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  • By Lori Sorenson
    January 11, 2016
    Bill Ketterling of Ketterling Services announced this week that it will no longer pay for aluminum cans and aluminum scraps, effective immediately. Ketterling Services, the local solid waste and recycling operator, has for years offered 25 cents per pound of aluminum (which amounts to about 40 cans). But the announcement came this week as a result of the changes in the aluminum market, Ketterling…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    January 11, 2016
    A Luverne teen faces felony charges for his alleged role in a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl. Micah Stensland-Bos, 18, appeared in Rock County District Court Monday on charges of third-degree criminal sexual conduct filed last summer. According to court documents, an incident occurred on April 8 between Stensland-Bos and the 14-year-old girl during which the two had sexual intercourse.…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    January 11, 2016
    Rock County Community Library Director Serena Gutnik is reaching out to all local reading enthusiasts to sign up for the annual winter reading program, “Book Your Winter Getaway.” The more readers, the more books, the better, said Gutnik, who said the Rock County Community Library gets special recognition for various distinctions including the most new participants enrolled in the program and…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    January 11, 2016
    Workers at the Tuff Memorial Home in Hills will receive pay raises, thanks to recent legislation that changes how nursing homes are funded. The Minnesota Legislature recently passed the Senior Care Reimbursement Reform Bill, which gives $138 million in additional funding to nursing homes. Tuff Administrator Laura Preheim said the funding is a welcome relief for the Hills facility. “The board and…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    January 11, 2016
    Have a gift of music that you'd like to share with the community? Local musicians are encouraged to attend a Jan. 20 organizational meeting for what could become a Luverne Area Music Ensemble. The group has a potential to form a community band or choir, small choruses or even pep band ensembles for local events and celebrations. “We have all this musical talent in Luverne,” said Janine Papik…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    January 11, 2016
    As of Monday, Luverne High School graduate Caitlin Miller has rowed more than 1,100 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Miller of Hardwick is competing in the “Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge,” a 90-day, 3,000-mile journey from the Island of LaGomera (one of Spain’s Canary Islands just off the coast of Africa) to English Harbor, Antiqua. She and her rowing partner, George Pagano of Media,…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    January 11, 2016
    The Blue Mound Quilters are displaying two years of work this month at the Carnegie Cultural Center in Luverne. Included in the more than 75 quilts, table runners and wall hangings is one quilt that took its quilter more than a year to complete. With her Block of the Month membership, Mary Crawford constructed a Women of Courage quilt top from 12 individual patterns received monthly in the mail.…
  • By Mavis Fodness
    January 11, 2016
    Luverne Elementary School’s physical education classes are a little more crowded the first Fridays of the month. That’s when parents and grandparents are invited to participate in the school’s walkathon either on the school track or, in the case of this past Friday, in the school gymnasium. Physical education teacher TJ Newgard borrowed the idea from his brother-in-law, who teaches in Slayton. “…
  • By Lori Sorenson
    January 11, 2016
    At 19, Glenda McGaffee remembers not liking her new job at the Tuff Home in Hills. "I hated it," she said. "I hated all the old people." McGaffee said it didn't take long to like her job and love the people — her co-workers and the residents and their families. This week McGaffee will observe her 40th anniversary of working at the Tuff Home, and she said it's a good…
  • January 11, 2016
    Jan. 18: FSA Office closed for Martin Luther King Day •Jan. 29: 2015 LIP sign-up deadline; CRP “Early Out” request deadline •Feb. 1: 2015 Wool Loan and LDP request deadline; 2014 and 2015 ARC-CO Payment recalculation request deadline; 2016 NAP Maple Sap sales deadline •Feb. 15: FSA Office closed for Presidents Day •Feb. 26: CRP General sign-up deadline •Ongoing: Continuous CRP sign-up   Livestock…
  • January 11, 2016
    Six television sets were given to the Minnesota Veterans Home in Luverne Jan. 6 by representatives from the Veterans of Foreign Wars District 3, which encompasses 18 VFW chapters in southwest Minnesota. Pictured from left are Terrie Gulden, VFW Post 2757, Luverne; Chuck Drown VFW Post 5334, Minneota; Ed Lozinski, District 3 commander; Duane Mabon, Minnesota Veterans Home activities director; Buck…
  • January 11, 2016
    The Southwest Research & Outreach Center (SWROC) and University of Minnesota Extension will host Winter Crops and Soils Day Feb. 1-4 in Montevideo, Luverne, Lamberton and Fairmont, respectively. Winter Crops and Soils Day is a public event highlighting current University of Minnesota research that is specific to southwestern Minnesota. Leading experts from the university will present…
  • January 05, 2016
    Mother Nature blessed the area with another showing of artistic hoarfrost Monday, after heavy overnight fog left trees, branches, grasses and other stationary objects coated with ice crystals.
  • January 05, 2016
    Winter is the best time to prune trees to keep them healthy and protect them from disease, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. 

 “Pruning trees when they are dormant is a way to protect them from diseases such as oak wilt or Dutch elm disease that are active during the growing season,” said Jennifer Teegarden, DNR forestry outreach specialist. “Also, it is easier to see…
  • January 05, 2016
    Rock County Law Enforcement and emergency medical personnel will challenge the Luverne Fire Department in a friendly competition to see which department can recruit the most donors for the community’s blood supply for the Ninth Annual “Heroes Behind the Badges” next week. Donations will be accepted from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 11, at Sanford Luverne. Donors are…
  • January 05, 2016
    The first baby of the New Year born at Sanford Luverne Hospital is Azalea Grace VanVeldhuizen, born Jan. 1, weighing 7 pounds, 12 ounces and 20 inches long. She’s pictured with her parents, Melissa Radley and Josh VanVeldhuizen, both of Luverne, and she joins a 2-year-old sibling, Rome. Azalea’s grandparents are John and Laura Radley and Diane and Todd Elbers, all of Luverne, and Tim Keiser,…
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