April 2021
Dispatch report
April 23
•Complainant on 150th Avenue, Luverne, requested a deputy for a disorderly.
•Complainant on S. Kniss Avenue reported a suspicious vehicle.
•Complainant reported a disorderly party.
•Complainant on 121st Street, Luverne, reported a grass fire.
•Complainant requested...
The Hills-Beaver Creek golf team competed in two meets this past week.
On Tuesday, April 20, the H-BC girls took home first place, while the boys placed third.
In Fulda on Thursday, April 22, the boys finished second and the girls placed first.
Meadow Acres
H-BC, Red Rock Central and Southwest...
Mother Nature delayed the start of the season for the Luverne golf team, but the Cardinals are in full swing now.
They competed in three meets this past week. The boys’ and girls’ teams hosted Adrian on Tuesday, April 20. Luverne then hosted a Big Southwest division meet.
On Monday, April 26, the...
The Luverne track and field team competed in Redwood Falls on Friday, April 23. The Cardinals competed against Redwood Valley, Waseca and Jackson County Central.
Gracie Zewiske took home first place in the 100 and 200 meters. The senior sprinter finished with a time of 13 seconds, five milliseconds...
Our spring weather certainly has been unstable this year. I don’t understand how a tulip flower stem can survive 16 degrees and still stand firm and continue on to a beautiful flower.
My blooming daffodils didn’t come through the cold as well. The leaves are still green so they can feed the bulb to...
10 years ago (2011)
•The year was 1962 when three teenagers from Pipestone and Luverne formed a group called The Starflies.
They were lead singer and guitarist Steve Ellis, Pipestone, drummer Butch Hatting and guitarist Jim Brandenburg, both of Luverne.
The band was widely known in its day, and on...
Dispatch report
April 16
•Complainant on 31st Street, Hills, reported a vehicle with nobody around.
•Complainant westbound on Interstate 90, mile marker 5, Beaver Creek, reported a driving complaint.
•Driver history was requested.
•Complainant from Interstate 90 to County Road 4 reported vehicle...
Sasker: 'Glad to call Luverne home'
To the Editor:
I wrote a letter to the editor years ago and never sent it.
This is that letter in part:
It happened again like so many times before. I am in a store in Luverne and I hear a clerk refer a customer to another store because they didn’t have the item...
Local first responders were dispatched to a roll-over accident Saturday afternoon on South Highway 75 near the Verne Drive-In. According to the Rock County Sheriff’s Office, a 2018 Polaris Ranger was northbound from the city tree dump when a gust of wind blew open the door. The driver, Kyle Remme,...
Meetings
Springwater Township Board will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 4, at the township hall.
Kenneth Cemetery Association will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 8, at the Kenneth Community Center.
Sandbox fill May 3
The Luverne Optimist Club will fill local sandboxes after 6 p.m. Monday, May 3, as...