Luverne
Luverne residents will have a voice in future city development by attending a Sept. 26 open house about Luverne’s Comprehensive Plan.
The document provides the city leaders with a community vision for the next 20 years, and it’s reviewed and updated every 10 years.
The last update was in 2004.
“It’...
The Greater Minnesota Regional Parks and Trails Commission recently designated the Luverne Loop and Blue Mounds Trail as “regionally significant.”
This means the local trails are eligible for Legacy Grant funds, and local leaders aren’t wasting time applying for those dollars.
Luverne Economic...
Luverne High School junior Maddie Dinger is the 2016 Tri-State Band Festival designer.
The Tri-State Band Festival partners with the Luverne High School art classes to develop individual designs for each year’s competition.
The design represents the creative spirit and energy of Luverne Public...
Six educators from Luverne Public Schools took advantage of a four-day workshop to further use technology as a teaching tool.
Tom Lanoue, Doug Dooyema, Jan Olson and April Wallace from Luverne Middle School, as well as Elaine Harms and Tony Johnson from Luverne High School, participated in BestPrep...
Luverne’s Dallas Bowron predicted last year’s volleyball season would be his last as a spectator. Last week he cheered his great-granddaughter, Madison Crabtree, on to a home season opener win.
Wednesday, Sept. 7, was his 102nd birthday and Bowron sat with a group of family and friends who...
The 82 members of the Luverne High School Marching Band packed into the gymnasium Friday morning, the third out of four mornings in the past week that rain has forced the group to practice indoors.
“It’s frustrating,” said director Richard Owen of the morning rain showers. “We’ve learned some...
Commissioners from nine state agencies met with businesses and community leaders in 11 southern and western Minnesota towns during a three-day bus tour Sept. 7-9.
Their mission was to hear firsthand how state policies are affecting outstate Minnesota — particularly with regard to water, energy...
Saturday’s wedding reception for Lexi Burmeister and Ben Aukes was the first one on the books for Mike and Wanda Jarchow’s Grand Prairie Events Center.
Construction on the former Family Dollar building piqued public interest through the summer, so by Friday afternoon, wedding decorators discovered...
Luverne School Board members met in special session Friday morning to accept the resignation of longtime teacher Jane Cote, who submitted her resignation Aug. 31.
School began Sept. 6.
Cote began as a teacher in Magnolia in 1981 and became part of the Luverne elementary teaching staff when the two...
Dispatch report
Sept. 2
•Complainant reported that her father fell. She was told we would page the ambulance and she got upset and said to just forget about it, that she would take care of it herself and hung up.
•Complainant reported child abuse/neglect.
•Complainant reported someone dumped some...