By Sara QuamThe city of Luverne is on its way to a more historic look downtown with the addition of stone light poles this summer.The poles are topped with antique-like globes and are shorter than the current lights.Planning ahead for aesthetics, the Luverne City Council is opting to remove other signage that may clutter the look of downtown.Main Street will no longer have special occasion banners. It will still have Christmas decorations, however. But Tri-State Band Festival or Welcome banners that hang from light poles will no longer be downtown. Highway 75 streetlights will carry those.Instead of free-standing signs, such as "no U-turn," for example, signs will be installed on the surface of the aggregate poles. The fewer the poles, the better, the Council decided at the request of Chamber Director Dave Smith.The city will no longer have "2-hour parking" signs either. Sheriff Mike Winkels said that hasn’t been enforced since the 1980s anyway.There will be other parking signs that warn people not to park overnight for snow removal and street sweeping purposes.In other Luverne business Tuesday, the City Council:oGot an update on Pool and Fitness Center activities. For the first time in the history of the facility, there are more than 1,000 members.oGranted a request for temporary on-sale beer license to the Rock County Agricultural Society (the County Fair Board) for Aug. 4 through Aug. 6.oGranted the Rock County Agricultural Society requests for help during the fair. The city will provide "no parking" signs on Freeman Avenue; allow the use of an additional 12 handicap and 12 "no parking" signs; spray the fairgrounds for mosquitoes prior to the fair and at least once during the fair as needed; use of city-owned portable bleachers for additional seating for the Aug. 5 concert; use of about 200 feet of orange plastic fencing, and access to a fire hydrant for water for the racetrack for all three nights of the fair.oGranted permission to the Minnesota Veterans Home to fire a cannon during a family picnic Aug. 19. A group of Civil War enthusiasts from Fulda regularly do this demonstration in the area.