Santa, lighted Ellis and Eastern train, fireworks kick off holiday season
Hundreds of people attended Sunday night's "Light the Night" events in Luverne to kick off the holiday season ahead of this weekend's annual Winterfest celebration.
Streaming service can be 'borrowed' for free from local library
A streaming service joins the list of items that can be borrowed from the Rock County Library in Luverne.
Youth Dance Ensemble presents 'Nutcracker Story' in Luverne for Winterfest weekend
Luverne Spotlight Dancers will join 35 Twin Cities dancers with Youth Dance Ensemble to perform “The Nutcracker Story” this weekend.
State turns back 13 acres to county; Springwater township gets two
The state of Minnesota recently turned over 13 acres of land to Rock County and 2 acres to Springwater Township.
Eagles Club shares holiday cheer
Volunteers for Fraternal Order of Eagles and their families sang Christmas carols at the Minnesota Veterans Home, Good Samaritan Society and the Oaks and Poplar Cr
Courthouse remodeling construction expected to be finished next month
Phase 2 of the Rock County Courthouse remodel is underway, and demolition of the Land Records office is now complete.
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- By Mavis FodnessOctober 20, 2015Tucked inside a spare bedroom in Bruce “Buzz” Anderson’s Eagan home is a little remembrance of growing up in Hardwick during the 1950s and ’60s. Resting on top of a 4-by 8-foot antique table, the miniature town started with an N-scale train 18 months ago. “It sounds like a real diesel engine,” he said of the 1:160th scale locomotive. The sound reminds the Luverne Class of 1966 graduate of when he…
- October 20, 2015
- By Lori SorensonOctober 20, 2015Photographs from veterans and their families have been submitted from Luverne and throughout the United States to be displayed at the Carnegie Cultural Center during the month of October for the first-ever Veteran Photo Show. The show was developed to complement military photographer Stacy Pearsall’s Oct. 2 program, “Combat from Behind the Camera.” As part of her Veterans Portrait Project,…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 20, 2015Three Enel Green Power employees spent Friday morning, Oct. 16, sprucing up areas around the city of Hardwick. “Green Up Our Community Day” is a companywide effort to help clean up communities where Enel Green Power North America (EGP-NA) has its offices and where renewable energy plants are based. Enel Green Power operates Prairie Rose Wind Farm and has offices in Hardwick. Site manager Tony…
- October 20, 2015
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 20, 2015In keeping with his school year initiative, “Be Great,” Luverne Public School Superintendent Craig Oftedahl is challenging his teaching staff to write “LUV Notes.” Oftedahl unveiled his idea Thursday night, Oct. 8, to board members as he passed each one of them a white envelope. Inside was a white thank you card that read “Luverne Cardinals” and the mascot image. Inside he included a personal…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 20, 2015Luverne Elementary fourth- and fifth-graders will get some extra help this fall understanding whole numbers, rounding to the nearest tenth and other general math concepts. Math Corps tutor Jessica Quissell, Jasper, works with 24 select students in groups of two for 90 minutes a week on various math interventions with one purpose in mind. “I want to make math fun,” she said. The district hired…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 19, 2015Luverne city leaders have been busy this summer preparing industrial lots for sale and development. At their Monday morning meeting, members of the Luverne Economic Development Authority approved a resolution that sets the sale price of various lots in Luverne’s industrial neighborhoods. For example, prices for the three lots in the Walnut Industrial Subdivision were set at $25,000 apiece. These…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 19, 2015Keeping Rock County’s private well water safe to drink will be the focus next year under the state’s Targeted Township Nitrogen Testing Program. Private well owners in seven Rock County townships can voluntarily have their wells analyzed for nitrate levels in a joint effort by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and the Rock County Land Management Office (LMO) in Luverne. Townships…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 19, 2015Luverne City Council members put the wheels in motion at their Oct. 13 meeting to condemn a residential property for eventual acquisition by eminent domain. The large yellow house at the corner of Highway 75 and Lincoln Street has been in disrepair for years, and city building inspector Chad McClure has declared it uninhabitable, in addition to a dangerous nuisance. At a public hearing Tuesday…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 19, 2015Designers and work crews have completed the flag park on the southeastern corner of Main Street and Highway 75. The $35,000 project features four flagpoles — for an American flag, Minnesota flag, POW-MIA flag and a Luverne flag. The Highway 75 edge of the park has a grass berm along the west edge, and the north side has a raised flowerbed that has Sioux quartzite boulders, perennial and annual…
- October 12, 2015
- By Lori SorensonOctober 12, 2015Twenty-six residents of the Luverne area returned Friday from the prestigious Blandin Community Leadership Program, an intense five-day training at Sugar Lake Lodge, Grand Rapids. Local residents participating in this training were Johnna Ahrendt, Mike Davis, Mike DeJong, Lisa Dinger, Judy Fenske, Stacy Gangestad, Tim Gust, Lori Hallstrom, Mike Jarchow, Wanda Jarchow, Ryan Johnson, Jane Lanphere…
- October 12, 2015
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 12, 2015Luverne school officials will conduct another survey to decide whether or not to continue starting school before Labor Day. This time, however, instead of an online poll, the board plans to conduct a simpler paper survey during parent-teacher conferences in late October and early November. At the Oct. 8 board meeting, Superintendent Craig Oftedahl discussed with board members survey drafts of…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 12, 2015Luverne’s Blue Mound Tower received a minor facelift last week when workers power-washed the building’s skylights. Workers from Bargen Inc. of Mountain Lake spent Tuesday, Sept. 27, ridding the flat rooftop skylights of several years of dirt and grime. “They’re still discolored,” said Executive Director Tammy Johnson. “Ours are flat, and in this climate they should be slanted or domed so dirt and…
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