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Luverne’s Main Street light pole banners featuring high school graduates will come down this summer at the end of June, and they’ll be replaced by banners honoring local veterans. That’s according to the Design Committee of Luverne Initiatives For Tomorrow which recently announced the new banner...
Luverne High School speech team will take a sixth-place team finish into next week’s Big South Tournament on Thursday, March 16. They will follow that with an invitational appearance at Russell-Tyler-Ruthton on March 18. The team competed at Montevideo on March 4. Results were as follows: •Original...
Agricultural producers who have not yet enrolled in the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs for the 2023 crop year have until March 15, 2023, to elect and enroll in a contract. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) offers these two safety net programs to...
Minnesota Department of Transportation crews attempt to fill potholes on North Highway 75 near the Dodge Street crossing Friday, March 3, in Luverne. Despite a fresh layer of asphalt last year, recent frost heaves and heavy traffic have again crumbled the highway surface in town. According to the...
A large contingency of Luverne High School students will compete in the upcoming state Business Professionals of America conference. Pictured are (front, from left) Connor Bose, Maddux Domagala, Mallory Von Tersch, Kasey Buss, Jaydon Johnson, (back) Kylie Vander Lugt, Averill Sehr, Ella Lanoue, Augusta Papik, Anya Jarchow, Reese Louwagie and Jadyn Hart. Not pictured is Kaylee Voorhees.
Membership grew sixfold in the Luverne High School Business Professionals of America (BPA) chapter this year. As a result, 13 LHS students will compete in various categories at the state BPA convention in Minneapolis starting today, March 9. “We had two students who have previously participated in...
Beaver Creek and Springwater township road crews made several passes over gravel roads in western Rock County last week following Wednesday’s blizzard. Here, Matt Sorenson takes another swipe with the Beaver Creek Township snowblower through a narrow pass on 131st Street north of Beaver Creek as the sun sets behind him Thursday night.
The Feb. 21-23 blizzard dropped another foot of snow in Rock County and the tri-state area, adding to the heavy snow cover already on the ground this winter. The National Weather Service, which accurately forecast the event days ahead, called it a “significant winter storm,” with waves of moderate...
Retirees Fred Boll and Butch Hatting are on standby for Luverne Public Works snow removal as the "Super Seniors Division."
Luverne Public Works Supervisor John Stoffel is leaning on old friends this winter to stay ahead of city snow removal Retirees Butch Hatting and Fred Boll have tallied dozens of “stand by” hours for the city, filling in for staff who are sick, vacationing or following their kids’ hockey games....
Luverne Mayor Pat Baustian reads “Alan’s Big, Scary Teeth.”
When the Rock County Community Library was one of 22 libraries across the U.S. chosen for a library fellowship in 2021, director Calla Jarvie didn’t know where the experience would lead. With the fellowship now complete, library patrons have access to a video library targeted at its youngest...
Rock County officials won’t schedule a required open house to finalize preliminary flood insurance rate maps until the maps are fully updated. “There is no way that we, as a local unit of government, should sign off on this and hope in another 30 years they come back and look at it again,” said...
Luverne School Board members agreed on a split vote Monday night to deny a sports pairing request from the Hills-Beaver Creek School District. H-BC had sent a letter to Luverne School District requesting to discuss pairing in seven activities. “H-BC is interested in pairing in the following sports...

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