February
Monday, Feb 3: Pizza casserole, green beans, peaches, bread stick.
Program: 8:30 a.m. Quilting. 9 a.m. Bone Builders, 12:30 p.m. Generations organizational meeting.
Tuesday, Feb. 4: Chicken brown rice bowl, mixed Oriental vegetables, pears, bread, fruit crisp.
Program: 1-4 p.m. Bean bag tournament/...
Warm and wet is the story for February, and if you haven't driven on one of the county gravel roads (I use that term loosely) then you really are not seeing or feeling the impact of this month's weather.
As someone who drives my kids to a rural day care provider 3 days per week, I can attest to...
Saturday’s Get Hooked in Luverne Ice Fishing Derby attracted 103 adults and 59 children to the creamery pond for some friendly competition and plenty of prizes.
Nearly 60-degree temperatures threatened the ice that day, but its 8 to 10-inch thickness was deemed safe for foot traffic.
Participants,...
St. Catherine Catholic Church
203 E. Brown St., Luverne
St. Catherine Ph.: 283-8502
St. Mary Catholic Church, Ellsworth
Thursday, Feb. 25: 9 a.m. Mass at St. Catherine. Saturday, Feb. 27. 5:30 p.m. Mass at St. Catherine. Sunday, Feb. 28: 9:30 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s in Ellsworth. 10:30 a.m. Mass at...
Dispatch report
Feb. 12
•Complainant reported she is trying to get her boyfriend to leave her apartment, and he is throwing things at her.
•Complainant requested to speak with someone about an elderly male who is driving and is revoked.
•Complainant requested a deputy help her get rid of her ex. He...
Senior Citizens
Monday, Feb. 22: Barbecue pork chop, scalloped potatoes, corn, bread, applesauce.
Program: 1 p.m. Pinochle
Tuesday, Feb. 23: Roast beef commercial (bread, roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy), cauliflower and broccoli, cookie.
Program: Two-buck Tuesday sponsored by Exchange State...
Area residents had just dug out from the record-breaking Groundhog Day Blizzard last week when Round 2 hit just as the Super Bowl game was ending Sunday night.
Many game day travelers found it difficult or impossible to get home Sunday night, and white-out conditions through most of Monday again...
Meetings
Beaver Creek Township monthly meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, at the township hall.
Rosedell Township will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 16, rather than Feb. 15, due to the Presidents Day holiday.
Battle Plain Township Board will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 16 at the home of Lloyd Prins....
Births
A boy, Callahan Andrew, weighing 7 pounds, 2 ounces, 20 inches long, was born Thursday, Jan. 20, 2016, to Andrew and Lexi Scholten, Bricelyn. Grandparents are Brad and Beth Leland, Bricelyn, Jamie and Leah Holland, Winnebago, and Starla Scholten, Beaver Creek. Great-grandparents are Sally...
10 years ago (2006)
•Land values in Rock County are reaching all time highs, with land sales recorded at $5,000 an acre in some places.
According to the Rock County Land Records Office, tillable ag land has been steadily increasing in value over the past several years.
For example, the average acre...