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By Lori SorensonApril 03, 2024Construction will begin next week on the $7.2 million child care center in Luverne, and the Kids Rock! Inc. nonprofit board will soon hire an executive director to oversee licensure and facility startup. As that job description is finalized, Emily Crabtree said the board is looking for a “unicorn” to fill the important responsibilities the job requires. “The ‘unicorn’ would be able to do it all…
By Lori SorensonJanuary 17, 2024Construction is due to start in April on the new elementary school in Beaver Creek, and city and school officials are still discussing water options for the facility. Blayne Parkos is director of mechanical engineering for ATSR, the Minneapolis firm handling construction for the Hills-Beaver Creek School District. He addressed Beaver Creek City Council members at their Jan. 10 meeting to…
By Lori SorensonNovember 29, 2023Workers broke ground Monday morning on the site of a future 73-foot-tall nutcracker that will be “the world’s tallest nutcracker” on South Highway 75 in Luverne. It will be funded by Just For Nuts Inc., a Luverne private nonprofit that has drawn more than $200,000 in local donations and $50,000 from the Blandin Foundation. Structurally, the 65-foot-tall nutcracker will stand on an 8-foot-tall…
By Mavis FodnessNovember 01, 2023Again this year, nine Luverne High School seniors are building a house through the school’s Today and Tomorrow’s Tradesmen program. This year’s house, a two-bedroom, two-bath ranch-style home, is located on North Spring Street. Unlike last year’s home remodel, this year’s project is a new build, with students constructing the entire single-story home with an attached two-stall garage. The…
By Lori SorensonSeptember 20, 2023Construction is underway on the Kwik Trip building on South Highway 75 in Luverne. The footprint will be 9,000 square feet located on 2.88 acres just south of the Econo Lodge Hotel near the intersection of Highway 75 and Gabrielson Road. The Luverne Kwik Trip will be open 24 hours per day, seven days a week, with 20 full-time employees. The newer “Gen 3” design will be similar to the Kwik Trip…- By Mavis FodnessSeptember 13, 2023Rock County will not be home to the Nature Energy biogas plant that considered expanding locally earlier this year. Nor will any other place in the United States after Shell Petroleum purchased the Denmark-based Nature Energy company. Nature Energy officials visited Luverne and Rock County in January seeking a location for one of 15 renewable natural gas refineries they planned to build in…
By Mavis Fodness, reporterJuly 09, 2019Thousands of students — including me — have received diplomas from Luverne High School since it was built in 1956. The LHS Class of 1983 celebrates its “35th plus one” class reunion this weekend. The reunion comes on the heels of the June 20 groundbreaking ceremony that honored the changes coming to the 63-year-old facility. For days leading up to the groundbreaking, I watched two excavators…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyJune 04, 2019The following appeared in the Rock County Star Herald on April 10, 1958. County Road Improvement Contracts Total $162,437 Rock county’s Board of Commissions Tuesday awarded a total of $162,437.27 in three contracts for road improvement this year. Major projects will be the installation of a gravel base and bituminous surface costing $102,898.67 for 10.7 miles on C.S.A. No. 5.…
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