Remember When March 9, 2023

10 years ago (2013)
•A pair of Luverne High School athletes wrapped up the 2012-13 season at the Minnesota State Class AA Individual Wrestling Tournament at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul over the weekend.
Senior Eli Dooyema and sophomore D.J. Reker earned the right to represent Luverne at the state tournament for the first time since 2009 when they placed second in their weight classes at the section tournament.
This is the first time LHS sent multiple wrestlers to compete at the state tournament since the 2002-03 season.
Unfortunately for the LHS entries, both Cardinals went 0-2 without placing at state.
 
25 years ago (1998)
•Luverne’s quest to reach the state hockey tournament came to an end when the Cardinals dropped a pair of games during the Junior Gold Maroon Regionals played in Waseca Friday through Sunday.
East St. Paul, the eventual champion, beat the Cards by two goals in the tournament opener Friday. Burnsville ended Luverne’s 20-9 season by handing the Cards a one-goal setback in double overtime Saturday.
 
50 years ago (1973)
•The school board of District 670, Luverne, decided Tuesday that the Hardwick school building will be abandoned as a teaching facility after Jan. 1, 1974, unless factors arise to change a situation that now exists. They have a year in which to weigh those factors.
Their action came as the result of orders issued last week by the state fire marshal’s office. …
Ten corrective measures were ordered to be made on the building within 90 days to make the two buildings, which make up the Hardwick school, safe. Through negotiations made over the week end, the board hopes to be able to use the newer portion of the Hardwick building for another year by making minimal alterations and improvements. Cost of these improvements was estimated at less than $2,000. The cost to make all the improvements, were the board to comply with the fire marshal’s orders, was estimated at from $40,000 to $50,000, it was brought out at Tuesday’s meeting.
 
75 years ago (1948)
•Greater difficulty in securing teachers for the rural schools of Rock county than has been experienced in the past can be expected in the future, Supt. V.M. Barrett said this week.
A new ruling, approved by the State Board of Education February 25, provides that for the school year 1948-49, no teacher who holds an elementary limited, first grade or second grade certificate shall be granted another renewal unless eight quarter hours of college credit in approved courses are earned.
It further provides that no teacher who has held two limited emergency permits valid in ungraded elementary schools shall be granted a third permit unless eight quarter hours of college credits are earned.
 
100 years ago (1923)
•Evidence anew that the old board of commissioners for Rock county of which W.A. Rowe, of this city, and O.I. Godfrey, of Beaver Creek, were members are justly entitled to the commendation of the taxpayers of this county for the sound and conservative manner in which the affairs of the county were conducted by them, was contained in Sunday’s St. Paul Pioneer Press.
This information was conveyed in an article by Jack Hammond, of the Pioneer Press staff, in which it is declared that Rock county’s tax rate of 29.62 mills is the lowest in the state; the levies in six counties are 100 mills or more, and that the average rate in the state is 54 mills.