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Remember When Sept. 12, 2019

10 years ago (2009)
•The weekly Star Herald now has a daily online presence, thanks to its improved Web site launched this week.
With a smoother format for uploading stories and photographs, Star Herald news and sports reporters are posting information to the Web site as they cover events. …
With the old Star Herald Web site, news was uploaded weekly, and there were fewer options for photos or versatile page design.
With its new format the Star Herald has achieved its goal of an improved online presence – primarily to be a source of instant local information.
 
25 years ago (1994)
•Enrollment in the Luverne Public Schools for 1994-1995 has increased by about 100 students, but the statistics need to be explained. For the first time, numbers include Magnolia and Luverne students from grades kindergarten through 12.
Total enrollment released at the Luverne School Board meeting Thursday lists 1,507 students. In September 1993 the total was 1,416. “It’s not significant growth after we re-organized,” Superintendent Norman Miller said. “We can maybe say we grew by 20 kids.”
He said Magnolia students account for about 80 students. Included in the statistics are 84 students from other districts who are open enrolled and tuitioned to Luverne.
According to the numbers used Thursday, 16 Luverne students attend other schools through open enrollment or because they have special needs that can’t be met locally. Private school students weren’t included in the statistics, but Miller estimated 70 Luverne students are enrolled in private schools.
 
50 years ago (1969)
•Need an ambulance? Call 283-2321 and you’ll have two vehicles and 13 drivers and attendants available immediately.
The Rock County Ambulance Service, which was formed after the two Luverne funeral homes decided to discontinue their service, is a countywide service available to any resident of Rock County.
A new 1969 model emergency vehicle was delivered to the ambulance service last weekend and already, according to Joe McFadden, hospital administrator, the vehicle has been used on several calls.
The emergency vehicle, which will be used on most emergency calls, is equipped with two double oxygen tanks with double regulators, a complete first-aid kit, and splints. The vehicle meets all Federal Highway Safety standards.
 
75 years ago (1944)
•Because a few have abused their privilege to shoot air rifles by killing song birds, and maliciously doing other damage, Luverne boys in the future will be prohibited from firing their B-B guns within city limits.
This decision was reached by the city council at their meeting Tuesday night, following numerous complaints made the past summer by citizens in various parts of town.
It was voted to amend the city ordinance covering the shooting of firearms within the city limits to include also the less harmful air guns. The amendment will become law as soon as it is properly publicized, and after that, all violations will be misdemeanors, and punishable under the ordinance.
 
100 years ago (1919)
•The rate of $100 an acre for ordinary field corn of this year’s crop as it stands in the field was realized this week by Mrs. Andrew Johnson, who rents the Forrest eight-acre farm on West Main Street.
Mrs. Johnson has two small fields of corn on the place, and these, containing a trifle less than one and a third acres, she sold to S.J. Adams for $130.
However, even at this rate it is figured that Mr. Adams made a very satisfactory buy, for it is estimated that the field will yield somewhere between 80 and 100 bushels of good, sound corn to the acre.

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