among Chris’ classmates…
- By Lori SorensonJune 27, 2016The Department of Natural Resources announced Wednesday morning, June 22, the dam and lake at Blue Mounds State Park will not be rebuilt. It’s not the answer the local park users were hoping for, but the decision will likely have long-term implications for water quality and habitat. Scientists, engineers, hydrologists and others have been studying the area since June 2014 when flood damage at the…
- By Mavis FodnessJune 27, 2016
- By Mavis FodnessJune 27, 2016The Beaver Creek Watershed is now considered a priority in terms of federal funds to control erosion. That’s good news for 43 flood repair projects on eroded agricultural land according to a June 20 work group meeting at the Rock County Land Management Office. Since the 2014 flood events, the county office has received more than 160 applications for erosion repair. The number is significantly…
- By Lori SorensonJune 27, 2016The early morning sky on Wednesday, June 22, was a spectacular sound and light show of a classic summer thunderstorm. But one lightening bolt connected with a barn on the Darrell and Leah Van Meeteren farm northeast of Luverne. "We heard the loudest crack that night, but we didn't realize it was at our place," Darrell Van Meeteren said Thursday. "There was a lot of electricity…
- By Mavis FodnessJune 27, 2016County commissioners received a firsthand look at various projects in Rock County on their annual road tour June 21. Meeting in the afternoon, commissioners completed the 2 ½-hour transit bus ride prior to the 5 p.m. board meeting. A 7 p.m. Board of Equalization meeting ended their day. No property adjustment requests were made. The tour took commissioners to areas in Kanaranzi, Beaver Creek and…
- By Mavis FodnessJune 27, 2016Theodore Roosevelt was right at home at Blue Mounds State Park north of Luverne Saturday. Amid the prairie grasses and bison that make the state park their home, living history reenactor Adam Lindquist told visitors to his hunting camp display about the 26th president of the United States while acting and dressing like Teddy Roosevelt. Lindquist’s performance was like stepping back into time and…
- June 27, 2016Adrian will host an event July 2 that highlights people and resources that support veterans. The event, called the Dawg Days of Summer, features a mobile unit that memorializes military working dogs and their handlers who have been killed in the War on Terror. Activities will be from 1 to 4 p.m. on 1st Street in Adrian, north of the Adrian American Legion and also inside the post home. According…
- By Lori SorensonJune 20, 2016Luverne will have a Fourth of July fireworks show this year for the first time in over three decades. And two local firemen, Jeremy Lehman and Jonathon Kurtz, will be in charge of lighting the fuses for the holiday show at The Lake in Luverne. “I just want everyone to know we’re going to do this in Luverne,” Lehman said. “There’s something for people to do here — you don’t have to leave town for…
- By Mavis FodnessJune 20, 2016Almost 70 years of classroom experience won’t be returning to Luverne Public Schools when just two longtime teachers decided to retire at the end of the 2015-16 school year. Greg Antoine and Mary Jo Graphenteen chose early retirement after spending 32 and 36 years teaching in Luverne respectively. Each decided it was time to start another chapter in their lives with one embracing the thought of…
- By Mavis FodnessJune 20, 2016Bud and Marty Johnson are no strangers to the Hardwick Jubilee Days parade. For more than a few decades the couple’s tractors, trucks or horseless carriage have traveled the two-block route with one or more Johnson family members on board. At Saturday’s parade the Johnsons themselves will take center stage alongside their vehicles while serving as the event’s 2016 parade marshals. “They have been…
- By Mavis FodnessJune 20, 2016Luverne’s Ryleigh Beers is experienced in raising money to help others. Two years ago the recent graduate of Luverne High School purchased and delivered art supplies for the Children’s Home Society. The following year she made dozens of blankets to be given away for Project Linus. This year Beers’ project has a slight twist. “It’s my last active year in 4-H,” Beers said. “I wanted to do something…
- By Mavis FodnessJune 20, 2016While all eyes were on the 7-foot-tall yellow mascot from the Sioux Falls Canaries baseball team, it was two left-handed pitchers who completed a special reading program Monday afternoon at the Rock County Community Library. Joining Cagey (the name of the big yellow bird) were left-handed pitchers Josh Ferrell and Billy Waltrip. “He can’t talk,” Ferrell explained during a short question-and-…
- June 20, 2016Last week’s 90-degree days pushed many people to find cooler ways to enjoy the outdoors such as going to “The Lake” in southwest Luverne. Last year The Lake was designated as a kids’ fishing pond through the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
- By Lori SorensonJune 20, 2016Luverne City Council members took action at their June 14 meeting to accept a grant of $37,062 that will help fund a project to prevent drinking water contamination. Storm damage to the Rock River in recent years has created a potential water path toward an abandoned city dump. Doug Bos of the Rock County Land Management Office alerted county and city officials of the situation two years ago and…
- By Lori SorensonJune 20, 2016Lori Hallstrom made a business announcement Friday about her downtown store, HGS Gallery. "It is with a heavy heart that I inform you that I will be closing HGS Gallery at the end of June," she wrote in an email to Luverne Chamber members. But she also announced a new venture that she'll run instead. "My new business venture will be opening this fall here in my building at…
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