Locals travel to path of totality to view 2024 eclipse
The highly anticipated 2024 total eclipse of the sun occurred Monday, April 8, across North America, and several groups of Rock County residents traveled to experience the once-in-a-lifetime ev
Student perform 'Legally Blonde The Musical'
When the LHS production of “Legally Blonde, the Musical” opens next week for six evening performances, audiences will be surprised at what they see.
Roeman retires from 38-plus years with county FSA
Stacey Roemen celebrated her retirement from 38 years with the Rock County Farm Service Agency Saturday night at Take 16, which was crowded with family, friends and well-wishers.
Thone wins spelling bee C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N-S-H-I-P
Twenty-three of the best spellers in southwest Minnesota participated Saturday morning in the 2024 SW MN Spelling Bee hosted at the Luverne Middle School.
History Center to host April 18 celebration
The Rock County History Center’s construction project is complete, and staff and volunteers are hosting a celebration from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 18.
Palisade Lutheran Church celebrates 150 years of worship
Palisade Lutheran Church will celebrate its 150th anniversary Sunday, April 14, at the corner of Minnesota Highway 23 and 121st Street (County Road 5).
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- By Lori SorensonOctober 15, 2019The big push started Tuesday, Oct. 8, for the local soybean harvest, with machinery, trucks and wagons kicking up dust in nearly every part of the county. After only two solid days in the fields, however, Mother Nature brought the gears to a grinding halt with rain Thursday followed by snow Friday and Saturday. Those two days in the field were enough to offer a glimpse at soybean yields for 2019…
- October 15, 2019Students at Luverne Elementary School kicked off their Friday morning with a pepfest organized by the LHS cheerleaders. The students were encouraged to wear the red and white school colors as they gathered in the elementary gym for singing of the elementary and high school songs and a game of musical chairs between selected fourth- and fifth-grade students and Homecoming royalty.
- By Lori SorensonOctober 15, 2019The Uithoven Addition has been platted, infrastructure complete and the curb and gutter has been poured. “It’s starting to look like a subdivision,” City Administrator John Call observed at the Oct. 8 council meeting. The dirt has been leveled and is ready for seeding, and now the only thing needed is cooperative weather to pour asphalt. The new addition has 15 lots for a mix of single-family and…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 15, 2019The Luverne community was front and center at the recent 2019 Minnesota National Guard Court of Honor ceremony at Camp Ripley. Warren G. Herreid II was inducted into the Court of Honor Oct. 6 along with six other service members. Their names are inscribed in the Court of Honor, an outdoor monument plaza located within the grounds of the Minnesota Military Museum. The court recognizes individuals…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 15, 2019There were 56 licensed child care providers in Rock County in 2016 compared with and 37 today, creating a rapidly widening gap between working families who need child care and the available slots with licensed providers. At last count, inventories show a need for more than 180 children over the available licensed spaces, and local leaders are exploring ways to address what they consider to be a…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 15, 2019The Hills Rez Park is the first campground in Rock County to receive access to broadband Internet. Campgrounds in the cities of Hardwick and Magnolia, Blue Mound State Park north of Luverne, and the Beaver Creek baseball field and park area are on track to have service this fall or next spring. The Hills Rez has 10 camping pads and each spot has access to WiFi services. The camp connections are a…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 15, 2019Hills-Beaver Creek School Board members agreed at their Monday night meeting to abate taxes for new homes in the district. The Rock County Home Initiative, as it’s called, encourages new housing construction in Rock County through a five-year tax abatement program. Rock County commissioners approved the initiative in September, and the city of Beaver Creek followed suit. Now residents within the…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 15, 2019The city of Hills continues infrastructure improvements under a proposed 1 percent tax levy increase for 2020. The council approved the levy increase at their Sept. 10 meeting. They also set the required Truth in Taxation hearing for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10. The percentage increase over the 2019 levy brings the city tax levy to $131,856 or less than half of the city’s $337,729 budget for next…
- By Glenda McGaffeeOctober 15, 2019SpringBrooke Events will host magician Travis Nye for an all-ages magic show at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, at SpringBrooke Events in Beaver Creek. The SpringBrooke golf course isn’t yet open, but owner Rick Gourley said the event planned for Oct. 25 will be a community celebration for Halloween. “Who doesn’t like a magic show?” Gourley said. “It will be fun, and Halloween is just around the…
- October 15, 2019The Magnolia Juniors 4-H Club conducted the group’s third annual “Paws to Remember Dani” event Saturday at Luverne ACE Hardware. The group raised $282, was given a $100 ACE gift card, and received donations of animal food during the morning event. Tracy Area Animal Rescue provided dogs and cats for adoption along with visits from several adoptees that dropped by the store. The 4-H members…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 15, 2019Linda Wenzel accepted some much-appreciated help last week from Sanford Luverne therapists during their annual community service work for Physical Therapy Month. Wenzel is the Aging and Volunteer Services Coordinator for A.C.E. (Advocate Connect Educate) of Southwest Minnesota – Rock County, and one of her duties is to help area residents access medical equipment. On Tuesday a group of physical…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 08, 2019For a typical vision screening at Luverne Elementary School, students view a chart and read the smallest letters their eyes can focus on. For those still learning the alphabet or who have language barriers or are nervous about testing, the process can take several minutes or longer. That’s why school nurse Phil Paquette welcomed new technology last week that screened for vision deficits in a…
- October 08, 2019Discovery Time preschoolers spent Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 2, learning about turtles — what they eat, where they sleep and how they prefer to be handled. Prairie Ecology Bus naturalist Stepheney Studer from Lakefield visited the Luverne Community Education classroom with lessons that involved students coloring and assembling turtle puppets out of paper. Funding for the visit was provided by the…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 08, 2019Building on the enthusiasm of the 2018 Minnesota Governor’s Pheasant Hunting Opener in Luverne, local planners are working on the 2019 Rock County Ringneck Reunion. The two-day celebration Oct. 25 and 26 features pheasant hunting, a Rock County Pheasants Forever Banquet, live music at Take 16 and a first-ever poker run with side-by-side all-terrain vehicles. “It’s a carry-over from last year’s…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 08, 2019Rock County Rural Water is acquiring land in its wellhead area to improve water quality and reclaim three previously contaminated wells. A pilot proposal funded by the Minnesota Board of Soil and Water Resources (BWSR) offers $1.3 million to enroll 120 acres of farmland into a permanent easement. The area would be planted into native grasses to filter nitrates and other contaminants from ground…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 08, 2019Betty Mann has met her match. Her name is Arlene Wagner, and she lays claim to the world’s largest nutcracker collection, which is on display in Leavenworth, Washington. It has more than 7,000 pieces, and each is a functioning nutcracker, capable of cracking nuts. At 95, Arlene is six years Betty’s senior, and like Betty, she shows no signs of slowing down. The two women met last week when Betty…
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