Meetings

The third annual “Out of the Darkness” suicide awareness and prevention walk will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 16, in the Luverne City Park.

Workers with Dave Niessink Superior Caulking have been tuckpointing deteriorating spots of the Palace Theatre’s exterior over the past week. It’s among a long list of maintenance that needs to be performed on the 100-year-old building as needs arise.

The cost of prescription drugs has been too high for too long, and it’s hurt Americans’ health and bank accounts. Medicines don’t work if people can’t afford them.

There are dozens of mournful songs about September, and until this year it hadn’t occurred to me that the month has such a melancholy reputation.

Question: I know it’s discouraged, but is it actually illegal for students to be standing on a school bus while it is moving?

Dispatch report

Sept. 1

The Luverne Fire Department appropriately displayed an oversized American Flag from its extended ladder truck on Monday, Sept. 11, on South Highway 75 in observation of Sept. 11, 2001, when the United States was attacked on home soil by terrorists.

As drought conditions continue to expand in Minnesota, some areas of the state are now experiencing exceptional drought conditions for the first time since 2021 (portions of Freeborn and Mower counties in southeastern Minnesota, as well as in portions of Aitkin, Carlton an