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Remember When April 14, 2016

10 years ago (2006)
•Rock County received its first round of federal grants for the new voting machines to be used in the September primaries. ...
The total cost of the machines and accessories is about $5,000, including a warranty and annual maintenance.
However, some Rock County precincts have opted to combine precincts in order to save money on future elections, maintenance and programming costs for the machines themselves.
 
25 years ago (1991)
•Bringing the Luverne High School and Elementary School buildings up to fire safety codes could cost district taxpayers nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
The School Board’s architect estimated that fire safety adjustments at the grade school will cost between $89,000 and $114,000. Adjustments at the high school are estimated to cost between $147,000 and $168,000.
 
50 years ago (1966)
•A go-ahead sign was given to the Luverne engineering firm of DeWild, Grant, Reckert & Associates to conduct a preliminary study on two asphaltic paving, curb and gutter projects in Luverne. Luverne’s city council OK’d the survey at a Tuesday meeting.
The study will cover asphaltic paving, curb and gutter work along Edgehill Street, South Donaldson, Hatting and Southwest Park streets.
 
75 years ago (1941)
•Word that the Works Progress Administration has approved the construction of an addition to the Luverne municipal power plant as a WPA project and that $3,495 had been allotted as the government’s share of the cost, was received Wednesday by The Herald in a telegram from United States Senator Henrik Shipstead in Washington.
The addition, which will be constructed on the east side of the power plant, will be used to house the water filtration plant the city council purchased early in February.
 
100 years ago (1916)
•The work of blasting a state road through the rocks at the Mounds is proving a big task and it is expected that it will require at least two weeks to finish the job. The work has been in progress for over four weeks and there are about fifty men and several teams engaged on the job, which facts will give some idea of the amount of work involved.
The blasting is found to be unusually difficult because all of the rock is not only very hard, but it lies in a solid mass, so that when a charge of dynamite is exploded a comparatively small amount of rock is dislodged.

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