Rock County and a good share of the region was crippled last week by a mammoth spring storm that brought rain, sleet, ice and snow — along with thunder and lightning.
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Rock County and a good share of the region was crippled last week by a mammoth spring storm that brought rain, sleet, ice and snow — along with thunder and lightning.
Ice began accumulating on trees, power lines and property Wednesday afternoon, April 10, and strong winds gusting to 50 mph later...
Rock County Library celebrated last week’s National Library Week, culminating in a locally written puppet show Friday morning. Assistant librarians Barb Verhey and Glenda Bremer wrote the show, “A Day at the Library,” featuring librarian Mrs. Buzzard Butler (far left), who is busy trying to open...
The three Minnesota State Speech Tournament qualifiers left Luverne High School at 8 a.m. Wednesday, April 10, ahead of an ice storm that closed roads and left hundreds without electrical power.
Coaches Gavin Folkestad and Caroline Thorson and students Seno Chanthalangsy, Shane Berning and Chance...
Luverne High School honored 21 students in an earlier-than-usual National Honor Society initiation ceremony April 8.
Three seniors and five juniors joined the elite group this year that already included 13 returning members, who conducted the evening’s ceremony.
Each year the Luverne chapter can...
Parent Partners in Education (PPIE) kicked off its annual Cardinal Dash fundraising event Friday in an unusual way.
The kindergarten through fifth-grade students watched a video featuring classmates talking about the event that matches fitness with $10 pledges.
“One hundred percent of the proceeds...
Luverne Elementary School first- and third-graders performed “Lemonade: A Musical for Young Singers” Friday in the school gymnasium. The musical written by John Jacobson and John Higgins featured numerous nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters describing their woes to the audience and ending with...
The nephew of a rural Hardwick couple was found safe after spending five days lost in the California mountains.
Eric DeSplinter, 33, and Gabrielle Wallace, 31, were last seen Saturday morning, April 6, hiking toward Cucamonga Peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, about 45 miles west of Los Angeles,...
Change is on the horizon for the former interpretive center atop the Blue Mounds State Park north of Luverne.
Local park staff learned in March that funding is available for a landscape architect to develop a plan for the iconic structure built by the late Luverne author, Fred Manfred.
“I’m really...
Jeff and Sarah Hartquist’s sons spent the day off from school Thursday, April 11, thinking about summer. Postponing their jobs of clearing snow from the sidewalks, Henry (back, left), Graham (in front), and Ben constructed a snowman at the corner of Kniss Avenue and Barck Street. The trio then...
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