Remember when?

10 years ago (1996)
For the first time in 10 years, a primary election will be necessary to name two candidates for the general election. Three candidates have filed for the District 4 County Board seat currently held by Bill Brakke. Candidates are Jim Harner, Bob Jarchow and Norma Stewart.
The architectural team of Neumann, Monson and Wictor, Sioux City, Iowa, reviewed site plans and building costs for a proposed elementary school addition with the Luverne School Board. The 121,000 square-foot elementary building is estimated to cost more than $10 million, or about $62 per square foot.25 years ago (1981)
Judge Gary Crippen has called the area drug and alcohol problem overwhelming.
Downtown merchants are planning to plant trees in front of Main Street stores in the sidewalks.
Michelle Mann and Laura Schmidt won the fashion review and are going to the State Fair.
Ida Reverts has been selected 4-H Mother of the Year.50 years ago (1956)
Luverne’s beauty is enhanced by the new Grace Lutheran Church on North Kniss Avenue, which will have its dedication ceremonies Sunday.
There will be an air raid test alert in Luverne at 9:03 a.m. Friday. The practice alert is held so that local residents will become familiar with alarm signals and various instructions that will be given over the conelrad radio band later in the day.75 years ago (1931)
A class of one hundred and three boys and girls who have completed their studies in the schools of Rock County will be awarded diplomas at the 20th annual eighth-grade graduation exercises to be held this evening at the Luverne High School auditorium.
L.W. Rolph’s Herefords got high money at Sioux Falls. As one of the consistent cattle feeders of Battle Plain township, he topped the cattle market with eleven Herefords that weighed 11,805 and brought $8.50 per hundred.100 years ago (1906)
The excavation for the basement of the $8,000 school house to be built in Hardwick this summer was finished last week and the work of laying the foundation is now progressing rapidly.
So far as is known, J. Innes, of this city, has the distinction of cutting the first barley in the coming harvest, having commenced cutting Tuesday. Several fields of rye have been cut and by the first of the week barley harvest will be in full blast.
Dr. C.O. Wright has sold his old residence building to the German Lutheran Church Society. The society will have the building moved to their property adjoining their church in the Barck, Adams and Howe addition and will have it fitted out for a parsonage.