Remember When March 10, 2016

10 years ago (2006)
•The city of Luverne is still confident that Minnesota West Community and Technical College will start a campus in the former Luverne Community Hospital.
Minnesota West President Dr. Ron Wood will meet with city officials next week.
Wolf said the meeting will focus on the college’s business plan and financing options to help it locate here.
 
25 years ago (1991)
•News of a ceasefire is what most Americans have been waiting for since Operation Desert Storm began.
But even with the informal ceasefire running into its second week, relatives in the Gulf are still holding their breaths.
 
50 years ago (1966)
• The storm that outdid the “blizzard of ‘88” in the Dakotas bypassed Rock county except for snow and wind Friday and Saturday when the edge of the winter’s worst weather in the Midwest brushed the area.
The blowing snow, accompanied by 30 to 40 miles per hour winds kept traffic to a minimum in Luverne and other villages but didn’t prevent District 8 basketball games from being played at Luverne and Slayton.
The storm forced postponement of the county spelling contest which was scheduled at Luverne Saturday.
 
75 years ago (1941)
•A truck load of pinball machines and electric phonographs valued at more than $5,000 was destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon about four miles west of Beaver Creek on Highway 75.
The truck was bound for Worthington when a passing motorist, H. Janssen, of this city, who was en route to Sioux Falls, noticed smoke issuing from storage compartment of the machine as it came toward him. He flagged the approaching truck, and the driver stopped to investigate what was wrong. The driver discovered his cargo a mass of flames, and the Valley Springs fire department was called from the Bly Service station. By the time the firemen arrived, however, the truck’s compartment and its contents were almost totally destroyed.
 
100 years ago (1916)
•Six people, three of whom were quite well known in Luverne, lost their lives, and thirteen others were more or less seriously injured Saturday morning in two horrible railroad accidents, in one of which a former resident of this city filled a distressingly prominent role in his capacity as engineer.