May 2025
- May 14, 2025Berghorst: Supporting child care: A community commitment To the Editor: For decades our community has struggled with a lack of available child care. As in-home providers retire, fewer individuals are stepping in to fill the gap, leaving many families without reliable options. While it's easy to criticize the investment required to address this issue — especially online — it’s far more…
- May 14, 202510 years ago (2015) •Kenneth, Minnesota, is a small rural town with an official population of 67. To outsiders, the dot on the map doesn’t mean much, but to those who live there and make their regular acquaintances at the Kenneth Community Center, it’s the best place on earth. Just ask the Rust brothers; they’ll attest that Kenneth people are “salt of the earth.” Bud, Keith and Don Rust…
- May 14, 2025Open houses Edward Berg will celebrate his 80th birthday with an open house from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 17, at 601 S. Walnut Avenue in Luverne. Food will be provided. He requests no gifts. James Van Maanen will celebrate his 80th birthday with a come and go open house from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, May 18, at Tuff Village. Greetings may also be sent to 301 County Road 6; Hills, MN 56138. …
- May 14, 2025St. Catherine Catholic Church 203 E. Brown St., Luverne St. Catherine Ph. 283-8502; www.stscl.org Monsignor Gerald Kosse, Pastor Sunday: 8:30 a.m. Mass. Masses: 9 a.m. Wednesdays, 10 a.m. Friday at the nursing homes – check the bulletin. All Sunday masses will be live streamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pg/stccluverne/videos/. Visit www.stscl.org for more information. …
- May 07, 2025Free health care for illegal immigrants: At what cost to Minnesotans? To the Editor, A concerned constituent recently sent me a text message regarding the escalating cost of providing medical care to illegal immigrants in the state of Minnesota. Here’s what’s currently in place: In the 2023 Health and Human Services budget bill, illegal immigrants were granted free coverage under…
- May 07, 2025LSS meals at Generations Monday, May 12: Spaghetti with meat sauce, Italian vegetable blend, applesauce, wheat dinner roll. Tuesday, May 13: Herb-baked chicken, mashed sweet potatoes, green peas, Granny Smith apple, wheat dinner roll. Half-Priced Day sponsored by Cattnach Insurance. Wednesday, May 14: Smothered chopped steak, mashed potatoes, corn, wheat bread, oatmeal cranberry cookie…
- May 07, 202510 years ago (2015) •Last week Minnesota farmers tied a 30-year record for the most soybean acres planted in a single week. That follows the pace set by corn planting the previous week when corn producers had the second-highest acres planted in 30 years, according to the USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics Service. For Kenneth farmer Danny Roskamp, last week meant a personal milestone in…
May 07, 2025Volunteers from the Rock County DFL completed an Adopt-A-Highway service project along Interstate 90 on Monday, May 5.- May 07, 2025St. Catherine Catholic Church 203 E. Brown St., Luverne St. Catherine Ph. 283-8502; www.stscl.org Monsignor Gerald Kosse, Pastor Sunday: 8:30 a.m. Mass. Masses: 9 a.m. Wednesdays, 10 a.m. Friday at the nursing homes – check the bulletin. All Sunday masses will be live streamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pg/stccluverne/videos/. Visit www.stscl.org for more information. …
By Lori SorensonApril 30, 2025The city of Luverne has so far received three conditional use permit applications for cannabis licensing since the process went live on the city’s website last week. The conditional use permit application window for the first round of applicants is from April 25 through May 9. The non-refundable application fee is $400. They will be reviewed by the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission, and a…- April 30, 2025‘Junk Days’ are among many things to love about Luverne To the Editor: With recent social media criticism of the city of Luverne, I felt it in my heart to reflect on the past 23 years. Truthfully, I wasn’t supposed to move here. The plan was for my fiancé to move to where I was. But 24 years ago, he brought me to Luverne to try and change my mind. Moving here meant uprooting my daughter and…
- April 30, 2025LSS meals at Generations Monday, May 5: Rigatoni beef, green beans, California vegetable blend, wheat bread, chocolate chip cookie. Tuesday, May 6: Closed for staff meeting. Wednesday, May 7: Country pork tips with pork gravy, steamed rice, capri vegetable blend, spiced peaches, dinner roll. Thursday, May 8: Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, brown gravy, corn, wheat bread, fresh banana. Friday…
- April 30, 202510 years ago (2015) •The properties on the east end of Barck Avenue are under demolition this week as the city of Luverne paves the way for new housing in that block. The city of Luverne and Cleveringa Construction have entered into a development agreement for the construction of two triplexes and one twin home on East Barck Avenue. … “We’ll have an open canvas there for new development,” City…
- April 30, 2025St. Catherine Catholic Church 203 E. Brown St., Luverne St. Catherine Ph. 283-8502; www.stscl.org Monsignor Gerald Kosse, Pastor Sunday: 8:30 a.m. Mass. Masses: 9 a.m. Wednesdays, 10 a.m. Friday at the nursing homes – check the bulletin. All Sunday masses will be live streamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pg/stccluverne/videos/. Visit www.stscl.org for more information. …
By Mavis FodnessApril 23, 2025Friends and LHS seniors Xavier McKenzie and Brianna Kinsinger reunite on stage as lead characters in “Beetlejuice Jr.” beginning next week. Performances are Tuesday, April 29, and Thursday through Saturday May 1, 2 and 3. All showtimes are 7 p.m. in the school’s performing arts center. McKenzie and Kinsinger previously starred in the fall production of “A Year with Frog and Toad.” Shawn…
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