10 years ago (2013)
•Luverne High School vocal music instructor Seana Graber shared details of the June 10-15 trip with Luverne School Board members, who approved the trip at their March 26 meeting.
Graber said 60 students are planning to make the six-day trip to and from New York City with chaperones Jim and Paula Jelken, Greg Hoogeveen, Katie Baustian, Brenda Johnson, Mary Brown and Jennifer Nelson, along with Graber and her husband, Keith.
Graber said having Hoogeveen along as a photographer will ensure great pictures of the trip. Johnson is a veteran of other music trips and Brown is a nurse.
25 years ago (1998)
•Crews from Rock County and the city of Luverne traveled to St. Peter Thursday and Friday to help with tornado cleanup. Walter Stearns, Lee Hamann, Bob McClure and John Martin represented the county and Burdell Braa, Cory Schmuck, John Stoffel, Butch Hatting, Greg McClure and David Van Batavia took time off from city work to help.
The men used a semi donated by Henning Construction, Adrian, to take equipment to St. Peter. They brought dump trucks, a pay loader and a skid loader as well as pickups and seven chain saws.
50 years ago (1973)
•Elmer Menage, Luverne High School Athletic Director, football and track coach, was inducted into the Central Lyon Hall of Fame at Rock Rapids Tuesday evening in ceremonies held during the 13th annual A.O. Voogd Relays.
This is an honor only two other former Central Lyon athletes have received, according to school officials.
Menage graduated there in 1956. He was selected to the all-state team in football, received honorable mention in all-state basketball and held the state Class B record for a number of years in the 100-yard dash.
At Morningside College, Menage continued with his athletic honors, being named to the District 12 football squad, all-North Central Conference football team and honorable mention in conference baseball.
Menage coached at Wartburg College, Waverly Iowa, for three years before coming to Luverne.
In 1972, he was named District 8 Coach of the year after leading the Cardinals to a 9-0 regular season mark in the Southwest Conference.
75 years ago (1948)
•“Rock county doubled its acreage in alfalfa the last two years. In 1920 there were but 850 acres in the county. In 1922 there were 1560 acres in the county, contends county agent Roske.
“The largest acreage of alfalfa is in the southwest part of the county. Beaver Creek leads in this with 350 acres; Martin township follows with 255 acres and Springwater with 181 acres; Luverne township also has 181 acres and Clinton township has 160 acres. It is expected that this average will be doubled again by the end of this year.
100 years ago (1923)
•At a meeting of the Luverne board of education held last week, Supt. H.C. Bell and the entire teaching corps were tendered re-election to their present positions for the coming school year. It is known, however, that several of those who were re-elected do not expect to return here next year.
This will make the twelfth year that Mr. Bell will have served as superintendent of the Luverne schools; the eleventh year that Mrs. Cora W. Rea has been engaged to teach music, and the eighth year that Mrs. Lucille Keech-Ulvin has been employed in teaching here, and Miss Jones’ seventh year as principal and teacher of the primary department.
Of the other teachers, Miss Ethel Armstrong has been identified with the Luverne schools for four years. Miss Helga Johnson three and a half years, Mrs. Mary Athan, Mrs. Faye Weston and Miss Lucretia Dunbar for three years.
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