Luverne celebrates Buffalo Days
Luverne’s annual four-day Buffalo Days weekend enjoyed spectacular weather and near record participation.
Hills to celebrate Friendship Days this weekend
Traditionally fire trucks lead parades, but in the case of Friendship Days in Hills, firemen are the 2025 parade marshals.
Zinnel honored during Blue Mound Quilters show at Hinkly House
Sharon Zinnel was honored as the Quilter of the Year and her quilts were featured at the Blue Mound Quilt Show at the Hinkly House during Buffalo Days weekend.<
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- By Mavis FodnessJune 20, 2016Luverne’s Ryleigh Beers is experienced in raising money to help others. Two years ago the recent graduate of Luverne High School purchased and delivered art supplies for the Children’s Home Society. The following year she made dozens of blankets to be given away for Project Linus. This year Beers’ project has a slight twist. “It’s my last active year in 4-H,” Beers said. “I wanted to do something…
- By Mavis FodnessJune 20, 2016While all eyes were on the 7-foot-tall yellow mascot from the Sioux Falls Canaries baseball team, it was two left-handed pitchers who completed a special reading program Monday afternoon at the Rock County Community Library. Joining Cagey (the name of the big yellow bird) were left-handed pitchers Josh Ferrell and Billy Waltrip. “He can’t talk,” Ferrell explained during a short question-and-…
- June 20, 2016Last week’s 90-degree days pushed many people to find cooler ways to enjoy the outdoors such as going to “The Lake” in southwest Luverne. Last year The Lake was designated as a kids’ fishing pond through the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
- By Lori SorensonJune 20, 2016Luverne City Council members took action at their June 14 meeting to accept a grant of $37,062 that will help fund a project to prevent drinking water contamination. Storm damage to the Rock River in recent years has created a potential water path toward an abandoned city dump. Doug Bos of the Rock County Land Management Office alerted county and city officials of the situation two years ago and…
- By Lori SorensonJune 20, 2016Lori Hallstrom made a business announcement Friday about her downtown store, HGS Gallery. "It is with a heavy heart that I inform you that I will be closing HGS Gallery at the end of June," she wrote in an email to Luverne Chamber members. But she also announced a new venture that she'll run instead. "My new business venture will be opening this fall here in my building at…
- By Mavis FodnessJune 20, 2016Three local American Legion representatives were selected to state offices at the recently completed 68th annual Minnesota Legion Boys State. The Arthur Moeller American Legion Post #478 in Hardwick sponsored Knute Oldre of Luverne. He was elected attorney general during the June 12-18 event at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall. For his election to state office, Oldre was awarded a…
- By Mavis FodnessJune 20, 2016A trolley tour of Luverne business district’s historic buildings drew almost 30 people to the Thursday night event. The Rock County Historical Society sponsored the one-time event to educate the public on the history of Luverne and Rock County. It also coincided with Luverne’s weekly evening shopping. Historical Society President Betty Mann dressed the part as a tour guide for the three half-hour…
- By Lori SorensonJune 20, 2016This year is the 100th anniversary of Minnesota state parks and the 125th anniversary of America’s national parks. To celebrate, a summer of special events and activities has been planned at the Blue Mounds State Park and Touch the Sky Prairie. The celebration continues this weekend with “Teddy Live” Saturday and “Songs of the Real West” Sunday. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, re-enactor Adam…
- June 20, 2016The Luverne Area Community Foundation recently announced spring grants awarded in two categories: health care and general (anything not health care). Health care grant awards $23,886 •Sanford Luverne Medical Center $13,000 for a Bravo pH monitor system. •Good Samaritan/Mary Jane Brown Home $2,000 for a Rosie Vitals Machine. •Magnolia Juniors 4-H Club $100 for hygiene kits. •Blue Mound Ice Arena…
- By Glenda McGaffeeJune 20, 2016Maggie Rose Berndt-Dreyer will be ordained to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament in Christ’s one, holy, catholic and apostolic church at 3 p.m., Sunday, June 26, at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Hills. The Rev. Jon Anderson, bishop of the Southwestern Minnesota Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, will preside. Lunch will be served in the basement following the ordination. The…
- June 20, 2016Construction of the passing lane two miles north of Jasper will begin at 6 a.m. Monday, June 27. The project will NOT require a detour. Traffic will be shifted onto the shoulder. The lanes will be narrowed and speed reduced in the work zone. Please drive with caution and be aware of workers in the work zone. A width limit of 11 ft. will be enforced. Motorists can expect short delays during the…
- June 20, 2016A Minnesota chicken company has recalled 55,608 pounds of meat after an incident involving the Cold Spring plant. GNP Company, the parent company of Gold’n Plump and Just BARE, made the announcement on June 19 after the USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a Class I recall of some of the company’s products on Saturday, June 18. The affected product may be contaminated with…
- By Lori SorensonJune 14, 2016Mike and Wanda Jarchow’s soon-to-open Grand Prairie Events Center will accommodate up to 600 people with tables, chairs, linens, china and everything needed for special events. “It’s kind of a stationary version of the tent business,” Mike Jarchow said, referring to their Big Top Tent Rental business that they sold to a local family last year. “But we’ll have air conditioning now, and we won’t…
- By Lori SorensonJune 14, 2016The community of Luverne and Rock County lost a kind and gentle soul early Sunday morning when Frederick Manfred Jr. passed away in Sioux Falls under hospice care. He was 62 years old and had fought the effects of kidney disease most of his adult life. Fred was born in and lived in Luverne most of his life, and his friends knew him as a big man with an even bigger heart. "He was gentle — and…
- By Mavis FodnessJune 14, 2016Piles of what looked like dirt and sand at Mouw Feed and Grain in Hardwick were removed last week along with an odor that had prompted resident complaints in recent months. Those piles, however, were not all dirt and sand but spilled grain mixed with ag lime from last fall’s harvest. Twenty-seven semitrailer loads of rotting corn, soybeans and other debris were removed from the Hardwick elevator…
- By Mavis FodnessJune 14, 2016Former Rock County 4-H’er Cheyenne Edmundson was right at home Friday coordinating the first of two summer day camps. As this year’s summer intern, Edmundson sees her position not just as a job but a way to repay an organization she credits for cultivating the focus and passion for agriculture during the 11 years she was a member. “4-H has been a benefit to me in other organizations at school. I…
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