As each Memorial Day and Veterans Day approaches, local sandblaster Vance Walgrave is busy etching names onto pavers for veteran memorials throughout southwest Minnesota.
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In the April 30 poverty simulation at Grand Prairie Events, Luverne High School student Alyssa Nattress was assigned the role of a 9-year-old whose mother was in prison and her father wasn’t in the picture.
She and her 7-year-old brother lived with their disabled grandpa and their grandma who...
As each Memorial Day and Veterans Day approaches, local sandblaster Vance Walgrave is busy etching names onto pavers for veteran memorials throughout southwest Minnesota.
In Luverne, however, the pavers are engraved on-site at the Rock County Veterans Memorial.
Walgrave, owner of Those Blasted...
There’s still no location or funding for a downtown plaza, but a final concept drawing was presented Monday night to about 50 people at Grand Prairie Events.
Plaza Committee Chairman Dave Haugom called the meeting a “big reveal” of work done to this point.
“This plan takes all the ideas from our...
Sanford Luverne’s new ambulance garage is ready for use, and a Saturday morning open house gave community members a glimpse inside their local emergency services.
One of the first people there was Luverne’s Gene Cragoe, who last week observed what he calls the fifth anniversary of his second...
Fifteen high school students displayed the results of a new yearlong program intended to prepare enterprising young people for careers in the business community.
Southwest Minnesota Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities began in the fall of 2018 as a cooperative vocational education option for up...
After months of rain, snow and gray skies, the Luverne Area Chamber organized a “Bike, Walk, Ride” event for Thursday, May 16, on The Loop bike trail with a fundraiser pork loin sandwich meal at The Lake. The event was deemed a success when rain showers stayed away. According to chamber director...
Luverne High School band instructor Richard Owen gave his jazz band students a little extra lesson May 15.
Three days before the district closed for the summer, Owen and his students set up a launch pad on the west side of the school campus.
About a dozen rockets of varying sizes were constructed...
In the coming weeks city and township officials will decide whether or not to join the newly formed Rock County Economic Development Authority.
A 14-member committee of county commissioners studied the pros and cons of forming a countywide EDA for two months before recommending the new board.
Robin...
Luverne Public Schools wrapped up the 2018-19 school year Friday, and by Monday teachers, paraprofessionals and custodial staff had removed classroom items from the middle-high school’s west wing, choir and band rooms. The district received permission from the state to begin classes before Labor...
Emergency repairs will be made to the bridge along County Road 1 in southeast Rock County.
Ice flow this spring damaged the bridge’s wood pilings, allowing a three-inch sag to develop on the bridge deck.
Repairs are estimated at $52,500.
Since state officials deemed the repairs as an emergency, the...
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