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By Mavis FodnessApril 17, 2024Sophomores Jessika Tunnissen and Tyler Hodge will represent Luverne High School at this week’s Minnesota State Class A Speech Tournament. The two qualified Saturday by placing second in their respective categories at the Region 3A tournament Saturday in Redwood Falls. Junior William Johnson placed fourth in original oratory, just out of the qualifications for advancing to the state competition…
By Mavis FodnessApril 10, 2024Six Luverne students moved on to section competition as medal winners from Section 3A Sub-Section 10 competition April 2 in Windom. Medal winners, their placings and category advancement included: •Jessica Tunnissen, first, informative speaking. •Tyler Hodge, second, discussion. •William Johnson, second, original oratory. •Bri Kinsinger, third, creative expression. •Makayla Oechsle, fourth…
By Mavis FodnessMarch 27, 2024The Luverne High School speech team ended the 2024 regular season with two strong performances. The team finished second at the Big South Conference Championships on March 21 and fourth at the Pipestone Area Speech Invitational March 23. Luverne competed in the small school division at both events. Two speakers took Big South Conference honors. Jessika Tunnissen placed first in informative…- By Mavis FodnessMarch 06, 2024The Luverne High School speech team traveled toMontevideo Saturday, where six students earned medals. As a team, the school placed sixth in the small group category. Overall, 162 students from 13 schools competed in the speech invitational. Luverne placings included: •Informative: Jessika Tunnissen, first; Bridget Sandager, fifth. •Creative expression: Bri Kinsinger, third; Anna Reisdorfer,…
By Mavis FodnessFebruary 21, 2024Jessika Tunnissen, a junior at Luverne High School, earned an invitation to the national championship, thanks to her first-place performance in Marshall Saturday, Four LHS students placed at the Marshall Mini-Spectacular. “The meet was our largest yet this year – 18 schools and 246 students,” said coach Gavin Folkestad. Tunnissen placed first in informative speaking. Other placings for…
By Mavis FodnessFebruary 14, 2024The Luverne High School speech team placed third Saturday at the Luverne Invitation Speech Tournament. Coach Gavin Folkestad said the day featured 15 schools with 170 students competing in the day-long event. “Everything went smoothly,” he said. Individually, nine LHS members received awards, three of them with first-place trophies. Results by category were: •Original oratory: Roselynn…
By Mavis FodnessFebruary 07, 2024The LHS speech team brought home a fourth-place trophy Saturday from the Worthington Speech Invitational. “I was quite happy with their placement, as we brought a smaller group to this meet,” said coach Gavin Folkestad. “Many of our returning veterans placed well and showed improvement, and we had several new members compete for the first time.” Overall, 154 students from 16 schools competed…- By Mavis FodnessJanuary 31, 2024Saturday marks the start of the 2024 high school speech season with Luverne traveling to Worthington in the first of 11 varsity events. Returning coaches Gavin Folkestad and Joseph Stearns are leading this year’s team. “We have about 25 currently signed up, which is slightly more than last year,” Folkestad said. “We only graduated two seniors, and we have a good number of new seventh- and…
By Rick Peterson, general managerMay 19, 2020Back in 2006 I was asked to be the featured speaker at the Memorial Day program at Maplewood Cemetery here in Luverne. It was an honor, but I don’t fully understand why it was bestowed upon me. I can tell you, however, that for me it was one of the greatest honors of my life and for that, I’ll be forever grateful. To say I was nervous before the presentation would be an understatement. Public…
By Betty Mann, President, Rock County Historical SocietySeptember 26, 2017The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on October 16, 1931, and is the second in a series about Luverne's Rock River bridge. Sen. Schall, after a brief statement concerning good roads, gave a political speech lasting an hour and a half. The following is the first part of this speech. Southwestern Minnesota’s most prominent trunk highway improvement—the re-routing of No. 9 east of…
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