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 SorensonNovember 02, 2015Kevin and Mary Aaker are buying a two-acre commercial lot from the Luverne Economic Development Authority to expand and relocate their Luverne Body Shop business. At a special meeting Monday morning, the LEDA conducted a public hearing on the lot sale and, hearing no testimony from the public, approved a development agreement. The Aakers are buying a lot in the Gabrielson Second Industrial…
- By Mavis FodnessNovember 02, 2015In a joint effort with the Minnesota Geological Survey (MGS), Rock County will soon know where all its residential wells are located and what measures should be taken to protect the water quality of those wells. Rock County entered into an agreement with the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering to complete a county geological atlas. Start of the project depends on state…
- By Mavis FodnessNovember 02, 2015An Oct. 28 public hearing in Hardwick prompted residents and city leaders to re-examine ordinances and policies designed to promote positive city development. Darin Prins is requesting a city variance to move in a 28-by-15-foot building on his property located at 101 E. First St. (County Road 7). He would then expand the facility to measure 28 by 35 feet and remodel the building with a metal roof…
- October 26, 2015
- By Lori SorensonOctober 26, 2015Owners involved in Skattum’s Confinement Systems and Superior Buildings Inc. Luverne, announced last week an agreement to sell their businesses. In a letter to customers and friends dated Oct. 20, owners Tom Skattum and Steve Steffl announced both businesses will be sold to Son-D-Farms, Adrian, owned by the Bullerman family, Reed Skattum’s in-laws. The letter explained that Tom’s grandson, Reed…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 26, 2015A record number of students and staff at Luverne Public Schools will receive the influenza vaccine to combat the upcoming 2015-16 flu season. Sanford Clinic Luverne personnel gave more than 600 shots in the makeshift clinic Friday in the Luverne Elementary gymnasium. Another clinic for immunizations by nasal mist is planned for late November and early December for another 200 individuals. “It’s…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 26, 2015Engineer technician Lance Wheeler began work at the Rock County Land Management Office in late September and has tackled more than 100 applications for flood repairs and new conservation projects in Rock County. A May graduate of the range sciences program at South Dakota State University in Brookings, Wheeler grew up in a rural neighborhood near Madison, South Dakota. His love of the outdoors…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 26, 2015For more than five decades, the Luverne FFA Chapter has conducted an annual corn drive, where student members request donations of corn from farmers. On Tuesday, Oct. 20, students from the now Luverne-Adrian FFA Chapter hauled grain donations from fields to sell at local elevators. “The FFA members brought in 1,687 bushels of corn and individuals donated $500 total,” said FFA adviser Dennis…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 26, 2015Sealed bids were opened Oct. 20 for Phase 1 of the Luverne Loop bike bath, and Henning Construction, Adrian, submitted the low bid of $439,694.50. The only other bid was from Duininck Inc., Prinsburg, for $597,223.60. City Council members took action at their Tuesday night meeting to award the bid to Henning for Phase 1 of the Loop. This portion of the trail will start at the pond behind the…
- October 26, 2015
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 26, 2015Luverne Public School District officials are seeking to renew one of two operating levy referendums set to expire at the end of this year. To help voters understand the levy’s impact on the district for the past 10 years, school officials will conduct a public meeting tonight (Oct. 29) at the elementary school commons. The meeting will begin at 8 p.m. Currently, the existing levy generates $763.…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 26, 2015Ten years after setting Rock County’s highest average corn yield, area producers are confident the record will be broken once the 2015 growing season is wrapped up. How much the average could be raised is yet to be determined. Meanwhile, local farmers have enjoyed 24 days of rain-free weather from Sept. 29 to Friday, when .89 inches was recorded. It has been those timely rains throughout the 2015…
- By Lori SorensonOctober 26, 2015The Luverne High School marching band members are finished with fall competition, and director Richard Owen is reflecting on what he considers a successful season. “As a director it seemed to me that this season went really fast,” said Owen, who was in charge of 54 band students. There are 19 woodwinds, 17 brass, nine battery percussion and nine pit percussion. That’s not counting the 19 color…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 26, 2015Luverne High School students will perform their annual fall play — about a play being conducted in a high school auditorium — in the Luverne High School auditorium next week. “Paranormal High School,” written by Andrew Ross, is set in Bram Stoker High School, home of the Fighting Tarantulas. Its drama class wants to perform William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” and as the students begin rehearsals,…
- By Mavis FodnessOctober 20, 2015Tucked inside a spare bedroom in Bruce “Buzz” Anderson’s Eagan home is a little remembrance of growing up in Hardwick during the 1950s and ’60s. Resting on top of a 4-by 8-foot antique table, the miniature town started with an N-scale train 18 months ago. “It sounds like a real diesel engine,” he said of the 1:160th scale locomotive. The sound reminds the Luverne Class of 1966 graduate of when he…
- October 20, 2015
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