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  • By Mavis Fodness
    May 04, 2015
    Each year Luverne High School’s upcoming graduates select a day as Senior Skip Day, celebrating their last days of classes by not attending or skipping school. Instead of trying to keep the students from missing class, district officials have given students a way to earn a half-day off from school through Senior Service Day. “It was done in a way knowing that seniors were going to have a skip day…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    April 28, 2015
    The Luverne Instrumental Music Department presented its 2015 Spring Concert Friday night, April 24, in the Cardinal Gym. The annual event included performances by the fifth-grade band, under the direction of Angie Swenson, and by the sixth-grade, seventh- and eighth-grade and high school bands, all under the direction of Richard Owen. New to this year’s spring event was a combined performance of…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    April 28, 2015
    Father Tom Jennings and the Wednesday afternoon students at St. Catherine Church, Luverne, celebrated Earth Day April 22 with trees, flowers and other living things. The city of Luverne is planting 70 new trees on city boulevards for Arbor Day, and Jennings and the children blessed one of them with Easter water. The tree is a flowering crab apple tree, which grows berries that feed birds and…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    April 28, 2015
    Highway 75 (Kniss Street) in Luverne will be under construction from May 11 to early September with a short in-town detour at the start of the project. To prepare business owners and residents along that route, the city of Luverne hosted a preconstruction meeting Tuesday night, April 21, in Luverne City Hall. The meeting, which attracted about 30 people, addressed the staging of the project,…
  • By Glenda McGaffee
    April 28, 2015
    Summer vacation will begin a day earlier for students attending Hills-Beaver Creek schools. The H-BC School Board decided on Thursday, April 16, to move the last student contact day to Monday, May 18. The last high school staff day is Tuesday, May 19, and the last teaching staff day at the elementary school is a half day Wednesday, May 20. The originally approved school calendar put the final day…
  • April 28, 2015
    Hills-Beaver Creek art teacher Mary Petersen applied for and received an Artist in Residence Grant from the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council (SMAC). Anne Krocak, a teaching artist, spent time in the H-BC classroom April 7 through April 16. Art students completed a mural that was revealed Monday, April 13. Pictured are the art students who created the mural, which is on display in the commons area…
  • By Glenda McGaffee
    April 28, 2015
    During a city council meeting April 14 the Hills Volunteer Fire Department attended to discuss increasing their retirement. They proposed increasing the benefit from $750 per year of service to $1,000 per year of service.  The council approved an increase of $850 per year of service. In other city business on April 14, building permits were approved to: •Larry and Linda Sanow at 704 Elizabeth…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    April 28, 2015
    Luverne’s Parents Partners in Education (PPIE) completed a unique fundraiser Friday, April 24, in a fun run around the Luverne Public School’s ball fields. This was the first year the group organized the event that had kindergarten through fifth-grade students request pledges from community members and then run a half-mile to a two-mile course. “Cardinal Dash: Keeping Cardinal Kids Running”…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    April 28, 2015
    Completing an outstanding supervised agricultural experience or SAE is only one requirement for the Luverne-Adrian FFA Chapter’s Star Farmer Award, one of the chapter’s top awards. For this year’s  recipient Andrea Severtson, a Luverne High School senior, it was a matter of more than one experience. Her adviser, Dennis Moritz, could have selected her most recent SAE in goat production. Severtson…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    April 28, 2015
    The Luverne Public Schools Instrumental Music Department conducted its 2015 Spring Jazz Concert Tuesday, April 21, at the American Reformed Church in Luverne. According to director Richard Owen, the groups first performed at the church last year and returned because of the facility’s excellent acoustics for audience members to better hear the small group of performers. Students performed seven…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    April 28, 2015
    Costs of assisted reproduction vary greatly from state to state, depending on the procedure and the type of agreement. According to surrogate law expert Steven Snyder, the Midwest is the most economical location for a surrogacy agreement, with total costs ranging from $80,000 to $120,000, if results are successful the first time. Snyder, an attorney in Maple Grove, has overseen 300 surrogate…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    April 28, 2015
    Area school districts lost a testing day when the Minnesota Department of Education temporarily suspended use of the state’s online testing website. On Tuesday, April 21, Commissioner Brenda Cassellius announced in a press release that the testing site would be shut down until technical problems within the testing system were resolved. No timeframe was given on how long the test company, Pearson…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    April 28, 2015
    Four Rock County residences received more than $5,000 in tax credits and another property is under consideration after Rock County Commissioners approved recommendations from Tom Houselog, county land records director. Houselog has been conducting local board of appeal and equalization meetings, where residents can question the upcoming property tax assessments or request disaster credits.…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    April 28, 2015
    Thanks to a local woman, a New York dad is able to raise twin sons as his own, a life event he didn’t even think was possible until only a few years ago. Michael Melcher compares life before his children’s births to that of the main character in “The Wizard of Oz” movie. “Dorothy said the first part of her life is black and white,” he said. “Then she wakes up in Oz and it’s all in color.” On…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    April 23, 2015
    It was a record-breaking night for volunteers and fundraising coordinators at Sanford Luverne Hospice Saturday, April 11. The Blue Mound Banquet Center in Luverne accommodated a packed house of 400 people for the Annual Hospice Charity Dinner and Auction fundraiser, which featured a New Orleans and Mardi Gras theme. According to Sanford Luverne Hospice volunteer coordinator Helen Saum, a gross…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    April 21, 2015
    High school speech is the competitive public speaking activity offered through the Minnesota High School League (MHSL). There are 13 speech categories with each falling into a genre of informing, influencing or entertaining audiences. Luverne High School senior Spencer Schacht has been a speech team participant for the past six years and is a three-time state speech qualifier in storytelling, one…
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