10 years ago (1994)"Nearly a dozen residents visited the Hills City Council for the annual Truth-in-Taxation meeting Tuesday night. Local citizens questioned why the city portion of their taxes had such drastic increases over a year’s time. Jack Paulsen cited a 66 percent increase in his Pioneer Seed building, while Wendell Bengtson noted the city portion of his real estate taxes rose by nearly 74 percent."25 years ago (1979)"Effective last week, Preston Ver Meer purchased Crescent Publishing Company from John H. Minette and Ann K. Brehm. Minette and Brehm will continue to own and operate the Hills Crescent and the Ellsworth Voice, while Ver Meer will take over immediately as owner and operator of the printing end of the company, known as Crescent Publishing Company." 50 years ago (1954)"Over the past weekend, the Blue Ribbon Hatchery put in three new Jamesway incubators, which will be ready for use in the next few days. As the result of this installation, the hatchery will have doubled its egg capacity. A year ago, the hatchery installed three incubators capable of turning out 43,200 chicks in one hatching. Now, with the recent installation they will be able to produce 86,400 chicks to a hatching."75 years ago (1929)"Due to a controversy over the interpretation of the election laws the annual election at Beaver Creek was not held Tuesday of this week as it was announced in the Star. The session laws of 1925 state that all villages with an assessed valuation of more than $750 per capita are to be held in November." 100 years ago (1904)"The Pipestone Review was badly ‘jarred’ over the football item in last week’s Crescent, explaining why our team would not play in Pipestone, but offered to play on neutral ground at Luverne. ‘This,’ the Review states, ‘Manager Grun rightly refused.’ Now, why can’t Hills as ‘rightly’ refuse to play in Pipestone? To tell the truth, a town whose standard of sport is, ‘Our dog must win, even if we have to muzzle the other dog to do it,’ isn’t entitled to a game on their home grounds."