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  • November 12, 2019
    More than 100 visitors from the area toured Midwest Fire in Luverne Oct. 4 for Manufacturing Day, which highlights manufacturing careers for schools, students and community members. This is the third time Midwest Manufacturing has participated in the national observance, and this had its biggest group ever, according to CEO Sarah Atchison. “We hope by educating the community on what we do, it…
  • November 12, 2019
    FSA offers direct farm ownership and direct farm operating loans to producers who want to establish, maintain or strengthen their farm or ranch. FSA loan officers process, approve and service direct loans. Direct farm operating loans can be used to purchase livestock and feed, farm equipment, fuel, farm chemicals, insurance and other costs including family living expenses. Operating loans can…
  • November 05, 2019
    The Luverne girls' cross country team made Luverne High School history by turning in a second-place performance as a team during the Minnesota State Class A Cross Country Championships Saturday, Nov. 2, in Northfield.
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  • By Lori Sorenson
    November 05, 2019
    There are more than 40,000 veterans living in the tri-state area, but the nearest veterans cemeteries are in Sturgis, South Dakota, or Fort Snelling in St. Paul. “This makes it very difficult and expensive for those living in this region to have a military burial,” said Vietnam veteran Buck Underwood, Luverne. That’s why he and other local veterans are pleased by a current construction project…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    November 05, 2019
    The Green Earth Players’ fall production of “The Beverly Hillbillies” will bring a popular television show to the stage Nov. 15-17 and Nov. 21-24 at the Palace Theatre in Luverne. “It’s a very iconic show,” said director Jacqueline Pierce-Humke. “There are not many people who haven’t seen or heard (of the TV show.)” The television show aired from 1962 to 1971 and can still be seen on the small…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    November 05, 2019
    Research shows that many Rock County seniors are food insecure, but many don’t seek affordable meals at the senior meal site in Luverne because they don’t see themselves as old or as needy. Statistics also show that one in every 12 retirement-aged adults is food insecure, and most of them are not receiving home-delivered meals or participating in congregate meals. This alone shows the need to…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    November 05, 2019
    Generations president George Bonnema cheered out loud after organization members voted unanimously to purchase the next-door lot for their new building construction. “Wow! I get to stay on as president!” he exclaimed from the front of a crowded senior dining room Monday afternoon. “I was going to resign if you said no.” Bonnema and a handful of other volunteers have been working tirelessly over…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    November 05, 2019
    Luverne Elementary fifth-graders kicked off a new art education program with last week’s artist-led projects. Mary Petersen of Luverne, who recently retired from teaching in the Hills-Beaver Creek School District, spent three 45-minute sessions introducing the 79 fifth-graders to watercolor painting. The project took place over three days within the four classrooms’ regular schedules. Principal…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    November 05, 2019
    Surrounded by mounds of coats, some in bags and some on racks, Destiny Ripka marvels at the generosity of strangers in Rock County. She volunteers for SHARE — Sharing Hearts Are Reaching Everyone — the local organization that helps families stretch their resources through the holidays. Part of that effort includes the One Warm Coat project, which has been collecting donated coats over the past…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    November 05, 2019
    When Kyler Hartz was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, he spent time at the Children’s Hospital in Sioux Falls and noticed kids without hair due to cancer treatments. “He asked us about them and later decided he would grow his own hair and donate it,” said Kyler’s dad, Paul Hartz, rural Luverne. That was a year ago, and Kyler’s hair was already shoulder length, but since then it grew past his…
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  • By Glenda McGaffee
    November 05, 2019
    The Hills Christian School hosted Fine Arts Night Monday, Oct. 28, for a program that included audience and students singing, student poetry and more. Students in grades 3-5 who read poems included Anne Van Dyken (pictured reading “Messy Room”), Jordan Hartz, Gunnar Bork, Suzie Feucht and Jessa Vanden Bosch. Grades 6 through 8 shared stories about their grandparents. These students were Shelby…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    November 05, 2019
    Fourteen area band students will perform Saturday in Sioux Falls as part of the Augustana University Band Festival. Now in its 62nd year, the band festival brings in high school students from a five-state area to participate in two full days of ensemble and clinic work before the Saturday night public performance. Students are selected for one of three bands: Honor, Blue and Gold. “Usually…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    October 29, 2019
    Luverne Middle School students completed their annual highway cleanup Friday under clear, sunny skies. For the past two decades eighth-graders have walked the 10 miles of ditches along South Highway 75 picking up garbage each fall and spring. About half the class walks in the fall, and the other half walks in the spring. “Every eighth-grader does it at some time,” said middle school principal…
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