Meetings

Town and Country Garden Club will meet at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, at Rock County Community Library. Topic will be house plants. To reserve a seat, call 507-669-2905. Next meeting will be April 22 at 1:30 p.m. at Luverne Flowers.

In a March 13 work session, Luverne School Board members received their first look at proposed budget cuts for the 2025-26 school year.

Previous board discussions indicated cuts would range from $250,000 to $1 million.

Dozens of people joined Monday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Luverne on Main Street where crowds also wore green to enjoy the festive parade entries. Below, Chamber Director Kenzi Klein hands out gold dollar coins at the end of the parade route.

The Blue Mounds Baptist Church will lease space in the former Dragonfly building on East Main Street starting April 1.

Pastor Jeremy Jacob, Luverne, is leading the new congregation as a “church plant” from East Side Baptist Church in Sioux Falls.

Hills cabinet shop owner Dennis Hartman and his son, Tim Hartman, want to operate a cannabis retail business in southwestern Rock County.

They approached the Rock County Board of Commissioners last summer before the county had established its ordinance.

For the second year in a row, wind energy production taxes will exceed $1 million in Rock County.

The five wind production farms will pay $1.062 million in 2025, about a $1,000 less than last year.

Luverne Elementary first-graders sing “A Fabulous Day” (below) to open their “Cock-a-Doodle Dandy” program Friday afternoon in the performing arts center.

A new eye doctor has joined Dr. Sandra Carmen and the staff at Rock County Eye Clinic in Luverne.

Dr. Victoria Johnson started in January and has been seeing patients once a week on Mondays.

St. Catherine Catholic Church

203 E. Brown St., Luverne

St. Catherine Ph. 283-8502; www.stscl.org

Monsignor Gerald Kosse, Pastor