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  • May 23, 2016
    Members of the Luverne Optimist Club and Luverne High School hockey and baseball players gathered volunteers and two truckloads of sand Monday night, May 16, to fill orders for area backyard sandboxes.
  • By Lori Sorenson
    May 16, 2016
    The Rock County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a string of vehicle break-ins reported last week in Luverne. According to Sheriff Evan Verbrugge, his office took five reports of break-ins to vehicles in the neighborhoods of the 400 block of North Freeman down to the 200 block of West Lincoln and in the 200 block of South Estey Street. He said the break-ins were reported Wednesday night and…
  • May 16, 2016
    Last week was National Nursing Home Week and the Minnesota Veterans Home, Luverne, celebrated under a theme of superheroes.  National Nursing Home Week was May 8-14, and May is National Older Americans Month.
  • By Mavis Fodness, reporter
    May 16, 2016
    Five Luverne High School seniors are leaving a lasting impression for future students in their school. Mace Walgrave, Susan Thompson, Colton Kunkel, Mitchell Muller and Sandra Renken have taken on the challenge of painting a legacy mural in the high school’s north stairwell. The group began working on the mural eight weeks ago, and last week they began adding paint to the walls, covering the…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    May 16, 2016
    Elementary students from Luverne and Hills-Beaver Creek schools met senior citizens Thursday, May 12, for a friendly Intergenerational Spelling Bee at the Senior Center. Each was asked to spell words such as guillotine and silhouette until only the top three spellers remained as place winners in each of the two age groups. Senior winners were Madge May, first, Kay Franklin, second, and Louise…
  • May 16, 2016
    Luverne: The Luverne High School Class of 2016 will graduate at ceremonies beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 22, in the Cardinal Gym at Luverne Elementary School. The public is welcome. Adrian: Adrian High School commencement will be at 7 p.m. Friday, May 20, in the Adrian High School gymnasium. Ellsworth: Graduation exercises for Ellsworth High School are set for 7 p.m. Friday, May 27, at the…
  • May 16, 2016
    Four Luverne Middle School choir students were selected by audition to participate in the American Choral Directors Association’s honor choirs. Sixth-graders Elise Ferrell, Pierce Cunningham, Ashton Sandbulte and Casey Sehr traveled to St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi May 7. Guest conductor was Mary Alice Stollak, retired director of choral activities with Michigan State University.…
  • May 16, 2016
    GrandStay Hospitality, LLC, the franchisor for GrandStay Hotels and Crossings by GrandStay, has awarded four prestigious awards to the GrandStay Hotel & Suites, Luverne. During a GrandStay Hospitality conference April 28-29 in Apple Valley, the Luverne hotel received “Customer Service” and “Web Hotel of the Year.” The award recognizes the local business for how it treats guests and how it…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    May 12, 2016
    In a 5-1 vote the Luverne School Board voted not renew the contract of one its special education teachers as recommended by the elementary principal. That action was taken Thursday night among more than 40 people who gathered in the middle/high school media center for the public meeting. Board members and principal Stacy Gillette made no comments during the community input portion of the meeting…
  • May 10, 2016
    Luverne's Esther Frakes captured this photograph from the backyard of the veterans home last week. She remarked, as many others have this spring, how green the grass is and how colorful and fragrant the flowers and tree blossoms are. According to Luverne Volunteer Weather Recorder Troy Thone, the month of April was marked by widely swinging "rollercoaster" highs and lows, but the…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    May 10, 2016
    An 80-year-old farmhouse burned to the ground in Beaver Creek Township Wednesday night as part of a joint training exercise among several local fire departments. Burdette and Sharon Braun built a new house on their acreage last fall and offered the old one to firefighters for training. “It went well,” Burdette said Thursday morning after smoking embers had been pushed into a hole where the old…
  • May 10, 2016
    Luverne High School’s Class of 2016 spent Friday morning completing community service projects. Each of the 91 seniors chose to pull weeds, paint, move materials, wash windows or scrub fire trucks. Senior Service Day replaces the traditional Senior Skip Day in Luverne. Once the seniors finished the morning of service projects, they gathered at the City Park for a picnic before having the…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    May 09, 2016
    The first week in May was National Teacher Appreciation Week, but for teachers in Luverne their work with the district’s 1,192 students has been appreciated all year long through the two simple words, “Be Great.” Superintendent Craig Oftedahl started as head of the district in July and challenged staff at their workshop in August to “Be Great” in the upcoming 2015-16 school year. As a part of his…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    May 09, 2016
    A final touch in the library’s recent renovation project is a hand-painted mural designed and painted by Savage artist Greg Preslicka. When completed, the south and west walls of the library’s main floor will have colorful prairie flowers and bison images reflecting Rock County’s natural habitat. Luverne High School art teacher Chris Nowatzki brought his students to the library while the murals…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    May 09, 2016
    Luverne High School FFA students hosted a Farm Safety Day Camp Wednesday, May 4, in the north parking lot of the school campus. There were a dozen different stations illustrating to fourth-grade students the operations and potential hazards of farm machinery and equipment. FFA adviser Dennis Moritz said the students did a good job organizing their stations and preparing for the event. “The…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    May 09, 2016
    A Luverne woman reported her car stolen at 8 a.m. Sunday, and by 10:30 a.m. it was located in Sioux City, Iowa. According to the Rock County Sheriff’s Office, Mandy (Schneekloth) Koenig called the Sheriff’s Office to report that her black 2006 Chrysler Pacifica had been stolen. She said it had been parked in her driveway on North Jackson Street, but she wasn’t sure if she had left the keys inside…
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