10 years ago (2012)
•A series of unfortunate sports injuries led Luverne High School junior Jake Guy to launch his own extra-curricular activity.
In the fall of 2010, as a sophomore athlete, he suffered two football concussions, followed by another in winter wrestling, prompting him to call it quits in sports.
This fall, when Jake’s friends returned to school sports, he found himself with extra time on his hands, so he followed up on a small business venture.
The Game Trailer, officially launched this month, is a self-contained mobile gaming theatre that is delivered directly to clients’ doorsteps. …
Jake looked around the Sioux Falls and Tri-State Area and discovered there weren’t any such businesses in the area, so he began the process of starting one of his own.
25 years ago (1997)
•Luverne and Beaver Creek fire departments were called to the elementary school in Beaver Creek Monday morning when a fire broke out in a crawl space near the roof of the building.
Beaver Creek fire chief Rick Tatje speculated that sparks from a cutting torch used by workers in the building may have kindled the fire overnight.
The fire broke out in the old part of the building which is about to be demolished, but it was close enough to the new part of the building to get people nervous.
50 years ago (1972)
•A proposal to discontinue kindergarten at Hardwick and have Hardwick kindergartners bused to Luverne brought a delegation to the school board meeting Friday night to voice their objections.
The proposal was made at the February meeting of the board, when the matter of per pupil costs was raised. Hardwick has a potential of 14 kindergarten pupils for next year. Supt. Harvey Eitreim had questioned the validity of retaining that small a class in Hardwick when it could be absorbed in the Luverne school which is also experiencing a downtrend in kindergarten enrollment.
A recent meeting of the Hardwick Parent Teachers Association voted 65-0 in favor of maintaining the kindergarten through sixth grade elementary program in the Hardwick school. At that time, a committee comprised of Alan Slieter, Gerald Baker, Harold Kindt, Kenneth Hoime, Don Pap and Sigfried Johansen, was named Principal William DeBates to meet with the board to voice objections to the proposal.
DeBates told the board that a full discussion was held at the PTA, and that voting was by secret ballot.
75 years ago (1947)
•Southwestern Minnesota is the setting for the new novel of Feike Feikema, “This Is the Year,” which is being placed on sale today throughout the nation. And here last week for a two day picture taking assignment were Ray Swan and John Cotton, photographer and picture editor of the Minneapolis Star. Four local people were selected to re-enact scenes from the novel which will appear within a few weeks in the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune. If the Minneapolis paper, in its pictorial story about the novel, uses full color photos the layout will appear in the feature section in about six weeks. If black and white pictures are used, the feature will appear in about three weeks.
100 years ago (1922)
•A new kindergarten department of the Luverne public schools will start Monday morning Mar. 27, and all children who will be five years old by April 1st, and therefore eligible to start school work next fall, may enroll in the new department.
The basement of the Presbyterian church has been secured for the kindergarten department, and it will be taught by girls of the normal department of the high school, thereby eliminating the expense of employing a teacher especially for this purpose.
The establishment of the new department was authorized at the meeting of the school board held Tuesday evening, and Supt. Bell has leased the church quarters for a period of nine weeks, which will be the length of the kindergarten course for the present term.
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