Kahler Terrace coming back together
Workers from Kehm Contractors, masonry specialists from Omaha, Nebraska, began last week to piece together the Sioux Quartzite brick veneer on the Kahler Terrace a
Construction begins on child care center
The $7.2 million construction project is underway to renovate the former Total Card building into a community child care center in Luverne.
Jack's Basket reaches 10-year milestone
Ten years ago Kenneth native Carissa (Nieuwboer) Carroll started Jack’s Basket to make sure all babies born with Down syndrome are welcomed and celebrated.
Senior student council members serve breakfast as thank you to teachers
Seniors from the Luverne High School student council organized and prepared a hot breakfast for elementary and secondary teachers and support staff Tuesday morning.
Taubert debuts Sip of Joy CEO business
Prior to joining the Southwest MN Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities (CEO) program last fall, Joy Taubert quietly made British pastries and hosted tea parties for her family.
Much need moisture delays spring planting, clears local drought threat
Spring fieldwork took off in Rock County and across the region in mid-April, but conditions changed in late April and early May after more than 3½ inches of rain fell over a two-week period.
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- By Mavis FodnessApril 13, 2021Music education has taken different forms at Hills-Beaver Creek Schools this school year, as staff and students follow precautions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. To meet social distance requirements, K-12 music teachers Steve Olson and Amy Comp instruct in the secondary gymnasium, where students can be the recommended 9 to 12 feet apart as they rehearse. All choir students wear masks,…
- By Lori SorensonApril 13, 2021For the first time in over a year, the Palace Theatre will be open this weekend for a movie, “Godzilla vs. Kong,” a 2021 American monster film. Minnesota theaters are allowed to open at half capacity, which for the Palace means 215 may attend at one time, socially distanced and wearing masks. “You sit with the group you came in with, but you will have to socially distance from others,” Palace…
- By Lori SorensonApril 13, 2021The Rock County Sheriff’s Office is short two squad cars after a crash last week involving two deputy drivers. According to the accident report filed by Minnesota State Patrol, deputies Lee Christians and Jonathon Stearns were dispatched to rural Beaver Creek Monday night, April 5, in response to a domestic disturbance. Stearns, in the lead car, was traveling west on County Road 4 and slowed down…
- By Lori SorensonApril 13, 2021About 40 trucks, most of them semitractor-trailers, lined Ellsworth’s Main Street Wednesday, April 7, for the funeral of Daniel DeBeer at Zion Presbyterian Church. DeBeer, 33, of Ellsworth, died on March 31 as the result of a trucking accident in Wyoming. According to crash reports, DeBeer was driving a 2007 Peterbilt commercial truck eastbound on Interstate 80 near Rock Springs, Wyoming, when a…
- April 13, 2021Greg Dalbec, site superintendent with ICS, clicks a picture Monday of the school logo set in the new terrazzo flooring at the Luverne Middle-High School’s commons area. Workers with Wisconsin Terrazzo spent the weekend bending the metal for the design before adding the red terrazzo mixture to cure. Once ready, workers will add the other flooring colors before sanding the floor to reveal the rock…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 13, 2021Recent COVID-19 vaccine availability is allowing Rock County departments to resume walk-in transactions on May 1. County administrator Kyle Oldre told commissioners at their April 6 meeting that county employees met the previous week and supported the reopening plan. At that meeting, each employee was encouraged to receive the first of two vaccinations at a public health clinic on March 30. The…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 13, 2021A new business, The Barn on 60th Salon and Spa, is emerging south of Hills. The business also brings career ambitions full circle for owner Tammie Leuthold, who expects to be open next month. “Right now, it seems surreal,” she said. “I definitely didn’t plan this two years ago.” She did, however, have thoughts of becoming a beautician 30 years ago. Instead she met Kelly Leuthold at South Dakota…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 13, 2021Hills-Beaver Creek Board of Education will choose a new member to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Dan LaRock from the board. On a voice vote Monday night, board members passed a resolution declaring a school board vacancy by resignation. LaRock did not attend the meeting. Members Renee Knobloch and Tim Bosch were also not at the evening meeting. The resolution established a process…
- April 13, 2021Like the start of a big race or the beginning of a championship game, many farmers in northern Iowa are ready to begin full-scale field work as soon as field conditions are fit for planting. Most farm operators across the region reported almost ideal soil conditions; however, rainfall and cooler weather from April 7-12 in most areas delayed the initiation of major fieldwork. It appears that the…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 13, 2021“Blessed” was uttered on several occasions this weekend as Living Rock Church celebrated 10 years in Luverne. The church’s first and only minister, Pastor Billy Skaggs, referenced how God was instrumental in getting the church off the ground. “He has blessed us in the past with blessings upon blessings upon blessings,” Skaggs said. “He has blessed us for 10 years.” The initial blessing came in…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 13, 2021Under a new virtual format, Luverne High School claimed the Sub-Section Championship trophy, and all 17 students earned the right to compete in the Section 3A Championship on Saturday. “Generally there are three sub-section meets, but due to COVID-19, the virtual format and fewer participants, students were combined into two sub-sections this year,” said Caroline Thorson, who coaches the Luverne…
- April 06, 2021Luverne Area Chamber volunteers spent five hours filling 1,500 brightly colored plastic eggs for Saturday morning’s Easter egg hunt on the lawn of the Courthouse Square. The event attracted roughly 100 children who filled baskets, pails and bags with the eggs that contained candy and stickers. The mild temperature and sunny skies were ideal egg-hunting weather for the activity sponsored by…
- By Lori SorensonApril 06, 2021Local teens with Rock the Edge Youth are seeking projects for their 2021 Service Over Self mission week June 21-25. Rock the Edge is a group of youth leaders and teens from Rock County in Minnesota that gather for service and fellowship. The summer work for residents and organizations in Rock County is their primary shared mission. Projects in the past have included painting, repairing, gardening…
- By Lori SorensonApril 06, 2021Staff and volunteers at the Rock County Food Shelf will soon move to their new location at 209 West Maple Street once building renovations are complete. Food Shelf board member Katie Baustian shared architect drawings of the building showing how it will be utilized. “It will be like having a storefront where people can enter with dignity,” she said. “We won’t be tucked away in a church basement…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 06, 2021Sixty years after three bison arrived north of Luverne, a new herd of the wooly mammals is starting in another Minnesota location. The Zollman Zoo in Olmsted County near Byron joins Minnesota’s Bison Conservation Herd. The long-term goal of the program is to build a conservation herd of 500 purebred bison to ensure its long-term stability in Minnesota. Currently the program consists of 130 bison…
- By Lori SorensonApril 06, 2021Scott Buchanan took over the reins at the Minnesota Veterans Home in Luverne in January amid a pandemic that had upended nursing home operations everywhere. But the new director took it in stride, having come from the Minnesota Veterans Home in Fergus Falls where the same pandemic procedures had been implemented. “COVID has been difficult for nursing homes everywhere, and the team here in Luverne…
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