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School streets get new names, signs

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Lori Sorenson

Streets in and around the Luverne School District campus have been renamed as part of rebranding and school pride initiatives.
Luverne City Council members approved an ordinance this summer to change the street names, and the new red-and-white signs went up last week.
The following streets were affected:
•Adams Street (the east-west road that enters the school campus at the tennis courts) is now Cardinal Drive.
•North East Park, the one-way street along the east side of the high school, was renamed to Alumni Avenue.
•School Street is now named 2184 Lane. This is the roadway that intersects the one-way street near the south end of the campus and heads west before elbowing south to connect with Dodge Street.
The signs, which cost a total of $640, also have the Cardinal logo beside the street names. They were erected Aug. 25.
The new street names and signs are part of a joint city and district project to improve streets around the school that have been torn up because of the school construction project.
Adams and North East Park streets were milled off and overlaid, Adams was widened to allow diagonal parking along the east side of the high school, and the city also approved an alternate bid for a new sidewalk to connect with the Luverne Loop near the bus garages.
The street work at the school campus marks the final stages of the Luverne School District’s two-year $33 million construction project.

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