10 years ago (2000)
•Longtime local hospital employee Tammy Loosbrock will be Chief Executive Officer of Sanford Hospital in Luverne.
Her appointment was announced this week, and her duties as CEO will begin March 24.
“I’m excited,” Loosbrock said Tuesday. “This will be a great opportunity.”
Brad Schipper, vice president of Sanford Health Network, said Loosbrock brings a wealth of local experience to the position.
“As CEO, Tammy will build on her demonstrated management assignments in Luverne,” he said.
Loosbrock has been manager of Rehab Services, Ancillary Services Director and Chief Operating Officer in Luverne.
“Tammy has also provided successful leadership with system assignments,” Schipper said.
Loosbrock, who lives in Adrian, has been with Sanford Luverne since August 1996, and Schipper said her background experience will serve her well as CEO.
Specifically, he mentioned her strong clinical experience — she was director of physical therapy — and her educational background — she has an MBA.
25 years ago (1995)
•Cedar Street residents know these slushy days of February mean Minnesota’s second season is just around the corner: road construction season.
Luverne Public Water Director Darrell Huiskes, County Highway Engineer Dick Wegner and City Engineer Butch Doorenbos explained the scope of the Cedar Street project and answered questions at the Luverne City Council meeting Monday.
It’s a good news and bad news scenario.
Huiskes said because Cedar Street is a County State Aid Street, residents will not be directly assessed for the reconstruction of the street and curb and gutters between Lincoln and Barck streets. The street will be widened by a total of four feet.
The city will replace storm sewers, sanitary sewers and water lines at no direct cost to residents. Some portions of sidewalks not included in the project costs will be redone during the project, and property owners will pay half of the cost. …
But there is bad news. The street will be completely torn up for longer than two months. Even if all goes well, Huiskes estimated it will probably take about 70 days to complete all of the work. During that time the street will be impassable except for emergency vehicles.
50 years ago (1970)
•A few residents of the villages of Rock County, who have had to walk to the post office to get their mail all these years, will be able to have their mail delivered to their homes under the Post Office Department’s decision to expand rural delivery service.
Second District Congressman Ancher Nelsen notified the Star-Herald last week that under the new program, persons living more than a quarter of a mile but less than a half mile from the post office are now eligible to receive home delivery. Towns affected in Rock county will include Beaver Creek, Hills, Hardwick, Kenneth, Magnolia and Steen. However, the number who live more than a quarter of a mile from the post office will be relatively few in any of the villages in this county because all are small in area.
“The only requirement to obtain the delivery service,” Congressman Nelsen said, “was that they must make a request for it to their postmaster, and that a majority of those living in the area must desire it. The expansion will be achieved through route extensions, revisions and additions.”
75 years ago (1945)
•A gain in the amount of insurance in force of $15,072,633.00 in 1944 over 1943 was reported this week by W. E. Norelius, assistant secretary, of the Tri-State Mututal Grain Dealers Fire Insurance company of Luverne.
In the mutual annual financial statement for the year ending December 31, 1944, the company reported $138,204,638.00 in insurance in force as compared to $123,132,005.00 a year ago. Assets of the company jumped from $861,621.14, an increase of $48,877.12. Losses paid by the company during 1944, amounted to more than $100,000.00 for the first time in the firm’s 43-year history, the figure for 1944 being $106,763.11. The company’s surplus at the end of the year was $637,649,84.
100 years ago (1920)
•The residence on the J. W. Stammen farm, the north half of section 9, Denver Township, together with a large part of its contents, was destroyed by fire early Sunday morning. The fire started from a defective chimney.
The farm has been owned since last fall by Lored Ladd, of Rock Rapids, and is operated by P. J. Ryan. Mr. and Mrs. Ryan were at home when the fire was discovered, but it had then gained such headway that practically nothing could be removed from the second floor, although the larger part of the household furnishings on the first floor were saved.
The residence was insured for $1,000 in the Beaver Creek Mutual Insurance Co., and Mr. Ryan had a policy on his personal property in the Rose Dell Mutual Fire Insurance Co.; but had neglected to pay the last assessment amounting to $6.05, which invalidated the insurance.
Mr. and Mrs. Ryan’s loss is estimated at $935.
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