Enore Joan Boelman was born on Sept. 23, 1930, to Fred and Jennie (Bergman) Wessels on the farm in Grand Prairie Township, Nobles County, Minn.
Sondra Coulter, age 86 of Luverne, Minn., passed away Thursday, Aug. 21, 2026, at the Sanford Hospice Cottage in Luverne.
A memorial visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27, at the Hartquist Funeral Home in Luverne with a prayer service to start at 6 p.m.
Bernard “Bernie” Gunnink, age 87, of Hardwick, Minn., passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026, at the Edgebrook Care Center in Edgerton, Minn.
James Dean Lanoue, age 57, of Hardwick, Minn., passed away Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, at the Sanford Medical Center, in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28, at the Dingmann Funeral Home in Luverne followed by a funeral service at 7 p.m.
With summer settling down, school will be back in session here shortly for Luverne and surrounding communities.
For the kids, this means butterflies in anticipation of a new school year, or maybe fear of the unknown that a new season brings.
St. Catherine Catholic Church
203 E. Brown St., Luverne
St. Catherine Ph. 507-283-8502
www.stscl.org
Father Joshua Miller, Pastor
The Luverne Redbirds were knocked out of the 2026 Minnesota Baseball Association State Tournament in the first round by the Dumont Saints.
Dumont, the Section 3C champs, beat the Redbirds 3-1 in a close game Sunday, Aug. 23, in New Prague.
The new Luverne High School football field scoreboard is up, and it will be ready in time for the season’s first home football game according to school officials.
I am not sure where summer went.
All I know is it was fast and full of baseball action.
Now as we transition to fall and the start of another new school year that means one thing.
Fall sports!
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Aug. 21 results
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#142 Eric Gaul, Luverne - placed 3rd in the A Feature, DNF in Heat 1.
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