After 15 years of planning and member prayers, Zion Lutheran Church in Hardwick is undergoing an estimated $800,000 construction project that will see the church cut almost in half before being rebuilt.

Visits to the Rock County Library continue to reach more than 30,000 annually, according to library director Calla Jarvie.

Luverne is among 12 Minnesota communities that will receive electric vehicle charging stations through state and federal grant funding.

Pre-enrollment is open for the Patriot Pals Child Care Center that will open this fall in the new Hills-Beaver Creek Elementary School.

Hills-Beaver Creek School District officials will open two time capsules at upcoming community celebrations.

Meetings

Beaver Creek Township Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 12, at the township hall in Beaver Creek.

Monday was National Water and Wastewater Professionals Appreciation Day, and the city of Luverne recognized employees in its Water and Wastewater Department (from left) Joe Arends, Matt Nath, Aaron Altman, Darrel Ykema, Aric Uithoven and (not pictured) Ivan Kooiker.

Spring fieldwork got off to a good start in some portions of the Upper Midwest in mid-late April; however, conditions in other areas were too wet to see the initiation of spring planting.