Remember When
10 years ago (2011)
•The Luverne Fire Department was called to the Blue Mounds State Park late Monday afternoon to assist with a controlled burn that got out of control.
The park conducts annual prescribed prairie burns in different areas of the Blue Mounds to control non-native species and to...
10 years ago (2011)
•City of Luverne Public Works Department employees this week have been preparing a large wall of a downtown building for a mural.
The mural will go on the west wall of 123 West Main St., greeting motorists as they drive east from Highway 75.
Sioux Falls sign painter and artist...
10 years ago (2011)
•A 9-foot grand piano will permanently grace the stage of Luverne’s Palace Theatre, compliments of Gary and Janine Papik.
Janine Papik said the piano’s history began in the old Luverne High School building sometime in the 1920s or 1930s where it stood on the stage in the school’...
10 years ago (2011)
•Visitors will find it easier to navigate Touch the Sky Prairie following the unveiling of three directory kiosks Tuesday.
Dignitaries and school children gathered to see the covering removed from a three-sided, wood-framed kiosk containing maps, brochures and photographs...
10 years ago (2011)
•Judge Timothy Connell wears a black robe over a white collar, but he said ruling from the bench is rarely as simple as black and white.
“It’s not a one-size-fits-all sort of thing that comes with experience.”
After 35 years of practicing law, Connell has acquired a voice of...
10 years ago (2011)
•Sanford Hospital Luverne is addressing a scabies outbreak among its staff and patients.
According to the Center for Disease Control website, scabies is an infestation of the skin by the human itch mite (sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis).
The microscopic scabies mite burrows into...
10 years ago (2011)
•Rock County Commissioners adopted an agreement with Geronimo Wind Energy to restore county and township roads after a wind tower project in northwest Rock County is completed in 2012.
Preliminary road work in Rose Dell, Springwater and Denver townships begins this fall....
10 years ago (2011)
•Gary Holmgren held up a training manual the size of a big phone book and said, “This is the basic EMT training manual.”
Holmgren has spent the past 19 years making sense of that manual for emergency medical technicians (and several other manuals) during his tenure as the...
10 years ago (2011)
•A Rock County participant saw success at the Minnesota State Fair 4-H Beef Show last week.
The Champion Prospect Heifer calf was exhibited by Thomas Norman of Rock County.
The animals were shown on the first day of the fair Thursday, Aug. 25.
Selection of the overall winners...
10 years ago (2011)
•A powerful storm swept through Rock County in the overnight hours of Tuesday morning.
Nearly 60-mph winds uprooted trees, tore rooftops off buildings and collapsed grain bins, among other reported damage. …
The most concentrated area of damage, and perhaps the most visible, was...