August 2022
Meetings
Town and Country Garden Club will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23, in the home of Lois Peterson to share information on tomatoes — growing them, recipes using them, varieties planted, etc. Call 507-597-6378 for more information.
Rock the Edge Prayer Breakfast Aug. 18
Rock the Edge youth...
Republican Brad Finstad won the Aug. 9 special election in Minnesota’s First Congressional District to fill the remaining term of GOP congressman Jim Hagedorn, who died in February of cancer.
Finstad, a former legislator and USDA rural development director, received 51 percent of votes to defeat...
Maybe it’s the barometric pressure, or maybe we didn’t receive enough happy “thumbs” from readers, but this week we’re all down in the thumbs.
Thumbs down — to bicycle riders on Main Street sidewalks. The painted red circles with a line through a bike are fading at downtown intersections, but...
Dispatch report
Aug. 5
•Complainant in Luverne reported a suspicious vehicle.
•Complainant reported subject has a Rock County warrant.
•Complainant on W. Veterans Drive and Highway 75 reported found property at location.
•Complainant requested to speak to a deputy.
Aug. 6
•Complainant at Sioux...
Almost three dozen first- through fifth-grade students learned about teamwork and engineering while playing with Legos last week.
Luverne Elementary teacher Molly Carbonneau led the first-time three-day Lego Camp through Luverne Community Education.
“I wanted them to learn how to work as a team,”...
LSS meals at Generations
Monday, Aug. 22: Baked chicken, baked potato with sour cream, peas, bread, dessert.
Tuesday, Aug. 23: Salisbury steak with gravy, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans, bread, dessert.
Wednesday, Aug. 24: Taco salad with salsa, sour cream, corn chips, apple, dessert....
Robinson receives degree at U of NebraskaEmily Robinson, Luverne, earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Office of Graduate Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Aug. 13 at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln.
Fick named to dean’s list at Baylor
Tyler Fick, Beaver Creek, has been...
10 years ago (2012)
•Big changes are in store for school cafeterias around the nation as new federal guidelines for school nutrition are implemented.
The meals have more fruits and vegetables, less meat and sodium, fewer calories and no trans fat.
In Luverne, food service directors Ann Rigney and...
St. Catherine Catholic Church
203 E. Brown St., Luverne
St. Catherine Ph. 283-8502; www.stscl.org
Monsignor Gerald Kosse, Pastor
Sundays 8:30 a.m. Mass. Public Mass will be celebrated at FULL capacity in the church. Masses: 9 a.m. Wednesdays, 10 a.m. Friday at the nursing homes – check the bulletin...
The 110-megawatt Walleye Wind Farm in western Rock County is taking shape with below-grade work to prepare foundations for the 40 turbines that will soon start appearing above grade. To prepare for incoming turbine blades, shoulders at multiple intersections are being widened and reinforced....