10 years ago (1995)"The Hills City Council voted unanimously to place the Hills Municipal Liquor Store and building up for sale Tuesday, June 12. The Council’s decision is contrary to input received from residents at a meeting last month. Approximately 15 area residents attended a special meeting May 23 to express opinions concerning the liquor store’s future. Most attending the meeting felt that the City should maintain ownership of the facility and expand the building."25 years ago (1980)"The new animated Hills community float got its first workout this week at Ellsworth’s Dairy Days parade. The float, designed and built by George Schlueter, was the only animated float in the Dairy Days parade which included some 70 entries. The unit did not place, but was not judged while in motion."50 years ago (1955)"At a recent meeting of the 270 Club, which was organized some years ago to perpetuate the grading and blacktopping of the trunk highway leading into Hills, decision was made to go ahead with plans to secure further improvements in road conditions to this area. The Club is especially interested in getting the road blacktopped into Steen and also the road from Hills west to the state line surfaced. Both would join up with the present 270, but will now be county projects, it is assumed."75 years ago (1930)"It will be of interest to our readers to know that P.H. Rognley has again graduated from the National University at Washington, D.C., with two more degrees being conferred upon him, the degree of Doctor of Juridical Science, and the degree of Master of Patent Law. It will be remembered that last spring he received the Bachelor of Laws degree." 100 years ago (1905)"A bunch of horse traders were in town Saturday with a large drove of horses. The Crescent is of the opinion that ordinance No. 3 prohibits these kind of people from staying in town all day and they should be made to move on as soon as they arrive."