Hills-Beaver Creek grad is guest Veterans Day speaker in Hills
Hills-Beaver Creek High School alumnus Wade Blomgren addressed students, staff and members of the public Monday morning as the keynote speaker for the annual H-BC Veterans Day Program.
'Little Shop of Horrors' takes Palace stage Nov. 14-16, 20-23
Green Earth Players (GEP) cast members admit their upcoming “Little Shop of Horrors” might be rated PG-13 compared with the family-friendly productions they typically
Energy companies host 'PowerOn Midwest' open house in Luverne Nov. 5
An open house Friday night at Generations in Luverne offered information for the community about a major transmission line planned in the region.
Blue Mounds to discontinue tipis as camping option due to cultural sensitivities
Tipis will no longer be a camping option at the Blue Mounds State Park after officials opted not to improve or replace the current ones that need maintenance.
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- By Mavis FodnessMay 28, 2019An events center could open this summer in the former Beaver Lodge Banquet Hall, less than a year after a Sioux Falls real estate developer purchased the property. Rick Gourley renamed the facility SpringBrooke Events after the brook that runs through the 89-acre former Beaver Creek Golf Course. “I am very excited about the project and I firmly believe in it,” he told Rock County Commissioners…
- By Lori SorensonMay 28, 2019When Ron Schouwenburg was a student in Hills High School, he worked in the Hills John Deere Implement dealership for his dad and uncle, Don and Marinus Schouwenburg. That was when John Deere tractors, like the 720 and 630, ran on two cylinders and less than 50 horsepower, and planters like the 494 and 694 operated in only four or six rows at a time. After he graduated, Schouwenburg started…
- By Lori SorensonMay 28, 2019Terry Gray and Monty Hagedorn opened Herb ‘N Legend 10 years ago on Luverne’s East Main Street, and they say sales since then have been steady. Gray said typical customers are 25- to 40-year-olds shopping for tobacco products and “head shop”-type accessories, including glass pipes and decorative glass hookahs. But business spiked sharply in recent months — to nearly 50 transactions per day —…
- By Mavis FodnessMay 28, 2019Less than a week after classes ended for the 2018-19 school year on May 17, construction ramped up inside the Luverne Middle-High School building. Joel Bornhoft, ICS project manager, updated Luverne School Board members Thursday night, May 23, on the construction progress, including some surprises during demolition and additions to this summer’s construction schedule. On May 17 faculty packed up…
- By Lori SorensonMay 28, 2019The four-cylinder “put, put, put” of a vintage farm tractor filled the History Center with a nostalgic farm fuel aroma on May 16 when a newly restored 1936 Massey Harris Challenger assumed its place near the windows of the round showroom. The “iron mule,” as it was called in its day, is the centerpiece of an agriculture display that’s rotating in to replace the Luverne Fire Truck that’s held the…
- May 28, 2019After proudly caring for more than 841 Minnesota veterans and their families since opening in 1994, the Minnesota Veterans Home in Luverne is recognizing its 25th anniversary with a community celebration on Friday, June 7. The public is invited as current and former staff, volunteers, resident veterans, families and friends of the Veterans Home gather to reflect on a quarter century of caring for…
- By Lori SorensonMay 28, 2019The 35th Annual Buffalo Days celebration is set for this weekend in Luverne where a full slate of events and activities are set to unfold Friday, May 31, through Sunday, June 2. “It’s a good start to the summer,” said Luverne Chamber Director Jane Wildung Lanphere. In addition to the Friday night Cruise-In, Saturday parade and Arts in the Park and Sunday Tales from the Graves, the weekend is…
- By Lori SorensonMay 28, 2019The Luverne Economic Development Authority signed a development agreement Monday with Four Way Properties on two lots in the city’s industrial park. The lots are adjacent to Patrick Swyter’s existing property where he operates Four Way Insulation at 903 S. Walnut Ave. According to the agreement, Swyter is paying $25,000 total for the combined lots, which are fully developed with water and sewer…
- By Glenda McGaffeeMay 28, 2019On Friday, May 24, the 54th Hills-Beaver Creek High School commencement ceremonies were conducted for 20 graduates. The graduation student address was given by valedictorian Josie Scholten and Bailey Swan. Garrett Raymon was salutatorian. Class colors were white and royal blue; the flower was a red rose; and the class motto was, “We will be heard, we will be seen, we are the class of twenty-…
- May 28, 2019Forty-seven students received their Adrian High School diplomas Friday night, May 24, in the high school gymnasium.
- By Kent Thiesse, Farm Management AnalystMay 28, 2019Farm operators in many portions of the Midwest, including parts of southern Minnesota, northern Iowa, and eastern South Dakota will likely not be able to plant a portion of their 2019 corn and soybeans crops by the crop insurance “final planting dates” for their area. Those farmers have been evaluating their crop insurance coverage for prevented planting payments, as compared to the yield and…
- May 21, 2019In the April 30 poverty simulation at Grand Prairie Events, Luverne High School student Alyssa Nattress was assigned the role of a 9-year-old whose mother was in prison and her father wasn’t in the picture. She and her 7-year-old brother lived with their disabled grandpa and their grandma who worked full time and couldn’t tend to them much because of her work hours. Nattress described the…
- By Mavis FodnessMay 21, 2019As each Memorial Day and Veterans Day approaches, local sandblaster Vance Walgrave is busy etching names onto pavers for veteran memorials throughout southwest Minnesota. In Luverne, however, the pavers are engraved on-site at the Rock County Veterans Memorial. Walgrave, owner of Those Blasted Things, brought his equipment to the courthouse grounds Thursday, May 16, to etch a paver that joins…
- By Lori SorensonMay 21, 2019There’s still no location or funding for a downtown plaza, but a final concept drawing was presented Monday night to about 50 people at Grand Prairie Events. Plaza Committee Chairman Dave Haugom called the meeting a “big reveal” of work done to this point. “This plan takes all the ideas from our previous meetings and it’s all rolled out tonight,” he said. “The three main concepts that we had…
- By Lori SorensonMay 21, 2019Sanford Luverne’s new ambulance garage is ready for use, and a Saturday morning open house gave community members a glimpse inside their local emergency services. One of the first people there was Luverne’s Gene Cragoe, who last week observed what he calls the fifth anniversary of his second birthday. “Five years ago I almost died, and these guys brought me back,” he said. Cragoe suffered a…
- By Mavis FodnessMay 21, 2019Fifteen high school students displayed the results of a new yearlong program intended to prepare enterprising young people for careers in the business community. Southwest Minnesota Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities began in the fall of 2018 as a cooperative vocational education option for up to 22 students in Luverne, Ellsworth, Edgerton, Adrian, Hills-Beaver Creek and Pipestone school…
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