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Remember When Feb. 18, 2016

10 years ago (2006)
•Luverne School District will see more than $90,000 of new computer equipment and software in the coming months, courtesy of Microsoft Corporation.
The money is from a settlement of a class-action lawsuit in which Minnesota customers and businesses claimed Microsoft Corp. was violating anti-trust laws by overcharging for its Windows operating system and its Excel and Word programs.
 
25 years ago (1991)
•A massive consolidation plan introduced by the state Education Commissioner last week would affect every school district in Rock County but Luverne if passed …
It would require 185 of Minnesota’s 432 districts to consolidate, including Hills-Beaver Creek, Adrian and Ellsworth.
 
50 years ago (1966)
•A Luverne air force pilot, on duty in South Viet Nam, fought and won an air-to-ground duel “in the best tradition of the Old West,” according to a story appearing in the February 2 edition of the Pacific Stars and Stripes.
The story quoted the winner, Capt. Marvin M. Gradert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gradert, as saying about his opponent, “That guy had to have a lot of guts to stand up to my 20mm cannon.”
 
75 years ago (1941)
•U.S. highway No. 16 through Rock county is shown on a War Department map outlining a nation-wide network of super-highways for national defense purposes, a project upon which construction activity may be undertaken this year. The map appears in the Engineering News-Record for 1941, and is accompanied by an article on “Defense Roads in the 1941 Program.”
 
100 years ago (1916)
•If present weather conditions continue a day or two longer, the snow will practically have disappeared and it will then be possible to ascertain if John Kelley, Rock county’s missing auditor, perished in the county at the time of his disappearance.
Every resident of Rock county is therefore urgently requested to make a careful search of his premises, especially along the sides of roads, along fences and hedges, and in groves, ravines and ditches where snow may have been deep on the night of Mr. Kelley’s disappearance.

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