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- January 25, 202210 years ago (2012) •Luverne’s Terry Vajgrt will be sworn in next month as a judge in Minnesota’s Fifth Judicial District. “It’s an exciting opportunity,” he said Monday about being appointed by the governor. “I greatly appreciate the local support and encouragement I received through the application process.” He replaces Judge Timothy Connell who retired late last year after 24 years on the…
- January 18, 202210 years ago (2012) •Colleen Deutsch, Luverne, has been chosen to be the Legend of the Year for 2011 at Children’s Care Hospital and School, Sioux Falls and Rapid City. Deutsch a registered nurse, has worked as a nurse on all the units and is now the nurse care coordinator for the Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities. Deutsch was chosen from nearly 500 staff…
- January 11, 202210 years ago (2012) •Ever since Breanne Hup, Luverne, was a little girl, she has been intrigued by all things African. Last month that intrigue led her on a nine-day mission trip to Zambia, a small country in south-central Africa. Hup, daughter of Ken Hup, is a registered nurse at Sanford Hospital Luverne. As part of a 10-member team from the Ransom Church in Sioux Falls, Hup’s mission assignment…
- January 04, 202210 years ago (2012) •Child Guide director Lisa Dinger’s job is to connect children who face problems to organizations or people with solutions. Some kids have small problems, like not having a box of crayons or gym shoes when they are needed. Other kids have big problems, like spending the weekend hungry. Dinger’s job for 10 years has been to manage the network of problems and solutions for…
- December 28, 202110 years ago (2011) •Director Terrie Gulden is retiring after 15 years at the helm of the county’s Heartland Express public transportation program. Gulden said he considers the completion of the Heartland Building at 1011 North Blue Mound Avenue as a career highlight. “This building has been a huge success for the program,” Gulden said. After years of being bounced around, the Heartland office…
- December 21, 202110 years ago (2011) •It was 1968. Magnolia High School graduate Jerry Hoff had been home from Vietnam for three days when Smith Furniture owner Larry Brinkman called him with a job offer. Hoff learned how to install flooring while working at Smith Furniture for the next five years. When Bob Davis was looking to sell his floor covering business in 1973, Hoff was the buyer. “I’ve been in business…
- December 14, 202110 years ago (2011) •City union workers agreed to a “soft pay freeze” for next year, according to the terms of a contract recently negotiated between the local AFSCME Union and city leaders. At their meeting Tuesday night, Luverne City Council members approved the labor agreement, which calls for a 0-percent increase in 2012 and a 1-percent increase in 2013. The first year of the plan is referred…
- December 07, 202110 years ago (2011) •A Luverne High School student is finding success in the film industry in the Twin Cities. His latest work, “In Harm’s Way,” will premiere at the Historic Palace Theatre in Luverne at the end of the year. Mason Makram, who graduated from Luverne High School in 2008, was part of the movie crew that filmed a feature film primarily in the Twin Cities locations. He started working…
- November 30, 202110 years ago (2011) •Singer and songwriter Doug Spartz will bring his holiday show, “Almost Home, an Americana Holiday Concert,” to the Historic Palace Theatre in Luverne Friday, Dec. 2. … Spartz, who has family ties to Worthington, performs with a seven-piece band, the members of which have their own deep roots in music. Dawn MacArther began her career at age 4 and was featured at 11 years of…
- November 23, 202110 years ago (2011) •The U.S. Postal Service is broke, and closing post offices is one way to streamline business. “It’s not so much a money thing as it is about the fact that if not as many people are coming into these places, then why are they still open?” said Pete Nowacki of the USPS in Minneapolis. There are more than 3,000 post offices now on the chopping block in Minnesota, and that doesn’…
- November 16, 202110 years ago (2011) •The record price paid for Rock County agricultural land at a public auction jumped to $12,4000 Thursday, Nov. 10, as land owned by Robert Kitchenmaster was offered for sale. The sale broke the $9,050-per-acre record paid for 160 acres in Mound Township Aug. 24. Ron Van Ruler was the successful bidder, buying 150 acres of prime farmland three miles east of Hills that had been…
- November 09, 202110 years ago (2011) •Rock County members of the local National Guard unit received a really big message from home last week. A 600-foot roll of paper containing hundreds of handwritten messages to soldiers arrived at the Camp Patriot base in Kuwait on Friday. According to First Sgt. Robert Newman, the service men and women unrolled the letter and enjoyed reading the messages, some of which were…
- November 02, 202110 years ago (2011) •The Luverne Fire Department was called to the Blue Mounds State Park late Monday afternoon to assist with a controlled burn that got out of control. The park conducts annual prescribed prairie burns in different areas of the Blue Mounds to control non-native species and to encourage the growth of native prairie grasses and flowers. But the flames in this case spread to…
- October 26, 202110 years ago (2011) •City of Luverne Public Works Department employees this week have been preparing a large wall of a downtown building for a mural. The mural will go on the west wall of 123 West Main St., greeting motorists as they drive east from Highway 75. Sioux Falls sign painter and artist Gary Hartenhoff has been commissioned to paint a 16-by-80-foot series of panels that tells that story…
- October 19, 202110 years ago (2011) •A 9-foot grand piano will permanently grace the stage of Luverne’s Palace Theatre, compliments of Gary and Janine Papik. Janine Papik said the piano’s history began in the old Luverne High School building sometime in the 1920s or 1930s where it stood on the stage in the school’s theatre and was featured in the school’s music programs. When the high school building was…
- October 12, 202110 years ago (2011) •Visitors will find it easier to navigate Touch the Sky Prairie following the unveiling of three directory kiosks Tuesday. Dignitaries and school children gathered to see the covering removed from a three-sided, wood-framed kiosk containing maps, brochures and photographs intended to guide visitors across the federally managed 1,000 acre-tract of tall grass prairie in central…
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