People in the News Oct. 23, 2025
Luverne utility employee completes high-level leadership course
First-graders perform Cock-a-Doodle Dandy!’
Luverne Elementary first-graders sing “A Fabulous Day” (below) to open their “Cock-a-Doodle Dandy” program Friday afternoon in the performing arts center.
New doctor joins eye clinic in Luverne
A new eye doctor has joined Dr. Sandra Carmen and the staff at Rock County Eye Clinic in Luverne.
Dr. Victoria Johnson started in January and has been seeing patients once a week on Mondays.
H-BC students perform ‘Do-Overs’ March 14, 16
Do you ever wonder what might have happened if you had said or done something differently?
Anonymity brings out Kafka's creative side
Hands are all you see in Connie Kafka’s “how-to” YouTube videos.
Community
- By Minnesota Land TrustNovember 05, 2025Landowners can be compensated for permanently protecting their property with a conservation easement. The Minnesota Land Trust is accepting applications to participate in a grant-funded conservation initiative to permanently protect high quality wildlife habitat. To combat the loss of essential wildlife habitat, the Minnesota Land Trust is seeking willing landowners who want to conserve their…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianOctober 29, 2025The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on Nov. 13, 1941. Nights when only 20 streetlights penetrated the darkness of Luverne’s streets are well remembered by Frank H. Wiggins, Luverne, this week’s Diamond Club member. Wiggins, a resident of Rock county for 55 years, recalls that the marshall’s job, in addition to preserving peace and order, also called for keeping street lamps…- March 19, 2025Meetings Town and Country Garden Club will meet at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, at Rock County Community Library. Topic will be house plants. To reserve a seat, call 507-669-2905. Next meeting will be April 22 at 1:30 p.m. at Luverne Flowers. Blue Mound Cemetery Association will meet at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25, at Randy and Kathy Remme’s home. Pleasant View Cemetery Association will meet…
By Mavis Fodness, reporterMarch 19, 2025Luverne Elementary first-graders sing “A Fabulous Day” (below) to open their “Cock-a-Doodle Dandy” program Friday afternoon in the performing arts center. Under the direction of Kira Degerness, the 79 students told the story of the barnyard dilemma where the rooster keeps all the animals awake, but silencing the rooster makes them late for the county fair. Hazel Arends sings “Standing Side…
By Lori SorensonMarch 19, 2025A new eye doctor has joined Dr. Sandra Carmen and the staff at Rock County Eye Clinic in Luverne. Dr. Victoria Johnson started in January and has been seeing patients once a week on Mondays. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and earned her doctorate at the Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago. She finished her residency in July 2024 at Georgia…
March 19, 2025
By Mavis Fodness, reporterMarch 19, 2025Children and adults alike were able to decorate farm animal-shaped sugar cookies Monday afternoon as the Rock County Library kicked off its annual Farm Week. Various activities will occur throughout the week, and a full list is on the library’s new social media. Kinsley Nath, 3, enjoys the sugar cookie she decorated. Knox Arends, 2, quickly decorated and ate his cookie.- March 05, 2025Kindergarten Round-Up March 6 Luverne Kindergarten Round-Up will be from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 6, at the Luverne Elementary School. You and your child are invited to an informal “meet and greet” open house. Children must be five years old before Sept. 1, 2025, in order to register for kindergarten. Please contact the elementary office at 283-4497, opt. 4 with any questions. …
By Mavis Fodness, reporterMarch 05, 2025Do you ever wonder what might have happened if you had said or done something differently? This question is the basis of the one act play, “Do-Over,” being performed Friday, March 14, and Sunday, March 16, at Hills-Beaver Creek Secondary School in Hills. Director Amy Comp selected the play because of its message. “I think we all can get caught up in the moment and say or do things that don’t…- By MN DNRAugust 28, 2024Firearm and muzzleloader hunters who want to harvest antlerless deer in a deer permit area designated as antlerless permit lottery need to purchase their license by Thursday, Sept. 5. Hunters who purchase their license on or before this date are automatically entered into the lottery for the deer permit area or special hunt area they declare. Successful applicants will receive a postcard in the…
- July 10, 2024Meetings Battle Plain Township Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, July 15, at the Edgerton Ag conference room. Grand Prairie Cemetery Association will meet at 6:3o p.m. Wednesday, July 24, at the Grand Prairie Cemetery. In case of rain the meeting will be held in the office room of Orv and Sons Plumbing in Ellsworth. Parkinson’s Support Group will meet at 2 p.m. Monday, July 22, at Good…
- June 05, 2024Area students named to dean’s list at USF Several area students were named to the Spring 2024 semester dean’s list at the University of Sioux Falls. From Luverne are Gretchen Jacobsma, criminal justice and history and political science; Camden Janiszeski, elementary education; Brooklynn Moss, nursing; Casey Sehr, business administration; Leslie VanEngelenhoven, nursing; Harley Wendland, history…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianJune 05, 2024The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group that began in the January 7, 1943, issue of the Rock County Star Herald. Members of this group consist of persons of age 75 and older. The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on June 15, 1944. Adolf Steinfeldt’s life story continues as his family moved to Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Was Locomotive Engineer The year the…
By Mavis FodnessOctober 25, 2023Hands are all you see in Connie Kafka’s “how-to” YouTube videos. With more than 1,700 followers, the Luverne native, who also enjoys sharing her eye-catching paper-pieced crafts on her social media page titled “Prairie Paper Crafts,” is not one to take money for her talent. Thus her social media is not a business site but a place where Kafka displays her one-of-a-kind creations and, at times,…
September 01, 2023This summer a group of professionals from Luverne School District attended BestPrep’s Technology Integration Workshop, a summer program designed to improve technology skills and teach career skills students need for success in the future. The Luverne educators included Angie Swenson, Mike Wenninger, Angie Hageman, Tony Sandbulte, Jason Berghorst, Amy Cook, Kathy Hawes and Marie Atkinson-Smeins…- June 16, 2015Ben Clare United Methodist Church 26762 Ben Clare Ave. Valley Springs, S.D. igtwlb@knology.net Bill Bates, Pastor Sundays: 9 a.m. Worship. 10 a.m. Fellowship. 10:30 a.m. Sunday School for all ages. Valley Springs Reformed Church 701 Sunnyside Ave. Valley Springs, S.D. Ph. 605-757-6640 Norman Bouwens, Pastor Sundays: 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship. 10:45 a.m. Sunday School. First Presbyterian…
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