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- July 08, 202610 years ago (2016) •Schomacker Cleaning and Flooring is expanding to the former Luverne Style Shop building in downtown Luverne. The local company plans to open a retail store on the corner of Main and Cedar and will add the sales and service of major household appliances to its offerings. Schomacker Flooring and Appliance is expected to have a soft opening in mid-August and be fully open…
- June 24, 202610 years ago (2016) •Thirty-six Luverne High School students and four chaperones returned Friday from a 10-day trip to Puerto Rico. The trip was organized by Luverne High School Spanish teacher Caroline Thorson as an extension of the lessons learned in her Spanish classes. “The students get to see and use the things they learn in class in an authentic situation,” Thorson said. The…
- June 17, 202610 years ago (2016) •Almost 70 years of classroom experience won’t be returning to Luverne Public Schools when just two longtime teachers decided to retire at the end of the 2015-16 school year. Greg Antoine and Mary Jo Graphenteen chose early retirement after spending 32 and 36 years teaching in Luverne respectively. Each decided it was time to start another chapter in their lives with one…
- June 10, 202610 years ago (2016) •A pair of Luverne High School tennis players ended their season with a victory when they won the consolation championship at the 2016 Minnesota State Boys Tennis Tournament in Minneapolis on Friday. Senior Erik Wohnoutka and junior Chris Jelken qualified for the state tournament when they won the Section 3A doubles championship on May 31. … “Overall it was a great…
- June 03, 202610 years ago (2016) •A battered brass bugle has joined the collection of World War II artifacts at the Herreid Military Museum in Luverne. While it’s still a functional instrument, it’s now retired, as is its previous bugler, Lois Nelson, who played it for taps at hundreds of local funerals for veterans. And for the first time in decades, its haunting notes weren’t heard at Memorial Day…
- May 27, 202610 years ago (2016) •Each year, in his role as Luverne High School counselor, Craig Nelson gives LHS freshmen a list of careers. The list includes college professor, Mars exploration scientist, director of scouting for an NFL team, retractable stadium engineer, professional dancer and Big Ten Coach, among others. Nelson then asks the students what all of these careers have in common. The…
- May 20, 202610 years ago (2016) •The short 145th Street in Vienna Township is a dead-end minimum maintenance gravel road. So when Terri Murphy noticed several cars with out-of-town license plates lined up near her acreage, she asked questions. As it turns out, they were birdwatchers — the kind who take their hobby seriously. They were gazing south over the pond (once a gravel pit) with binoculars and…
- May 13, 202610 years ago (2016) •Al Willers is not a well-recognized name at Luverne Elementary School. He’s better known as “Grandpa Al.” Even his school badge reads “Grandpa Al,” as it has for the past 15 school years, where Willers has been a volunteer. His focus is helping elementary students with various math equations. “Math is used every day regardless of what they want to grow up to be,”…
- May 06, 202610 years ago (2016) •Megan Westrum, Steen, is one of three Minnesota West students named to the 2016 Phi Theta Kappa All-Minnesota USA Academic Team. Westrum, a student at the Worthington Campus, is an active member of Phi Theta Kappa and a member of the 2014-15 Lady Jay Basketball team. Westrum, a 2014 graduate of Hills-Beaver Creek High School, plans to pursue a degree at Southwest…
- April 29, 202610 years ago (2016) •The artwork of 17-year-old Brandon Sprock, son of Luverne High School graduate Sara (Schomacker) Sprock, is on display at the Museum of Visual Materials, Sioux Falls, through April 30. In December the South Dakota Arts Council and Arts South Dakota put out a call for art to be created by students across the state of South Dakota. Sprock, a student at LifeScape Specialty…
- April 22, 202610 years ago (2016) •With the retirement of longtime Heartland Express employee Elaine Birkestrand set for Sunday, May 1, county officials have been discussing different options to fill her position. Heartland Express provides public transportation to families, older adults and people with disabilities. The countywide service began in 1991. Birkestrand began as a part-time bus driver in…
- April 15, 202610 years ago (2016) •Glen Gust’s grocery career began when he was just a child. “I started delivering bread with the bread man when I was 7, and I delivered milk with the milk man when I was 12,” Gust recalled. “I made $4 a week — $1 per day — in the summers.” As a high school student in Canby he worked for the local grocery store, and after he graduated in 1966, he worked at Sullivan’s…
- April 08, 202610 years ago (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…
- April 01, 202610 years ago (2016) •The April issue of National Geographic Magazine includes a collection of Minnesota photographs titled “93 Days of Spring” by Jim Brandenburg. The ”93 Days of Spring” contains more photographs than any other feature in the 128-year history of National Geographic Magazine. The previous record was Brandenburg’s 90 autumn images in “North Woods Journal” in the November 1997…
- March 25, 202610 years ago (2016) •The gravel pit pond in Luverne has become known as the Creamery Pond, due to its proximity to the former Land “O Lakes creamery. There’s no longer a creamery in Luverne, and Land ‘O Lakes is now Great Plains Processing, but the little body of water has retained the Creamery Pond identity for lack of a better name. Now city leaders and adjacent property owners are…
- March 18, 202610 years ago (2016) •When Greg Burger reflects on more than 40 years in his banking years, the memories are accented by both challenges and rewards. For example, he vividly recalls the farming crisis of the 1980s, but he had the satisfaction of helping people and that colors his career. “It’s been a wonderful career,” he said. “The most rewarding part of my career is when people came to me…
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