Guilty plea entered in vehicular homicide case
Twenty-three-year-old Jayson Delfs, Hardwick, entered a guilty plea Monday morning in Rock County District Court to the charge of criminal vehicular homicide.
Murder case proceedings on hold
Legal proceedings for Luverne murder suspect Melvin Frazier are suspended following a Rule 20 motion that was granted in Rock County District Court Monday.
Administrator announces retirement
After 33 years on the job, Rock County Administrator Kyle Oldre officially submitted his notice of retirement during the Aug. 18 county board meeting.
Oldre’s final day of service will be Feb. 28, 2027.
Charter amendment measure advances
Luverne voters will be asked in the Nov. 3 general election if they support an amendment to change their city’s government charter.
Peterson wins election for county commissioner
Rick Peterson won the special election for Rock County’s District 3 and is set to join the county board of commissioners early next week.
PowerOn Midwest narrows routes
PowerOn Midwest has narrowed its preferred route for a proposed high-voltage transmission project, and one of its choices would cut through Rock County within one mile of the Blue Mounds State
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- May 02, 2023Kindergartners at Luverne Elementary School took to the performing arts center stage Friday afternoon for their first music program of their academic careers. The 71 students sang several popular Mother Goose rhymes including “Mother Hubbard,” “Jack B. Nimble,” “Three Little Kittens” and “Humpty Dumpty.” Conducting the students is Morgan Van Holland.
- By Lori SorensonMay 02, 2023For the 28th year, the city of Luverne has received the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting. At their April 25 meeting, City Council members formally recognized city finance director Robyn Wessels for her efforts in qualifying the city for the award. “Thanks for the great job you do,” Mayor Pat Baustian told Wessels. He pointed out that Wessels had big shoes to fill…
- May 02, 2023A group of women motorcycle riders will ride through Luverne Saturday as part of the International Female Ride. The riders, roughly 100 expected to participate, will leave Sioux Falls around 10 a.m. and will take county roads to Luverne, arriving between 11 and noon. They’ll parade through town before stopping for lunch at JJ’s Tasty Freeze on South Highway 75. The event is sponsored by Vern Eide…
- By Lori SorensonMay 02, 2023Earth moving work is underway to bring a Kwik Trip to South Highway 75 in Luverne. Company officials said Luverne’s Kwik Trip 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”…
- May 02, 2023Nineteen-year-old Zach Jennissen traveled on foot from Sioux Falls to Luverne Monday night as part of a 600-mile trek to Canada. The 2022 Foley High School grad has been making the trip since he was in sixth grade to promote the 30 for Freedom cause to end human trafficking. “I’m blessed that I get to use my gift to improve the lives of others,” he said Monday. “Human trafficking is something…
- May 02, 2023The Rock County Community Library is host to a photo gallery from the Diane and Alan Page Collection. The photo collection called “Testify: Americana Slavery to Today” will be on display through May 12. The collection renews the personal call to action by the Pages. According to a press release by the collection organizers, the Pages created “Testify” in 2018 to better understand racial divide…
- May 02, 2023Thirty-nine couples participated in the grand march in the Hills-Beaver Creek Secondary School gymnasium Friday night. After the grand march, students sat down for a catered meal and later traveled to SpringBrooke Events for after-prom activities.
- May 02, 2023More than 90 couples participated in the grand march Saturday night for Luverne High School’s prom under the theme, “Prom 2023: Night of a Thousand Lights.’ Students later enjoyed a catered meal in the school commons followed by entertainment with a mechanical bull, Family Feud, card games and more.
- By Mavis FodnessApril 25, 2023The Luverne High School drama department will bring “creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky” characters to life in “The Addams Family: The Musical.” The first of five performances of the musical comedy starts tonight, Thursday April 27. Others are Tuesday, May 2 (recently added), and Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 4, 5 and 6, in the school’s performing arts center. All performances begin at…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 25, 2023A proposed solar energy generation project north of Magnolia is doubling in size thanks to delays with the original plans for the Elk Creek Solar Farm. National Grid Renewables (NGR) is reapplying for state permits and is now asking to expand from the proposed 80-megawatt to a 160-megawatt solar farm. NGR originally received a certificate of need and a site permit from the Minnesota Public…
- By Lori SorensonApril 25, 2023City Council members on Tuesday, April 18, toured an East Dodge Street home that’s being remodeled with help from students in Luverne High School’s trades class. The class is called “Today and Tomorrow’s Tradesmen” (Tnt Tradesmen), and it’s led by LHS woodshop teacher Darrel Van Aartsen of Van Aartsen Construction. The school partners with the city through building inspector Chad McClure. The…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 25, 2023Officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood insurance program agreed to update local maps to include flood mitigation projects implemented almost three decades ago. Poplar Creek and Rock River watershed areas will be studied and maps updated before the final approval process starts again, possibly late this year or in the spring of 2025. That’s according to Jeff Weiss, surface…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 25, 2023A rare diagnosis of rabies in a Nobles County feedlot calf has four people completing post-exposure treatment. The rabies-positive bovine is the first to be detected in the state since 2020. Local veterinarian Erin de Koning said skunks and bats most commonly transmit rabies locally. “Cattle and horses are curious animals, and they will put their noses down and follow the animal around,” she said…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 25, 2023Two county road improvement projects will begin in May, once the current work to replace three bridges along County Road 6 between Beaver Creek and Hills is complete. According to county engineer Mark Sehr, the culvert replacements are scheduled for completion by May 1, followed by two mill off and bituminous overlay projects scheduled this year. The first overlay project is six miles of County…
- By Mavis FodnessApril 25, 2023Thirty of the best spellers from six southwest Minnesota middle schools gathered in Luverne Saturday morning for the 2023 Southwest Minnesota Spelling Bee, A Luverne Middle School fifth-grader earned the champion speller title. Oliver Carbonneau, 11, son of Mike and Molly Carbonneau of Luverne, spelled five words correctly in the final round, besting Allyson Muder of Edgerton in the finals.…
- April 25, 2023Sanford PROMISE summer programs are a way for youth to gain hands-on science experience and learn about current research being done at Sanford Research. An event at Minnesota West Community and Technical College in Luverne is from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, June 13, for students in grades 6-8 of the 2022-23 school year. The class, “Inside Out: An Anatomy and Health Experience,” addresses how…
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