Tuff Home residents experience 'A Night on Mount Olympus'
The day after Hills-Beaver Creek High School hosted a junior-senior prom for students, residents from Tuff Memorial Home donned dresses and suits Saturday afternoon for their first
State offers info on 2026 Hwy 75 work
Minnesota Department of Transportation personnel were in Luverne Tuesday, April 23, to discuss the 2026 Highway 75 construction project.
'Marlene and Darlene without George'
“Marlene and Darlene” will return to the stage next week for another comedy performance to raise money for Generations.
Emerald ash borer officially reported in Rock County
Infestations of the destructive emerald ash borer have been spreading across Minnesota over the past 15 years, and on Monday the Minnesota Department of Agriculture confirmed the first sighting
LHS competes in world robotics
The Luverne High School robotics team earned a Judges Choice Award at last week’s FIRST Robotic Competition World.
Sled hockey comes to Blue Mound Ice Arena
The Siouxland Sled Hockey Association brought on-ice practice to the Blue Mound Ice Arena in Luverne for the first time April 7 in honor of their newest member.
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- By Lori SorensonApril 05, 2022On Thursday, April 7, Pioneer PBS will release a new “Postcards” series that features Minnesota artists, including the Luverne-based band, Beautiful Kingdom. The three-piece band, Beautiful Kingdom, features Matthew Stensland-Bos of Luverne, Nadia Sessen, originally of Montreal, Quebec, and Tyler Bryce, originally of California. They have since played all over the area, including as a headliner…
- By Lori SorensonApril 05, 2022Local children’s author Kathie Hendricks has had two more books published, “A Day at the Beach” and “My Friend Andee.” The 8- and 11-year-old characters, Bean and Tommy, are excited to go to the beach and wonder if they’ll see a shark. Hendricks said one part of the story recreates a mishap in 2015 when her grown children helped her escape the pull of crashing waves on a California beach. The…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 05, 2022A deadly poultry virus has prompted state animal health officials to ban poultry sales and exhibitions until May 1. The move is an attempt to stop the spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Reports of the H5NI virus in Minnesota and surrounding states poses a high risk to poultry but low risk to the public. The ban includes all community poultry sales, swaps, fairs and…
- By Lori SorensonApril 05, 2022Members of the Save the Manfred House group are hoping to have the former interpretive center at the Blue Mounds State Park to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places Their aim is to save the structure from the state’s plan to partially demolish the house, built in 1961 by the late Luverne author Fred Manfred. The group hired Rolf Anderson, Minneapolis, who has an architecture…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 05, 2022Hills-Beaver Creek School District will receive two solar arrays for its elementary and high school buildings under Minnesota’s “Solar On Schools” program. H-BC received preliminary approval from the Minnesota Department of Commerce in January for a $66,000 grant toward the project. School board members approved the solar energy project at their March 28 meeting. “We are not breaking the bank for…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 05, 2022Two Rock County residents paid more than $10,000 each to repurchase their tax-forfeited properties, and the city of Jasper purchased a forfeited property for $1. Rock County Commissioners approved the resale resolutions at their March 22 meeting when auditor/treasurer Ashley Kurtz presented them for approval. She said two of the foreclosures were unusual in that properties were almost through the…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 05, 2022A March 31 report of two vehicles driving around Luverne Middle-High School with guns resulted in the confiscation of a paintball gun. “Unfortunately the students think that these types of events are all in fun,” said Sheriff Evan Verbrugge. “At the time of the (afterschool) incident, students do not know what is being used to ‘shoot’ at someone else. From a distance, anything, whether it is a…
- April 05, 2022Sixty wastewater plants in southwestern Minnesota were recently recognized by the state’s Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) for outstanding compliance. Six of those plants are in Rock County: the cities of Beaver Creek, Magnolia, Hills and Hardwick, along with Agri-Energy LLC and Blue Mounds State Park, both of Luverne. All municipal and industrial facilities demonstrated consistent compliance with…
- April 05, 2022The Minnesota Department of Transportation will work on portions of Interstate 90 this summer in western Rock County. The $17 million project includes: •Resurfacing concrete on eastbound I-90 lanes between Beaver Creek and the South Dakota state line. •Resurfacing concrete on westbound I-90 lanes between County Road 11 (Steen blacktop) and the South Dakota state line. •Reconstructing shoulders. •…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 05, 2022Fourteen students will represent Luverne High School Saturday at the Minnesota High School League Section 3A speech championship. The students qualified for the section tournament by placing in the Top 6 in their respective categories in the March 29 subsection competition in Adrian. As a team, Luverne placed second. Luverne students who placed at the subsection competition include: •…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 05, 2022The Luverne-Adrian FFA Chapter conducted its annual awards banquet March 22 in the Luverne Elementary commons. Senior members receive recognition The senior students were recognized for their last year in the Luverne-Adrian FFA Chapter. Senior members and their parents include: •Hunter Ahrendt, Jeff and Johanna Ahrendt. •Chris Aning, Michael and Kandi Sandbulte and Mike Aning. •Trista Baustian…
- March 29, 2022The State Historic Preservation Review Board will consider the nomination of the Manfred House at the Blue Mounds State Park to the National Registrar of Historic Places during a virtual meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 12. The meeting link and instructions will be available on the State Review Board Meeting page, mn.gov/admin/shpo/registration/nrhp/review-board/meetings. The Manfred House is…
- By Mavis FodnessMarch 29, 2022Hills-Beaver Creek Elementary students are enjoying a popular outdoor game, thanks to the Patriot Millworks high school woodworking class. Last year’s Millworks students hinged together eight wood panels for a 25-foot elementary school gaga pit. The finished pit was finally put into place March 16, to the excitement of the K-5 students. “The students knew we were getting it earlier this year…
- By Lori SorensonMarch 29, 2022Sanford Health partnered with Minnesota West Community and Technical College in Luverne Friday to host a free camp for high school sophomores, juniors and seniors. The event gave students an idea of what it would be like to work in the health care field, specifically as medical assistants and surgical technologists, and also an idea of what college life might look like. Students spent part of the…
- By Mavis FodnessMarch 29, 2022Four Luverne speech team members earned all-conference honors March 17 at the Big South Conference meet in Marshall. Seniors Luke Thorson and Chance Tunnissen took the conference championships in humorous interpretation and extemporaneous speaking respectively. Joining Thorson and Tunnissen in the all-conference designation were senior Burke Johnson in discussion and junior Parker Carbonneau in…
- By Lori SorensonMarch 29, 2022The city of Luverne will buy the Rock Motor Sports property, and Rock Motor Sports will buy the former Farm Store property in a series of land purchases along Highway 75. In a closed session at their Tuesday, March 22, meeting, City Council members agreed to pay Bill Aanenson $200,000 for the property. It's a 34,000-square-foot lot (about one quarter of an acre) that had been appraised at $…
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