Retired Minnesota State Patrol Lieutenant Matt Sorenson will serve as Rock County Sheriff for 15 months starting Oct. 1.

A community celebration of life for the late Jim Brandenburg and his son, Anthony Brandenburg, will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, at the Palace Theatre in Luverne.

Meetings

A.E. Innovation, the company that is purchasing Luverne’s ethanol plant, will host an open house and project launch on Wednesday, Aug. 20.

If county officials followed the proposed five-year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP), costs would total more than $31 million.

Aug. 6 marked the 60th Anniversary of the passage of the federal Voting Rights Act, which most historians would put on their top 10 list of most consequential acts ever passed by the U.S. Congress.

‘So what do you do for fun?’

Harnack pens poem to politicians

Letter to the Editor:

Hey, Politicians

Dispatch report

July 30