Operations at Luverne's municipal liquor store are improving under new management and oversight. 

Twice a week local volunteers gather food items from the Kwik Trip in Luverne for Thursday distribution at the Rock County Food Shelf.

Meetings

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.

Rock County Rural Water (RCRW) will be on the ground floor of another developing regional water system.

Efforts to construct a 105-acre rail yard near Magnolia were thwarted when the project failed to receive a $25 million federal grant.

This is the week, folks, the “be a george week” in honor of the late George Bonnema who would have turned 75 on July 18.

Standing in the middle of Main Street Luverne during Thursday’s Hot Dog Night, I heard a small voice ask, “Are you a newspaper reporter?”

 “Be a george” week has been underway for a few days now. I am just checking to see if you have been a george or if you have been the recipient of a george act, or maybe both.