By Glenda McGaffee
April 02, 2019
H-BC sophomore Allison LaRock will travel to Washington, D.C., June 15-20 to attend the Rural Electric Youth Tour.
The Youth Tour is a trip sponsored by Sioux Valley Energy and coordinated by South Dakota Rural Electric Association (SDREA) and Minnesota Rural Electric Association (MREA).
Chinelle Christensen, representative from Sioux Valley Energy, presented LaRock with the award Wednesday,…
April 02, 2019
Student members of the Luverne-Adrian FFA Chapter were busy in March participating in three career development activity (CDA) events.
On March 11 four members traveled to the Region 6 Ag Mechanics Contest at the Minnesota West-Jackson Campus.
Team members included Justin Dohlmann, Hunter Sandbulte, Camron Kopp and Chris Aning.
Aning placed 10th overall individually and the team was seventh out of…
By Mavis Fodness
April 02, 2019
Luverne will send a team of 21 students to Saturday’s section speech tournament after winning the Subsection 10 title March 26 in Adrian.
Thirty-eight students comprised the winning team.
The top four finishers at the subsections in each of the 13 speech categories move on to the Section 3A tournament in Marshall Saturday.
However, the 21 qualifiers may be joined by eight of their teammates…
April 02, 2019
Ellsworth Locker, located in Ellsworth, received ten awards at the 2019 Minnesota Meat Processers Convention in St. Cloud recently.
The annual event received entrants from Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota.
Brian and Kathy Chapa, owners of Ellsworth Locker, entered 26 different categories.
The awards and categories included:
•Grand champion: onion garlic bacon, Korean BBQ brats and smoked…
By Lori Sorenson, editor
March 31, 2019
Monday, April 1, marks one year until the U.S. 2020 Census, and a group of volunteers are working to make sure every person living in Luverne is counted for the record.
The 2010 census counted 4,745 residents in Luverne after 89 percent of residents self responded to the survey.
Local leaders are hoping to improve participation in the 2020 census with eye toward reaching the 5,000 population…
By Mavis Fodness
March 26, 2019
Rock County engineer Mark Sehr is familiar with the deep ruts created by heavy equipment sinking into the thawing gravel roadways.
“Every spring you get where the top six inches to a foot thaws and we still have frost underneath — there is nowhere for the water to go and it turns into soup,” he said. “… 99.9 percent of our producers have common sense.”
Sehr joined county attorney Jeff Haubrich…
By Lori Sorenson
March 26, 2019
At their Tuesday night meeting, Luverne City Council members approved plans and specifications to prepare the Uithoven Addition subdivision for future twin home development.
The city will seek bids from contractors to install 1,200 linear feet of sanitary sewer line, 2,000 feet of water main, 2,200 linear feet of curb and gutter and 1,200 tons of paving.
Plans also call for a retention basin to…
By Lori Sorenson
March 26, 2019
A group of nearly 40 community members gathered Monday night for a second round of discussion about what a downtown plaza in Luverne might look like.
They looked at three architect drawings of possible plaza scenarios, each with different combinations of green spaces, water features, outdoor seating, stage areas, shade trees, and more.
Community members at the meeting rolled up their sleeves in…
By Lori Sorenson
March 26, 2019
Rock County Senior Citizens are now known as “Generations,” as indicated on the new sign on their building at East Lincoln Street.
“It’s a new name and a new image,” said George Bonnema, president of Generations (formerly Senior Citizens).
He uses the new name in as many references as possible in order to get the public used to the idea of the group’s transformation.
“In the public’s eye, a…
By Mavis Fodness
March 26, 2019
The Luverne Cardinal speech team finished its regular season with its third first-place large team finish for the 2019 season in Pipestone March 23.
There were 205 competitors from 12 different schools.
The Cardinal team had 38 students compete Saturday.
Twenty-one speakers broke into finals and received the following placings:
•Creative expression: Meagan Hansen, sixth; Solveig Tofteland, blue…
By Lori Sorenson
March 26, 2019
The Green Earth Players community theater group will open their spring production, “Drinking Habits,” next weekend in the Historic Palace Theatre.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 7.
The following week follows the same schedule, with 7:30 p.m. performances Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13, and a 2 p.m. matinee Sunday, April 14.
The…
By Lori Sorenson
March 26, 2019
Luverne’s third annual Love the Ladies Expo is set for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 30, in Grand Prairie Events.
Now in its third year, Love the Ladies Expo features a variety of vendors and seminars designed to educate, entertain and pamper participants.
“Love the Ladies Expo is the equivalent of spring break for women,” said Luverne Area Chamber Director Jane Wildung Lanphere.
“It’s an…
By Mavis Fodness
March 26, 2019
Murray County Commissioners joined Rock County in opposing the distribution of $3 million in Southern Prairie Community Care (SPCC) assets to a private health care insurance provider.
Both counties are members of SPCC, an integrated health partnership that sought for seven years to improve health care delivery services to income-eligible residents.
Last year projected financial shortfalls forced…
March 26, 2019
By Mavis Fodness
March 26, 2019
The Luverne Mock Trial team finished 10th at the state tournament Feb. 28 through March 1 in Duluth, according to results released last week by program organizers, the Minnesota Bar.
Apple Valley claimed first place out of the 16-team field.
Last year, the first year with the 16-team format, Luverne placed 11th.
The local students faced teams from Buffalo, Rochester Century and Eastview high…
By Lori Sorenson
March 26, 2019
A small group of girls made a large delivery to the Luverne Fire Department Monday night at the fire hall.
As part of their “Donation of Caring” project this year, the Girl Scouts in kindergarten through first grade accepted cookie donations — 37 boxes in all — from their customers for “local heroes.”
They delivered Girl Scout cookies in all eight flavors to the Luverne Fire Department and also…