By Mavis Fodness
April 11, 2016
A former Luverne High School student revealed the identities of 15 classmates recently depicted in a book about high school sports and activities in Minnesota.
Helen Probst, a LHS Class of ’39 graduate, wrote the Star Herald from her Oroville, California, home with the student names.
“I knew most of them,” Probst said in a phone interview Monday. She, after all, attended classes with the girls…
April 11, 2016
Myhre Studio photographer Jim Juhl asks students in the back row to move slightly to the left for the formal portrait of Luverne High School’s Class of 2016. The 90 seniors started the day having their graduation portraits taken by Juhl before loading onto two school buses and one van for the trip to a farm north of Luverne.
Most students donned their senior T-shirts and braved temperatures in…
By Lori Sorenson
April 11, 2016
There’s a child care shortage in Luverne and Rock County, especially for infants and toddlers in the home day care market.
That's why the Luverne Economic Development Authority approved a $7,000 contract last fall with Maxfield Research and Consulting, Golden Valley, for a child care demand analysis study.
The firm studied overall population and household growth trends through 2020,…
By Mavis Fodness
April 11, 2016
The Rock County Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors more than tripled its annual number of cost-share agreements in a matter of minutes on Monday.
Generally the five-member group approves six agreements per year to install a variety of conservation practices that protect and improve water quality by controlling soil erosion and reducing sedimentation on an annual basis.…
By Lori Sorenson
April 11, 2016
Two hundred randomly selected Rock County households will receive surveys in the mail this week asking them about their attitudes toward recycling.
Selected residents received letters earlier this week, requesting their participation in the survey, which will be mailed later in the week by the Southwest Marketing Advisory Center (SMAC), Marshall.
The letter asks residents if they recycle, if they…
By Lori Sorenson
April 11, 2016
The historic Carnegie Cultural Center was filled with resonating tones of mallets on metallic and wooden bars of new instruments that were delivered Wednesday, April 6.
Luverne Street Music purchased the instruments — metallophones, xylophones, glockenspiels and other percussion instruments — from the Guitar Center, Sioux Falls, with donated funds.
Continental Western Group and Rock County Red…
April 11, 2016
Luverne Middle School raised $3,054 during the month of March during its annual Dodge Ball for Heart event that included a high school tournament. The event raised money for the American Heart Association, and Luverne’s contribution was the largest in this district. Middle-schooler Morgan Gonnerman (left) and physical education teacher and dodge ball organizer Mary Jo Graphenteen pose with the…
April 11, 2016
Meetings
Beaver Creek Township will have their monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, at the township hall.
Maplewood Cemetery board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 19.
MS Support Group will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 21, at Southwest Health and Human Services in Luverne. All persons with MS, family and friends are invited. Call 283-2069 or 283-2964 with questions.
Rock…
By Lori Sorenson
April 04, 2016
Gov. Mark Dayton was in Edgerton last week to discuss impaired water in southwest Minnesota.
"This is not just an agriculture problem," Dayton said at the March 30 meeting. "We all need to think about what we can do to improve water quality in Minnesota."
Dayton went on to say the problem didn't occur overnight as a result of one contributing factor, and there will be…
By Lori Sorenson
April 04, 2016
It could hardly be called official business, but Gov. Mark Dayton had coffee with some of Luverne’s most in-the-know ladies during his March 30 visit to southwest Minnesota.
The Tuesday Morning Coffee Group met with the governor at the Blue Mound Ice Arena where he toured the facility at the invitation of Coffee Group member Connie Connell.
In 1990 Connell visited with Dayton (then state auditor…
By Lori Sorenson
April 04, 2016
For several months the new History Center downtown Luverne has been shrouded in plastic while work continues inside to convert the 100-year-old Herman Motor building into the Historical Society’s new home.
In the past week, the plastic came off and massive custom windowpanes were placed in the showroom area and entrance area, giving the public a sense of what the building will look like.
“The…
By Mavis Fodness
April 04, 2016
Sanford Luverne’s Hospice Cottage on North Oakley Street provides a homelike setting for terminally ill persons who need round-the-clock care.
Central to the care at the four-bedroom cottage are the hospice workers who involve the family members in patients’ care.
One hospice worker — Brigitte Wieneke — has become like a daughter, sister, mother, aunt or personal confidant to the more than 500…
April 04, 2016
On Monday workers from River City Electric Inc. of Mankato began assembling the poles necessary for a rapid rectangular flashing beacon (RRFB) pedestrian crossing across the highway at the corner of Dodge Street and U.S. Highway 75. The workers also placed a RRFB crossing at the corner of Barck Street and Highway 75.The lights are expected to be working this week.
By Lori Sorenson
April 04, 2016
It was a deadly week on southwest Minnesota roadways with two fatal crashes involving Rock County residents.
Luverne’s Chad H. Carlson, 39, died in a motorcycle crash north of Luverne Sunday afternoon, April 3, and 34-year-old Aaron Conklin of Magnolia was killed in a Nobles County crash Thursday, March 31.
According to the Minnesota State Patrol, Carlson lost control of his 2006 Honda motorcycle…
By Mavis Fodness
April 04, 2016
Six years after graduating from Luverne High School, Caitlin Miller returned last week to inspire current middle and high school students.
Principal Ryan Johnson introduced Miller at the morning session with students in grades 6 through 8 and the afternoon session to ninth- through 12th-grade students.
“It wasn’t long ago that Caitlin sat where you are now,” Johnson said.
Miller’s visit coincided…
By Mavis Fodness
April 04, 2016
Seven people spearheaded the successful fundraising efforts to purchase the former Jasper High School, and last week they signed papers for their group called Reclaim Community to become a limited liability organization.
Elicia Kortus, Ryan Reker, Terry Skyberg, Jason Madtson, Randy Larson, Kristie Weinkauf and Jon Hoyme are the not-for profit’s first governing board.
Reclaim Community is now…