Miller completes 'toughest row'
Although she didn’t set a world’s record rowing from California to Hawaii, Hardwick native Caitlin Miller is happy she completed the 2024 World’s Toughest Row.
County eyes former armory for Land Management Office
The state of Minnesota may give Rock County the former Luverne armory, and commissioners are considering using it for office and garage space to replace areas it rents from other en
Local committee announces second class of Alumni Hall of Fame, first class of Educator Hall of Fame
The Luverne Public Schools Hall of Fame Committee has announced the 2024 alumni inductees as well as first-time inductees to the new Luverne Educator Hall of Fame.
Hot, hot hot dogs!
The 62nd annual Hot Dog Night July 11 in Luverne drew thousands of people who consumed 15,000 hot dogs.
Food rescue program brings Kwik Trip, Food Shelf together
Twice a week local volunteers gather food items from the Kwik Trip in Luverne for Thursday distribution at the Rock County Food Shelf.
Capistran considered Army band before going into teaching
Editor’s note: Four educators from Luverne Public Schools packed up their lesson books, cleaned their desks and retired from positions they held for a combined 124 years.
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By Lori SorensonMay 22, 2024Four local brain health professionals recently completed training to lead a Suicide Loss Survivor Support Group in Luverne. Group facilitators are Angela Nolz, Jennifer Stratton, Sherri Smith and Skie Peltier-Anderson who will take turns leading the meetings. “It’s about getting together with others who have had the same experience,” said Stratton, clinical counselor and chemical dependency…
By Mavis FodnessMay 22, 2024For the second year in a row, three sets of twins will graduate from Luverne High School during commencement this weekend. Samuel and Izabel Honerman, Jack and Josie Voorhees and Will and Tori Serie have been together since fifth grade when the Voorhees twins moved to Luverne from Adrian. The students admit they are different from their predecessors. “I feel with the identical twins — like…
By Mavis FodnessMay 22, 2024Students in Dylan Gehrke’s fifth grade class Hills-Beaver Creek Elementary learned about compromise before showing off their businesses at the annual Entrepreneur Fair May 10. Most of Gehrke’s 28 students were encouraged to developed a business plan in pairs or small groups. “Compromising is one of the biggest things during this activity for our groups with multiple people,” he said. “They have…- By Mavis FodnessMay 22, 2024State public utility commissioners granted approval for the proposed 1,500-acre Elk Creek Solar Farm to be constructed north of Magnolia. In a press release dated Friday, May 17, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) issued the certificate of need to National Grid Renewables (NGR) of Bloomington for the 160 megawatt (MW) solar farm to be built in portions of Magnolia and Vienna…
- By Lori SorensonMay 22, 2024The May 14 Board of Appeals and Equalization meeting in Luverne drew several property owners questioning valuations of their property. County Assessor Rachel Jacobs answered questions, and she and her staff agreed to visit some properties for possible adjustments. Mostly though, the evening was a lesson in the difference between property valuations and property taxes and what drives valuations…
By Mavis FodnessMay 22, 2024If permitted by the State of Minnesota, a digital sign may be erected this fall on the east edge of Hills along Highway 270. Jeremy Josephson, owner of Ace Signs of Sioux Falls, presented a drawing of a possible Daktronics-made sign to city council members May 14. However, setback requirements along the state highway may prevent the electronic sign from being erected. The sign’s proposed…- By Mavis FodnessMay 22, 2024The fifth positive rabies case in cattle in Minnesota occurred in Rock County, the Minnesota Board of Animal Health confirmed May 1. “The Rock County cow marks the fifth positive cattle case in Minnesota within the past 12 months,” the May 14 press release stated, “and one of four involving skunks either seen or smelled on the property.” The local cattle producer noticed one of his cows holding…
- By Lori SorensonMay 22, 2024Luverne’s Kids Rock! Child Care Center has been awarded a $250,000 grant through the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). Luverne’s facility, scheduled to open next spring, is among more than 20 organizations to receive grant funding to expand child care access statewide. Governor Tim Walz last week announced $6.2 million in Child Care Economic Development Grants…
May 22, 2024Haburn from Osakis, Minnesota, attended Alexandria Technical and Community College for machining and engineering. He returned 10 years later for his law enforcement degree. Haburn and his wife, Peyton (Arends), a 2011 Luverne High School graduate, live in Beaver Creek. Haburn joined the Rock County Sheriff’s Office in February and recently began patrol duties.- By Mavis FodnessMay 22, 2024Members of the Luverne High School FFA Chapter recently conducted their 2023-24 awards banquet this spring in the school commons. FFA is an inter-curricular program and originated as an internal part of high school agricultural education. FFA activities encourage members to learn through hands-on experience, meeting transactions, public speaking, problem solving and taking a role in civic…
May 22, 2024The Rock County DFL completed an Adopt a Highway project on eastbound I-90 Monday, May 20.- May 22, 2024The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources asks that people avoid disturbing or touching deer fawns, which are born around this time of year. Most fawns are born in mid-May to mid-June, and fawns do not attempt to evade predators during their first few weeks of life. Instead, they remain still to avoid being seen. During these times, fawns are learning critical survival skills from their…
May 22, 2024The Lions Club donated $450 to cover the tuition to send Nick Lenz, who has Type 1 diabetes, to Camp Gilbert this summer near Waubay, South Dakota. The weeklong program in June, located at Camp Nesodak, is for children ages 8 to 18 living with Type 1 diabetes.
May 15, 2024Workers from Kehm Contractors, masonry specialists from Omaha, Nebraska, began last week to piece together the Sioux Quartzite brick veneer on the Kahler Terrace at the Rock County Veterans Memorial Building in Luverne. The bricks were removed last fall to reconstruct the terrace surface to prevent water from pooling on the terrace surface and leaking into the Herreid Annex located below. Water…
By Lori SorensonMay 15, 2024The $7.2 million construction project is underway to renovate the former Total Card building into a community child care center in Luverne. At their Monday morning meeting, members of the Luverne Economic Development Authority heard a progress report from director Holly Sammons. She said contractors have moved in temporary facilities such as job site trailers, dumpsters, port-a-johns, temporary…
By Lori SorensonMay 15, 2024Ten years ago Kenneth native Carissa (Nieuwboer) Carroll started Jack’s Basket to make sure all babies born with Down syndrome are welcomed and celebrated. Since then, the non-profit organization has celebrated 9,000 babies and their families, reaching them in 46 countries and 50 states so far. “I never could have imagined that we would have grown to where we are today,” Carroll said last week…
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