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- August 06, 202510 years ago (2015) •The city of Luverne will spend approximately $400,000 to paint the tower on Highway 75 next year. The scheduled maintenance will provide the opportunity to put the city logo “Luverne — Love the Life” on the tower tank. “We’re excited to get that tower branded,” Call said at the July 21 capital budget meeting. The north tower by the hospital was painted with the new logo…
- July 23, 202510 years ago (2015) •Ten years ago on July 29, 2005, Sioux Valley Luverne Hospital opened its doors for its first official day of business in its new location on the north edge of Luverne. “Not only is it a beautiful building, but it’s a neat thing that the community would put their trust in us to build it,” Jerry Carl was quoted as saying in a Star Herald interview prior to the opening. “I…
- July 16, 202510 years ago (2015) •Papik Motors, one of 15 Chevrolet dealers from the Sioux Falls area that partnered with local youth baseball leagues for the 2015 baseball season, has concluded a successful summer with Luverne Community Education. Papik Motors provided LCE with new equipment, a monetary contribution and opportunity for community members to raise funds for the league via a Test Drive…
- July 09, 202510 years ago (2015) •Another category of retail business will join Luverne’s downtown lineup on July 23. ATLAS of Rock County is opening a thrift store, “Redeemed Remnants,” at 220 E. Main Street. ATLAS is a nonprofit Christian ministry that offers support and assistance to “those struggling with life’s difficult issues,” according to its website. “This store will be an extension of our…
- July 02, 202510 years ago (2015) •The proposed six-mile recreation trail around the city of Luverne took another step forward when Luverne School Board members approved an easement agreement with the city at their regular monthly meeting Thursday, June 25. The perpetual and temporary construction easement cost was $1. The board agreed to have the 20-foot-wide trail constructed on the west side of the…
- June 25, 202510 years ago (2015) •After more than 120 years of weddings, funerals and worship services, Kenneth Lutheran Church will close its doors at the end of the month. A final worship service will be at 10 a.m. Sunday, June 28, followed by a catered meal. The small building with a proud white steeple housed hundreds of summer vacation Bible school classes, cubed beef suppers, bridal showers and…
- June 18, 202510 years ago (2015) •A Luverne native was able to rub elbows recently with the legendary rock n’ roll band, The Rolling Stones. Katrina (Vander Kooi) Wallmeyer, a 2000 graduate of Luverne High School, is director of development and communications for the choral music programming organization VocalEssence. Wallmeyer has worked for VocalEssence, Minneapolis, for almost seven years. Last month…
- June 11, 202510 years ago (2015) •For three weeks in March, employees at CHS Eastern Farmers conducted their annual Harvest for Hunger food and funds drive. On Thursday, May 28, employees at the Luverne and Magnolia CHS locations donated $12,649.32 to the Rock County Food Shelf. “Large donations are wonderful,” said Food Shelf director Mary Gehrke. Since the holiday season, she said supplies have been…
- June 04, 202510 years ago (2015) •More than 1,000 gallons of paint and other solvents were properly disposed of Thursday, May 27, during the county’s annual household hazardous waste collection. More than 100 households took advantage of the free disposal that is also offered the first and third Thursdays of each month. The annual and monthly collections are organized by the land management office to keep…
- May 28, 202510 years ago (2015) •Local fans of the popular television series “House Hunters” will recognize the featured Realtor in a segment recently filmed in Sioux Falls. Ashley (Gacke) Bartholomaus is a realtor with the Tony Ratchford Group of Keller Williams Realty in Sioux Falls. She sent House Hunters producers an audition tape of herself describing her experience working with a young couple, Damon…
- May 21, 202510 years ago (2015) •Rock County Relay for Life’s “Kiss the Pig” fundraising effort is shaping up to be a battle of the Ryans at competing local banks. Ryan Wynia at First Farmers and Merchants Bank and Ryan DeBates at Exchange State Bank are accepting donations for the American Cancer Society for Rock County’s June 12 Relay for Life event. The Ryan who brings in the most money will have the…
- May 14, 202510 years ago (2015) •Kenneth, Minnesota, is a small rural town with an official population of 67. To outsiders, the dot on the map doesn’t mean much, but to those who live there and make their regular acquaintances at the Kenneth Community Center, it’s the best place on earth. Just ask the Rust brothers; they’ll attest that Kenneth people are “salt of the earth.” Bud, Keith and Don Rust…
- May 07, 202510 years ago (2015) •Last week Minnesota farmers tied a 30-year record for the most soybean acres planted in a single week. That follows the pace set by corn planting the previous week when corn producers had the second-highest acres planted in 30 years, according to the USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics Service. For Kenneth farmer Danny Roskamp, last week meant a personal milestone in…
- April 30, 202510 years ago (2015) •The properties on the east end of Barck Avenue are under demolition this week as the city of Luverne paves the way for new housing in that block. The city of Luverne and Cleveringa Construction have entered into a development agreement for the construction of two triplexes and one twin home on East Barck Avenue. … “We’ll have an open canvas there for new development,” City…
- April 23, 202510 years ago (2015) •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. … On March 5, identical twins Mateo and Nicolas Melcher were born at Sanford Hospital in Sioux Falls…
- April 16, 202510 years ago (2015) •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…
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