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There’s a child care shortage in Luverne and Rock County, and the market is about to get tighter with pending retirements in the home day care market.
That’s the message working parents and child care providers are sending to city leaders who on Monday authorized a formal study to measure the local...
The Green Earth Players community theater group will perform its fall production, “Homecoming, A Christmas Story,” Nov. 13-15 and Nov. 20-22 at the Palace Theatre in Luverne.
From the creator of “The Waltons” television series, this family drama involves more than a dozen local children in the cast...
Local artists will host their annual Holiday Studio Tours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, at several studio locations in and around Luverne.
The event this year features 16 artists displaying their original work at six different studio locations.
Among them will be Luverne native Thomas...
When Rock Area Kids Against Hunger kicked off its food-packing event in Luverne Thursday, Nov. 5, organizers wanted to surpass the totals from last year’s inaugural event.
The group did just that and then some by Friday afternoon.
Last year the event raised nearly $16,000 and resulted in the...
Two Rock County motorists were involved in a crash Tuesday night on County Road 4 east of Luverne.
According to information from the Rock County Sheriff’s Office, the crash was reported at 6:10 p.m. near the intersection of County Road 9, the landfill road.
Kaemphet Xaphakdy, 52, of Magnolia was...
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Luverne Public School District residents overwhelmingly renewed a 10-year excess levy referendum vote Tuesday, Nov. 5.
More than 84 percent or 498 voters supported the renewal of the excess levy for an additional 10 years; 93 voted no. The 591 total votes represented 16.7...
Lutheran Social Services, which oversees the meal program at Luverne Senior Dining, is celebrating150 years in 2015.
LSS traces its beginnings back to a Lutheran church near Red Wing where a family of four children was orphaned in 1865.
Pastor Eric Norelius and the tiny Vasa Lutheran Church...
Hundreds of goblins, ghouls, princesses and minions stromed the streets of downtown Luverne for the annual Halloween Trunk N' Treet Friday, Oct. 29.
The Luverne Area Chamber and participating businesses hosted the event, handing out treats from the trunks and back ends of decorated cars, SUVs and...
On Oct. 16 JoAnn Strege just caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of her eye.
“I saw a flash go by,” she said last week as she reiterated her story about seeing an albino robin, as she calls it, to the Star Herald.
Looking out her apartment picture window at the corner of Estey and Main...
Laughter and learning were among the activities Saturday morning during the third-annual Peer Helper Fun Day.
Scooter races, face painting and Zoomobile presentations entertained the 85 students in kindergarten through fourth grade as the 24 high school peer helpers organized and operated the event...