Baking batches of cookies means a cookie exchange is imminent as sung by Luverne Elementary second-graders Friday afternoon in a production of “Cookies!
More than a dozen parade entries walked down Main Street Luverne Monday afternoon for the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade organized by the Luverne Area Chamber.
The Magnolia City Council shared a letter of support in a grant application Rock County submitted for the $25 million transload and rail yard facility proposed for the east edge of
Area school districts lost a testing day when the Minnesota Department of Education temporarily suspended use of the state’s online testing website.
On Tuesday, April 21, Commissioner Brenda Cassellius announced in a press release that the testing site would be shut down until technical problems within the testing system were resolved.
No timeframe was given on how long the test company, Pearson…
Four Rock County residences received more than $5,000 in tax credits and another property is under consideration after Rock County Commissioners approved recommendations from Tom Houselog, county land records director.
Houselog has been conducting local board of appeal and equalization meetings, where residents can question the upcoming property tax assessments or request disaster credits.…
Thanks to a local woman, a New York dad is able to raise twin sons as his own, a life event he didn’t even think was possible until only a few years ago.
Michael Melcher compares life before his children’s births to that of the main character in “The Wizard of Oz” movie.
“Dorothy said the first part of her life is black and white,” he said. “Then she wakes up in Oz and it’s all in color.”
On…
It was a record-breaking night for volunteers and fundraising coordinators at Sanford Luverne Hospice Saturday, April 11.
The Blue Mound Banquet Center in Luverne accommodated a packed house of 400 people for the Annual Hospice Charity Dinner and Auction fundraiser, which featured a New Orleans and Mardi Gras theme.
According to Sanford Luverne Hospice volunteer coordinator Helen Saum, a gross…
High school speech is the competitive public speaking activity offered through the Minnesota High School League (MHSL).
There are 13 speech categories with each falling into a genre of informing, influencing or entertaining audiences.
Luverne High School senior Spencer Schacht has been a speech team participant for the past six years and is a three-time state speech qualifier in storytelling, one…
Improvements to the Rock County Community Library were unanimously supported by the Rock County Board of Commissioners and were added into the county’s Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) for completion this year.
Prior to Tuesday’s meeting, the board toured the current library facility with library director Clint Wolthuizen who laid out the proposed $175,000 in facility improvements.
Wolthuizen…
Visitors to Holton’s Town Square on Saturday, Oct. 11, will have the opportunity to view the process of turning alpaca fiber into an article of clothing — or from “Sheep to Shawl,” as the process is known.
Sarah DeVader of Sarah’s Enchanted Cottage on the west side of the Square is putting the “Sheep to Shawl” demonstration together for the Holton/Jackson County Chamber of Commerce’s Fall…
The Luverne High School gymnastics team hosted a “Day of Fun” for 50 participants Dec. 29 in the school’s small gyms. The youngsters were divided into eight groups where they learned maneuvers from the team’s gymnasts in the sport’s four events — floor exercise, uneven bars, vault and beam — along with dance lessons. The first-time fundraiser event was overseen by team coaches Phoebe Flom, Kari…