Remember when?

10 years ago (1996)
Rick White is the new park manager at Blue Mounds State Park.
The third year of Raku Madness drew about 25 potters and interested artists from the tri-state area to the back yard of the Carnegie Cultural Center.
Last week city of Luverne crews picked up 274,000 pounds of trash; 39,000 pounds of steel and 121 appliances during the annual junk pick-up week.25 years ago (1981)
Phyllis Suprenant is the 1981 Rock County Mother of the Year. Finalists were Mildred Busch, Caroline Chesley, Mar Dee Dahlin and Henrietta Moss.
Luverne’s No. 1 barroom pool league team played in the quiet of Worthington’s Holiday Inn against nine other teams in region, topping all of them. Team members are Terry Reisch, Mike Reisch, Bryce Oldre, Dale Erickson, Keith Van Westen and alternate Harvey Castle.50 years ago (1956)
Luverne and Rock County made nation-wide news with its heavy weekend snowfall, but it was the more than an inch of moisture it brought that made weather news locally. Fifteen inches of snow was reported. The moisture is ideal for farmers.
The Rock County Fair Board approved a contract for construction of a new poultry and sheep building at the Rock County fairgrounds Tuesday, as reported by secretary George Golla.75 years ago (1931)
Births exceeded deaths by two to one in Rock County during 1930. Back in the early ‘20s the birth rate was approximately four times as great as the death rate.
Rock County gets $43,130 for road improvements this summer.
Arrangements for the opening of a new bank in Luverne by the First Bank Stock Corporation of Minneapolis is announced. It will be managed by Rock County men.100 years ago (1906)
R. Luncheon, of Clinton, Iowa, shipped to Luverne three fine imported Percheron stallions, which he expects to dispose of to private parties. The horses were shipped by freight one hour before Mr. Luncheon boarded the passenger train.
After being "dry" for nearly a week Beaver Creek is again supplied with a saloon. At a council meeting the license fee was raised from $1,000 to $1,250, and as a result Geo. Myllenbeck, who has operated the saloon there during the past year, refused to pay the increased fee and closed his saloon. He later decided to reopen after paying the new fee.