10 years ago (1993)"Terrie Telford is a senior at Luverne High School, but she is also a student at Worthington Community College. Telford is one of five Luverne seniors taking advantage of Post Secondary Option — a program that allows high school juniors and seniors to get a jump on their college education while finishing high school courses.The option was established during the 1985-1986 school year. Since then, Luverne has had more than a dozen students get a jump on college."25 years ago (1978)"County law enforcement officials are taking extra steps to avoid vandalism and damage to property during Halloween activities this year.During the past several years everything from window soaping to egg throwing to small trash fires to serious vandalism has been part of the annual observance in Luverne and other cities in the county. Plans to be followed Halloween night were outlined in a meeting of law enforcement officials on Friday. In attendance were Tim Connell, county attorney, Ole Hommen, county sheriff, and Keith Aanenson, acting chief of police in Luverne."50 years ago (1953)"Fred Dubbe was elected president of the Luverne Civic and Commerce association at the annual meeting of the organization Monday. He will succeed U.J. Lodermeier to that office on January 1. Lodermeier will then serve as a member of the board for one more year.Elected vice president was James Hogue. Henry C. Wuertz was re-elected treasurer."75 years ago (1928)"The hunting season for the year 1928 closed last evening. During the seventeen days that it had been permissible to take male bird pheasants, many Rock County nimrods got quite well posted on the delicious eating quality of the Chinese ringneck pheasant, whose chief claim for consideration as a game fowl is a breast that contains about three times as much meat as that found on any other game fowl, of a flavor and tender consistency that is not excelled by any other game bird.… But while the hunting season made quite a decrease in the pheasant population, there are still a great many birds roaming about. … To all appearances these attractive game birds sensed that an open season had been declared against them about the second day of hunting, and from that time on had been getting increasingly illusive."100 years ago (1903)"In the past rural school teachers have not had a district organization nor had any representation at the meetings of the Minnesota Educational Association, except through the county superintendents. In view of the fact that these teachers instruct about one half of the pupils in the state schools, it has been deemed wise and proper to organize a separate section for them."
