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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- March 29, 2022Farm Week at the Rock County Library last week featured a weeklong lineup of farm-focused activities, including reading with a farmer Tuesday morning. Beaver Creek farmer Peter Bakken, on behalf of Minnesota Farm Bureau, read books about farming to preschoolers and talked about the John Deere tractor that C&B, Luverne, parked in the library lot. Among other Farm Week activities last week, the…
- By Mavis FodnessMarch 29, 2022New Vision Co-Op will expand its grain storage and handling capabilities with an additional grain bin and building structure at its Magnolia feed mill facility this year. Cost of the expansion is estimated at $2.35 million. Rock County Commissioners approved a 10-year property tax abatement resolution at their March 22 meeting in a vote of 4-1. Total amount of the step-down abatement is $74,095…
- By Mavis FodnessMarch 29, 2022A committee is currently organizing to select the first honored alumni to the Luverne Public School’s Alumni Hall of Fame. School Board member Tim Jarchow and Superintendent Craig Oftedahl will serve on the nine-member committee. Oftedahl said the seven other members represent various decades of graduation years. Their familiarity with nominees will assist in the selection process. Teacher Jason…
- By Lori SorensonMarch 29, 2022Novo Aesthetics Spa recently opened on the second floor of the former Cragoe building in downtown Luverne, and the Chamber Board hosted a ribbon-cutting Friday morning to celebrate the new business. Rachael Dekker is a doctoral trained certified nurse practitioner and nurse anesthetist who has been in the medical field for over 20 years, including six years in plastic and reconstructive surgery…
- By Mavis FodnessMarch 29, 2022Three Luverne Middle School students were recognized as winners in the annual Rotary Club Four-Way Test essay contest for 2022. Kloe Brockberg, the daughter of Mike and Kim Brockberg, Luverne, was selected as this year’s essay winner. Brockberg earned $75 for her winning effort. Her essay titled “Social Media” is entered in the district essay contest. Brockberg’s winning essay is printed below.…
- By Mavis FodnessMarch 22, 2022Hills-Beaver Creek High School will return to in-person public performances next month — and it’s no April Fool’s Day joke. “Our students are excited,” said director Amy Comp. “This is a new opportunity for a lot of our students, and they were excited to get to work on it. … It’s definitely been an extracurricular that students were interested in, but we did not have established.” Comp chose the…
- March 22, 2022The Rock County Library hosted “Bad Art Night” Thursday, March 17, at Take 16 Brewing Company in Luverne. The object was to create the worst piece of art with assortment of materials provided. “This was all stuff that we already had at the library,” said Library Director Calla Jarvie. Items ranged from silk flowers, to pipe cleaners to wrapping paper and more.
- March 22, 2022It was a great day for a parade Thursday afternoon, March 17, with mild spring temperatures hovering around 50 degrees — a rare weather occurrence for Luverne’s Irish tradition. The warm weather brought hundreds of people downtown for the parade that featured dozens of entries and plenty of candy for everyone.
- By Mavis FodnessMarch 22, 2022The Green Earth Players community theater group will bring “Those Crazy Ladies in the House on the Corner” to the Palace stage the first two weekends in April. Director Sue Sandbulte said the idea for the play came to her during a recent road trip. “I was traveling on I-90 and just got off when I saw the sign for ‘Those Crazy Ladies in the House on the Corner’ and thought, ‘How fun,’” she said.…
- By Lori SorensonMarch 22, 2022East Main Street at the Rock River Bridge was a busy place Tuesday and Wednesday when two 50,000-pound generators were installed by crane in Luverne’s power plant. The two 3-megawatt generators joined the city’s existing 1960s 3-megawatt generator in the power plant. The combined 9-megawatt continuous capacity of the three generators will ensure Luverne’s backup generation can carry a major part…
- By Lori SorensonMarch 22, 2022Four bulldozers have been working in Luverne’s industrial park to move dirt in preparation for the Lineage Logistics construction this spring. “They have moved a boatload of dirt out there already,” Mayor Pat Baustian said during the March 8 City Council meeting. “Just wait for this week.” The city’s role in the process is to extend Dakota Avenue 500 feet to the Lineage Logistics property line…
- By Mavis FodnessMarch 22, 2022Two solar feedback signs will be placed near Hills, alerting drivers to the speed their vehicle is traveling as it enters the city limits. The signs, which flash the speed of the approaching vehicle on a display board, are similar to the solar feedback signs located along County Road 4 through Magnolia. In Hills one feedback sign will be located west of town on County Road 13 just before vehicles…
- March 22, 2022Farmers Union Agency honored agent Steve Cattnach with Cattnach Insurance Agency on serving his customers and the Luverne community for 40 years. Cattnach was recognized with his service award on March 3 in celebration with his peers at the Farmers Union Agency 2022 Awards Dinner at Mystic Lake Conference Center in Prior Lake. “Steve has seen many things change in his 40 years in the insurance…
- March 22, 2022The first-grade classrooms at Luverne Elementary School took a field trip to Luverne Lanes last week to learn about the game of bowling. Each classroom selected a day last week where the students (and teacher) were able to bowl as many frames as possible in an hour. The bowling experience was made possible through ESSR money received by the district.
- By Kent Thiesse, Farm Management AnalystMarch 22, 2022Farmland values in the Upper Midwest have reached or surpassed their highest levels in nearly a decade during the past 12 months, after several years of uncertainty from 2014 to 2020. Average sales for high quality farm land in many portions of the Midwest and Northern Plains states are up by 20 to 40 percent in the past year. Land values in 2021 increased at the highest year-over-year percentage…
- March 22, 2022The Luverne Lions Club recently donated $750 for local student Nick Lenz to attend Camp Gilbert this summer near Waubay, South Dakota. The camp, located at Camp Nesodak, is for children ages 8 to 18 living with Type 1 diabetes. Pictured Wednesday, March 16, In the Rock County Library are Luverne Lions Club President Steve Cattnach (left), Janelle and Nick Lenz, and Luverne Lion’s Club member…
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