September 2023
- October 11, 202310 years ago (2013) •Harvest season is often associated with a time of plenty, and one local charity is asking farmers to share their bounty. The One-Acre Challenge, as it’s called, asks corn and soybean producers to donate one acre of production to the Luverne Area Community Foundation. According to the group’s executive director, Emily Crabtree, this is a new venture. “It’s an attempt to…
October 11, 2023Luverne High School students pose for a photo Friday afternoon in the outdoor classroom area of the new Alumni Garden on the school campus, prior to the Luverne Alumni Hall of Fame ceremony. The 375 ninth-through 12th-grade students celebrated Friday as homecoming week’s Red and White Day. The drone photo was taken by senior Tyler Arends, standing in the back row.- October 11, 2023St. 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 FodnessOctober 04, 2023Summer returned to southwest Minnesota Saturday as Luverne hosted the 72nd Annual Tri-State Band Festival. Seventeen bands marched down Main Street for the morning parade competition along with Luverne bands as hosts. Nine bands participated in the afternoon field competition on the high school football field. As temperatures reached into the 90s Saturday afternoon, emergency services dealt…
October 04, 2023Abraham Lincoln impersonator Chuck Johnson presented his one-man, three-scenes, one-act play for residents at the Minnesota Veterans Home in Luverne Friday afternoon, Sept. 29. Johnson, from Perham, Minnesota, wrote the play, “A Night Before Gettysburg,” in 2021 as part of a one-act play contest in Wadena, Minnesota. His performance won best play, best original play and best actor honors at the…
By Mavis FodnessOctober 04, 2023Eighteen smoked-meat enthusiasts gathered in Jacobson Park in Hills Saturday for the Fourth Annual Smokefest. Doug Chapman was crowned “Smoker” with the best-tasting ribs and earned $500. Carl Heikes was awarded second place ($200) and Chris Antholz was third-best smoker ($100.) Saturday’s event, hosted at the city park, was the first time the event became communitywide. “We wanted to make…
October 04, 2023Hills-Beaver Creek students in preschool through twelfth grade took to the streets of Hills for the annual homecoming parade Friday afternoon. Students and staff were encouraged to dress in the school colors of red, white and blue and create signs for the evening’s football game against the Renville County West Jaguars. The Patriots won the game 45-14.
By Lori SorensonSeptember 27, 2023Beaver Creek city leaders and Rock County officials are again considering options for the rural recycling shed in Beaver Creek’s city limits. The roll-off container inside the shed is chronically full and overflowing, and Beaver Creek maintenance supervisor Travis Helgeson is seeking a solution. “It’s getting ridiculous,” he told city council members at their Sept. 20 meeting. “If the…- September 27, 2023‘Night Before Gettysburg’ Sept. 29 at Vets Home “The Night Before Gettysburg” will be performed at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29, at the Minnesota Veterans Home, Luverne. Playwright Chuck Johnson, Perham, brings President Abraham Lincoln’s thoughts to life in a short, three-act play that offers a glimpse of the 16th president’s state of mind as he writes his “Gettysburg Address.” The event is free…
- September 27, 2023Card showers Arden Sorenson will celebrate his 90th birthday on Monday, Oct. 2. Greetings may be sent to him at 164 201st Street, Jasper, MN 56144.
- September 27, 202310 years ago (2013) •It was nearly 100 years ago when Dallas Bowron, now age 99, first trotted down the streets of Magnolia on his way to his grandmother’s dry goods store. She was an adventurer who had homesteaded in Wyoming, run a boarding house in Minneapolis, and worked land in North Dakota. Her adventures concluded when she married, settled in western Nobles County and opened the dry…
- September 27, 2023St. 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. …
September 13, 2023Workers with Dave Niessink Superior Caulking have been tuckpointing deteriorating spots of the Palace Theatre’s exterior over the past week. It’s among a long list of maintenance that needs to be performed on the 100-year-old building as needs arise. The Palace Theatre was constructed in 1915 by architect W.E.E Greene. The Palace, a 550-seat theater first owned by Herman and Maude Jochims, was…
September 13, 2023As drought conditions continue to expand in Minnesota, some areas of the state are now experiencing exceptional drought conditions for the first time since 2021 (portions of Freeborn and Mower counties in southeastern Minnesota, as well as in portions of Aitkin, Carlton and Pine counties in east-central Minnesota). At this time, the U.S. Drought Monitor classifies more than half of the state in…- September 13, 2023LSS meals at Generations Monday, Sept. 18: Parmesan chicken, green beans, fruit cocktail, bread stick. Half-Price Day sponsored by Grace Lutheran Church. Tuesday, Sept. 19: Tater tot casserole, mixed vegetables, warm peaches, dinner roll. Wednesday, Sept. 20: Ham pasta salad, creamy cucumbers, cantaloupe, vanilla wafer. Thursday, Sept. 21: Meatballs, mashed potatoes, carrots, bread,…
- September 13, 202310 years ago (2013) •Nine years ago the area around Mount Kazemba in the Chifundo region of Zambia was scrubland. Since that time, First Baptist Church, Luverne, and a group of churches have sent teams of people to build a school, the International Bible College with the oversight of Gospelink. Student cottages, bathhouses, staff houses, classrooms, a clinic, gardens and a library are now in…
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