2020
Luverne City Council members toured the new arrival and departure building at the municipal airport Tuesday night, June 21.
The previous structure was damaged by a fire in the fall of 2020 and was rebuilt using most of the steel girders of the existing structure, which includes the fixed base...
Rock County residents have until April 19 to comment on the new redistricting maps proposed for the five county commissioner districts.
The public hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday, April 19, in the Herreid Board Room at the Rock County Courthouse in Luverne.
Deadline is 5 p.m. Friday, April...
The monetary value of time donated by volunteers in Rock County exceeds $5 million.
Topping the 2020 list in hours were the Grace Quilters, whose 20 volunteers logged 3,821 hours.
The group formally meets Thursday mornings in the church Fellowship Hall. However, several volunteers sew at home or...
The University of Minnesota recently reported that the median net farm income for southern and western Minnesota farmers in 2020 was $102,848.
It’s the highest since 2012, which was followed by seven years (2013-2019) of poor income levels in the region.
The 2020 net farm income levels in that...
For a second straight year Luverne’s Ella Reisdorfer competed at the Class A Gymnastics State Tournament.
Last year as a seventh-grader, Reisdorfer earned a spot at state on the bars. This year she punched her ticket on the beam by recording a score of 8.875 at the section meet.
At the state...
The number of new livestock facilities built locally in 2020 increased over the previous year. However, the increase is attributed to the cattle industry rather than the hog industry.
Doug Bos, assistant director of Rock County’s Land Management Office, briefed county commissioners of the shift...
Local corn and soybean yields improved in 2020 by double-digit margins over the 2019 growing season, according to final county estimates released recently by USDA officials.
Local yields also topped the state averages.
Rock County corn production averaged 196.4 bushels per acre for 2020, up from...
Four wind production companies operating in Rock County in 2020 will pay taxes totaling $792,327, according to information at the March 2 commissioners’ meeting.
That’s about $58,032 higher than 2019 ($734,295) but down $104,102 from the high of $896,429 collected in 2015.
The county will keep 80...
A good way to measure growth over time is to track the number of building permits issued for construction.
Luverne building official Chad McClure compiled numbers for 2020, when he issued 197 permits valued at $9.8 million.
Of those, six were single-family home construction valued at $1,245,228,...
Blake Wysong (left) receives a plaque and words of gratitude during his last official Hills-Beaver Creek School Board meeting on Dec. 28 from Board Chairman Arlyn Gehrke. Wysong served one four-year term and chose to retire. “Thank you for your service and dedication to the Hills-Beaver Creek...