10 years ago (2011)
•A decade-long coaching run officially came to an end during a meeting of the District 2184 School Board Thursday.
The board accepted the resignation of Jason Phelps as Luverne High School’s head girls’ basketball coach. Phelps has been head coach since the 2001-02 season.
“It’s time to step aside and give someone else a chance to move the program forward.” Phelps said.
Phelps compiled a 76-166 record during his 10-year run as a head coach.
Four of Luverne’s six girls to score more than 1,000 career points played their basketball during Phelps’ tenure.
Although LHS never produced a title-earning season under Phelps, he did play a key role in turning a program that won four games in two seasons prior to his arrival into a program that played competitive basketball.
The most memorable years during the Phelps era came during the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons, when the Cardinals reached the semifinal round of the South Section 3AA Tournament.
His 2006-07 squad compiled a 17-8 record, the best mark produced by one of his teams.
25 years ago (1996)
•Some Luverne IBP employees may see a bonus in one of their upcoming paychecks.
IBP has been ordered by the U. S. Department of Labor to pay back wages in one of the largest cases against an employer for not paying employees for work performed.
The court order against IBP could amount to more than $7 million for 23,5000 employees at 11 plants in six states. All the plants involved at the time the suit was filed were non-union.
For two years, workers were not paid for jobs they performed before and after their regular shifts, according to a statement released Tuesday by the Department of Labor. …
The court order includes a permanent injunction against IBP to prevent the company from committing future violations of the overtime and record-keeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. IBP was also ordered to pay interest on the wages owed to its workers.
50 years ago (1971)
•Rock County can buy the Donahue Clinic building on West Main Street in Luverne for $25,000, the county board announced Tuesday. Purchase of the building has been recommended by the county welfare board. It would be used as offices for county family services.
The board said that 35 percent of the purchase price would be reimbursed by the federal and state governments. The remainder would come from the county’s court house building fund which has been accumulating over the years and now has reached a total of $472,000.
If the building were purchased, it would be bought by the county as a whole, and then leased to the family services department. Estimated rental to be paid would be $400 per month, part of which would come from federal and state funds, and the rest from county funds.
75 years ago (1946)
•Mr. and Mrs. Phil DeBuck, of Hardwick, have purchased Walt’s Café from Mr. and Mrs. Heinie Bell. Mr. and Mrs. DeBuck took possession of the business Monday noon. The café, in the future, will be known as Phil’s Café.
Mr. and Mrs. DeBuck were formerly in the restaurant business at Hardwick but disposed of that business and also their filling station. They still own the pool hall there.
100 years ago (1921)
•The settlement of taxes collected from November 1st, 1920, to March 1st, 1921, was completed last week by County Treasurer John P. Houg, and warrants for the payment of the sums due the different funds to which the collections have been apportioned, are being drawn by County Auditor Skyberg.
The total amount of the funds apportioned was $115,243.23, the total receipts from the general taxes being divided as follows: State revenue, $12,088.54; state schools, $3,508.01; teachers’ insurance and retirement fund, $142.59, making the total amount of state taxes, $15,739.14; county revenue, $5,746.73; plus one half penalties and fines $153.37. The total of these two county items being $5900.10; county poor, $515.49; roads and bridges, $23,402.46; county sanatorium fund, $1,810.65; towns and villages, $25,698.36; school districts, $34,504.84; state school loans, $1,436.56; general town and village state loans, $1,918.15; judicial ditch No. 2, state loan $373.47; judicial ditch No. 3, $1.92; current school funds derived from one half the penalties and fines $153.36; bonds and interest, $3,788.71.
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