Jason Berghorst

Who could have imagined a July 4 celebration (on the water) in Luverne?
By Jason Berghorst, reporter
July 06, 2015
Growing up in Luverne in the 1980s and 1990s, I experienced a very quiet Fourth of July holiday in my hometown. Some years our family would travel to Leota to see fireworks or maybe to Hills to swim at the Rez. Any holiday activities were always in other towns. Luverne was closed for the Fourth. Independence Day is a summer, outdoor holiday. Luverne has no lake. There was no beach and no…
School calendar marks passing of time, feelings of completion and renewal
By Jason Berghorst, reporter
May 25, 2015
One of the many benefits of being a teacher that I appreciate is the school calendar. I’m not just talking about having “summers off,” although that is part of it. I’m also not referring to how some schools now consider May to be summer and August to be fall; that’s a topic for another column. I’m talking about how the flow of the school calendar marks the passing of time, gives us milestones…